Episode 670: How Unions Are Failing American Workers (Special Episode)

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Rich Lowry is joined by Vinnie Vernuccio, President of the Institute for the American Worker, to discuss how unions have reduced worker freedom, the underhanded tactics unions use to gain power and stifle dissenting voices, how the government enables unions, and how Americans can use free market principles to restore workers rights and bring about positive labor reform.

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0:00.0	What? What are unions good for and how can we reform labor law? We'll discuss all this and
0:18.7	more on the special sponsored edition of the editors. I'm
0:21.4	Ms. Lowry and I'm joined today by Vinny Vernuccio,
0:23.7	president of the Institute for the American Worker
0:26.3	or I-4-A-W, our regularly scheduled programming,
0:30.8	will return soon.
0:32.3	So Vinny, thanks so much for being here. Hey Rich, thanks for
0:35.1	having me on, appreciate it. Of course. Situate us a little bit with your
0:39.7	background, how long you been present of the Institute and how long you been
0:43.8	you been grappling with these sort of issues?
0:45.6	Sure, so I co-founded the Institute for the American
0:48.8	worker at I the number 4 A.W.org late 2018, but I've been doing this for well over a decade and a half.
0:57.7	I got my start as a presidential appointment in the Bush Department of Labor.
1:03.2	I've been working with think tanks all over the country since the American people fired
1:08.9	me obviously in 2009, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Mackinaw Center for well over a decade.
1:17.7	I also was on the original Trump transition team for labor and was a Trump appointee to the federal
1:25.1	service impasse this panel doing mediation and arbitration between the federal government
1:30.2	and federal unions.
1:31.7	Great.
1:33.0	So let's go real basic.
1:34.6	There is an assumption.
1:36.6	Certainly has been one for a very long time among Democrats.
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