Petrov’s Perspective on Unions

03 September 2020

Sam Petrov’s work vehicle license plate says it all: “UNI♥︎NS.” To say that the LA-based DIT has strong feelings for labor unions would be a serious understatement.

“I came from a pretty strong union household growing up,” said Petrov. His mother, aunt and uncle were postal workers and card-carrying members of The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). “The values that unions uphold and try to instill in people are very close to me in terms of solidarity and making sure that people get representation. Working in an era of severely weakened unions compared to our labor forefathers, it’s critical to inject some vitality into this realm for the next generation of workers. It’s gotten even more important to me in the last few years since I joined Local 600.”

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