The movement to unionize the texas national guard started as a joke between soldiers. "We're not fighting a war with our own soldiers, yho," one soldier says. The state is responding by saying that service members should not be misled into believing they can engage in collective bargaining.
And in Texas, they’re trying to unionize.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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