they don't teach it. when the country was at its peak, unions were at their peak. when wages were at their peak, unions were at their peak. - that was then. this is now. this is the era of "i got mine, jack." - that's what makes butte different. it's not a "i've got mine." - it isn't. why? - it's truly not. unionists together, we've grown this community out of taking care of each other. bourdain: you have to remember what it was like here for workers before unions, if you can imagine. men worked underground for as little as $3 a day, 10- to 12-hour shifts, 6 days a week. thousands died over the years in industrial accidents or from silicosis, lungs ravaged by the airborne silica dust. - you don't have any rights in your workplace unless you bond together and have a collective voice. bourdain: in a one-company town, despite hiring assassins and strikebreakers, butte's thousands of workers successfully managed to unionize. labor costs increased while copper prices slumped. anaconda responded by moving their production