By threatening to go on strike, about 200 workers in the Pioneer Valley won big raises. They are ambulance drivers and workers. “The people who run this company are not nice people,” Bryan Donovan, Junior told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview. He is president of Teamsters Local 404, which represents the workers. The company is American Medical Response. The strike would have started November 24. The raises will be about 28 percent. Unions are good for democracy. That's because they reduce inequality. Billionaires buy politicians.
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