The Importance of a Union in the Workplace

"It just took an enormous amount of effort on my family's part to like get that moving and it just seemed incredibly it was very eye-opening for me as a you know my experience here in Chicago," she says. "We have this weird situation or union where they tell us where a rank and file democratic union except the staff kind of treat us like you know it's a business union so we get told one thing but then we see another thing" She adds: "The whole point of a union is you kind of pull together to take care of people who can't necessarily take care of themselves."