Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Jacobin Show. I'm Jen Pan. I'm here with Paul Prescott.

We've got a great show tonight. We are going to have Karen Nussbaum on. She is one of the

founders of the organization 9 to 5. She'll be joining us around 6.30 p.m. Eastern.

But before we get to all of that, we have an incredibly important announcement, which

is that it's Paul's birthday. So if you're up there and you're watching, hit like to wish

Paul a happy birthday. Paul, hi and happy birthday. Hey, yeah, that really is the present

I've always been wanting is to get more likes and subscriptions. But yeah, I mean, I'm turning

30. We were just talking about this. I don't know whether to feel really happy or really

sad about this. So this show is going to be a therapy session to help me process turning

30. And we will we will get to therapy at some point in the show. So stay tuned. So

actually you have another birthday present, which is that Joe Biden came out this week and

said that he I wouldn't say endorses or supports the Amazon union, but he's very he's

been very adamant that Amazon should not interfere with workers trying to organize,

which of course they shouldn't. And this has been sort of interpreted as an extremely

pro union statement that, you know, it has is almost unheard of from a sitting president.

So let's watch a short clip of Biden giving the thumbs up to the Amazon union.

Today and over the next few days and weeks, workers in Alabama and all across America are

voting in whether to organize a union in their workplace. I've long said America wasn't

built by Wall Street. It was built by the middle class and unions built the middle class.

Union's put power in the hands of workers. They level the playing field. They give you

a stronger voice for your health, your safety, higher wages, protects them from racial discrimination

and sexual harassment. Union's lift up workers, both union and non-union, and especially black

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