Fiona Hill

And for more representation, they're asking to be represented within their workplace, be it Starbucks, where baristas are, you know, Starbucks employees are trying to unionize.

We have unions among our research assistants, the Brookings Institution, where I am, you know, kind of teaching assistants and big universities doing the same kind of thing as well, because they want to have their voice heard.

They want to kind of play a larger role and they want to have change.

And they're often pushing their companies or the institutions they work for to make that change because they don't see it happening.

in the political sphere.

So it's not just enough to go out there and protest in the street, but if you want something to happen, that's why you're seeing big corporations playing a bigger role as well.

This goes back to my own experience growing up in Northern England.

The Durham miners that I was part of for generations, you know, first person in my family not in the mines on my dad's side, they created their own association.

It wasn't a union per se at the very beginning.

Later they became part of the National Miners Union.

They lost their autonomy and independence as a result of that.

But what they did was they pooled their resources.

They set up their own parliament so they could all get together.

Literally, they built a parliament.

And it opened in the same time as World War I and where they all got together because they didn't have the vote.

They didn't have suffrage at the time because they didn't have any money.

So they couldn't pay the tax and they couldn't run for parliament.

And this is the origins of the organized labor parties later.

But they created this association so they could talk about how they could deal with things of their own communities and have a voice in the things that mattered.

you know, education, you know, improving their work conditions.