Zohran Mamdani: “Management wanted them to work more hours without additional…”

“You know, the other day we had heard that there were workers on strike in the Bronx and they were facing the prospect of management hiring scavs. And Management wanted them to work more hours without additional pay. And we knew that we had a press availability scheduled coming up. We thought, why not have this at the picket line? Why not bring that attention to the workers struggle themselves.” (42:31–42:35)

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