Union Strong! PG:CC with Mike Monroe

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s podcast is a candid conversation with Mike Monroe, the Chief of Staff to North America’s Building Trades Unions, a labor organization representing more than 3 million construction workers, composed of 14 national and international unions. Prior to joining NABTU, Mike served as the Political Director for Labor on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign, and is a passionate and successful advocate for the Labor Movement in America. The pandemic really opened our eyes to the essential nature of the workers of America, and how great the divide is between those who own the corporations and those who work for them. However, with the combined efforts of unions to represent the people, and a government that respects and supports the importance of unions, we can truly begin to reverse the ever widening gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” in this country. America doesn’t need to be like this. We must grow our middle class again, and to do that we need to look to the power of organized labor and the resurgence of the respect for the American worker. Guest social: https://nabtu.org Twitter: @NABTU Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Don’t forget to send questions via email, video or audio for the ASK PG Episode to: [email protected] Thank you to today’s sponsor! www.athleticgreens.com/politicsgirl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We don't pay our female member 77 cents on the dollar.
0:03.0	All right. We think this is, again, fairness, it's balance, it's voice,
0:07.8	and that's the, that's where we are, right? The land of the free opportunity, all those buzzwords.
0:12.4	Well, you can't be for that and be rapidly anti-union. It just does not add up.
0:16.8	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host,
0:30.3	Lime Gallen. Let's get into it. Every year, Gallup surveys Americans about their
0:34.8	confidence in different institutions, from public schools to banks to organized religion.
0:39.2	This year, Gallup asked how Americans felt about 16 major institutions.
0:43.6	The results showed that Americans don't have much confidence in anything.
0:47.0	The confidence in the presidency fell 15 percent. Confidence in the Supreme Court fell by 11 percent.
0:51.8	Even organized religion fell by 6 percent. Of the 16 institutions surveyed, only one saw confidence
0:58.0	not fall, and that was organized labor, better known as unions. Today's pod is a candid
1:03.8	conversation with Mike Monroe, the chief of staff to North America's Building Trades Union,
1:08.4	a labor organization representing more than three million construction workers,
1:12.0	and composed of 14 national and international unions in the US and Canada.
1:17.1	Prior to joining NABTU, Mike served as the political director for labor on Hillary Clinton's 2008
1:22.4	presidential campaign, and the director of government affairs for the International Union of
1:26.8	Painters and Allied Trades. I first heard Mike on the Midas Touch podcast, and I found him such a
1:32.1	dynamic and authentic speaker. Someone who really understood the importance of respecting the workers,
1:37.0	the essential nature of unions, and I liked that he wasn't afraid to mince words when it came to his
1:41.5	firsthand knowledge and respect for President Biden's sincere devotion to the American worker.
1:46.3	I'm having him on today as we come up on Labor Day to remind us about the importance of unions
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