Private Profits VS. Public Treasure - Saving The Redwoods
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Updates on successful unionization drive against Starbucks' anti-union campaign, UK universities go to 3-day schedule so students can take jobs the other 3-4 days (fallout from a failing capitalism), UAW union prepares for strike against Ford, GM and Stellantis with Detroit community solidarity. Interview Eleanor Goldfield about her new film To The Trees exposing struggle: profiteers vs people protecting giant redwood forests.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the |
| 0:15.6 | economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm your host, Richard Wolff. |
| 0:23.2 | I want to begin by reminding you that a real friend of this program, Charlie Fabian, is |
| 0:30.0 | continuing to volunteer to handle any suggestions, comments, bits of information you think might |
| 0:37.6 | help us prepare these programs. |
| 0:41.0 | Please send any and all of that to Charlie.info438 at Gmail. |
| 0:48.8 | Once again, Charlie.info438 at gmail.com. |
| 0:56.8 | Today's program will be talking about the union efforts at Starbucks, a remarkable admission |
| 1:04.0 | of the failed British university system on economic grounds. |
| 1:10.4 | And then finally, a discussion in the first half of the United Auto Workers and the big |
| 1:17.8 | negotiation going on there. |
| 1:20.5 | In the second half of the show, we will have Eleanor Goldfield, who's just completed a film |
| 1:27.1 | on the Redwood Forest and the struggle to save and protect that forest from the entities |
| 1:34.5 | for whom profit is the number one thing in the world and who are cutting down those |
| 1:40.4 | trees. |
| 1:41.4 | So let's jump right in. |
| 1:43.4 | The September of every year is when we celebrate Labor Day. |
| 1:48.0 | We have it at the first Monday, but it's really the whole month that we should be thinking |
| 1:52.9 | about labor, its history, the struggles of working people to get a fair shake in a society |
| 2:00.8 | that makes that difficult for most people. |
| 2:04.1 | And I want to talk today about a success story of the labor movement here in the United |
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