Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Win in Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer

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Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Win in Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer

Democracy Now! speaks with the great labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union. The plant will become the first foreign-owned car factory in the South to unionize. “This win wasn’t just a win — it was what we would call a beatdown,” says McAlevey, who says the UAW’s recent success is a result of di