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Andy Stern is the former president of SEIU and senior fellow at the Georgtown Policy Institute. |
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Harley Shaiken is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the issues of labor and the organization of work. |
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Jeff Farmer is the Director of Organizing for the Teamsters union. |
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Leon Fink is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and he edits the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americans. His latest book is Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry from 1812 to the Present. |
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