Episode 233 - Fraud Squad? (w/ Kshama Sawant & Ryan Grim)
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Seattle city councilmember & Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant joins Bad Faith to debate the strategy, adopted by most of the squad, to vote for the union-crushing tentative agreement that averted a legal railworkers strike. Ryan Grim has been accused of "running cover" for the squad members' strategy, while Kshama Sawant argued their vote for a union voting bill was a clear betrayal. Is Ryan right to say it made sense for the squad to follow the advice of some union members who wanted them to adopt that strategy? Or is Kshama right to call that "political gaslighting?" Ryan joins the conversation about half an hour in, and it's a hot but productive conversation. you wont want to miss it.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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| 0:00.0 | Do either of you have any responsibility to identify a worker who says that the actual |
| 0:04.9 | betrayal was after Biden's Senate to Congress that in there as him. |
| 0:10.9 | All of it is a betrayal. All of it is a betrayal. |
| 0:13.3 | You have to find a single worker who says that that's the betrayal. |
| 0:16.1 | I don't like that. I have to say, Breonna, I find this utterly shocking that someone like Ryan |
| 0:21.6 | Graham can act like he is depending the workers. This is utterly shocking. It's absolutely |
| 0:27.7 | just ranked nonsense and it is passing the buck in reality. What is happening is that you are |
| 0:32.8 | defending the betrayers of the working to others just beyond the field. |
| 1:03.7 | I am very glad to be having this conversation today. Seattle City Councilmember |
| 1:09.1 | Shama Sawat is back on bad faith. Thank you so much for joining us again. |
| 1:12.8 | Thank you for having me, Breonna. |
| 1:15.1 | So we are talking now just a few days after the Biden administration, Congress as a whole, |
| 1:24.0 | has forced a business-friendly agreement on two rail workers. We've been following the story |
| 1:30.8 | of their strike threat for months now. The strike was a varied with a temporary agreement that |
| 1:37.6 | was negotiated by the Biden administration. Per this 1920s rule that allows the government to |
| 1:43.6 | intervene because of the enormous impact the rail industry has in the US economy. They did so |
| 1:50.0 | at that point and it inverted the strike for a period of time. Last week it came to a head again. |
| 1:54.7 | And this time, although the crucial central demand from rail road workers was strike days, |
| 2:02.6 | they wanted about two weeks of sick days. There was a proposal for seven days. They did not get |
| 2:09.1 | that. And following the business-friendly TA being imposed and the legal strike that being |
| 2:16.0 | averted, many people were arguing that the squad was a disappointment because only Rashida |
| 2:24.0 | Tuleb declined to vote for that tentative agreement. Of course, there were others who defended |
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