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Factually! with Adam Conover

Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

While the ongoing WGA and SAG strikes have garnered significant public attention, those unions represent only a tiny fraction of the unionized workers in the country. Throughout the long history of labor in this country, it's not uncommon for important battles to be overlooked, especially when they are the struggles of women and people of color. Adam is joined by Kim Kelly, journalist and author of FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor, to look back at some of those struggles and the ongoing story of workers' rights in America. Find Kim's book at factuallypod.com/books


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0:00.0

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0:53.7

Hello and welcome to factually, I'm Adam Kahn over, thank you so much for joining me once

0:57.6

again, as I talk to an incredible person about all the amazing things they know that

1:01.6

I don't know and that you might not know.

1:04.1

This week on the show, we're talking about labor and workers rights once again because

1:08.7

you might know I am on double strike right now so it's kind of top of my mind.

1:13.6

But the thing is, the strikes I'm involved in, both the writers Guild of America and

1:17.2

SAG after, have gotten a lot of press because we're in Hollywood.

1:21.2

The job of people in both of our unions is literally to be skilled at making other people

1:26.0

pay attention to us.

1:27.4

We've got the hottest, funniest and media people on the planet and the industry that we're

1:31.9

disrupting with our strikes is literally inside everyone's house on those giant screens

1:36.4

you have on the wall so it's pretty easy to notice us.

1:39.6

But the truth is that writers and actors are just a tiny slice of the overall labor

1:44.1

pie in this country.

1:45.5

There are other labor battles that are even more significant to the lives of working Americans

1:50.0

and that have gotten much less coverage on news and social media.

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