#1585 Workers Rights Ascendent Amid Writers and Actors Strikes in Hollywood and the UAW Strikes Against the Big 3 US Automakers all While the Sociopathic Reality of Capitalism is Laid Bare by CEOs Explain How Exploiting Workers is Intrinsic to the System
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 9/26/2023
Rays of hope for the worker's struggle against unfettered, exploitative capitalism are coming from multiple angles as strikes from creatives in Hollywood and autoworkers in Detroit are striking to demand wages, benefits, and protections while executives make arguments for why workers should be made to feel the threat of poverty to keep them in line.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.5 | take a look at some of the rays of hope for the workers' struggle against unfettered |
| 0:12.3 | exploitative capitalism, which are coming from multiple angles, as creatives in Hollywood |
| 0:17.0 | and auto-workers in Detroit are striking to demand better wages, benefits and protections, |
| 0:22.7 | while executives make arguments for why workers should be made to feel the threat of poverty |
| 0:28.3 | to keep them in mind. |
| 0:30.2 | Sources today include The Rational National, The New Abnormal, Novara Media, Citations |
| 0:36.1 | Needed, The Bradcast, The Majority Report and Revolutionary Left Radio, with additional |
| 0:42.1 | members' only clips from factually with Adam Conover and more perfect union. |
| 0:48.6 | For the first time in history, the United Auto Workers are on strike against all three |
| 1:00.5 | big automakers at the same time, so that is General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. |
| 1:07.6 | And in the midst of all this, the CEO of GM, Mary Barra, was on CNN and was questioned |
| 1:17.0 | on why she has seen so much of an increase in her pay compared to her workers. |
| 1:23.8 | And did not give a good answer, and I'm going to really break down just how ridiculous |
| 1:30.6 | her answer is. |
| 1:32.4 | First here, a little more on the strike, so as CNN writes, the targeted strike against |
| 1:38.2 | three plants includes fewer than 13,000 of the UAW's 145,000 workers, but Union President |
| 1:44.4 | Sean Fein has threatened to grow the strike if the automakers refuse to meet workers |
| 1:48.8 | demands. |
| 1:50.2 | Automakers have scoffed at the Union's call for large raises, a four-day work week and |
| 1:54.0 | expanded pension program among others. |
| 1:57.2 | So I've discussed a lot of the demands in previous videos, I'm not going to go through |
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