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I'm so glad to be joined by Professor Eric Luma today on Bad Faced Podcast.

He is the professor of history at the University of Rhode Island and author of History of America

and 10 Strikes.

Thank you for joining us today.

Well, thank you for having me.

Okay, so the reason why I wanted to talk to you so much in this moment is because obviously

we are in the middle of a wave of strike and union activity across the country.

We've been covering the minor strikes.

We've been covering the Amazon unionization efforts.

We've been covering the unionization efforts at Starbucks and collectivo coffee all across

the country.

People are very excited about what this means and it's just a resurgence of the labor

movement, especially as we record almost a week after the deadline that we were all anticipating

with the rail workers threatening to strike.

And we woke up Friday morning to the news announcement that a tentative deal had been

worked out.

Of course, now further reporting has indicated that it's very much still tentative, right?

We don't know what's going to happen there.

And there have been people like Jonah Furman who have warned against saying it's all over

because that diminishes the kind of like agency and power that the people who are prepared

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