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The Union Makes Us Strong, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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The Union Isn't the Best Solution to Your Problem of Work

i think there's a lot of boosterism of unions amongt younger workers, because people just don't understand how they work. There are times when organizing union isn't the best solution to solving your problem of work. Building a union can take like, ten years from the beginning and it could be another five or ten years before you actually get to the point where you organized op to go on strike. It took decades to build the labor movement into what it was at its peak. We're kind of used to this instant gratification kind of stuff,. And we have to understand that it's very hard or like, basically impossible. That doesn't mean that you can't organize.

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