The campaign's been able to spread so quickly across the country because the beloved community already exists in store after store, after store. The workers themselves are very well aware of this they talk about it all the time. They're very aware of the necessity to keep the union inside their stores as strong as possible. It is important to tell that story not only because labor history is not something that many people are aware of in this country or taught up in schools. There's a sort of unbroken chain of labor history that is still being written in this country.
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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