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John Hickenlooper Grills Chavez-DeRemer About Unions Do ‘We Want To Get More Workers In Unions’.

Published | Video Starts at 00:07

I thought I'd start with just a quick answer, a quick question that if you track the shrinking of the middle class, which we've seen in this country over about The shrinking of the middle class almost exactly tracks the reductions in unionized labor as a percentage of the workforce. They track almost perfectly. Do you agree that we want to get more workers in unions as a method to expand the middle class? Is that a worthy goal? (00:07–00:26)

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Asserts that the decline in the middle class correlates with the decline in unionized labor.

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