Weekends: Teamsters, Amazon, and Biden's Bad Infrastructure Deal w/ Branko Marcetic
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Branko Marcetic joins us to explain why Biden's bipartisan infrastructure deal is a massive disappointment for working people desperately in need of relief. We also discuss the speculation that the Teamsters are planning to unionize Amazon and cover the contentious Teamsters election.
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from June 26, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, what up, you're watching Weekends on the Jacket in YouTube channel and a Casperian |
| 0:20.7 | in Nando Villa with you. |
| 0:22.6 | Nando, the show's going to be fire. |
| 0:24.5 | You want to give them a little taste? |
| 0:26.1 | Yes. |
| 0:27.1 | Well, we got Bronco, Marchi Ditch here. |
| 0:28.9 | One of the most prolific writers, and he's got the good takes, you know, he's just one |
| 0:35.1 | of these like Jacket and writers that like publishes like 100 pieces a month, and they're |
| 0:40.8 | all worth reading. |
| 0:41.8 | So I'm excited to talk to Bronco. |
| 0:43.2 | We're going to talk about the teamsters, the international brotherhood of teamsters. |
| 0:48.3 | That's a lot going on there. |
| 0:50.6 | And you're going to talk about this infrastructure bill. |
| 0:53.8 | What do we got with that? |
| 0:55.2 | Is it good or bad? |
| 0:56.2 | Give me a preview. |
| 0:57.3 | Look, we don't have exact details. |
| 1:02.4 | We don't have the language in the legislation yet. |
| 1:05.7 | But one thing that we do know is that they're going to privatize public infrastructure. |
| 1:11.2 | That's almost a given at this point. |
| 1:13.0 | And so we're going to do a deep dive on that and how disastrous it's going to be. |
| 1:18.1 | So language, language, if that's the headline, then it's bad. |
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