"I go through my three days training for the first three days and then on the next week, I come into Amazon wearing my camo union shirt," he says. "A lot of it was the lack of respect that we used to have." He adds: "If it wasn't for the solidarity of just the working class...we wouldn't been able to last this long"
For more than 500 days, coal miners in rural Alabama have been on strike. Around 900 workers walked off the job in April 2021, and they haven’t been back since.
As the strike drags on, the miners are discovering that neither political party is willing to fight for them.
For Braxton Wright, 39, a second-generation coal miner and, until recently, a Republican, the experience has altered his view of American politics.
Guest: Michael Corkery, a business reporter for The New York Times.
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