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🗓️ 22 September 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi everybody, it's Amber here and I am doing a special interview with |
0:05.2 | Boscherson Cara, the editor and publisher of Jacobin Magazine. We're talking |
0:10.3 | about an article he wrote for the Guardian entitled What's Your |
0:14.6 | Solution to Sexism and Racism? Mine is unions. Hi. So Boschert, can you man |
0:20.8 | explain to us exactly why unions are so good at fighting sexism and racism? |
0:26.2 | Well, just simply because unions are built on the idea that workers can't |
0:32.1 | bargain individually. So for example, for that Guardian piece, I was able to tell |
0:36.2 | my editor, I don't really want to write this, you know, I'll do it for a little |
0:40.2 | bit more money. You know, that's not something that your average worker on the |
0:43.5 | shop floor can do because I'm, you know, a proud member of the professional |
0:47.9 | class now. I'm moving on up. Yeah, the paybacks for shirt. Exactly. Yeah. I |
0:53.6 | dress like I'm a young college Republican. But, you know, whereas an average |
0:59.2 | worker on an assembly line, you know, or even, you know, a nurse or what I can't |
1:03.6 | do that because their boss will say, no, we'll just find someone else and the |
1:08.1 | machines are doing most of the work anyway. That's a nature of unskilled |
1:12.4 | labor. And even like a lot of working class jobs that are our skills are |
1:17.0 | replaceable. So workers have to band together and bargain collectively. And in |
1:22.4 | that process of aggregating together all these different workers, the |
1:27.3 | workers that are more skilled and more privileged and the workers who are less |
1:31.1 | skilled and less, less privileged, you know, together, they're going to be able |
1:35.9 | to set standards of pay and treatment and whatnot on the basis of equal pay for |
1:40.2 | equal work. So the individual workers themselves could hold all sorts of |
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