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One nonprofit worker shares how organizing became a way to protect workers who had supported the mission that they felt was missing from the organization

In Boston’s Allston neighborhood, Kylah Clay, a 24-year-old barista and law student, decided to reach out to Workers United about unionizing her store last October. We spoke with Kylah as her store’s election was in-progress. When the ballots were counted, she and her coworkers had won their union in an unanimous vote.

The pandemic has been brutal for graduate workers, but at Colorado State University they demanded decent pay and treatment.

Union organizer Jane McAlevey on labor’s loss at Amazon in Alabama, what the future of labor organizing success depends on, and how organizers can win.