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Indigo says she wonders how, or who, the union would actually help. “I feel I have a voice already,” she said. “And I think these people could have explored some other options. One of the things they say is, if management says there’s no money for something, they can [as a collective bargaining unit] ask management to prove that. Well, I went to management and said, what can I see? I asked to see the budget and the audit, and I got to.”
If pressed for specifics on why they want a union, some pro-union workers will deliver: One wants to know why she was laid off temporarily for two weeks one year, and six weeks the next. Another wants to know why she’ll never get retirement benefits. An associate teacher wants to know why a housekeeper’s making more than she is. And so on. But then they tend to back off of the specifics to reiterate that it isn’t about money or other particulars so much as it is about voice.
“We understand there might not be money,” Hiler said. “But we want to know how it works. And we want to be part of the decisions. Now, we are just told decisions. The stereotype is that unions are moneygrubbers. But this is about solidarity.”
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