The workers at Nationals Stadium are down to the home stretch with just five days until the home opener at the new ballpark.
Crews are doing all they can to get the stadium ready, and one local union is doing all it can to get workers to organize.
Just days before the home opener, Monique Bradley says she's just about ready for her first real day on the job and she knows what to do.
But she's still talking to other workers about whether to push for union representation.
"Most of them supported it, but most were like, no, because we have to pay for it," said Bradley.
Local 25 represents more than 19,000 food and beverage workers nationwide and wants the new stadium workers to unite.
William Aragon of Local 25 said, "With the union they have protection. And we also bargain for better wages, working conditions and benefits."
Local 25 has been asking workers outside the stadium to sign cards and if they get the signatures of 80% of the stadium's food and beverage workers, they will have the authority to represent them.
"You can't have a team if everybody ain't together," said stadium employee Raymond Crutchfield.
The team work, however, continues inside the stadium as workers are down to the wire.
"They're just showing us where everything is going to be and where everything is," said employee Keiya Bullock.
Even as talk of the union resonates, talk of the Nationals team is even louder.
"It kind of opens up new opportunities. We get to rub elbows with a lot of different people," said Crutchfield. "It is very exciting. I am very excited to do this."
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