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How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey

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The Struggle to Win Pennsylvania

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.

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