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Chris Deluzio: “Workers have to have some power as a countervailing force to…”

Featuring: Chris Deluzio, Democratic | U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 17

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Published | Video Starts at 26:31

And so that means our government needs to be there to set rules and set norms and wield some power over these companies. That means Workers have to have some power as a countervailing force to hold them to account. If you listen to what the rail workers have been saying for a long time, and look, I wasn't yet in the Congress, but I made clear I wouldn't have imposed terms on those workers. (26:31–26:35)

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Asserts that workers need power to hold corporations accountable.

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