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My number one favorite moment in the entire trial had to be when Senator Ed

Markey from Massachusetts gave his entire speech to Howard. He laid into

Howard for a good couple of minutes about Howard who has to circle, you know,

whenever he talks about his roots, he talks about how he comes from poverty, his father was late

off having the rights of the worker and Ed Markey drew like this really deep,

detailed parallel between us as the workers at Starbucks and the struggles that

his father allegedly went through as a worker with no rights and ends it

basically saying these workers, they are just like your father, they have no rights.

All across America, workers are saying that they've had enough rising inequality

and a landish CEO pay for those at the top like you and a paycheck to pay

check subsistence for everyone else. The unionizing Starbucks workers are on

the front lines as a groundswell of working and middle class people what

banding together to assert their right to organize, form a union and collectively

bargain for their dignity. My father used to tell me that you can't beg for your

rights, you have to tell them. He lost his finger in an industrial accident as a

young man. There was no ocean. He just said the boss said, see you next week,

John, back on the job. That was before unions, that was before rights were put on

books and ultimately that's what cyber workers are doing. Workers in Buffalo are

the spark that's lit the fire of organizing its locations across the country

including 15 Starbucks locations in Massachusetts. The American people are

watching public support for unions hit a record high late last year with 71%

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