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Episode 813 -No Disputing the Need to End Labor Disputes Plaguing 2023 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett oh Man. Tomorrow. I got a great
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  story that I found in the Newark Star Ledger about the FAA not holding it's
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  pilots accountable. We'll talk about that tomorrow, but tonight, I know it's
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  a day after Labor Day, but I always think on these holiday weeks it's
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  Labor Day week. So my few cents on Labor Day week is that where's
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  the ultimate concern for the many labor disputes going on em by some of the
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  United Auto Workers and the sag AFTRA. But it seems to me this entire
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  year has been about making hard workers pay, making it happen, making pay
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  increases happen. Nurses, we're going on strike a cross hospitals across the Tristate
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  area, I said, because of the great care of the Neon NATO unit
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  pay the nurses. Finally contracts were agreed upon. But that was a strike
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  and a crisis. Number one. Then you saw footage of Delta or American
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  Airlines pilots fighting for more money in Grand Central. I believe they were lining
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  up the steps. So that was his few two now now in one hundred
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  plus days, Yeah, I said it one hundred plus days, the sag
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  Aftra continues. We talked with Kenyata Sampson about the picket line and we have
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  to get him on or get a rep on to discuss what's going on with
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  all that, because it doesn't seem like there's any progress or leeway being made
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  at all at all. I guess they'll have a fall season. I don't
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  know how much of a fall season. But the idea that AI is gonna
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  take over roles in Hollywood? Who would want that when we want human nature,
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  creativity. So that's another labor dispute. And then you have the United
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  Auto Workers, another continued disaster. And you know, I know I reference
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  nine seventy a lot. But but Piscabo today, Joe Piscobot talk about why
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  didn't the Biden administration step in to any of these things and resolve it so
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  that strikes could be resolved. And it just feels like an unprecedented labor day.
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  That's what I'm coming to the microwave to microwave microphone to tell you.
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  It seems like an unprecedent labor day because of the disputes going on. And
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  let me tell you, during these negotiations or lack of please. Even when
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  these strikes and strike threats hit the local bus drivers and the local subway people
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  and local MTA conductors and workers, don't get frustrated at the hard working people.
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  Get frustrated with the union bosses that can tend to be really you know,
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  I had to say, greedy, but greedy. But don't get pissed
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  off at the union worker just trying to make a living for his or own
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  or her own family. Pay dues by the way, pay dues by the
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  way. And then not only that, not only that, still put up
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  with the consumer bs on top of it all every day at work. I
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  meant to tell you this, but if you're riding the Long Island Railroad,
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  do not get frustrated with the people that are taking your ticket. If you
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  didn't read the fair increase correctly, or you didn't read the train schedule increase
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  correctly, that's on the you. That's not on And if you have a
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  problem with the raised fairs, don't blame it on the hard working ticket collector
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  that's just trying to make it his or whole her own living. Take it
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  up with management. They made the decision, not the hard worker just trying
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  to make the daily runs, even in the trucking world, right, Zach
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  Miller, don't put it on the blue collar worker. And then my other
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  thought about whether we should support unionization or if it's too communistic, socialististic,
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  whatever you wanna call it. Unions have a purpose here in America. Unions
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  when run properly, like Teamsters Local two thirty seven with Greg Floyd, make
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  a difference. I'm to attach to you a link of a conversation I ad
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  with Greg about how he made a difference with Governor Katy Hokel on NIGHTSHA.
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  There are leaders that are union leaders that are not boss tweet to the world,
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  but are regular, hardworking on the ground presidents of these teamster unions,
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  of unions that get it, that get what the workers going through, but
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  also know how to navigate with the employer. David Kohne I think about this
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  because I think of that Yank geography where he talked about navigating the players strike
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  in nineteen ninety four, trying get the best deal but being diplomatic. So
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  no labor unions. The idea of a union is not communistic, it's not
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  socialistic, unfortunately, But because those that work in these unions those that are
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  in these unions are hard workers actually contributing through a capitalistic society. Let me
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  say it again because I think I was good the first time, and I
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  might post this all of us will be because here's my point. Hardworking union
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  members contribute to the capitalistic society that say no to unionizations that try and step
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  farm unionization prospects. Right, Jeff Bezos. Right, you don't like when
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  your Amazon warehouse starts unionizing because it makes you look terrible. Also, it
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  makes you accountable, And at the end of the day, isn't that what
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  labor unions do and are supposed to do is hold the employer accountable for proper
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  working conditions. For the hard working men and woman that want to make a
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  paycheck, that want to make a living, bring a paycheck home. They
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  contribute to the capitalistic society by working hard. So you should embrace them,
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  not shut them down when they're saying, hey, conditions need to change.
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  Those billionaire executives that are so upset, oh my god, sales pitches are
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  being missed with the late night talk show hosts. Well, you know what,
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  you know what, that writer making the talk show host is actually helping
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  you make money. So maybe you shouldn't think of it as an evil thing
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  to negotiate and work with sag Aftra because, by the way, when you
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  shut down their production by not negotiating, you also shut down your revenue stream
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  based on the actual streaming, because hey, you don't have a product to
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  sell. So in multiple ways, you're screwing yourselves over billionaire Hollywood exects.
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  When you don't negotiate with sag Aftra, how are you screwing yourself? Well,
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  because you're not getting the money that these hard working writers help you make.
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  The brilliant starts on the ground level. And of course Stephen Goldbert is
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  a brilliant He started his career as a writer. He is a writer.
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  But he and Fallon and Kimmel and uh Seth Meyers all have writers. And
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  guess what, you get to sell that brand of Stephen Colbert, You get
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  to sell that brand of Seth Meyer. You got to sell that brand of
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  Jimmy Kimmel because of that writer in the back room making his jokes even funnier
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  than just the delivery. So in my eyes, it was a peaceful labor
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  day in a sense, kind of relaxed. But I couldn't help. But
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  think how many disputes have we had, how many disputes have we had in
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  this year alone? And where's the intervention, blue collar Biden? Where's the
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  intervention for the hard working writers? I agree with Joe Piscomball on that.
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  Blue collar Joe Biden, you should be in a position where you can help
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  make a deal for the union auto workers who've been striking for a long time
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  now. Instead of trashing your opponent or possible twenty twenty four opponent in Pennsylvania,
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  you could be there saying, hey, I'm gonna work with you to
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  make a deal happen. You're the president of the damn United States. Can't
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  you make a deal possible? You're the damn president of the United States.
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  And instead of using that stumb speech to bash your opponent, they wanted to
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  hear, I'm sure, hey, union guys, we get you. We
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  know you were were the blue dog Democrats, right, that's they call themselves.
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  We get you, we support you, so we're gonna help you make
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  a deal. But no, it was all about bashing Trump. What a
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  missed opportunity. And then and then, for those that are union leaders,
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  playing hardball is not always the easiest thing to do. Fighting for the worker
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  is not always the easiest thing to do. But you know when I lose
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  respect for you when you tell your union members vote a certain way, or
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  you can't be part of a union, or we're gonna make it more difficult
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  for you. Maybe raise the dudes step farming into voting the way we want
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  you to. That's a corrupt union leader. That's not how you get it
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  done. If you want to truly fight for the worker, don't stiff farm
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  them into something they're not comfortable doing. They're paying you dues for God's sakes,
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  they're paying to be part of your union. Don't uh. This enfranchised
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  them just because they made think differently. And the one other stigma about unions
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  I feel is out there is the corruption. And the corruption does not have
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  the consumer, the unionized worker and the employer that hires that worker, and
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  that the worker strikes against corruption doesn't help anything. And weeding it out might
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  be a good thing also, But if you want to do it right,
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  you negotiate well. And we have to end these disputes for the good of
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  the worker, for the good of the economy, and the good of the
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  consumer. And I'm very surprised that on Labor Day no one really talked about
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  how the many disputes there has been albeit something have been resolved, but can't
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  we just have a cordial, cordial respect and realize that the unionized worker,
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  or that the worker in general, builds into the capitalist economy and is not
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  communist for wanting to to unionize for fair workers rights. Because at the end
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  of day, all the strike does, it's hurt everybody. All the dispute
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  does is hurt the whole thing. It stops progress from moving forward. And
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  this progressive administration, these progressive politicians, have you seen one of them say
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  let's end this freaking sag after strike? No, I haven't have you.
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  There's your problem right there. Someone needs to step in and mediate to end
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  of the remaining disputes and maybe put egos aside and power aside and realize that
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  this Labor Day twenty twenty three, this Labor Day twenty twenty three, a
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  unionized worker is good for the employer because it means he'll be here, she'll
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  be happier maybe, And it's good for the economy because that unized worker will
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  be inspired to put back and pay and that hard work will go back into
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  paying into that capitalistic system, which for Walster is the end of the is
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  the is the end goal, right, keep the capitalism going. Well,
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  unionized worker does that best, I feel, so let's not crap on them
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  anymore then that average consumer who doesn't know the life of that worker just trying
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  to make a day's living. Let's be the better person and end these disputes
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  this Labor Day Week, twenty twenty three. Have a great day.