I think the merger made me aware of some of the flaws of unites organizing culture and method. The part of it that I was confronted with when HRE organizers came to Phoenix and set up shop to organize hotels was very interpersonal to a degree that I found alarming. People were using personal stories from their lives as a way to leverage relationships with workers to bond with workers in this sort of purposeful systematic way that felt wrong to me. You know, there are flaws in both methods certainly.
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