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I mean, the growth of income inequality tracks very closely the decline of labor. we have seen a massive decline in what's called union density. now only about 7% of the private sector workforce is unionized. that's about where we were at the start of the new deal. >> but how do you -- you say that and the sort of, the stigmaization of unions in this country is quite broad. look at what's happening at the state level, the idea you'd want to strengthen the unions seems like an anathema to some folks. >> he we have this terrible adversarial union culture. i said they're down to 7%. you can have ...

Eight-hour workday. ows is calling this a day without the 99%. marina i know you've been active in working on what may day is going to look like? >> i will talk about how the movement is envisioning it. and to help give a sense of occupy and may day and the concept of general strike. there's a phrase by walter benjamin, this thinker, decades ago he wrote something about revolutions being this locomotive in history. benjamin said maybe we need to rethink that and maybe we need to think about revolution as when people pull the emergency brake on the train. i think in a lot of ways, what we're ta...

By which a union is officially formed and recognized by the government. it would have reformed the national labor relations board is processed. it's very hard to win an election when the other side can essentially con script the voters, put them in a room, drill them with propaganda. >> delay everything. >> fire the organizers. >> threaten to move to china. >> let's keep brainstorming the ways in which the process is pretty broken and part of what you see in the decline of union density is in fact the process is broken. employees for equity choice, it was the number one priority for organized ...

Because if you look at the core of what a vision of a healthier democracy would be, i think some kind of inconstitutional power for working people as a counterveiling force, to the interest you talked about. just to set things up, here's a chart and this shows the relationship, which is incredibly profound between essentially union density and the middle class share of aggregate income. you've seen those two lines decline in tandem. this is one of the big stories of the political economy of america in the sort of era of inequality. which is basically from 1970 on. a certain kind of income ineq...

Republican party essentially adopted the same changes. what we looked at, though, was high latino population, as chuck said it's very different demographic, that these are mostly of mexican descent who tend to be more democratic versus florida, which is a different mix. we also were looking at union density, which is the people who work on the strip. one of the things i note the for tonight, they aren't making any special accommodations for the waitresses, the folks who work along the strip. >> i remember that issue. >> where you had your i.d. you could come within a certain period of time, an...