Labor And The Pandemic with Mary Kay Henry

What A Day

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A U.S. military drone blew up a vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday that was filled with explosives and was believed to be a threat to the international airport. This came after a suicide bombing outside of the airport last Thursday killed at least 170 civilians and 13 American military members, and ISIS-K claimed responsibility. This past year has been defined by unionizing and organizing efforts across many industries, and the pandemic put a spotlight on worker conditions. Mary Kay Henry, the international president of the Service Employees International Union, joins us to discuss the current state of the American labor movement with Labor Day just ahead. And in headlines: Hurricane Ida made landfall yesterday, U.S. military aircrafts began bringing aid into southern Haiti, a Virginia school board was ordered to pay $1.3 million in a transgender student's suit, and controversy surrounds the debut of Kanye West’s new album. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Monday, August 30th. I'm getting a russet.
0:08.6	And I'm Josie Deppie Rice, and this is What a Day.
0:11.0	The podcast that's popular in every parallel universe in Spider-Man, no way home.
0:15.0	Yes, Toby McGuire, Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man, and Tom Holland,
0:19.4	Spider-Man all have the ability to subscribe to Wad.
0:21.8	But none of them do, unfortunately, they are sadly very loyal to the Daily.
0:26.4	They're missing out. They're commute sucks. What can I say?
0:29.3	On Today's show, the head of SCIU talks with us about trying to get all workers the opportunity
0:40.5	to unionize in the US. Plus, we track the path of Hurricane Ida as it struck Louisiana.
0:46.8	But first, a brief update on the latest out of Afghanistan, as of our recording on Sunday
0:51.2	night. A Defense Department official said yesterday that a US military drone blew up a vehicle
0:55.9	and cobble that was filled with explosives and was believed to be a threat to the international
0:59.7	airport. We're still learning more details as they come in, but a US military official
1:03.6	said that it's possible the strike may have killed some civilians, and it is investigating
1:07.5	further. That follows the claims made by some people in cobble, including a Taliban
1:11.8	spokesman who said that children were among the dead.
1:15.4	Awful. This all came after a suicide bombing outside of the airport last Thursday. That
1:20.6	attack killed at least 170 civilians and 13 American military members. The Islamic State
1:26.6	core a Saan or ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack.
1:29.9	And yesterday's drone strike by the US military is the second one that it has carried out since
1:34.3	the bombing took place. On Sunday, President Biden joined the family members of the slain
1:38.4	US military members at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to see the return of their remains.
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