Fighting beyond the contract
Kim Mitchell
Shop Steward and Member, UFCW Local 400
“We had to realize as a local that we had to go start fighting outside of the contract. Because it was just things that, you had the retailers — they weren’t signing up for. So we had to go beyond that. And I feel like with DC Jobs with Justice, that’s what you do. You work outside those spaces. We’re on the same road just different paths.
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