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The Dig: How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey

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The Power of Intelligence in Trade Union Negotiations

There is no way that any trade union leader can tell me that not having a ton of workers from every shift and every kind of work in the room doesn't help negotiations because they're fact checking the employer constantly. So there's a standing committee that's representative, every kind of worker,. Every kind of shift, they bring incredible intelligence in the meeting. All you have to do is like pause, take a caucus and there's going to be like 30 people in the room who will say, you're talking about the posted staff in grid without callouts  and actually our real numbers were quite different.

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