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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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It's a labor-heavy episode, folks--we're talking Alex's final thoughts on the UPS Teamsters Tentative Agreement before voting begins, third-party orgs participating in member mobilization, and what our long-term goals should be for the Teamsters.
ALSO: The Rock donates a record sum to the SAG-AFTRA support fund, and Blaze readers ask, "Why does he hate veterans?"
ADDITIONALLY: Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre cancel 30th Anniversary Doggystyle shows at the Hollywood Bowl to show solidarity to the striking actors and writers.
We learn from the comments he's probably the president of the union and stealing money from them.
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0:00.0 | Yeah, we'll see what happens. |
0:03.3 | I've never been more optimistic about being a Teamster. |
0:06.1 | I've never had like, I've never really looked forward to what we can accomplish as Teamsters until, you know, these last couple years. |
0:16.8 | And that's, you know, my own fault for not being as involved in the union and all that. |
0:20.9 | But also, like, again, it's this material reality that we're working with. |
0:24.7 | This, the energy is coming up. |
0:26.6 | It's palpably coming up among the rank and file. |
0:29.5 | And it's, it's infective. |
0:31.2 | And it's infectious. |
0:32.8 | And it's, you know, I feel like it's only going to spread. |
0:35.8 | It's only going to get stronger. |
0:38.3 | And yeah, I think the real fight is eliminating the internalized classism that a lot of wage earners still have, still hold on to, and fostering solidarity among our union siblings. |
0:53.2 | Because that's where the power comes from. You know, know you can like you can try to get the public on your side and that does help for morale and that does help you know show the company that they're on the wrong side but it's it's the actual muscle you know the rank of file members are the actual muscle. And we need to all be working together. |
1:12.6 | And we all need to be sympathetic to each other's needs and representative of each other, not just ourselves. |
1:19.0 | And that's a long-term project that we're working on. |
1:22.8 | And I'm seeing, I'm seeing gains. |
1:25.0 | I'm seeing wins. |
1:26.0 | I'm seeing fat gains. |
1:30.3 | This union is going to be yoked pretty soon. Yeah, I love it. I love to hear. I love to see it. I will say, you know, you could go |
1:36.0 | ahead and get off the union's teat if you would just bank black, but you know, well, I mean, |
1:43.4 | why would I do that when I could just start my own bank? |
1:46.3 | Oh, that's very valid. |
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