Why Our Country Needs to Snap Out of It and Have a New Kind of Labor Movement. Is Labour over or is this the big moment? Are unions the logical next step beyond Occupy or are they just an anachronism from a bygone era? In Only One Thing Can Save Us, acclaimed author Thomas Geoghegan asserts that only a new kind of labour movement can help America switch course towards a more prosperous future. The US needs a revived labour movement to stop the drop in wages, health insurance and pensions of the past thirty years, and Geoghegan shows how a revitalised labour movement can help get the country out of debt.