SMN: Unions Make Things Better (Even If You're Not In One)

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hi. In today's episode, we look at the current union "boom" and how unions improve pay and conditions for workers, non-union workers, and even non-workers.

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0:00.0	Hey, Newsies!
0:03.6	Extra-extry!
0:04.6	Ready to slink some paper from Mr. Policeman, till he's saved up enough wooden subway tokens
0:08.0	or whatever to have to go to Santa Fe!
0:09.9	Are you there?
0:11.7	Of course I'm talking about the classic Disney musical Newsies for some reason.
0:16.9	Probably because I, too, am a newsie.
0:19.5	You know, a newsboy grown through the spring of my youth into a newsman, here with the
0:24.3	news at a penny of paper, which is short for paper, which the news is decreasingly printed
0:29.9	on.
0:30.9	But here, some of that news is.
0:34.6	Which, newswise, is...
0:36.6	I promise I'm a newsman.
0:38.4	If unions, we're talking about unions today, and unions are pretty good.
0:42.6	As evidenced by the classic Disney musical Newsies, you see, unions are the reason we don't
0:48.3	still have child wage slaves working themselves to death on street corners.
0:53.1	So that's good.
0:54.7	It's good for unions to matter.
0:56.7	Not just in fake musical plots, either.
0:59.2	For example, you might have heard that the movie Newsies was written by writers to be very
1:06.6	specific.
1:07.6	Like the WGA writers currently on strike and making wild demands.
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