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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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TODAY: Alex is joined by Jacob Morrison of the excellent Valley Labor Report to discuss the recent Longshoremen strike, their tentative agreement after winning higher wages, and the continued fight for the future of their jobs.
Was the strike a nefarious pro-Trump worker action meant to make the Democrats look bad?
Is the based right wing going to last a nanosecond before demanding union workers be fired?
Will these overpaid, lazy workers ever stop being unfairly exploited by their wealthy union leaders?
All this and more on today's episode
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0:00.0 | So in a similar line to like the previous sort of round of comments I have, I have, we're |
0:07.0 | against this union boss, this mob leader, but from the left, from, from the Democrats. |
0:14.0 | You know, I'd say left in quotations here. But they all decided the Democrats in order to because let's say here's kind of the thesis statement |
0:26.7 | of the Democrats during this strike. Liam Martin, who I think is like a probably a newscaster |
0:33.4 | of some kind. That's what his avatar looks like. He's Liam from Boston. So maybe he's a Boston |
0:38.4 | affiliate or something. He says, feels important to note that the president of the union leading |
0:43.1 | the port strike has a longstanding relationship with Trump and is causing major damage to a roaring |
0:49.3 | economy five weeks before the election. I didn't know these were Trump workers. I was all ready to support them and their right to collectively bargain and extract concessions |
0:58.8 | from billionaire bosses. |
1:00.6 | I didn't know they were Trump guys, though. |
1:02.9 | Yeah. |
1:03.2 | Now I know they have the wrong opinions, apparently. |
1:06.1 | And so I want them all to be poor. |
1:08.5 | Yeah. |
1:08.9 | Now I know that their contract ending now was actually a dastardly strike against the Harris Walls campaign. |
1:17.1 | Yeah, because Brent Erickson replies, and this is a blue check with some professional headshot photography. |
1:23.1 | So he's probably a fucking pundit or analyst or advisor or whatever. |
1:28.5 | He says, well, the timing of the strike is suspect. |
1:32.2 | No, it's not. |
1:33.2 | Again, you can't strike until the contract is over, geniuses. |
1:38.2 | Sorry, sorry it might interfere with the non-campaign. |
1:43.6 | Sorry it might interfere with your candidate meeting |
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