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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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TODAY: Alexander interviews WGA member and strike captain Olga Lexell about the union's successful 5-month long strike: what worked and why
She shares examples of how class consciousness can arise during strike actions like this, and how previous organizing within the BLM movement may have helped foster our current strike wave.
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0:00.0 | Hey, due to a huge flub on my part, uh, the other half of this episode got deleted, uh, |
0:08.1 | but never fear because the more important part and the fun, the fun part is still here. |
0:14.7 | Uh, here's my interview with Olga Lexel from the WGA to take an inside look at their five-month-long strike that just ended in an agreement. |
0:25.1 | Here it is. |
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0:46.8 | So stay tuned. We're going to take a few pictures of the desert and how their policies are actually messing it up it's not beautiful when you go across that border stay tuned guys and we'll show you exactly what I'm like on a |
0:55.1 | All there is |
0:58.5 | Okay, I am joined by Olga Lexell, |
1:04.2 | a member of the Writers Guild of America |
1:07.6 | and a strike captain. |
1:09.5 | Thank you so much for joining us today, Olga. |
1:12.6 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
1:14.6 | Our congratulations in order. |
1:17.6 | I know that there's a tentative, or I don't know if you guys call it a tentative agreement. |
1:21.6 | I know there's an agreement between the studios and the Writers Guild now. |
1:25.6 | Is this a cause for celebration oh absolutely i've i've |
1:30.1 | seen many union agreements in my day and this one is incredible like it's it's actually shocking |
1:37.7 | how good it is fantastic i'm glad to hear that um does it still have to be ratified by the members? |
1:45.8 | Are you guys going to vote on it? |
1:47.2 | I'm not sure how your process works. |
1:50.0 | Yeah, so our ratification actually starts tomorrow. |
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