Ep. 385 — Mary Kay Henry

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mary Kay Henry is the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), an organization of more than 2 million union members in health care, the public sector, and beyond. She joins David to talk about the many SEIU members who are on the front lines fighting COVID-19, her concerns about the politicization of the federal pandemic response, her assessment of union members’ attitudes towards President Trump, and more.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axfiles with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:14.5	Music
0:20.0	I sat down this week with Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International
0:26.0	Union.
0:27.0	It was the second time that we have met here on the Axfiles.
0:30.2	The first time was in January of 2016 when she sent up a flare that she thought that Donald
0:36.5	Trump could get elected president when a lot of other people thought that was not possible.
0:40.6	She did so based on soundings of her own members.
0:43.5	She also is in the thick of this COVID-19 story because so many of her members are healthcare
0:49.3	workers on the front lines of this battle.
0:52.8	So I thought it would be great to sit down with Mary Kay again and talk about what is
0:57.5	going on with the crisis and where she sees the election today.
1:01.9	Here is that conversation.
1:09.1	Mary Kay Henry, it's so good to see you again, not face to face, but at least we can see
1:14.2	each other.
1:16.0	And I will tell our listeners that this is Mary Kay's second visit to the Axfiles.
1:20.9	We had a great conversation in January of 2016.
1:24.7	It was just the 21st episode.
1:26.6	I think we are closing it on 400 now.
1:29.6	Mary Kay, but your story was a great story.
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