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🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Yes! I said it! We are done taking crumbs from to masters table. Join me on this weeks episode as I lay out why we are not settling for pennies any longer. The country has spoken and everyone should pay attention and listen. Hello Somebody!
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0:00.0 | Again, hell no, we're tired of taking crumbs from the master's table. |
0:05.0 | So workers all across this country are certainly sending a hell of a that we are powers that be that we are mad as hell and we are not going to |
0:23.5 | take it anymore. And just thinking about the September job report, it offers for sure new |
0:30.4 | evidence that contradicts all of them naysayers about the workers, especially them dagoned Republicans |
0:35.2 | and not to make this partisan, but I'm going to make |
0:39.1 | it partisan just for a little while because they were the main ones talking that nonsense, |
0:44.0 | who have, you know, again, said that the generosity, I put that in air quotes of the unemployment |
0:50.2 | benefits is what was keeping people away instead of understanding that people were waking up to their own value and their own worth and they just decided that this is not the path that they are going to continue to go on and you know millions of people have already lost that aid as we know the Congress limited limited that aid they failed to the pressures of big corporations and corporatist |
1:13.1 | types from both parties. And people are not getting that aid. It was significantly scaled |
1:18.7 | back. And people still did not immediately return to work. And you still have those people who |
1:24.5 | were continuously working, especially those who are unionized, |
1:29.8 | standing up saying, we're not going to continue to do this. |
1:33.1 | We do know that as much as people want to pretend like the Rona is over, it is not over, |
1:39.3 | it is far from over, and even if it were, which it is not, the residual impact of a global pandemic is going to be |
1:47.8 | felt for a very long time. But I repeat, let's sister S&T repeat underscore, underline, bold exclamation point. |
1:57.0 | The COVID is not over. The rona is not over. |
2:01.3 | It is far from that. |
2:03.0 | And yes, it continues to be a major factor. |
2:06.4 | And people's hesitancy to either go back to work or also the hesitancy to continue on a course that does not give them a deeper quality of life. |
2:19.6 | And low wage workers, you know, |
2:24.2 | them folks that we call essential. I'm old enough to remember when they were called essential. |
2:28.6 | On one breath, they called essential. And then the other breath, as they are standing up for their rights, you got some folks telling them to shut up and basically keep dribbling. They saying, no, |
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