The Clinton campaign believed that they needed to win the state of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia labor movement had signed a year earlier what's called a labor peace accord, which bound all unions from not taking any action when the Democratic National Convention was happening in Philadelphia. "We were like, anytime man, anytime we can hold the Democratic National Commission Committee hostage, I'm for it," she says.
Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement.
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