The Labor Movement Goes PRO

What A Day

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🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike yesterday across nearly a dozen cities in the U.S. to call for the passage of the PRO Act, which would allow employees to unionize and gain greater wage transparency and better benefits. In other labor news, workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Kansas have entered their third week in a strike against poor working conditions. The #FreeBritney Movement hits Congress as members of the House of Representatives this week proposed the FREE Act, a bipartisan bill that would grant individuals like Britney Spears the right to request for their private guardian or conservator to be replaced. And in headlines: drug manufacturers reach a $26 billion opioid settlement with state AGs, central China faces extreme flooding, and scientists in the United Arab Emirates electrocute clouds to produce rainstorms. Show Notes: LA Times: “Uber and Lyft drivers strike over pay, gig-work conditions” – https://lat.ms/3BuWMf1 New Yorker: “How the Elderly Lose Their Rights” – https://bit.ly/2Us9vOZ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Thursday July 22nd.
0:07.7	I'm Trevelle Anderson.
0:09.3	And I'm Gideon Resnick.
0:11.0	And this is what a day where we're treating ourselves to a bunch of new masks in the world's
0:13.9	most tragic shopping spree.
0:16.2	I've resorted instead to going into the trash can to find the old ones.
0:20.7	I'm at a low point.
0:22.3	I do not believe that is the CDC suggestion, so maybe not do that going forward.
0:35.2	On today's show, how Yana celebrated scoring 50 points in the Milwaukee Bucks first NBA
0:40.0	Championship in 50 years with Nach 50 Chicken Duggets Plus, the United Air Bemerits is trying
0:45.6	to fight water scarcity by launching drones that cause rain.
0:49.8	Under first, hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers and dozens of saves across the country went
0:54.2	on a 24 hour strike yesterday.
1:03.4	That's a former driver, Daniel Russell leading a protest in Los Angeles.
1:07.4	Gideon, what are they pushing for?
1:09.8	Yeah, so this was all organized by rideshare drivers united.
1:13.0	And one big thing that they were talking about wanting outside of California is for the
1:17.4	federal government to pass legislation that would allow these workers to unionize a.k.a.
1:22.3	the pro act.
1:23.4	So labor is an issue that we've covered frequently on the show, but as a quick refresher
1:26.9	here, the pro act would do things like allow the national labor relations board to find
1:31.1	companies for violating employees rights to unionize and a whole lot more.
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