. >> amanda curtis, a former state congresswoman, was born of the labor movement.vocate for workers, and this solidly union city she calls home. >> when you got off the boat in ellis island, it says "butte" pinned to your shirt. and it wasn't butte, montana, right? it was butte, america. we were founded by european immigrants who came from socialist countries with all these crazy socialist ideas. >> would you say montana, in a stereotypical way, is relatively socially conservative? >> oh, absolutely, but butte is a labor town. >> nobody knows anything about union history. you know, they don't teach it. when the country was at its peak, unions were at their peak. when wages were at their peak, unions were at their peak. >> that was then, this is now. this is the era of "i've got mine, jack." >> that's what makes butte different. it's not "i've got mine." >> it isn't? why? >> it's truly not. the union is together. we've grown this community out of taking care of each other. >> you have to remember what it was like here for workers before unions, if you can imagine. m