Swamp Notes: The play for union power
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Union workers used to be a reliable pillar of the Democratic party’s voting coalition. Then Donald Trump arrived on the scene. The FT’s global business columnist, Rana Foroohar, and US labour and equality correspondent, Taylor Nicole Rogers, join this week’s Swamp Notes to examine how President Joe Biden is trying to win workers back, and why unions may decide November’s election.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At equinore. UK. Joe Biden has been on a bit of a charm offensive with labor leaders lately. |
| 0:17.0 | The middle class built the country and unions built the middle class. |
| 0:21.0 | Union bosses have called him the most pro-labor president in a |
| 0:26.0 | generation, but do their members agree? |
| 0:30.0 | This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing, where we talk about all of the things happening in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Sonia Hudson, and this week we're asking, could labor unions help decide the |
| 0:46.4 | election? Here with me to discuss is Rana Ferruhar. She's the FT's global |
| 0:51.2 | business columnist and associate editor. |
| 0:53.2 | Hi Rana. |
| 0:54.1 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:55.1 | And we've also got Taylor Nicole Rogers, the |
| 0:58.0 | F.T.'s U.S. Labor and equality correspondent. |
| 1:00.4 | Hey Taylor. |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, thanks for having me, Sonia. All right, so we're talking about |
| 1:04.1 | labor politics today. That's labor with a lower-case L, sorry, Kieer-Stormer. |
| 1:10.2 | This week President Biden met with the head of Teamsters, which is one of the country's biggest unions, and he was trying to get their endorsement. |
| 1:19.4 | Trump also met with Teamsters back in January to try to do the same thing. |
| 1:24.3 | Taylor, I want to start with you, which candidate seems to have the edge with Union |
| 1:29.7 | leadership this year? |
| 1:31.0 | Joe Biden has an undeniable head start and not just because he comes from the party that unions |
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