Weekly Skews - 4/23/24 – TN Joins the (Autoworkers) Union!

Weekly Skews

Trae Crowder, Mark Agee, and Matt Hildreth

Politics, Comedy, News Commentary, News

5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Skewers, tonight we welcome friend of the show and labor activist John Russell (of More Perfect Union) to discuss the biggest win for Labor in the South in recent memory: the decision by workers at a massive Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga to join the UAW. We’ll talk about what it means, both right now and for the future of working people below the Mason-Dixon Line. Support the show

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:09.4	Welcome back.
0:09.9	Happy Skews Day to you.
0:11.1	It's April 23rd, 2024.
0:13.7	I'm Trey.
0:14.2	That's Mark.
0:15.0	How you doing, Mark?
0:16.3	Good, man.
0:16.9	I'm still laughing about you regaling us in the pre-show about the guy who made a bunch of money being the first man to bring Coddham's to the Upper Cumberland area of Tennessee. So that's a man of the people.
0:27.1	I don't know if I should say his name, but he was like, he was like the biggest spot.
0:21.1	He then went on to found like First Tennessee Bank and had a shitload of money and he was a big sponsor.
0:26.1	I got an MBA from tech.
0:27.4	That's how I know all this because he was like the biggest sponsor or donor to the business
0:37.5	school at tech. But the way he was all ancient, even when I was in college 20 years ago, he was
0:41.3	ancient. And the way he made his first big chunk of money was, he was the guy that brought condoms
0:46.2	to the upper Cumberland back in fucking the 30s or 40s or whatever it was.
0:51.9	And he might know bones about it either.
0:57.4	He was like, yeah, you know, all in the market.
0:59.7	What are you going to do?
1:01.7	Yeah, fuck the Baptist.
1:02.7	So we're talking about Tennessee tonight.
1:04.0	We're talking about the United Auto Workers successfully unionizing a Volkswagen plan in Chattanooga.
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