Striketober Fest

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of John Deere workers are on strike after the company and the United Automobile Workers union failed to negotiate a new contract. Jonah Furman, a staff writer and organizer with Labor Notes, joins us to discuss what led to the Deere strike and the national movement by workers demonstrating for better pay and rights. And in headlines: the Haitian gang that abducted 17 people has asked for $1 million per person in ransom, Brazil’s Senate calls for homicide charges against President Jair Bolsonaro for his handling of COVID-19, and the January 6th House commission holds Steve Bannon in criminal contempt. Show Notes: Jonah Furman’s Substack, “Who Gets The Bird?” – https://whogetsthebird.substack.com/ Labor Notes – https://labornotes.org/ A More Perfect Union on Deere strike – https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1450093618962878467 For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 20th. I'm Gideon Ressik.
0:08.4	And I'm Josie Duffy-Race. And this is What A Day.
0:11.4	Reminding you that today is the last day for you to order a slimer costume off the internet if you want to arrive by Halloween.
0:17.4	That is true, yes, of other costumes as well, but we specifically want to look out for our slimer heads.
0:23.6	Yeah, I actually ordered mine back in February.
0:26.1	I never take mine off.
0:31.1	On today's show, the kidnappers of 17 missionaries in Haiti asked for a $17 million ransom,
0:37.5	plus the January 6th commission holds Steve Bannon in criminal content.
0:41.4	But first, it is being called Striketober.
0:44.2	Strikes and strike authorizations seem to be sweeping the country.
0:47.6	There are also unionization efforts across tons of sectors.
0:51.3	There are TV and film crew workers at the Union Iattsi, which we've talked about a lot on the show.
0:55.7	Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, and more.
1:02.3	And we're going to take a closer look at another major strike.
1:05.6	Some 10,000 John Deere workers, mostly in Iowa and Illinois, are on the picket line.
1:10.4	We pit in the hours. We make the product, and they are making billions of dollars on our back.
1:16.3	All these people have been in there during the whole COVID pandemic.
1:19.1	Coming to work in every day, you know, with potential of exposing themselves and their families, you know, to this.
1:24.5	But they came in and worked anyway.
1:26.0	Do I see Deere and company, you know, kind of recognizing that and trying to reciprocate the initial away?
1:30.8	No, I don't.
1:31.7	That was workers talking to the outlet, a more perfect union in a video that we can link to.
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