Elon Musk’s War on Workers

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How America’s morally and physically ugliest billionaires are plotting to destroy labor rights.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue projects. On this episode of 5 to 4,
0:10.0	Peter, Rianen, and Michael are talking about the Supreme Court's agenda on labor rights,
0:16.2	and how the court's decisions in the coming term could play out under a second Trump presidency.
0:21.9	As you'll hear the National Labor Relations Board, the agency responsible for protecting
0:26.0	the rights of American workers, was basically gutted from the inside during Trump's first term.
0:31.8	And over the past year, the NLRB
0:33.8	has been attacked by some of the biggest businesses in the country.
0:36.9	It is a nearly 90-year-old independent federal agency
0:40.1	whose mission is to protect workers' rights.
0:43.0	But lately, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board
0:46.0	is also working to protect itself.
0:48.7	Companies like Amazon and SpaceX
0:50.6	are arguing that the NLRB isn't just wrongly accusing them of labor
0:54.4	violations but that its entire existence is unconstitutional. This is five to
0:59.8	four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:05.0	Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have left our nation
1:12.0	wandering aimlessly, like me at Trader Joe's
1:15.0	looking for snacks.
1:16.0	I'm Peter.
1:18.0	I'm here with Rianen.
1:19.0	Hey.
1:20.0	And Michael.
	...

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