A More Perfect Union

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Jonah speaks to Manhattan Institute fellow and CCNY professor Daniel DiSalvo (an expert on public-sector unions and their history) to find out how the sausage really gets made in the intra-organizational politics of these public-sector unions, and how their influence is often the result of “the breakdown of machine politics – especially within the Democratic Party – in big cities.” Show Notes: - Dan’s page at the Manhattan Institute - “The Trouble with Police Unions” - Dan’s latest book, Government Against Itself - The first work on the “New Class,” by Milovan Djilas - Maya Wiley back by the SEIU in NYC - DeBlasio was also endorsed by SEIU - Terry Moe’s book on teachers unions - New York teachers’ all-expenses-paid “rubber rooms” - The OG happy warrior Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	Hello, welcome to my channel.
0:49.0	Can I please have your attention?
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0:58.0	Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast.
1:01.3	I brought you about the dispatch and dispatch.
1:02.8	Media go to thedispatch.com to find out why 42 really isn't being answered to everything.
1:10.5	We are fact checks covered all. Okay, so long time listeners of this podcast know that I have a
1:16.2	long had a bee in my bonnet, metaphorically speaking, because I no longer own a bonnet.
1:21.8	It's about public sector unions. My standard joke is that while I understand why private sector
1:28.6	unions came into existence in the wake of harsh working conditions, where was the great motor
1:35.4	vehicles department ceiling collapse of 1973 that justified public sector unions?
1:41.5	And I've been ranting about this for so long. I figured I'd actually have someone who knows
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