The national guard plays an integral part of response to any disaster that happens on american soil. We're unionizing so that we don't have to live in an 18 wheeler with 30 other soldiers. And for all the day people who go about their lives and don't really think a lot about the national guard, why should they care? The national guard has been and will continue to be here.
And in Texas, they’re trying to unionize.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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