'When we build power as workers, that power can extend to all areas of our lives.' ✊🏽✨ StrikeForBlackLives
union membership, and adds, “Even though these laws were passed decades before I was born, they have a real impact on my life. It’s important for Black workers to be able to come together and form unions. When we build power as workers, that power can extend to all areas of our lives.”
Nineteen-year-old Sade Andrews, a fast-food employee in Tampa, agrees with that sentiment: “Every worker should have the opportunity to form a union, no matter where you work,” Sade told“Sometimes they’ll say, ‘Oh, we hear you,’ but I don’t feel like they actually hear us,” she said of employers. “They should listen and go into communities and do something about [the systemic injustices]. Because they have a lot of power…and [many] of the workers are Black people.
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