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LaborPress Radio With AFLCL-CIO Sec-Treasurer Fred Redmond and Alex Garrett 9-5-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, back here at the Labor Press High Speed
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  Speaker 1: Rail Network conference. I'm Alex Garrett with the Secretary Treasure
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  Speaker 1: of the anfl CIO, Fred Remond.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me today.
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  Speaker 1: Friend, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Alex is glad to be here.
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  Speaker 2: You had a fired up speech in there.
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  Speaker 1: What is the a file CIO's role going to be
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  Speaker 1: should this high speed rail come into existence?
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  Speaker 2: How are you can help people get jobs to that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, well had a fired up revised
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  Speaker 3: because we're fired up as a labor boat bit to
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  Speaker 3: see an investment being placed in American workers, because this
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  Speaker 3: is what this is. This is an investment in the
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  Speaker 3: American work for us. This is a challenge to American manufacturers. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: where we can build out this high speed rail, create
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  Speaker 3: good jobs, uplift and sustained communities. And it's an exciting
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  Speaker 3: time to be really committed to a new form of
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  Speaker 3: transportation that's going to take off in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And what could I guess even Congress's role we had
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  Speaker 1: Thomswazer today, what could Congress's role?
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  Speaker 2: What could the administration's role be to make this happen?
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  Speaker 3: Funding? They have to be committed, they have to provide
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  Speaker 3: the funding they have to provide the resources for us
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  Speaker 3: to do the job. Training, workforce development programs need to
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  Speaker 3: be engaged. So the federal government play a huge role.
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  Speaker 3: Because a commitment from the federal government in terms of
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  Speaker 3: resources and a commitment from employers throughout this country, we
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  Speaker 3: can actually build a manufacturing chain regarding the component parts
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  Speaker 3: the high speed rail. We could train communities and as
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  Speaker 3: I stated, you know, we need to bring in people
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  Speaker 3: who've historically been locked out, people of color, underserved communities,
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  Speaker 3: and women, and we have an opportunity to build a
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  Speaker 3: transportation sector that can uplift communities, uplift families, and help
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  Speaker 3: rebuild the middle class.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so, righty, where does conference to say what's
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  Speaker 1: the next steps?
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  Speaker 3: Next is to make sure that we get through November
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  Speaker 3: with the right team in office that's going to fulfill
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  Speaker 3: this commitment when it comes to funding, when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to making sure that these projects continue, that the commitment
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  Speaker 3: of the Bidy Harris administration continues with the funding and
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  Speaker 3: able to make these sort of projects possible. And then
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  Speaker 3: from there, it's just gonna take the wheel of creating
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  Speaker 3: a big table, a big tent where everybody is coming
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  Speaker 3: together in order to really really move this technology to
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  Speaker 3: the next life.
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  Speaker 1: So those I'm familiar with the AFLCIO talking about the
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  Speaker 1: day to days, we're talking long term as well, talking
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  Speaker 1: about day to day responsibilities.
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  Speaker 3: The afl CIO is a labor federation. We have sixty
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  Speaker 3: affiliate unions. We represent twelve and a half million members
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  Speaker 3: around the United States. Every industry in the United States,
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  Speaker 3: public sector, private sector, service employees, we represent screen actors,
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  Speaker 3: we represent fleets, and we are Americans Workforce. We're based
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, DC. Our members work at all fifty states.
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  Speaker 3: We have a state fed and fifty states around this country.
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  Speaker 3: Four hundred and thirty four central Labor consuls around the country.
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  Speaker 3: And we are the voyage for Americans workers.
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  Speaker 1: And one more thing to those are thing today, what's
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  Speaker 1: your message on behalf of the unions?
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  Speaker 2: Like what to the averages, earday? What's your message to that.
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  Speaker 3: We can do this work. We can do the work
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  Speaker 3: if you with the proper funding, with the proper resources,
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  Speaker 3: with the proper commitment. American unions are prepared to train
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  Speaker 3: the next generation of workers, starting off with high speed
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  Speaker 3: rail and where it takes us who knows right, We're ready.
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  Speaker 3: We got the best training capabilities of the world. Our
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  Speaker 3: training programs, apprenticeship programs is the gold standard and we're
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  Speaker 3: ready to take these huge investments and build the next
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  Speaker 3: generation of workers.
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  Speaker 1: AFO CIO Secretary Tursurer Fred Remand thanks for joining me today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank man, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you brother.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thank y'all. Okay,