September 27, 2011: Sandy Pope says things you might not expect to hear from a union leader.
The employee free choice act, a bill stalled in Congress that would make it easier to for workers to unionize? The wrong fight at the wrong time, according to Pope. Besides, she said, "I want people to stand up and vote affirmatively for a union."
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