Side Effects of Union Busting (with Alejandra Quintero)

Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, labor rights advocate Alejandra Quintero unpacks the tactics and impacts of union busting on workers and their fight for fair workplaces.

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0:00.0	Small doses.
0:04.6	Self help from the hit.
0:06.0	Small doses.
0:07.2	We're talking at shit.
0:08.6	Small doses.
0:09.8	And keeping it real.
0:11.2	Small doses.
0:12.4	With me and in Seals.
0:14.2	It's so funky.
0:16.6	Welcome to another episode of small doses podcast.
0:20.8	Today we are joined by Alex Quinterero, All Things Labor on Instagram, to talk about union busting.
0:29.3	You know, it wasn't until we had Chris Smalls on the show last year to talk about unions that I really began to understand more of just the importance of unions.
0:37.1	And also it meant that I started opening up my consciousness when I would hear unions in TV shows.
0:42.7	So that was another thing.
0:43.7	Like, if you watch Picky Blindas, Piki fucking Blindas, they're talking about unions all the time, like from the jump street.
0:52.0	And they're talking about unions as it relates to communism and socialism,
0:56.2	etc., which is a whole other episode that we'll need to do. However, it really also adds to,
1:01.7	literally as I said that out of my mouth, it made me even think of another reason why the government
1:05.5	suppresses conversation about unions and also suppresses conversation around communism and socialism
1:10.6	because so much of a
1:11.7	part of communism and socialism is the coming together of the laborers because the laborers are the
1:17.0	ones who are literally making the entire country function. And they should be the ones that are
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