Star Bucks workers are unironing, so are Amazon workers, your work place just had a union meeting as you read this. Trade unions are a way for workers to stop exploitative labor practices, fight for better wages or benefits and exercise workplace democracy... so why are capitalists treating unions like the Big Bad Wolff? Professor Richard Wolff, co-founder of Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann to discuss why unions help workers, bring home the bacon.

 

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