You're going to be. Hi everybody here we are it's deep dives with Monica Perez back with a

returning guest Anthony Raimondo who is a fan. We did a show at the end of the summer about, of all things,

it was the sleeper hit of the summer about water restrictions and the real story behind so-called water shortages in California.

But Anthony is my hero because of all the time during COVID when I said, you know, where are the lawyers?

The lawyers can beat these policies that are passed without any process.

He was there. He saved anybody who wanted to be saved in Fresno from getting shut down. I just love that. I respect it. He's a solid guy. Anthony, thank you so much for coming back on the show.

Well, thank you for having me. Well also but what people don't

maybe realize is that your bread and butter like you are your most like where

you've done the most work is labor law right that's correct and we've talked a little bit about that in past episodes but when I've been

noticing these labor union victories in the news.

Two of them really stood out as having a similarity.

One was the railroad workers and one was the recent auto workers

where they get a great deal and they go back for more.

And when the auto workers guy whose name is like Sean Fain, which sounds so much like the IRA in Ireland and he he was wearing a shirt that said

eat the rich and he said something like we are bleeding these companies dry or

we've squeezed every drop out of them and to me

that sounds like a setup for making labor unsustainable in some of these industries and I feel like it's a set up.

I smell a rat and I thought let me ask you but you're gonna you're gonna take us back right?

Yeah in order to understand what's happening now you actually have to have kind of a

big picture of the labor union from the time of the original National Labor Relations Act in the 1930s to

the present. So we're going to kind of take a broad view of that of that history with

a little bit of context of what came before.

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