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Unions and workers get little attention in Democratic debates
Workplace rights were not on the agenda for almost all of the 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls at a debate last month, writes MARK GRUENBERG
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TWO days. Four hours of spirited debate. Twenty Democratic presidential hopefuls. Some 41,800 words, give or take a few, according to the debate transcripts.
And what words were uttered few times during the 20 Democrats’ two debates in Miami the last week of June?
The rarely mentioned words included “union,” “worker,” “labour” and “employee.”
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