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OneLegUpAlex Garrett's Labor Day Special Ft. LaborPress, Teamsters 237 President Greg Floyd and THANK A TRUCKER 9-1-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well here on Labor Day twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: I do want to first outright say one leg up.
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  Speaker 2: Alex is union strong, and we love all the union
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  Speaker 2: members and the blue collar workers that work their asses
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  Speaker 2: off day and night. And we're working hard today as well.
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  Speaker 2: In any industry, and of course any unionization effort should
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  Speaker 2: be supported, but sometimes, like we see you with Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: They're just not.
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  Speaker 2: But in addition to being union strong, we've put it
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  Speaker 2: into practice, as you.
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  Speaker 4: Might know.
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  Speaker 2: Through connections with Amlin sim and the Answer Darren Yellen,
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  Speaker 2: we've spun off with Labor Press Radio, and I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to present to you thirteen different clips of various voices
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  Speaker 2: that have been so impactful in the union strong movement
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  Speaker 2: in the labor movement this Labor Day. I am very
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  Speaker 2: honored to say since last year's Labor Day, we've wrapped
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  Speaker 2: up thirteen different interviews with some pretty pretty important figures
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  Speaker 2: in the union strong labor movement. Let's start off with
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  Speaker 2: Tom Swazi. Yes, Tom Swase, Long Island Congressman in District three.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm here at the high speed Rail conference
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  Speaker 2: and with Congressman Tom Swase I'm Alex Herrett, Congressman.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for joining me today, Alex, thanks so much for
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  Speaker 5: having me on.
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  Speaker 2: This event's put on by Labor pres and all the
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  Speaker 2: good people there. But why did you come today talk
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  Speaker 2: about your support for this high speed rail?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the bottom line is is that high speed
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  Speaker 6: rail is about making people's lives better. But it's also
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  Speaker 6: about creating an enormous amount of jobs, jobs that have
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  Speaker 6: good wages and good benefits. And we forget sometimes that
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  Speaker 6: the basic idea of America has always been that if
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  Speaker 6: you will work hard, you get a decent life in
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  Speaker 6: return for that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll work hard in return.
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  Speaker 6: And make enough money so I can buy a house,
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  Speaker 6: educate my kids, pay for health insurance, and retire one
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  Speaker 6: day with healthing scared. And there's too many jobs in
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  Speaker 6: America these days that don't make that promise anymore. So
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  Speaker 6: having jobs by building something like a high speed rail
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  Speaker 6: project will deliver good jobs at good wages with good
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  Speaker 6: benefits for people for a generation.
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  Speaker 2: You were talking there, you wrote a letter about this.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us about the letter if you can well.
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  Speaker 6: Back in twenty twenty one, when we were first talking
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  Speaker 6: about the infrastructure project, the Infrastructure Bill, which has provided
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  Speaker 6: so much money for creating big public works projects throughout
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  Speaker 6: the country. I wanted to make high speed rail a
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  Speaker 6: part of the conversation, and I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 6: that we could start getting people in the Northeast to
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  Speaker 6: start talking about high speed rail. They're doing it in California,
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  Speaker 6: they're doing it in some of the Southwest. I wanted
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  Speaker 6: to try and make the Northeast Corridor and especially from
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  Speaker 6: New York City to Boston, a part of the project.
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  Speaker 6: And so that's what we're trying to still do.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is not going to happen today.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to happen tomorrow. It's going to take
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  Speaker 6: three years, four years, five years, six years. But these
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  Speaker 6: kind of big visionary projects are what turnaround economies and
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  Speaker 6: what provide enormous amount of jobs that change people's lives.
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  Speaker 4: For the better.
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  Speaker 2: Being re elected, by the way, congratulations. Tell us about
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  Speaker 2: your role with labor now back in Congress, I know
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  Speaker 2: have the Labor Congress. I'll talk about that for a minute.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I've always been a very pro union person. I
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  Speaker 6: was the mayor of my hometown. I was the county
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  Speaker 6: executive of Nasal County. I was in Congress for six years.
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  Speaker 6: I'm back in Congress now after my brief hiatus, and
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  Speaker 6: I started the Labor Caucus back in twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 6: or so. And the idea was is that whenever you're
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  Speaker 6: looking at an issue like immigration or climate change, or
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  Speaker 6: any issue that you look at as a legislator, you
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  Speaker 6: should be looking at it through the lens of how
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  Speaker 6: does this affect people's wages and benefits. My grandfather was
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  Speaker 6: an electrician for the IBW Local three. He helped put
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  Speaker 6: the lights on top of the mPire State Building. Well,
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  Speaker 6: so I know that the union movement and the idea
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  Speaker 6: of remembering that whenever you do a project, you've got
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  Speaker 6: to provide people with good wages and benefits. That's what
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  Speaker 6: makes people's lives better in our country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much for joining us today at here
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  Speaker 2: the Labor Press event. Thanks for joining us, AWO for
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  Speaker 2: having me now. Also, someone of this high speed rail
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  Speaker 2: conference might be someone you know of, Gary la Barbara
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  Speaker 2: of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here at the Labor Press High Speed Rail Network Conference.
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  Speaker 2: Our recognizable name, Gary LaBarbara, president of the New York
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  Speaker 2: State Building and Construction Trades Council joining me today. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, pleasure to be here. Nice to see you.
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  Speaker 2: So firstly, you're honoring Terio Sullivon. What is he meant
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  Speaker 2: to you and why you speaking and honoring him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let me just say, as a president of the
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  Speaker 4: State Trades and the City Trades, Terry O'Sullivan as general
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  Speaker 4: President of LAYUNA, has been just an incredible support to
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  Speaker 4: me over the years. I've known Tony Terry a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Terry is you know, obviously one of the nation's greatest
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  Speaker 4: labor leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why he's earned the title of you know,
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  Speaker 4: General President Emeritus at LUNA. Uh. He was a driving
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  Speaker 4: force in really creating much of of current legislation that
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  Speaker 4: really helps hard working men and women in the labor movement,
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  Speaker 4: in particular labors. He has been a extremely loud voice
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  Speaker 4: on behalf of all workers, not just his members or
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  Speaker 4: other members of the building trades. And he, you know,
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  Speaker 4: my opinion, has remains still a force of nature. He's
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  Speaker 4: just a very unique and incredible guy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, today as a tribute him, but he's not stopping there.
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  Speaker 4: No, he's not. He's he's I think he's he's been
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  Speaker 4: as busy as he's ever been, and he continues to
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  Speaker 4: do good work and works hard on behalf of the
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  Speaker 4: labor movement. And again, all working men and women.
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  Speaker 2: Let's focus on me now. So you're sure to support
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  Speaker 2: the high speed rail network, right, How from your standpoint
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  Speaker 2: with this benefit, what your mission is as president of
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  Speaker 2: the New York State Building and Construction breacounts.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a couple of components that I think are
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  Speaker 4: important to recognize. First of all, let's just talk about
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  Speaker 4: high speed rail for a moment. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 4: something that is absolutely necessary in order for states, for
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  Speaker 4: North America frankly, to remain relevant and remain competitive. High
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  Speaker 4: speed rail is I think a very important necessity. Critical
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  Speaker 4: infrastructure really is what drives our economy. And so I
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  Speaker 4: mean that's just the fundamental fact. Beyond the virtues of
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  Speaker 4: high spuel rail, the job creation for this would be incredible.
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  Speaker 4: And again, I believe that there's opportunities to do things
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  Speaker 4: that are very good for the states and for the
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  Speaker 4: nation and for the economy, but at the same time
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  Speaker 4: create meaningful pathways into the middle class with strong union jobs.
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  Speaker 4: And so this is yet another example of one of
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  Speaker 4: those areas much like renewable energy again, same theory. Right,
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  Speaker 4: we have to address the climate change, we have to
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  Speaker 4: address the needs, and by building out renewable energy, we
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  Speaker 4: can do two things. We can address the critical needs
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  Speaker 4: that are we face we face with the climate crisis
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  Speaker 4: as well as creating meaningful pathways through union apprenticeships and
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  Speaker 4: union careers into the middle class.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like when you can actually there's other You're
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  Speaker 2: always on the news talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: So how is the construction seene in New York post COVID?
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're four years out of it now, So
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  Speaker 2: how has it been since since that time?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, obviously President Biden gets an enormous amount
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  Speaker 4: of credit for you know, there hasn't been a infrastructure
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  Speaker 4: program like what we have today since post World War Two,
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  Speaker 4: and that I think is something that should be recognized
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  Speaker 4: that that bill has created an enormous amount of infrastructure work,
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  Speaker 4: which is employing you know, hundreds of thousands of members
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  Speaker 4: in here in New York State and millions of members
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  Speaker 4: in North America. So that has been a critical component
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  Speaker 4: of creating tremendous work opportunities there's still in New York City,
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  Speaker 4: in New York State there's some very major projects that
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  Speaker 4: are taking place and water. So the construction outlook looks positive. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: due to you know, the interest rates, the private sector
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  Speaker 4: remains a little sluggish. But in terms of institutional work
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  Speaker 4: or healthcare projects or some very big mega projects like
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  Speaker 4: for example, in Queen's we have a new soccer stadium
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  Speaker 4: which is come up right field right there, so that's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a great buffalo you got done flow
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  Speaker 4: bill stadium. And this is all done under project labor agreements,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, assures that these will be good building
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  Speaker 4: trades jobs and many many others right and more to come.
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  Speaker 4: So I think overall that the outlook looks good. I
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  Speaker 4: think twenty twenty five is going to be a fairly
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  Speaker 4: robust year in the construction industry, and I would believe
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  Speaker 4: those projects that will be starting next year and into
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six, frankly, will generate strong work opportunities for
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  Speaker 4: the next several years. Beyond that.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about navigating you know, your work and then dealing
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  Speaker 2: with construction companies and all that through all the negotiations
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  Speaker 2: talk about it was a little insight into all the
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  Speaker 2: negotiations that maybe public doesn't the same, right.
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  Speaker 4: So what I would say is that my role as
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  Speaker 4: the president of the Building Trades Councils is is multi level.
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  Speaker 4: You know, not only do I you know, negotiate project
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  Speaker 4: labor agreements with state agencies, city agencies, UH, private sector owners,
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  Speaker 4: private sector contract is there is a big piece of
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  Speaker 4: what I do is really on the economic development front,
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  Speaker 4: and that is to try to move forward projects. And
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  Speaker 4: you know it's hard to get projects yes, right, so
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  Speaker 4: and and and you know it's all in terms of
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  Speaker 4: there's always issues whether it's a public work or private
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  Speaker 4: work to move projects forward. And so I spend a
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  Speaker 4: lot of my time dealing with those issues, right And
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  Speaker 4: and another big component of of what I do is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, legislation. The construction industry is unique in that
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  Speaker 4: where we come when you think about construction, big construction
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  Speaker 4: companies or even subcontractors, we have a very different relationship
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  Speaker 4: than many other labor management relationships because we're all on
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  Speaker 4: the same page in terms of moving projects forward. And
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  Speaker 4: so there's a very strong collaboration between employee associations and
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  Speaker 4: the Building Trades Council and that helps a great deal
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  Speaker 4: and I look like with any negotiations on Project Lava agreements,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's always some competing issues, but for the
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  Speaker 4: most part, the relationships are strong in this industry. We
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  Speaker 4: all sides of this industry consider it the industry, and
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  Speaker 4: so I think that really makes the relationship stronger and
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  Speaker 4: unique in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Gary, thank you, thank you very.
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  Speaker 4: Much for having me. It was a pleasure to see
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  Speaker 4: you again. Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Gary L.
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  Speaker 2: Barbara, president of the Building Construction Trades Canslow Greater in
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  Speaker 2: New York. Always great to see him on the parade
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  Speaker 2: route so to talk to him for Labor Press Radio
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  Speaker 2: very special. Now another member of Labor Press Radio that
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to and got a chance to.
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  Speaker 2: He's also president of Local three thirty eight and is
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  Speaker 2: a Viscardi Center board member. Mister John Durso had this
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  Speaker 2: to say from that High Speed Round conference. All right
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  Speaker 2: here at the High Speed Rail Network conference, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: johnder So and John, you are an MC here at
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  Speaker 2: Teamser's Local two eighty two with Labor Press and you
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  Speaker 2: are actually the president of Loyland Federation of Labor and
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  Speaker 2: Local three thirty eight.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for joining me today. It's my pleasure, happy to
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  Speaker 5: be here.
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  Speaker 2: So your message today was very loyal and focused. Tell
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  Speaker 2: us about why this high speed reil could affect and
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  Speaker 2: could help Long Island.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this project is a long time coming. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they're doing it in California. They're doing it. They've done
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  Speaker 5: it successfully in parts of Florida. They want to do
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  Speaker 5: it in Texas. The opportunity to connect Washington, d C,
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  Speaker 5: New York City in Boston is absolutely vital to the
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  Speaker 5: future of the Northeast. And if you're going to be
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  Speaker 5: involved in the Northeast, Long Island has to be a
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  Speaker 5: player in this.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we are three millions of your closest friends
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  Speaker 5: and relatives. Okay, everybody knows everybody on Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: And people are literally working in the city from Long Island, right,
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  Speaker 2: So what are the stats on that.
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  Speaker 5: If you have, there's a tremendous amount. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: during since COVID and so many people have now learned
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  Speaker 5: to work from home. You have a good combination of both.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So, but look, New York City, regardless of
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  Speaker 5: what other people might feel, New York City is the
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  Speaker 5: center of the world. Okay, everything is built around New
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  Speaker 5: York City, and if things are going to get done,
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  Speaker 5: New York City has to be involved in This high
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  Speaker 5: speed rail project can be and will be an economic
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  Speaker 5: engine for tens of thousands of people in this region,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and it will be the future and it
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  Speaker 5: is the future. And so we in Long Island want
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  Speaker 5: to make sure that not only are we involved with it,
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  Speaker 5: but we take a leading role in making this project happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm thinking of the Long Island Railroad
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  Speaker 2: because obviously that's where where you guys had that experience,
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  Speaker 2: right dealing with the lar R. You could take that
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  Speaker 2: experience and say, hey we can we know how to
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  Speaker 2: work on a rail system, So get involved us, right.
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  Speaker 5: There's no question about it. Now, there's money in the
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  Speaker 5: infrastructure built for improvement in the Northeast with the Acel line,
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  Speaker 5: but there's tens of millions of dollars in the Industryructure
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  Speaker 5: Bill that can be used to kickstart this program. And
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  Speaker 5: let's face it, you will never have a more pro
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  Speaker 5: union administration that we currently have. And working with the
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  Speaker 5: Biden Harris administration, and then in the next over the
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  Speaker 5: next four years, if Vice President Harris is elected, we know.
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  Speaker 8: That that project will continue and this is an opportunity
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  Speaker 8: to improve the quality of life for people on Long Island,
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  Speaker 8: not just for them, but for their children and grandchildren.
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  Speaker 5: This is that kind of a game changing project.
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  Speaker 2: Now I hear this high spiratic will also attract like
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  Speaker 2: different kinds not just on the rail but like the
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  Speaker 2: entertainment and hospitality.
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  Speaker 5: Right absolutely, yes, this is this job. When you have
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  Speaker 5: something like this, when you have you put a dollar
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  Speaker 5: in infrastructure, you get three dollars back in ancinliliy, jobs
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  Speaker 5: and money into the economy. So you're talking about food, entertainment, hotels,
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  Speaker 5: all of that is involved when you do a project
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  Speaker 5: like this. You know, when we have built things on
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  Speaker 5: Long Islands, all of the communities, all the communities are
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  Speaker 5: affected and gained from it. So and all the women
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  Speaker 5: and men of the labor movement are the best trained,
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  Speaker 5: the most motivated workforce you will ever meet. And all
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  Speaker 5: people here on Long Island are ready to do this
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  Speaker 5: project all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously you have to deal with day to day
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  Speaker 2: things as well along. So when people turn to Long
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  Speaker 2: Island Federation of Labor, what can they expect?
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  Speaker 5: People come to us. We are an advocate for working
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  Speaker 5: families here in our region. And while we are bases
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  Speaker 5: on Long Island, in my other positions, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: have I'm an international president with my with my the
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  Speaker 5: ufcw THERWT issue, so I have the opportunity to learn
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  Speaker 5: and speak to people around the country. But when you
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  Speaker 5: come to the Long Island FED, you're going to get
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  Speaker 5: the very best of what we have to offer. And
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  Speaker 5: that is not only the quality of the people who
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  Speaker 5: are our affiliates, but the people that we can speak
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  Speaker 5: to in Washington, the people that we could speak to
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  Speaker 5: in Albany, and the people that we can speak to
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  Speaker 5: in the City of New York. That is who we are.
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  Speaker 5: We're a service organization and we're all about making sure
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  Speaker 5: that the people we represent and it's a privilege. It's
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  Speaker 5: a privilege to represent working people and odd jobs to
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  Speaker 5: make their lives better. And that's what we do each
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  Speaker 5: and every day.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the other side makes it very separable
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  Speaker 2: about the union. So for those skeptics out there, how
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  Speaker 2: do you ease their fears of joining a union? Like,
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  Speaker 2: don't tell me about that.
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  Speaker 5: So seventy percent of the American work force, or seventy percent,
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  Speaker 5: i should say, of the American people feel very positively
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  Speaker 5: about the union movement. There is no reason anybody should
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  Speaker 5: be skeptical about joining a union. Our mission is to
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  Speaker 5: improve the life of our members. The employer is not
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  Speaker 5: our enemy. The employer is our partner. Sure, no employer
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  Speaker 5: is able to do his job without working the working
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  Speaker 5: women and men of labor. It does us no good
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  Speaker 5: to put an employer out of business, because that affects
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  Speaker 5: our jobs. We make an agreement, we negotiate contracts, We
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  Speaker 5: shake that employer's hand. We keep to it. We don't
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  Speaker 5: break the rule. Okay, if the employer breaks breaks the rule,
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  Speaker 5: we address it.
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  Speaker 9: But our job is to lift up people, lift up families,
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  Speaker 9: and give hope to those who don't have hope, speak
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  Speaker 9: to those who have no voice, to encourage people to
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  Speaker 9: be the best they can be.
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  Speaker 5: That's what the labor woman's about. That's what we do
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  Speaker 5: each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like last year had a lot of labor disaputes, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you saw the SiGe after all that This
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  Speaker 2: year has been a low commerce so that that cordiality
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  Speaker 2: between employer and union helps the year go smoother, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, as long as employees understand that people are
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  Speaker 5: entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. That people
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  Speaker 5: are entitled to make a living. Nobody objects to an
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  Speaker 5: employee of making a profit. He should make a property's investment,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: but he does not make that profit without the men
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: and women that do the job. So they are entitled
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: to have a living wage, a good wage, to be
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: able to retire with dignity, have good healthcare, to have
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: job protections. When an employee decides they don't deserve that
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: because it might infringe upon his bottom line, well then.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: That's a problem as someone with his ability. You know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: full disclosure. Year. Are the members that are disabled in
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: your union? How do you represent them?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Represent them very same same way we represent everybody else.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: We represent everybody the same way. You have a problem,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: we try to help you. If we can't help you,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: we'll find a way to do something.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: To love to help you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: This is about a family. The union movement is a family.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: About protecting the people we represent.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm just thinking people in disability sometimes
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: don't work, so you probably encourage people to work.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Of course, listen, I have the honor of city on
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: the board of the Viscardi Center. I went, yes, I did, Okay,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: So it is a phenomenal organization. Phenomenal and it's it's
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: it's an honor for me to sit on that board, Okay,
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: and that's what we do.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: Look, everybody, everybody has the same dream.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: You want to have a good life. They want to
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: love somebody, be loved by somebody, be able to have
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: a job and live life with dignity.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Amen, Okay, And that's what the labor movement's all about.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: We just passed Labor Day, and I feel like the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: conversation with labor goes away after Labor.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: So you guys, not this household.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: So you should come to the Labor Day Parade.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: The largest Labor Day parade in.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: The United States. There'll be tens of thousands of men
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: and women in the labor movement out there marching and
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: celebrating labor. In who we are and what we do.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: We are the American workforce. We are your neighbors, were
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: your litterally coaches, were your people who work at the
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: different churches or synagogues or mosque.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: We are America.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Okay, We're not too the special interest group. We are
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: the community and we are.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Proud to be Hey, man, well thanks so much, John,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I know it all. Love off topic, but this is
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a great conversation. Thanks for joining me too much. All right,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Before we continue with this Labor Day special on one
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: leg Up with Alex Garrett, I have to shout out
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Neil Tappell, the man the visionary behind labor Press Radio,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: as well as Stephanie West and Darren Yellen and of
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: course Jay the man who puts all these interviews on
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the website. Very thankful for that in collaboration with One
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: look Up Alex adapts. But Labor Press Radio is having
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: their twenty twenty five Apprentice of the Year Awards Wednesday,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: September seventeenth. This year's Labor Press Apprentice of the Year
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Awards is going to honor the rising stars in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: world of labor at the twenty twenty five Apprentice of
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the Year Awards. We hope to see you there the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: September seventeenth, twenty twenty five, and for more information, I'll
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: drop the link in the website below Laborpress dot org
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: and event bright is where you can get the tickets.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: We'll get to a couple of big names from that
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: High Speed Row conference. But I got a shout out
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: right now, Karen mgnanni, the emblem Health CEO, who was
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: at the Heroes of Labor Awards put on at Emblem
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Health headquarters last October. And here's what Karen mg Nani
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: and I talked about live from Emblem Health headquarters in
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: downtown Manhattan for the Heroes of Labor Awards put on
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: by Labor Press. All right, well, a very special moment
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: here for Labor Press as we welcome once again Karening Nanni,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the CEO of Emblem Health at your Heroes of Labor Awards.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us today. Thank you so much for
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: being here.
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: We're so happy to welcome you.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Talk about Emblem Health's commitment to the unions.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: Firstly, our commitment to the unions is long, it's deep,
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: and it's wide. We have been partnering with labor unions
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: for decades and it will continue for many decades to come.
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: Because we are a union company. We are the only
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: health plan that's a union company, and we provide health
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: benefits for one point two million city workers, along with
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: another number of other unions as well and employers. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: we feel very strongly that our commitment to labor un
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: unions is something that they deserve, something that we work
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: very hard to do. Every day and we will continue
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: to do it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: How does EMBLEM because I know you're basically the leading
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: union healthcare and how do you guys manage.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: All the different unions you're partnered with?
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: Basically, it's just such a pleasure actually, just to have
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: gotten to know so many union leaders and so many
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: of the rank and file union members here to make
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: sure that we're doing what they need. We're thinking ahead,
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: we're bringing innovation, we're bringing modernization, and we're bringing the
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: best of the best of their members because they deserve it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Now all about Emblem Healths, you're also out there for
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: the public. You make sure the public knows everything. So
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: what as we talk now is most concernative when it comes.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: To New York City.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: What we're most concerned about is what everyone else is
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: most concerned about. That we get people moving across the
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: city safely, that we have the opportunity as a city
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: to thrive and grow, and to make sure that people
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: have the healthcare they need, which includes physical health, mental health,
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: and all the other services that are so important to people.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: He now a million people in New York City.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: What's it like to you to lead one of the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: leading healthcareism in New York City.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: What does that mean to you?
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: It is such I get out of bed every morning,
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: and I think it is such an honor to have
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: this role. I come from a union family. My dad
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: was a firefighter, my mom was a city worker. So
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: I and my dad actually worked for the firefighters union
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: and for the firefighters as a firefighter before they had
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: health benefits. So I understand what it's like and how
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: important it is to have health benefits. So we take
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: this job in this role very very seriously.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Now you're honoring the transit workers today. I mean without them,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: we're not getting anywhere in the city, right, So talk
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: about the TWU you're honoring today.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm so excited about this because talk about keeping
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: the city rolling. They keep the city rolling. I'm a
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: bus rider. I love the crosstown buses. I'm a subwive rider,
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: and I so appreciate the work that the men and
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: women of the TWU do every day.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I'm so appreciably said, you're taking subway in bus because.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: CEO, you're not just wheeling in. You're with us amongst
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the crowd, I can tell you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: And I try to outsmart the schedule, so I end
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: up taking three trains, and just to make sure I
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: can get to from point A to point B the
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: quickest possible.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I understand there's an annual event the Heroes of Labor,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: so to put this on here at Emblem Health for you,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: it seems like it means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And every year just having all these people here, what's
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: that mean?
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: Oh, I just wouldn't miss it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: It means it just makes me so proud.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: It gives me goosebumps when I hear even though I
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: read about these stories ahead of time, when I see
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: these individuals, these individual heroes, hear their stories, hear their
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: words from their own mouths, it just gives me pride.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And one message from Emblem Help to the same of
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  Speaker 2: New York, as we said right now October twenty four, just.
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  Speaker 1: It's our pleasure to serve you.
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  Speaker 10: We will continue to do so. Please understand how seriously
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: we take that responsibility.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I love that Alex Garrett here with Karen ing Nanni,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the CEO of EMBELM Help, thanks for joining.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: You so much.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I mean for Neil and Darren to put me next
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: to these luminaries of the healthcare industry and of the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: transit industry and of course of a political world. Like
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Tom Swase, it means a lot. That's why I want
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: to give him a big shout out today on Labor
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Day twenty twenty five. But I want to wrap with
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: these two legends. Okay, I mean, if you're in the
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: afl CIO, you know about Fred Redmond, right, And here's
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: what he and I talked about last year at the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: high speed rail event. Now this was a few months
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: before the election, so we did get a little political.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: But as to why the Dems are always union strong
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and labor strong, according to a fl CIO president Fred Remand,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: all right, back here at the Labor Press High Speed
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  Speaker 2: Rail Network conference, I'm Alex Garrett with the Secretary Treasurer
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: of the afl CIO, Fred Remand thanks for joining me today.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Fred, thank you, Alex, glad to be here.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: You had a fired up speech in there. What is
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the afil CIO's role going to be should this high
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  Speaker 2: speed rail come into existence? How are you guys can
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: help people get jobs to this.
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  Speaker 11: Well, first of all, we had a fid of revised
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: because we're fired up as a labor boat bit to
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: see an investment being placed in American workers because this
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: is what this is. This is an investment in the
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: American workforce. This is a challenge to American manufacturers. Okay, well,
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: we can build out this high speed rail, create good jobs,
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  Speaker 11: uplift and sustained communities. And it's an exciting time to
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: be really committed to a new form of transportation that's
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: going to take off in the United States.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: And what could I guess even Congress's role in toms
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Wwasey today, what could Congress's role, What could the administration's
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: role be to make this happen.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Funding, they have to be committed. They have to provide
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: the funding.
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  Speaker 11: They have to provide the resources for us to do
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  Speaker 11: the job. Training, workforce development programs.
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  Speaker 4: Need to be engaged.
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  Speaker 11: So the federal government play a huge role because a
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  Speaker 11: commitment from the federal government in terms of resources and
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: a commitment from employees throughout this country, we can actually
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: build a manufacturing chain regarding the component parts the high
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  Speaker 11: speed rail. We could train communities and as I stated,
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: you know, we need to bring in people who have
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  Speaker 11: historically been locked out, people of color, underserved community and women.
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  Speaker 11: And we have an opportunity to build a transportation sector
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  Speaker 11: that can uplift communities uplift families and help rebuild the
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  Speaker 11: middle class.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: All right, soxiety where does this commerce today? What's the
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: next steps?
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: Next step is to make sure that we get through
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  Speaker 11: November with the right team in office that's going to
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: fulfill this commitment when it comes to funding, when it
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: comes to making sure that these projects continue, that the
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: commitment of Bided Harris administration continues with the funding and
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: able to make these sort of projects possible.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: And then from there it's just going to take.
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: The wheel of creating a big table, a big tent
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: where everybody is coming together in order to really really
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: move this technology to the next levee.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: So those I'm familiar with the AFLCIO talk about the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: day to days. We're talking long term as well, talk
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: about day to day responsibilities.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: The afl CIO is a labor federation.
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: We have sixty affiliate unions. We represent twelve and a
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: half million members around the United States. Every industry in
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: the United States, public sector, private sector, service employees, we
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: represent screen actors, we represent athletes, and we are Americans workforce.
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: We're based in Washington, DC. Our members work at all
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: fifty states. We have a state fed and fifty states
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: around this country, four hundred and thirty fourth Central Labor
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: counsuls around the country, and we are the voys for
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: Americans work.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: And one more thing to those are in today, what's
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: your message on behalf of the unions like to the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: averages early, what's your message to them?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: We can do this work.
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: We can do the work if you with the proper funding,
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: with the proper resources, with the proper commitment. American unions
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: are prepared to train the next generation of workers, starting
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: off with high speed rail and where it takes us,
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: who knows, right, We're ready. We got the best training
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: capabilities of the world. Our training programs, apprenticeship programs is
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: the gold standard and we're ready to take these huge
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: investments and build the next generational workers.
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  Speaker 2: A fl CIO Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond, thanks for joining
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: me today.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I mentioned luminaries of the transit world,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: and I meet Bose who served as the Administrator of
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the Federal Railroad Administration. UH is part of the US
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Department of Transportation under Pete Buddhaj Well. Administrator Bose joined
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: me from that high speed rail conference last September, and
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: here's what he had to say.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Of course he is.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: No longer part of the FIRA, but but these words
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: will live on through the labor press, radio and want
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: leg got alex network. All right, Well, a very special
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: guest here from me I feed Rail Network conference, a
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: meet Bosey administration with Federal Railroad Administration. Thanks for joining
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: me today. Thank you so I under saying you were
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: alongside people first of all, talk about that experience.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: He's such a remarkable Secretary of Transportation, a remarkable individual,
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: and for me the bonuses. He's a very big booster
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: of rail across the country, passenger rail, high speed rail,
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: freight rail. So it's incredible to work side by side.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And have you here means the buy maansician clearly is
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: invested in this am I right.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: We are, we are and that's reflected from March of
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty one with the introduction of the American Jobs
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: Act that became the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November of
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty one, and right on through with the implementation
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: of the programs that were funded through that law, and
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: now it's leading to projects and corridors that we fund
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: that we've selected and now we're delivering and building those
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: projects now to.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Be toopular over But this is an election year, so
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: does this election year, does this project.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Hang in the balance with the election year, if you will.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: In The good news is there was a five year
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: transportation will. We're in roughly year three of that bill,
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: so there's two more years of funding remaining in that
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: and the projects that we've selected already, projects like the
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: California High Speed Rail project, also the Brightline West project,
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: which are both high speed rail projects, along with plenty
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: of Northeast corridor projects including the Hudson River Tunnel East
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: River Tunnel that people in this area are very familiar with.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: Those projects are funded and will continue, and what we're
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: trying to do is make sure that those projects are
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: successful so that Congress can give even more funding to
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: rail across the country. But the sixty six billion dollars
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: at the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided was absolutely historic, game
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: changing and transformative.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: With all the railroads we.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Have out there, can we all what kind of what
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: can we learn from all the railroads currently to make
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: this a success.
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: Even we have a lot of lessons learned, we have
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: a lot of experience with projects that we have built
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: that are in service right now. Just as an example,
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: there's a new service called Borealis between Saint Paul and
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: Chicago that we started that Amtrak is running. We also
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: know that there's been an increase of service in Virginia
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: in their rail program in places like North Carolina, so
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: there's there's a strong effort across the country and it
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: really reflects the demand that people across the country have
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: for passenger rail as an alternative, not as a substitute,
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: as an alternative to vehicle riding in vehicles and sitting
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: in highway traffic. And of course this also comes with
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: labor support. To talk about your support of the labor
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: unions that are really going to be impacted in a
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: positive way by this project. Well, first of all, labor unions.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: Labor unions represent skilled workers and craft workers, and American
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: workers are second to none. And it's going to be
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: the American workers who are building these projects who are
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: also when these projects are in operation, running the trains,
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: who are providing the services on the rail cars, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: who are maintaining the rail cars. So it's a real
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: opportunity to create jobs. It's also manufacturing because we want
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: the train sets that we haven't had high speed rail
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: train sets to be manufactured here in the United States,
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: and that's a great opportunity.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Is the measures committed to having all of this American
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: made I feel.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Like, yes, we are, we are very much So.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: One last thing I just saw, La had a train
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: built not too long ago. So these probably are always ongoing.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: What can we learn from the West coast high street
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: rail and turn into the northeast.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: Well, an example of that is there's a service called
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: Caltrain which is between San Francisco and San Jose, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: the California High Speed Rail project will eventually run on
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: those tracks. But right now there's a service called Caltrain
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: and they just put new electrified rail cars on that
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: and they electrified that whole corridor. So it's an example
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: of very positive things going on in the western part
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: of the country. And you're right in some respects. The
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: West right now has the possibility of having a real
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: high speed rail network, as I mentioned Las Vegas, southern
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: California and also southern California going into the Bay Area
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: through the Central Valley.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Well, you're here to speak, so tell us what your
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: message was and is going to be for all people.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: Well, my message is the rail program that the Biden
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Harris administration has can be a win win for workers.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: It can be a win win for rail companies, for
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: the railroads. And it's a win win for the railroads
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: because we can sell we can separate freight from passenger
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: rail traffic so that they don't interfere which with each other.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: And it's also a win for the private sector and
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: the communities and the future passengers.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, Bose, thanks so much for joining me today.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: These interviews, by the way, did take place at Teamsters
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: two to eighty two. As you might have heard a
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: reference earlier on in the shop. The one big honoree
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: was Terry O'Sullivan and of course thanks to Darren and
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Neil once again we got to talk about talk to
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: this luminary on September fifth, twenty twenty four with me
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: at the Labor Press High Speedborough conference. Is a very
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: special guest. You know, when you have about four or
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: five six people talking about well man, I means this
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: guy is a legend. Terry O. Sullivan, thanks for joining
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: AM nine seving the answer today.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thank you, and thanks for having me.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: We're very proud to have you on a Salem media
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: group as well. So first of all, talk about your
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: history with labor and being honored today.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Well, my history, I was more or less born into it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: So my father was with the labors and ran our
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: local in San Francisco and he ultimately became the general
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: secretary treasurer in Washington, d C. So I've been a
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: member for just over fifty years. I was general president
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: for twenty four So I have obviously a long history
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: with LAYUNA and with the labor movement.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: And talk about the labor movement, I mean, this is
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: we just passed Labor Days, so you know, I feel
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: like the conversation with labor sometimes ends in the media
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: with Labor Day, but we were continuing it here. So
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: talk about what the labor movements meant for you.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Well, the labor movement has meant everything for not only me,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: but for our family adventure. I wouldn't know exactly where
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: we would be if it wasn't for the Labor's International
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Union North America. My father, his parents both were from Ireland.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: His father died when he was thirty seven years old.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: His mother was pregnant with his brother, so his brother
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: never even met his father. He was a grave digger
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: at Holy Cross Cemetery where he is buried in a
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: doorman at the Palace Hotel, pretty famous hotel in San Francisco,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and from there, my dad's mother knew somebody in the
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: laborers and they put him out to work because they
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: knew he was bringing every paycheck home to take care
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: of his mom and his seven his brother. So yeah,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for it wasn't for the labor movement,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be where we're at today.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Terry, You've obviously seen the labor women evolved, So talk
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: about seeing as a kid with your dad to.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Now, Well, I think there are some differences. Yes, back
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: then we had more strikes. There was I won't say
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: more activism, but their share sec was a lot of activism,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and I think that was what's evolved in my twenty
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: four years of being president. At thirty years I was
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: in DC. Unfortunately I still can't get out of there,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: but the longest sort of become even more politically active.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: They were always politically active. Organized labor always was. But
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I've seen more activism in my time in d C
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: than I saw before.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: You know, I was just thinking last year it was
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: a big year for labor disputes and all that. But
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: when you see those kinds of things and you see
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: the fight that sag After had and all that, what's
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: that mean? It must make it kind of proud that
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: these guys are fighting for their rights.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: They are, and I get encouraged by those things. I mean,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: take the teamsters and ups and some of the other
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: things you mentioned sag After, uh, you know, the Big three,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the auto workers. I mean, there is a there's a
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: real spark in the labor movement, and I think that
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: spark leads to a fire and I see a lot
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: more engagement, involvement and activism, which is always a good thing.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: So this high.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Speed rail feels like the next generation for union workers, right,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: That's why it's so important.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, And I applaud Neil, you know, for having
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: this conference this morning. It's much needed and just not
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: here in a whole host of places. So I think
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: to get the ball rolling this was an important thing
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: to do. And having experts from you know, not only
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: political life, but from the industry everywhere, from everywhere.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: So Terry, obviously you've been on the West coast, right,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: you said you were to save, just go. They already
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: have this, so why not? Why can't it work here?
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: That's my question. Well, he can work. There has to
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: be a political will to make it work. And I
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: think that political will is here, and I think by
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: partnering together labor management and industry, maybe we can get
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: it over get it over the top.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Being sorry with your dad through this whole moment, when
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: he was, when you were, when he was here, What
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: did you learn from him and how have you applied
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: that as president?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I learned about loyalty from my father, about solidarity, and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I learned it by watching him. He was a hands
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: on leader.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: They said.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: He was a member of ours and a leader of
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: ours for sixty nine years. So he lived by example.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: He's one that back in the fifties we went on
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: strike for eighty six days get three cents for health
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and welfare fund. So they were rough and tumble times,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: but he was a man of his word. And and
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: to tell you that the other labor leaders that I
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: had the privilege to know when I was a young man,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: sometimes and in some cases very young man, sure, I
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: was always inspired by their dedication and commitment to the cause,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the purpose and the mission of the union movement.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: It's maybe a controversy. Did you ever cross paths with
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Hoff?
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I have to ask, I have so. Uh, my father
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: knew Senior. I obviously worked with Jimmy and now with
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Sean when when Jimmy was president for for years. I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a while.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: But I know, and Sean's been been doing great. But
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: at the l i U, right where you're at, where
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: you're president at, there's a daily support of your union workers.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Talk about the daily operations of the LU from where
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: you sit as president, I.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Mean as far as the activity, yeah, and how you
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: support every day to make it well. And I think
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: what's different now is with technology, it's a lot easier
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: for us. So I have to be able to reach
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: out to union members and union families. And you see that.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: I mean that. I know my wife Vett, she oversees
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: communications department at while you're in the headquarters in our
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: political and legislative department, and the engagement is set. If
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I go back twenty four years and I look at
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: what we were doing twenty four years ago versus today,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: it's light years ahead today.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you say that because a lot of
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: people that are in their associations are worried that AI
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: is going to take over. And why is manpower so.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Vital even in twenty twenty four. I mean, we can't
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: build our roads and bridges and tunnels and waterways and
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: all the rest of it without haveing skilled labor. Sure,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I mean I think you always have to be concerned
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: about AI. I'm less concerned about it, but there are
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: industries and unionized industries that I get it.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Terry, it is we're honoring you today, but I feel
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: like your work's not done yet. So you know you're
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: going to honor today, but.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Tell us where you go from here. Well, I'm involved
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: in a number of things. So I am now the
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: chairman back as chairman of ULIKA with the untimely passing
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: and unfortunate passing of Eddie Smith. I'm emeritus with with Liuna,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: and we launched a union prescription drug company.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's so important as you're saying those members
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: who need that are not getting represented.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Enough for well, we can't have PBMs, gouge and us.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I mean every nickel, every dime, every dollar is important
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: because I always used to say if it wasn't going
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: towards benefits, tould be going on members check. But we
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: stand for great benefits. But we have to get our
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: hands around PBMs. When you have two percent of your
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: claims right are costs and almost fifty percent of to spend,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: something's broken needs to be fixed.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: I feel that this kind of ears into my next
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: question about people disabilities. Do you guys represent people disabilities
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: as well born with them on the job of them
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: talk about that sector of the.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Union, I mean critically important. We have a lot of
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: members get hurt on the job, some of them, some
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: of them unfortunately permanently, and we try to make sure
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that if somebody is injured on the job that we
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: can get them back to work within Sometimes you can't.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: But I think it's critically important as a society and
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: as a labor movement to take you know, to work
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: with quite minded groups and find opportunities, because there are
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: plenty of opportunities for the individuals that do have disabilities
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: to go back to work.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I've asked a few other people. I want to ask you, Terry,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: from your experience here, there are skept skeptics against the unions.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: How do you ease skeptics minds and say, yes, unions.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Are good for people. Yeah, well, there's always going to
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: be skeptics, as there always has been. But I'm betting
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: on the home team. I mean, I think that with
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: our communication programs and outreach to members, I think we've
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: turned the tide. And I can only use our union
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: as an example. You know, we were founded in nineteen
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: oh three. Today we have more members than we've ever
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: had gradual history of our organization, and a lot of that,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: quite honestly, has has to do with the Biden administration,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the infrastructure built Chips Bill. I mean, it has been
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: an absolute grand slam. And you know, I'm going to
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: say it because I'm going to say it any Joe
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Biden has been the best union president we ever had,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: at least in my tenure. And I don't mean any
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: disrespect to anybody else.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Well, he also grew up in the union world, and
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: he did he did.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: He says, he says union more than some union leaders.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: But a lot of the credit goes to, you know,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: with the first two years of his administration, with Speaker
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Pelosi and with the Majority Leader Schumer and the President
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and his administration think about the jobs bills that were created.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Never saw that before. I saw a lot of effort
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: on it. But you know the results. And how about
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: pension reform, sure sure, I mean that was a game
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: changer for all of us.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: The Build Back Better bill also as well. I mean
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of these different things that they've accomplished. Now,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: how are you going to reach across all the unions
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: to make sure this real project goes? It's a team effort, isn't.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: It, without a doubt? You know, on the construction side,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: work with the building trades and and with each individual
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: union as well, and put a lot of time and effort.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: You know, in the job creation things have been teed up.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Now we have to take advantage of.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: He says something very poignant just a couple of minutes
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: ago about how what you're doing today is touching the
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: lives of families in their own homes, and that's important
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: to get the message into the homes, isn't it. And
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: it sounds like that hasn't been happening for a little bit.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it has been happening for a while,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: And I mean that's strategic communications. I mean, we need
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: to get to family members. Wife needs to be engaged
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and involved, and unfortunately some unions, and ours being one
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: of them, not as many members go to union meetings anymore.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Now they're busy working and all the rest of it.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: They have family obligations. But we need to continue to
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: do an even better job of reaching inside the house
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and reminding people, you know, how they're making a living
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and why they're making a living and what the union
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: does form.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Terry, you're obviously going to speak today, So what's your
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: message to the audience here at teams As Local two
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: eighty two and to our listeners here on the radios.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, today, my message just is one of thanks and appreciation.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to talk about some of the
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: things that we're doing, but I'm also going to invoke
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: I have my dad's union card in my pocket from
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven, and to my point, before the O'Sullivans
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: would not be where they're at today if it wasn't
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: for the goodness and greatness of the Labor's International Union
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: in North America, in the labor movement, and we're not
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: unique in that.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like that should be a message as well,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: that unions help build character for the people in them Yep.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I think it has to be a constant message. You know,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: some people do take for granted that you know, you
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: wake up one day and you're you know, you think
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: you're standing on third. I mean there was a lot
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: of strife and struggle that went in to building a
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: labor movement that we have today.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Right saying on third, we see all these leagues sometimes
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: have their issues between the players, wization and all that.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Those big issues can also.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Impact other unions.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Say hey, you know what, we need to speak up
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: as well, right yep, yeah, and I see that more though,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Like I say, these big difference twenty four years ago
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: to today, and I think that outreach has led to
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: more activists. And we're always going to have skeptics.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: How will we see you out there fighting for the union,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: like if there ever picket lines where we see you
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: out there on the lines.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Are well, I'll be anywhere and everywhere that I needed,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: that's for sure.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Amen to that. Well, Terry, thank you so much.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Your time today, Thanks for having me. Thank you, sanch
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: you well.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I see this about an hour long presentation on Labor Day,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't have it any other way. We've got
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: to highlight how important it is to be union strong,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: how important it is to honor labor and the hard workers,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: as I said earlier, are working today as we speak
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: on Labor Day twenty twenty five. I just want to
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: thank the tech guys, my chief engineer at AM nine seventy,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Andy Gladdings setting things up at the high speed Rail
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: conference in September and then in October Ed Downey helping
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: me record those interviews and basically everything we did can
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: be found at my Labor Press Radio one leg up
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Alex Garrett collaboration section of this podcast, and I'll drop
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: a link to that, and I'll also remind you that
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday, September seventeenth, it is the twenty twenty five
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Apprentice Awards, highlighting and honoring the rising stars in labor,
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: put on by then Labor Press at Teamsers two eighty
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: two in Lake Success. Speaking of Team Seris, I cannot
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: let the show go by without honoring Greg Floyd and
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Teamsters two thirty seven, for they too have the show
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: reaching out on AM nine seventy the Answer, and I've
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: been grateful to be their engineer and done remotes with
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: them at their offices at teams for two thirty seven Headquarters.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Thanks to Philip Schafflin for arranging that in every interview
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: we do on reaching Out. But President greg Floyd himself
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: joined my podcast in twenty twenty two to talk about Nightshaw.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: But the surprise of it was he then aired on
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: his radio show at least a five minute snippet that
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: weekend following Governor Kathy Hockle. Thank you Grey. Maybe the
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: first government beyond, but I'm also going to be the
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: second governor beyond. I'll be back again. Thank you here
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: that Thank you very much.
• 54:30
  Speaker 12: Thanks sure you've been listening to Governor Hokeel on reaching
• 54:35
  Speaker 12: Out with Gregory Floyd. We're going to do a brief
• 54:38
  Speaker 12: recap of a podcast we did with Alex Garrett on
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: the nightsche Trust Fund EVL.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Governor Hokel is the right person to make this happen.
• 54:51
  Speaker 12: This was on her desk, and she's working in real time,
• 54:55
  Speaker 12: and work speaks for itself.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: This bill was passed.
• 54:58
  Speaker 12: Whether she was a governor or someone else, the legislature
• 55:02
  Speaker 12: would have passed this bill and it would have been
• 55:04
  Speaker 12: left for the governor to make a decision, whoever that
• 55:08
  Speaker 12: governor would have been at this time, whether they were
• 55:10
  Speaker 12: going to sign it or not. Fortunately this governor chose
• 55:13
  Speaker 12: to sign it.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: You know this was a special moment. Tell us being
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: next to her as she signed it.
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: Oh, more than being next to you, I mean just
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: being invited. Labor had a seat at the table and
• 55:26
  Speaker 12: being included in the ceremony was special because this was
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: our first time ever being included in a bill signing
• 55:38
  Speaker 12: for a governor of New York State. But more importantly
• 55:42
  Speaker 12: than being part of that bill signing was the bill
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: that was signed that's going to help the people, the
• 55:49
  Speaker 12: residents of Knightscha and also our members who work in
• 55:52
  Speaker 12: the New York City Housing Authority. That was more important
• 55:56
  Speaker 12: than being next to the governor signing the bill to.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Be Floyd teams are two thirty seven President. Where can
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: people find the coverage of you know, Teamster's role in
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: this can? I know you guys have a website, So
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: what what's thest wetting? Get in touch with you guys.
• 56:11
  Speaker 12: Oh, on our website two thirty seven Local, two thirty
• 56:16
  Speaker 12: seven dot org. You go on a website, We'll put
• 56:19
  Speaker 12: up the short video of the bill signing. The governor
• 56:24
  Speaker 12: has the bill signing and Knightscha on her her platform,
• 56:28
  Speaker 12: the New York State government platform is on I believe
• 56:32
  Speaker 12: it's on YouTube. The knightscha bill signing for the trust.
• 56:38
  Speaker 12: The Knights your trust. So if anyone wants to take
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: the time to look at the I would say, forty
• 56:45
  Speaker 12: forty five minute ceremony, it'll be there.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: And it was.
• 56:49
  Speaker 12: Really it was really historic historic, and the comments and
• 56:54
  Speaker 12: the commentary was really great. So if anybody has time
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  Speaker 12: and they're really interested, I would just going on and
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  Speaker 12: looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Floyd, thanks so much. Team turns through the thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven and hey, we'll see you on the radio. I
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  Speaker 2: am nine seven.
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  Speaker 12: The answer, thank you, and Alex has always has been
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  Speaker 12: a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: And as you know, over the years we've supported the
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  Speaker 2: truck drivers through the supply chain, CRESI and all that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: my friend Zach Miller has this to say on Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day twenty twenty five, hashtag Tanka trucker For now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Alex Garrett. Have a great Labor Day and remember to
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  Speaker 2: thank your local unions and to let unions flourish, not
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  Speaker 2: try and take them down like an Amazon Wood or
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  Speaker 2: a Starbucks would Because though it can get messy at times,
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  Speaker 2: we see labor drives this country and that's how we
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  Speaker 2: continue to make America great. Im one I got Alex
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  Speaker 2: Garrett