Academic Workers Of The World Unite
What A Day
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
48,000 academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses walked off the job on Monday in the nation’s largest strike of the year. Labor historian and UCLA professor Toby Higbie tells us how we got here and what’s at stake.
As winter approaches, experts are warning of a “tripledemic” of RSV, COVID, and the flu. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, host of Crooked’s “America Dissected,” explains why it’s happening, and what you can do to protect yourself and your community.
And in headlines: a shooting at the University of Virginia left three people dead, Google agreed to a $392 million settlement over deceptive location tracking practices, and Amazon plans to lay off thousands of employees.Â
Show Notes:
- Fair UC Now | United for a Fair Workplace – https://www.fairucnow.org/
- America Dissected | Crooked Media – https://crooked.com/podcast-series/america-dissected/
- AP News: 2022 midterms live updates – https://tinyurl.com/2p8u52z2
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, November 15th, I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:09.3 | And I'm Abdul Alsaid and this is what a day where we're founding our own micro-blogging |
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| 0:22.9 | On today's show, the Supreme Court said the January 6th Committee can obtain phone records from |
| 0:35.1 | a prominent Trump ally. |
| 0:36.5 | Plus, Jeff Bezos will give away billions of dollars to charity, as Amazon gears up to |
| 0:41.3 | lay off thousands of employees. |
| 0:43.4 | But first... |
| 0:44.4 | Get up, get down! |
| 0:46.4 | LA is the Union time, get up, get down! |
| 0:50.4 | LA is the Union time! |
| 0:52.9 | That is the sound of academic workers at UCLA yesterday. |
| 0:57.0 | They're among the 48,000 who walked off the job Monday across the University of California's |
| 1:02.4 | 10 campuses. |
| 1:04.0 | They're calling for, among other things, better pay and benefits. |
| 1:07.6 | And that massive number makes this effort both the nation's largest strike of the year, |
| 1:12.5 | and according to Union leaders, the largest strike at any academic institution in history. |
| 1:17.2 | I love that. |
| 1:18.2 | You've got to love academic workers saying it how it is. |
| 1:19.9 | I was expecting them to say something more like, ascend, descend. |
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