How America's Workers Win!

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Media And Politics, Society & Culture, Fight For Democracy., American Politics, White Supremacy In Politics, Multiracial Democracy, Social Justice Podcast, Wajahat Ali, Danielle Moodie, Politics, U.s. Politics Podcast, Racial Justice, Democracy Podcast, Political Commentary, Defending Democracy, Political Podcast, News, Progressive Politics Podcast, Government

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our nation's middle class was built by workers' ability to unionize and gain better pay and treatment for themselves through collective bargaining. Yet, throughout the decades we have allowed Republicans to demonize our unions and take up instead for CEOs and shareholders. What they didn't bargain on however is that workers--thanks to compounded crises have had enough and see their value outside of how much they can produce. On this episode of democracyish, Wajahat and Danielle are joined by Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.

Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali

Executive Producer: Adell Coleman

Senior Producer: Quinton Hill

Distributor: DCP Entertainment

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0:00.0	Welcome to Democracy-ish.
0:12.3	And I'm Danielle Moody.
0:13.3	And I'm with Jahat Ali.
0:15.4	And we are very excited to be joined by kick-ass author and writer Kim Kelly talking about her new book.
0:24.5	And frankly, our labor issues here in the United States, fight like, fight like hell,
0:29.4	the untold history of American labor.
0:32.5	Wash set it up for us, you know, the disaster that we are living in in terms of always shortages, but never an
0:39.8	increase in wages and why we have so many different tales that we tell about the American labor
0:45.3	force. Yeah, very excited to have Kim join us. You guys have to buy her book. Again, it's called
0:49.7	Fight Like Hell. She's also a labor journalist and a teen vote columnist. And we promised her that we will
0:55.0	get her out within 30 minutes so she can go get her new kick-ass tattoo. So we will keep to that
0:59.8	promise. But, you know, Kim, you know, Danielle mentioned this. You know, we've talked about on
1:04.1	the show that people are working two jobs just to stay broke in 2022 America, the richest,
1:09.6	most powerful country on earth. And I'm not
1:12.3	economist. I'm an English major. I'm a simple man. I'm a simple unfrozen caveman lawyer.
1:17.3	I don't understand these big charts, but I have read that productivity has increased over the
1:24.7	past 40 years. The rich have gotten richer.
1:28.8	This means that workers are doing their job.
1:30.9	They're working really well.
1:32.2	Productivity is increased.
1:33.7	And yet, income and wages have not increased.
1:38.9	Explain this to me like I'm an eight-year-old.
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