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This is the Tom Harbin program.

Our guest for today is Professor Richard Wolf, and I want to ask him about the role of

labor unions, historically, in strengthening economies and maintaining economies.

From an economist point of view, what is a labor union, and what do they do?

Co-founder of democracy at work.info, the author of numerous books, his most recent,

the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself,

also available as an e-book.

The host of economic update with Richard Wolf right here on free speech TV, you can find it.

Democracywork.infoartywolf.com with two F's or his websites and a ProfWolf,

PRWF, WOLFF is his Twitter handle.

Professor Wolf, I wanted to talk to you about unions and why they're important in their history,

but before we get to that, I had a caller in the last hour who had a question,

and you know, I hope you don't mind my springing something on you at the last minute here,

but you're so well informed, I'm confident that you will have at least a thought on this.

He said that what he had read is that several decades ago, about 90% of the transactions

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