570 - Deere John Letter feat. Jonah Furman (10/25/21)

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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We’re joined by Labor Notes’ Jonah Furman to discuss the ongoing strike of over 10,000 John Deere workers. We discuss the effects of a tight labor market on labor power, what’s at stake in the strike, and how the current “vibe” of labor militancy might affect future strikes. We then look at the other end of capital with a piece from FT detailing the “vibe” at the Milken Jamboree, an event named after the “junk bond king” headlined by, of course, Bari Weiss. Check out Jonah’s writing in Labor Notes: https://labornotes.org/author/5777/content And sign up for his newsletter here: https://whogetsthebird.substack.com/

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0:30.0	Okay, greetings everybody.
0:36.7	Monday, October 25th, 2021.
0:39.7	It's your chopper for the week on the Natu.
0:42.5	It's me and Matt, Chris on the One's Enthus as usual.
0:45.9	Hello.
0:46.9	Felix, Felix the Lens sabbatical.
0:49.2	But if you're not joining us for the first half of the show today is Jonah Ferman of
0:54.6	Labor Notes.
0:55.6	Jonah, how's it going?
0:56.6	Good.
0:57.6	How you guys doing?
0:58.6	Well, obviously, we want to get you on and talk about strikes.
1:02.4	They're back.
1:03.4	I want to get into some of the individual cases of a lot of some of these strikes that are
1:09.2	going on right now in terms of the company, the unions, the stakes, the contracts.
1:14.4	But overall, to the extent that labor actions seem to have cropped up across a pretty broad
1:20.1	spectrum of industries and sectors of the economy you're talking.
1:25.3	You know, auto manufacturing, coal mining, healthcare, transportation, telecommunications,
1:31.8	and the one that you've written about recently, John Deere.
1:35.4	Just to start things off, could you talk to us first about just in terms of a very basic
1:40.4	definition of a tight versus a slack labor market and how the circumstances we see now
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