Welcome to Aceutations Needed News Brief.

I am Neem Asurazi.

I'm Adam Johnson.

We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled episode and thank you for joining

us today.

Today we're going to be talking about the Rail Strike and the Biden administration's response

to this Biden, incidentally the so-called most pro-labor president that we've had.

But we have with us on today's news brief to illustrious guests, none better to talk

to about this.

We are joined by Mel Bure, researcher, educator, journalist and an editor at The Real News Network.

Mel is currently writing a book on radical media for or books.

And we are also joined by friend of the show and frequent guests are, I don't know, dare

I say potentially senior labor correspondent Max Alvarez, editor in chief of The Real News

Network, a former editor at The Chronicle Review and host of the Working People podcast.

His book The Work of Living was published by Orbooks earlier just this year.

Mel and Max, thank you so much for joining us today on Cytations Needed.

Thanks for having us.

Thanks so much for having us guys.

Alright, so there's a lot to unpack here.

I want to sort of begin by recording this on the evening of Tuesday, November 29th.

So some of this may be slightly out of date, just one little qualifier there.

But as it stands now, can you guys give us a sense if you could just go to lay the ground

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