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What's Behind the Biggest U.S. Strikewave in a Generation

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VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hello out there in cyber land. It’s striketober in America.


From the John Deere factory floor to the cereal crunching halls of Kellogg's, workers are telling management they’ve had enough. It’s labor unrest the U.S. hasn’t seen in my lifetime.


Thankfully today I’m joined by Motherboard Senior Staff writer and expert on all things labor, Lauren Kaori Gurley


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0:00.0

Hello out there in Cyberland. It's Striketober in America. From the John Deere factory floor to the serial crunching halls of Kellogg's, workers are telling management they've had enough. It's labor unrest the U.S. hasn't seen in my lifetime. Thankfully, today I'm joined by Motherboard Senior Staff Writer and expert on All Things Labor, Lauren Kiori Gurley. Let's roll that beautiful music.

0:22.1

I'm Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:30.3

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:35.0

It's a unit system.

0:37.4

I know this. It's all the system. I know this.

0:39.3

It's how all the files are the whole park.

0:41.6

It tells her everything.

0:43.3

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:46.1

Eagle one.

0:46.8

The package is being delivered.

0:51.3

All right, Lauren, so you've been on this beat for a long time. And the article that I kind of

0:57.0

really caught my eye and that I really wanted to talk about first today is this right here

1:01.6

that we've got up on the website. Our future is not for sale. America is witnessing the biggest

1:07.0

strike wave in a generation. So this article itself is kind of a gateway to everything else that you're writing about right now.

1:16.1

It covers just a whole bunch of topics.

1:18.8

So can you kind of walk us through the ins and outs of this?

1:22.1

And like what's going on out there right now?

1:25.5

Sure.

1:26.6

So a lot of people are either on strike or about to be on strike.

1:32.0

We have 10,000 workers in John Deere, at John Deere, the agricultural giant who walked off

1:39.2

the job last week.

1:41.4

There are 2,000 nurses in Buffalo on strike, nurses in Massachusetts on strike,

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