they are vowing to get the job done saying, quote, our people will remain in east palestine respond to the situation and meet with residents. we are not going anywhere. cnn s jason carroll was at last night s meet being. jason, you can understand why people are frustrated here. they want answers. these are people who have been living in east palestine in this area so long and now they have major questions about how long they can continue to live there. reporter: kaitlin, you are absolutely right. . so questions that they have, who is going to be here a year from now, who will be here two years from now, five years from now? is someone going to be monitoring their health years from now? who is responsible for that? what about the cost of their homes, depreciation no home values. a lot of questions the residents had and quite frankly a lot of them felt they didn t get their questions answered. they feel like it will take more than one holocaust. one of the representatives the
push. baristas, warehouse workers, grocers. what do they want? when do they want it? here is what our labor organizers told our audi cornish. the purpose of organizing and movements isn t just to win a particular issue or particular right. it s to win long-term dignity, sustainability and the ability to engage in decision-making for all aspects of your life forever. cnn s audie cornish joins us now, the host. assignment, a fabulous podcast. i am looking forward to that episode. i am fascinated by this, this sort of sweeping of corporate america with unionization movements. a lot of people would take issue with that statement i just made because the numbers are down from a decade ago. but they started popping in the last year or so. to putting it in perspective, overall, union participation, which is the number you are talking about, is still quite low. what s different is the number of union petitions and drives. that went up more than 45% last year, which means that people
there are things people that s a good point. white collar unionization movement as well. companies that previously we thought nobody would want to unionize and now they are there. thank you can t wait to listen to the episode. be here so tune in. the assignment with audie cornish available wherever you get your podcasts. and also special treat, audi will be joining us tomorrow. going to be on assignment from salt lake city. i have my hoodie at the ready. [ laughter ] i am here. i am here to leave your glasses behind. glass cleaner. this is a hot seat. you will be able to handle it i am sure. appreciate. i wish i was here to be with all of you tomorrow. you are going to be in utah, poppy. we are going to cover the nba all-star weekend. i will be interviewing three members of the iconic inside the nba crew, shaq, charles barkley, kenny smith. i can t wait. i am not going to try to dunk.
ironically, you know you lose the super bowl and you re crying after the game, and they re not tears of sadness, they re tears of joy. that warmed even my cold heart. no. that was amazing. as a mama s boy i totally relate. that is fantastic. can i tell them what you said? yes. poppy has been on assignment and when you got home last night luca said, i feel it in my body when you re gone mommy. and i m getting on another plane. i feel like a terrible mom. you re not. you re an awesome mom. luca sub luca s not the only one. thanknk you. you re an awesome mom. thank you. cnn newsws room is next.
you could argue that. i don t know why they feel a need to do it. i think they want to make a statement for themselves. i think it has no impact on the justice department whatsoever. preet bharara, former u.s. attorney, who has a fabulous podcast. thanks. good to have you here. when we come back the 2022 midterms are finally over. i swear. what lessons can we learn? we ll go inside some of the key counties we were tracking, next.