She worked looking after us. She wasn't in the outside workforce.
What I learned quickly was that we didn't have the same benefits that some of my dad's friends had who were unionized. I was just a kid growing up. My dad never had a pension plan. He was basically minimum wage. There were no benefits. He was diabetic. There were no health benefits or anything like that.
We grew up just kind of accepting that's how it was, but as I got into my teens, I realized that where he worked wasn't unionized and that there really wasn't somebody that spoke on their behalf. It was a great job, but I quickly realized that a lot of his friends who were unionized had different benefits than we had. This study is important to me, and I hope all of my colleagues around the table will support it.
Thank you.