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On the Line w/ Daisy Pitkin

The Dig

What Happened to the Unite Here Merger?

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The union that I worked for unite was the product of a previous merger between, you know, act two was one of our four mother unions or predecessor unions. And then follow the thread all the way back through dozens of mergers from smaller cloak makers, locals merging with tailors merging with cutters in the early sort of garment worker days of the I'll GWU. So there are there have always been mergers mergers are not unheard of in the labor movement by by any means. For the most part they tend to go well or at least they don't get undone,. Which is what happened in the case of the unite here merger. This was an ugly merger and it ended in

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