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How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey

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The Importance of Working With a High Participation Union

In the decade or so leading up to when those campaigns happened, that union had been constantly on strike. When workers were voting in 2016 and 2017, because it was seven different hospitals worth of mostly nurses, who were voting to form unions in Philadelphia. And they literally said that we're asking you to come down and help us get over these legal charges and win. So I began to get phone calls from the head of the union saying, something's going on in Philadelphia. There's a whole lot of heat down here. We keep winning elections and we can't even stop to negotiate. Can you come down and start coordinating the first contract campaigns? Fast forward. The employer at that point,

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