Do Unions Still Work?
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You've probably been hearing about the many places where American workers are trying to unionize. |
| 0:09.5 | What are we want? |
| 0:10.9 | Justice! |
| 0:11.9 | Now! |
| 0:12.9 | It's been happening at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, at Starbucks stores across the country. |
| 0:20.7 | Workers of the world unite. |
| 0:22.9 | One struggle, one fight. |
| 0:24.8 | It's been happening among ride share drivers, among graduate students in the Ivy League and the |
| 0:30.6 | University of California system. |
| 0:32.3 | It's been happening at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan and at the New |
| 0:36.6 | York Times, where most of the journalists were already in a labor union, |
| 0:40.9 | but the tech workers weren't. |
| 0:43.0 | And you might remember what happened in October. |
| 0:45.6 | Thousands of American workers are on strike, |
| 0:48.1 | and thousands more are preparing to walk out |
| 0:50.7 | and what some have dubbed strike tober. |
| 0:52.8 | Hollywood, John Deere, Kellogg's, even nurses |
| 0:55.9 | are among the thousands on strike. According to a strike tracker developed by researchers at Cornell, |
| 1:02.0 | last year was unusually busy with 370 strikes and nearly 700 labor protests. Perhaps we shouldn't |
| 1:10.5 | be surprised. |
| 1:11.6 | For all the recent talk about labor shortages |
| 1:14.5 | and desperate firms offering employee bonuses, |
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