Congressman Jamie Raskin/Teamsters Battle XPO
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ralph talks to Democratic Congressman and constitutional law scholar Jamie Raskin about how progressives can break the Republican stranglehold on the federal government. And union organizer Jeffrey Farmer describes the pitched battle between the Teamsters and XPO Logistics, one of the largest transportation companies in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
| 0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.6 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my |
| 0:18.0 | co-host David. Hello, David. Hello everybody. And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:25.0 | How are you doing today, Ralph? |
| 0:27.0 | Good, and it'll be better when we see what a great show we have. |
| 0:30.0 | We do. |
| 0:31.0 | Regular listeners know how many times Ralph has pointed out that the way to make real change in this country is to go to the place where they make the laws and that's Congress and today we have a real live congressman on the line |
| 0:44.6 | Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland. Among other things we're going to ask him out |
| 0:48.8 | to organize progressives in Congress and what is the best way to get through to a congressperson, I get hearings in Congress, what is the best way to get through to a Congress person, how to |
| 0:54.3 | hearings in Congress, and how to rally support for bills. Then we're going to |
| 0:59.0 | turn our attention to the battle between the Teamsters Union and a shipping and logistics company named |
| 1:04.6 | XPO that is fighting their workers efforts to unionize. All of this while their |
| 1:10.4 | CEO salary has been raised for 81%. |
| 1:13.7 | Giving us the inside scoop on that battle will be Jeffrey Farmer, |
| 1:17.4 | director of organizing for the teamsters. |
| 1:19.6 | That will be in the second half of the show. |
| 1:21.8 | Somewhere in the middle we'll check in with our |
| 1:23.8 | trustee corporate crime reporter Russell Mokieber. But first, let's speak with someone Ralph on this show has called, |
| 1:31.5 | quote, one of the great new young congressman, David. |
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