News Brief: Dem-Aligned Media Set Up Teachers Unions to Take the Fall for Midterm Losses

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this New Brief, we discuss the Winter of Labor Discipline and why holding the line against teachers unions is essential to establishing the "new normal" of working while sick with COVID for American workers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief.
0:06.2	I am Neema Shirazi.
0:07.6	I'm Adam Johnson.
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0:22.8	Happy New Year everyone.
0:23.8	We're going to be back very soon with full length episodes as usual for all your listening
0:28.0	pleasure.
0:29.0	But in the meantime, we are here today with a news brief, which we do in between our
0:33.7	full length episodes when there is something that we just really feel like we need to talk
0:38.4	about.
0:39.4	Today Adam, we really wanted to talk about what we are currently experiencing in our COVID
0:44.6	reality, the winter of labor discipline and of course, management discontent.
0:51.2	Yeah.
0:52.2	So over the past few weeks, there's been a full-scale media pile-on of teachers unions
0:57.6	as the new bookie man for the midterms in 2022.
1:00.3	They're already setting many pundits, Jonathan Chait etc., Neema, Josh Barrow, Matt Galacious,
1:06.1	pretty much everybody at the Washington Post, New York Times editorial board.
1:09.2	They're setting up teachers unions to be some big, big time bookie man.
1:12.6	Yeah, exactly.
1:13.6	When Biden blows it and the Democrats get blown out in November, it's going to be teachers
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