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Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from climate change? Was it the fact that employers are still begging for more workers? Whatever it was, workers were ready to throw down this year. In the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more money in our paychecks, and more time for our lives outside of work. We organized; we even exercised our strike muscles. And

Some cookies >> hello, hello. >> hi. >> reporter: -- drop off the cookies with scott and jeremy >> thank you for doing this >> its christmas every thursday >> reporter: who then deliver the cookies to essential workers. theyve gone to the local hospitals since the beginning. >> this is so cute thank you. >> they have the community mens still doing this three years later, were really amazed >> it sound lieks really at its core, its about sharing gratitude. >> absolutely. >> our community happens ...

How do you say they were essential to this country into this economy, and you dont even give us paid sick leave? that is the reality, i think, for many industries. in the pandemic, we saw people were called essential workers, but they werent being treated like they were essential. they were getting the benefits, they werent getting the wages. so, workers are realizing their power. there was a time when unions were very strong in this country. you know, for different reasons. outsourcing, union b...

The rail strike. i wonder from your perspective what this time tells you about the power of workers and the power to unionize now. >> when youre bringing up the biden response to the rail strike, there were actually members of that union. there were multiple unions who were part of that conversation. four of the unions voted against what biden was proposing because of paid sick leave being left out and they felt so betrayed, right? how do you say that we are essential to this country and this ec...

You cannot serve me if you cannot see me. and so, during these difficult days, even as i work on specific public policy proposals, and i offer bills and work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get those bills passed, i just want you to know that i see you. i see your parents, as you are trying to put your kids through college and community college and technical college. i see students as you are trying to make a way out of their way. i see you essential workers, fighting for a liva...

During these difficult days, even as i work on specific public policy proposals, and i offer bills, and work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get those bills passed, i just want you to know that i see you. i see you parents as you are trying to put your kids through college, community college, and technical college, i see you students as you are trying to make a way. and i see you essential workers, fighting for a livable wage, to participate in the prosperity that to create for ...

I see you, struggling parents. i see you, essential workers. and with warnock, you get the sense that its not just rhetoric. this is the -- the foundation of his candidacies to help vehicle. >> yeah. >> and the american covenant its also illuminates. >> strong -- coming from a strong, place and beside people who are struggling, the state of georgia right now comparatively speaking, is doing quite well. and he is in office. the economy, they are back to better jobs numbers than theyve had before ...

Earlier. listen to that and also senator warnock, how he aimed to inspire these canvassers. >> the pandemic helped us to see things we should have seen before the pandemic. they are essential workers. heres what i think, if people are essential workers, then we ought to pay them an essential wage. >> every door i knocked on, they were ready. they had already voted. they were excited, getting their family members involved, both parties. it was phenomenal. >> reporter: core to warnocks message tod...

Senior living advocates are making a last-minute push to float immigration reform to the top of lawmakers’ to-do lists before end of year.

Down the tracks. it hard on our bodies and were just never home. it is a hard life for a bunch of hard workers." youre married and have two daughters. what is it like to have those working conditions and have no paid sick leave in. >> its unethical. it its not right. we are literally working commerce. during the pandemic we carried railroads on our back. from 2018 to 2021 i worked as a system production traveling mechanic. i traveled the east coast from southern florida to the canadian border wo...