Fight For Your Right To Organize
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act on Tuesday, a bill that’s been called the biggest expansion of labor rights since the New Deal. Now, the question is whether the filibuster will kill this bill in the Senate… or if the bill will kill the filibuster. We discuss, and hear from Faiz Shakir, founder of More Perfect Union, on what this moment means for the labor movement.
Today, the House is likely to pass the revised COVID relief bill, the last step before it goes to Biden’s desk. We talk through some provisions in the bill that are getting less attention: money for Native communities, money for Black farmers, and fixes to the Affordable Care Act.
And in headlines: Myanmar’s military government cracks down on media coverage of protests, Tennessee expands vaccine eligibility to include inmates, and Piers Morgan to defend the Queen on his own time.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 10th. I'm Hila Hughes. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Gideon Resseck and this is what a day where we have now completed all our self-improvement |
| 0:13.7 | projects for quarantine and can finally say we're perfect. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah, I'm now a quadrilingual, ambidextrous, multi-instrumentalist, so you know, get at me. |
| 0:20.8 | I can do one more rep of bicep curls but for left arm only. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's show, we are going to dig further into the COVID relief bill than some headlines. |
| 0:39.2 | But first the latest. I rise in solidarity with the 50, 800 mostly black workers in Alabama who are |
| 0:48.1 | currently fighting one of the most predatory corporations in the world, Amazon to form a union. |
| 0:54.5 | That was Congresswoman Ilhan Omar talking about the pro act yesterday on the House floor. |
| 0:58.5 | The bill short for protecting the right to organize past in the House yesterday and President Biden said |
| 1:03.2 | he would sign it in the law if it makes it to his desk. Of course, it would have to make it through |
| 1:07.2 | the Senate first, which you know, treacherous, horrible place. But before we get ahead of ourselves, |
| 1:11.8 | Gideon, let's talk about this bill. It's being called the biggest expansion of labor rights since the |
| 1:15.7 | New Deal. What do we need to know about it? It's definitely a big deal. It would be majorly |
| 1:20.0 | consequential for workers and their unionization efforts across the country, especially because |
| 1:24.8 | most legislation that we see and hear about seeks to erode workers rights, particularly when it |
| 1:29.3 | comes to unions. That's just been the history. The bill actually passed last year in the House, |
| 1:33.6 | but the new momentum behind it comes from the fact that Democrats have majorities in the House |
| 1:38.0 | in the Senate, a president who is vocally supportive and an organized labor movement with even |
| 1:43.0 | more muscle. So let's go through some of the things they would broadly do. It would give workers |
| 1:47.8 | that want to form a union, more protections from retribution by employers or union-busting tactics. |
| 1:52.8 | It would target right to work laws, which exists in more than half of our states. It would give |
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