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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Unions are vehicles for building working class power,

but if you understand that but have never belonged to a union or participated in a union

organizing drive, you might not know exactly what being a union member means or what workers have

to go through in order to organize one. You might not know that to organize a union in the United

States, workers often have to go through hell. As we're seeing right now at companies like Starbucks

and Amazon, because labor law is so stacked against workers in favor of bosses, workers have to

engage in a kind of covert and then protracted warfare against a vastly more powerful employer

just to win union representation at all. And then workers have to do it all over again to get

a contract. These battles are so bruising that it's a wonder any workers ever successfully unionize.

Such David and Goliath fights are so full of so much human drama that you'd think we'd hear

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