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“I took a risk when I decided to strike…”
The sanitation workers of City Waste Union from the American Portrait documentary series and other workers share the role union organizing plays in their lives.
In “I Work”, the second episode of the American Portrait documentary series, fourteen New Orleans sanitation workers go on strike to demand higher wages, PPE, and hazard pay. Hear their story and that of workers of all trades as they share the trials and triumphs of labor organizing.