Hustle, Health, and Hidden Truths: What We’re Not Supposed to Talk About | Bo DePaoli E247
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Rich Somers
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I've never talked about this so far. This is one of the biggest unions in the country. |
| 0:05.6 | Wow. And they all pay into this union. |
| 0:07.9 | Yeah. And the union has a voluntary thing called the PAC. If you did not participate in that, people would |
| 0:13.1 | fucking shun you in the hallways, in the breakrooms, they wouldn't |
| 0:15.6 | fucking talk to you. Everyone was pressured into like |
| 0:18.0 | participating with the pack. Right. You would volunteer |
| 0:20.2 | portion of your paycheck into this pack. Some people would put a hundred bucks a paycheck |
| 0:24.0 | paycheck, some people would put 100 bucks a paycheck, |
| 0:25.0 | some people would put like 600 bucks a paycheck. |
| 0:26.0 | Think about 14,000 air traffic controllers |
| 0:29.0 | paying into this pack. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's just say the average controller puts in, |
| 0:32.0 | let's just say $150 a paycheck times 26 paychecks a year, |
| 0:35.5 | that's $3,900 a year, times 14,000 controllers, let's just say 12,000 of them contribute. |
| 0:41.2 | That's $46 million a year. Times four that's a |
| 0:44.3 | hundred and eighty seven million dollars that the air traffic controller |
| 0:48.1 | union which is called NACA National Air Traffic Controller |
| 0:51.6 | Association on a spitball on that money it could be more than that it could be National Airchap |
| 0:55.0 | Traffic Controller Association. I'm a spitball on that money. It could be more than that. It could be a little bit less. |
| 0:56.0 | They are donating to the Democratic presidential runner-up. |
| 0:59.5 | So in 2008 when Obama won that pack donated to Obama's campaign guess what they do as |
| 1:04.7 | soon as they get elected they fucking go in the office and they give all their |
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