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On the recordJune 5, 2013
And I think you hit a big part of that, Ms. Traub, when you said, 'Because the workers do not have any power.'
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren emphasizes the loss of worker power due to declining union membership.

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