It’s entirely possible, as Verizon Wireless’s video suggests, that joining forces with your co-workers to tell the company “we deserve better” would be "disempowering". Maybe even less empowering than saying “unions are bad” in so many words in front of a camera. Wearing a uniform. On the clock. With your boss within earshot.

Anyone who has the courage to take a stand at work would tell you otherwise.

In the wake of Gawker writers unionizing with the Writers Guild of America, sit in strikes at Walmart stores, and workers from fast food restaurants to adjuncts at universities to cleaners at airports to homecare workers all joining the Fight For 15 and a union movement, the picture is becoming clear.

We are all a part of the unrest on the rise against income and racial inequality. For many it’s starting in the workplace.