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Forced to do work where they are not paid at all. These are some of the same issues that we are fighting across the board in every industry. When other workers think others are winning, that encourages to stand up. We are. I can tell you, they were watching to see that workers in the south could win. That is a southern company based in atlanta. This meant something to them. This spoke to their heart. This is their communities. They know people in those plants. They often have brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts. They can relate to this. This is a connection between workers and the basic connection around humanity. What we have to stand up for and expect that this economy needs to be built for us, not for the billionaires. Great to see you. I know you made some accommodations to join us this morning so we are deeply appreciative of that. Of Flight Attendant cwa
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what is changed is that workers see that that tactic is a tactic to continue to make as desperate for this work, to make us feel lucky that we should have a job rather than helping these companies understand that they should to have our work. it has gone backwards for so long and the only place we are seeing a difference is in. this is all of our work, all of our time has been pushed to wall street and pushed to billionaires and if we don t take a stand, it s never going to change. those threats of closing those plants is a near-term threat but what the uaw was able to do is locking security and job security as the ev industry continues to grow. we saw threats, strikes or threats of strikes in the last year. in many cases, remarkable successes that came out from the united auto workers. in your industry, there were several of those close calls in