The State of Our Unions. It's Mixed.
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Labor unions got us: The 40-hour work week. The Weekend. Pensions. Employer Health Coverage. Vacations. But the sustained GOP jihad on Unions has hurt. Bill talks to former NYT Labor reporter Steven Greenhouse about his new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Plus Bill's take on the Nevada Caucus and how the party needs to think, not about stopping Bernie, but figuring out how to win with him.
Today's Bill Press Pod is sponsored by all the fine labor unions that support the Bill Press Pod: LIUNA, (LIUNA.org) The Ironworkers, ( Ironworkers.org) Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, (smart-union.org) The Steelworkers, (USW.org)The United Food and Commercial Workers, (UFCW.org)The Teamsters, (Teamster.org) and The American Federation of Teachers ( AFT.org ). We thank them for their support.
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| 0:53.6 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. In today's podcast, |
| 0:59.7 | we're going to take a deep dive into the latest on America's labor unions today. How strong |
| 1:05.1 | they are, what challenges they face, and where they've been the most successful. But first, |
| 1:10.8 | here's my take on the Nevada |
| 1:12.5 | caucuses. I just got back from Las Vegas, and let's be honest, there's no other way you can |
| 1:17.9 | sum it up. It was a total route for Bernie Sanders. He not only won the caucuses, he left everybody |
| 1:25.3 | else, starting with Joe Biden, in the dust. And this is a state |
| 1:30.4 | where he was not supposed to shine, a western state with a large Hispanic voting population, |
| 1:36.9 | which means that Bernie moves into South Carolina with a head of steam, while Joe Biden, |
| 1:42.2 | Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg are struggling |
| 1:45.4 | to stay alive. And Mike Bloomberg keeps spending more and more money with nothing to show for it so far. |
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