The Next Round of the Union Fight
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
After organized-labor victories at Amazon, with automakers, and in Hollywood, big corporations are striking back by, among other things, suing the National Labor Relations Board.
Guest: Noam Scheiber, reporter for the New York Times covering working and workers.
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| 0:20.5 | Does industry talk make zero sense to you? |
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| 0:45.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. |
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| 0:56.0 | Search Zero with an ex, |
| 0:58.0 | because healthy business is beautiful business. 2023 was the year of the union. From the writers and actors strikes in Hollywood, California, |
| 1:17.0 | we're just trying to pay our rents or mortgages and put food on the table. |
| 1:22.0 | To the mortgages and put food on the table. |
| 1:24.8 | To the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1:27.9 | I am a third generation auto worker man and it's hard for me to make a living off $17 an hour when you have CEO sitting in an office making |
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