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The Dig: Higher Ed Industrial Unionism w/ Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson

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How Do You Sell Low Wage Worker Campaigns?

Rutgers professor Donna Brazile talks about her union's fight to protect low-wage workers. She says it wasn't a clean struggle; the university tried to lay off adjunct faculty and dining staff. Eventually, they agreed to work share in return for furloughs but with conditions such as no layoffs or pay raises. "It was built on precisely trying to translate solidarity and the protecting of the most vulnerable into a concrete program"

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