If you’ve been a union organizer for as long as we have, you occasionally get invited to speak at a high school or college class on “what do unions do?” One of the first questions we ask at any class is, “How many of you have worked a union job?” and if so, “What job and what union?” We can reliably anticipate the most common answer: “I worked a summer job in a supermarket for three months.
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