BIDEN BACKS REVITALIZATION OF UNIONS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Here's the genuine litmus test for Biden's support of Unions- History shows that unions are the most powerful way to build a healthy and vibrant middle-class.
Thom debates conservative Julio Rivera on the historic success of organized labor.
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| 0:00.0 | I really and truly think we're on the verge of a new era in America. |
| 0:20.8 | The political winds are shifting so fast. |
| 0:23.7 | The fact that a CPAC, they weren't even bothering to discuss issues. |
| 0:27.1 | It was all about personality, tells me that what's left of the base of the Republican |
| 0:33.1 | Party has gone from being people who actually thought that they knew something about policy |
| 0:39.0 | to a cult of personality. |
| 0:42.9 | Consider how far the Republican Party has fallen. |
| 0:45.6 | In 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican president of the United States ran for re-election. |
| 0:52.9 | This was his platform. |
| 0:55.4 | You can look it up. |
| 0:56.4 | In 1956, presidential platform on the Republican side. |
| 1:01.0 | Federal assistance to low-income communities. |
| 1:05.2 | Extension and expansion of the Social Security Program. |
| 1:09.3 | Assile them for thousands of refugees, expelleys, and displaced persons. |
| 1:16.1 | Extending minimum wage protections, quote, to as many more workers as possible and practicable. |
| 1:24.2 | Protecting the unemployment benefits system. |
| 1:27.8 | Protecting the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively. |
| 1:33.0 | And to assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex. |
| 1:37.8 | That was the GOP platform in 1956. |
| 1:42.4 | What was the GOP platform in 2020? |
| 1:45.4 | There wasn't one. |
| 1:47.1 | It was well, whatever Donald Trump wants, that's what we're down with. |
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