Reich is a Marxist and a fraud. He leaves out how the union pensions bankrupted the auto makers in 2008. Unions protect workers from competition making the employer non competitive.
I'm a lifelong Union worker, now retired and being supported by my Union-won benefits. I'm shocked and saddened to learn the participation by workers today in Unions is such a low percentage. May that number increase greatly and soon!
Thank you for this timely video, Mr. Reich. For most of my working life, I had a negative view of unions but over the past several years that has gradually changed, due both to my own observations and to the observations of others such as you provide in this video. I wanted to let you know that you are not simply preaching to the choir, that you really can help change the views of those who will give you a listen.
@@andrewzcolvin I'm a union supporter but never found myself in a union job. I've heard a lot of the grumbling about paying dues and getting nothing for it, but it sounds like you don't agree. Can you elaborate? I believe discussing the benefits of a union in a public forum like this might amplify your perspective.
As a union worker who went on strike in 05 I hope these others fare better, it certainly is disconcerting watching you ex friends cross the picket line to take your job because they were weak. People need to realize the only way to battle billionaires is standing together and Unionize.
Yep. The older I get the more I think Regan was one of our very worst presidents. Now with the Ex, I'd say no more entertainers may run for President unless they've served at least 6 years in Congress.
"Raygunnes" ( listen to Woodstock) was a B movie actor at best. He was a leader in the Screen Actors Guild Union .... and then he ... "changed" .... He was promoted and financed by Republicans .... Once "elected" he just followed the script ... " Iran deal to defeat President Jimmy Carter just to get elected ... "well no, Nancy and I wouldn't do such a thing.." And, as Nancy says, "Just Say NO !!!! ..."
@@limeylive8182 he paid off the Iranians by giving them 1 million dollars personally giving to the Iranians by George HW Bush who was head of the CIA. Treason for a party to negotiate behind the back of a sitting president.
People not realizing that have lot of power.. the only funny thing is I didn't realize that they had power the problem was there so divided.. now people are beginning to wake up..
Let me translate what Bob is saying here: "As always, we did this shit to ourselves, because Americans don't know how to vote in their own best interests." Let me put it even MORE simply: DON'T vote celebrities into elected office!
I want the PRO Act to pass but Democrats and Republicans would rather listen to the Corporate Owners instead of the People. No. I did not mean "Donors" OWNERS. Corporations OWN The Legislature.
Economies work best when all three factors are balanced. In the Seventies the equilibrium swung too far in favour of labour and now it's swung too far against labour.
I remember those years back in the late 60's early 70's you could buy a House for under 20.000 Dlls with a salary of 2.50 pr hour. And as de decades went by, I noticed that, prices on homes gradually skyrocketed and thus forcing both parents to work to make ends meet; not only the prices of homes went up, but also the prices of basic and essential goods And before you knew it, 2010 was upon us with home prices near 3/4 of a million dllr, gas at $4.00 pr gal, etc, etc... I can see now with sadness that people have become "slaves of progress" in this Capitalist Society. The only ones who benefited are those at the top of the "Pyramid"... The System is Rigged folks.
@@joeldavis5815 I was merely pointing out that when I was 16 years old I was making equal to $13 per hour Dumbass. $30 per hour is a living wage , not $20.
I've seen some stupid union regulations when I worked in a manufacturing company and I dislike the mafia/corruption leaders in some unions. Those things need to change. HOWEVER, what the wealthy owners are doing to labor is unforgivable! We must bring back stronger union representation! 💪
It's the same problem as there is in politics, people are put in positions of power that should not be in positions of power. And other people are letting it happen, because they don't want to do the work themselves. And are far too busy to be bothered with everything. People have to split their attention to too many issues, so they outsource them to specialists, which works fine if you outsource things to some specialists like mechanics and plumbers, it doesn't work when you outsource other things like the running of a union or political party to specialists, because the specialists are going to abuse their station, that is what makes them specialists in the first place.
Truckers are the most screwed of all. You should see how they don't get paid for alot of work. Since they deregulated the industry in the 80s theirs been a massive shortage and for good reason
I remember watching an old film a few years ago called The Wages Of Fear from 1953. It directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It is the story of four men who volunteer to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin to put out an oil field fire. The journey was very hazardous and deadly. Around the start of the film an oil company executive who happens to be American, states that he doesn’t want anyone to do the job if they belong to a union. The Wages Of Fear was considered to be anti-American because the oil company in the small Latin American village was supposed to bring prosperity to it. But instead of bringing prosperity, it causes the village’s decline with workers who become sick from unsafe working conditions. Clouzot said his film wasn’t anti anything. The Wages Of Fear was remade in the 1970’s as Sorcerer. There is opportunities in times of danger. And it showed when the wealthy made more money and were given a tax break. They had it both ways. We can’t have it both ways. We can’t have it at all. We need to unionize all across the country to get what we need and want.
@@youtubesucks1499 it's all how people are raised, if you're given everything and never forced to earn anything you grow up to be an entitled adult and nothing is good enough and you think the world owes you, but only get given the bare essentials and forced to earn everything you learn the don't owe you sh!t and to work hard and if you don't like your job get a better one or do like I did, start your own business and work for yourself
Everybody that resigned, just didn't go back to your job or were just let go during the pandemic, go join a union right now and let them represent you to these corporations. In addition to asking for a living wage demand that companies cut the millions they pay the management.
@@paxorra5528 Sue, I worked as a commercial electrician. I opted non union and opened my own business. It took 12 years and became a company. I am a woman and my business partner was black. I sold him my interest in 2015. So, being a woman with a black business partner is being a troll? Ok. Are you a racist xenophobic Trump Supporter??
@@paxorra5528 Sue, you do realize unions don't promote based on ambition rather seniority? So the stupidest guy who has been there the longest gets the promotion. So when there is no work, according to the unions you can't work at your trade... you can lose your licenses and get fined. So if there is no work for 3 months you sit on your ass with no income or you get a job in another field. So yeah, unions suck. Why do you think genius I opted non union? The MONEY was better. Derp. Sue don't speak about things you clearly don't understand little girl.
These things only happen in America and England while Sweden and countries like those are enjoying great life today.. America is a capitalistic Empire strictly about work work work work work and consume nothing else.. and you wonder why only in America and maybe England a lot of people have work burnout.. it's times like this that I work for myself anyway..
I work for the school district and we have our bargaining coming up. The problem is that the OSEA, our union , is a joke. They don’t bargain they budget! The district tells them how much and they say how high. It’s ran by family and people who are complacent. The one time we had someone call out the district for not bargaining they stopped the meeting, kicked out everyone bug administrators and our classified team, and proceeded to yell at the person who spoke up. Telling them to never do that again. It’s like the senate in that the people don’t have a voice and the ones with power won’t rock the boat. We are hurting personal wise and it’s because our pay isn’t competitive and the retirement has been cut back so much I had to get two extra retirement on the side, tier one is gone and we want it back!
Well, I guess you can say it does "trickle down" in booster rockets lifting the wealthiest among us into space. You can't get anymore "uplifting" than that!
A worker’s income should be paid in Value Given…such as:an affordable home/health INS/etc. This constant raise prices game is lose lose for most people.
Did not know the economic prosperity after ww2 was a result of strikes and unions! Sadly, 5 million people is a far cry from the thousands we currently have. Something needs to happen soon. My wish for iris to have universal care!
Inflation is wiping any income increases..and it’s even worse for gig workers that see no increases. As a freelance musician, gigs are paying the same or LESS than they did 25 years ago. Not good.
We do people have more power than we know we just don't realize it or we are divided.. it takes something like this m ademic to make us come together..
We were divided a long time, it started with Vietnam, when the rich and the corrupt saw a crack in the solidarity of America they took full advantage of it until it has now become the divided states of corporations
@@hellhound1389 so true my friend I couldn't say it better myself the country so divided it's not even funny.. this more us and less of people in power we can easily change things if you want to but with two divided.. I'll get example look at North Korea if the people of North Korea teen fear this guy took him out and took over the country long time ago but he leads with fear and people don't have the guts to take him down but they can if they choose to and came together.. it's just like that long ago were divided nothing going to change..
Railroads have been told by companies that there will be no more gains in future contracts. Railroad workers are not allowed to strike, what are they supposed to do for leverage? If they strike, they'll be treated as the air traffic controllers were.
Let's seize the moment? Let's seize the SOURCE OF THE SUPPLY! KICK THE CORPORATE OFFICERS OUT OF THEIR OWN COMPANY! TAKE OVER THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND HANG THE CEOs!
Hopefully. Look at the rise of anti work on Reddit. I hope this is the rebellion making a comeback. This pandemic has been empire strikes back, this could be the return of the Jedi.
Why is there no organised national strike? I thought this was supposed to be organised labor? And why is there no transparency in union finances to prove there's no corruption?
Biden is an establishment Democrat. He's not in office to serve the interests of the working class. He's helping to promote all of the narratives to garner minority votes but that's about the extent of his benevolence for the commoners. Why do you think that he is proving to be a very unpopular President. It's business as usual in Washington D.C.
@@alanbailey5621 I agree 💯 percent but I seriously doubt that our politicians are going to back such a bill as long as their constituents do not demand it.
I wonder if there will be change or if it will just end up being some sort of compromise. One difference I see in the US compared to back then is that the US economy had little competition and could afford higher wages but now it's all more globalized
I live in NYC. Many small business are foreigners. They get licensed and loans and leases, and tax breaks very very easily. It’s not fair. Anyway, Many of them hid their cash on their “fifth register.” They kept truckloads of cash over the decades. Many get great stimulus now. When it gets rough, they close up and leave. They are flush with cash. Some go back to their Countries with all that cash. Americans are waiting for them to protest the restrictions. What a naive waste of precious time. Such owners are closing down and taking all that cash, they hid, with them. They cleaned up.
I'm wondering if anyone has thought to speak loudly on the parallel between what the Republicans have done to the unions and what they're currently doing to the voters? I'm not talking about in forums like this. I'm talking about a concerted public campaign promoting a "They did this to them. Now they're doing it to you! Where will it end?" message ‽
In 2019 I was a firm believer in mass protest being the engine that will drive America down a more equitable path. But then 2020 saw the biggest mass movement the country had ever seen and yet real sustainable police accountability still remains elusive. Maybe it's still too early to make a judgment on the effectiveness of the police accountability movement that happened a year and a half ago, but I admit that my faith in people power has been shaken
When the wage don’t fit, the people do quit‼️. And they then downsize: They stop buying all the junk they have been hoarding. They cut subscriptions. Find movies and audiobooks on UA-cam and Tubi and DailyMotion, etc., They watch their own children. Clean their own homes. Cook their own food. Polish their own fingernails. Workout at home. Wash their own clothing, and stop impulse buying and excessive dry cleaning. Wear a capsule wardrobe. Develop other skills for future and for fun. They Declutter everything. Even garages. Clean their own car. Rotate certain chores. It’s becoming a one earner household again. It’s a wash.
At least when the mom's were at home, the families seemed to be better off. One working parent should be enough. To have both parents out there working all week just to have the same standard of living makes no sense. Wether husband or wife, someone needs to take care of the home!
'Trickle down' is evoked during the video. In California, this broken promise undergirds several new housing/zoning laws allowing build everywhere/build to the skies throughout the state--almost all of it market-rate--meaning that any Labor rebound will not likely provide enough gain to permit its members to afford a place. The idea is that eventually the swells who can afford high rents will move on--their student loans all paid off and the down payment in hand--and that vacated units will somehow become cheaper. (This is why in part I think economics is a pseudo-science.) This is happening as many people and businesses are leaving, but then these new laws are not about providing for need but profit for developers who hire 'lawmakers' to steer the course they set. I do reasonably well in my 70s, thanks to a company and union pension. When our new super-plant was built the union locals were disinvited. Years later, I took a course and during intro's a fellow student said he was working there, so I chatted him up, to find that union representation had been restored! ..
Robert Riech 2024!? You’d have my vote.
Robert, you made excellent historical comparisons.
Reich is a Marxist and a fraud. He leaves out how the union pensions bankrupted the auto makers in 2008.
Unions protect workers from competition making the employer non competitive.
@@FreedomFighter1776 Everything you said is absolutely false.
I'm a lifelong Union worker, now retired and being supported by my Union-won benefits.
I'm shocked and saddened to learn the participation by workers today in Unions is such a low percentage.
May that number increase greatly and soon!
My state is bankrupt because of the public unions??🤔
@@mariooliveira6780 No, it's not.
@gayboyzig Big businesses and people are leaving to lower cost states??🤔
@@VitalVampyr We can't afford the Public Unions because of the high taxes the poor working middle-class families have to pay!!🤔
@@mariooliveira6780 Most businesses are located based on proximity to their customers, resources, or skilled workers.
Well done Robert! Thank you!
Thank you for this timely video, Mr. Reich. For most of my working life, I had a negative view of unions but over the past several years that has gradually changed, due both to my own observations and to the observations of others such as you provide in this video. I wanted to let you know that you are not simply preaching to the choir, that you really can help change the views of those who will give you a listen.
@@andrewzcolvin I'm a union supporter but never found myself in a union job. I've heard a lot of the grumbling about paying dues and getting nothing for it, but it sounds like you don't agree. Can you elaborate?
I believe discussing the benefits of a union in a public forum like this might amplify your perspective.
Koch- "So what I can always replce my workers with Robots."
Smith- "Koch, Robotd don't buy homes, clothes, and cars."
If businesses don't pay their employees, there will be no business.
@@alanbailey5621 spot on! Just like slave owners did not pay their slaves and there was no slavery .. oh wait ..
Koch - "That's all right, I con't sell houses, clothes or cars."
@@nowthenzen You really don't get it.
@@DanVicary Unions are needed now, more than ever before. Too bad the unions get in the way.
Now, if there was any, is the time to take a stand against big corporations
As a union worker who went on strike in 05 I hope these others fare better, it certainly is disconcerting watching you ex friends cross the picket line to take your job because they were weak. People need to realize the only way to battle billionaires is standing together and Unionize.
Why wouldn't a person take your job? If you won't work there are 10 other people who will.
Learned that in 1992.
@@youtubesucks1499 like I said unions have no chance with attitudes like that
Yep. The older I get the more I think Regan was one of our very worst presidents. Now with the Ex, I'd say no more entertainers may run for President unless they've served at least 6 years in Congress.
"Raygunnes" ( listen to Woodstock) was a B movie actor at best. He was a leader in the Screen Actors Guild Union .... and then he ... "changed" .... He was promoted and financed by Republicans .... Once "elected" he just followed the script ... " Iran deal to defeat President Jimmy Carter just to get elected ... "well no, Nancy and I wouldn't do such a thing.." And, as Nancy says, "Just Say NO !!!! ..."
None for pressent that acepsts a singel dontion of over 10000 dollers
I dont think it's their lack of experience per se, but rather their salesmanship that has allowed them to easily dupe the gullible.
@@andrewzcolvin I'll go for this.
@@limeylive8182 he paid off the Iranians by giving them 1 million dollars personally giving to the Iranians by George HW Bush who was head of the CIA. Treason for a party to negotiate behind the back of a sitting president.
People not realizing that have lot of power.. the only funny thing is I didn't realize that they had power the problem was there so divided.. now people are beginning to wake up..
💚🌊💙🌎🐦🙏☮ ROBERT REICH is one of my favorite people in the whole world!
Solidarity with the workers and unions! We depend on their labor.
Let me translate what Bob is saying here: "As always, we did this shit to ourselves, because Americans don't know how to vote in their own best interests."
Let me put it even MORE simply: DON'T vote celebrities into elected office!
I want the PRO Act to pass but Democrats and Republicans would rather listen to the Corporate Owners instead of the People.
No. I did not mean "Donors" OWNERS. Corporations OWN The Legislature.
Campaign finance reform, dump Biden, Tim Ryan 2024, a real Democrat.
Owner donors.
All I want for Christmas is a total defeat of corporate oppression.
Corporate oppression? Lmaooooo. You clearly don't know what oppression is.
@@DanVicary Happy white middle class? There are no poc in middle class?
@@andrewzcolvin Oppressed? Andrew, I live in the greatest country in the world.
I am not oppressed. Lmao.
Thank you for covering that history, Robert Reich!
I'm so thankful that you bring a historical perspective to your talks.
Those who do not learn from history vote republican
Capitlist do not grant higher wages and shorter hours willingly you have to force them.
Economies work best when all three factors are balanced. In the Seventies the equilibrium swung too far in favour of labour and now it's swung too far against labour.
@@earlofdoncaster5018 only the free market can decide the true value of anything.
@@davidadkins831 Your point is?
@@earlofdoncaster5018 it's free market competition that got us the highest paid workers in history, not regulations or a union monopoly on labor.
@@davidadkins831 Wages for most workers have stagnated in real terms since the Seventies.
I remember those years back in the late 60's early 70's you could buy a House for under 20.000 Dlls with a salary of 2.50 pr hour.
And as de decades went by, I noticed that, prices on homes gradually skyrocketed and thus forcing both parents to work to make ends meet; not only the prices of homes went up, but also the prices of basic and essential goods
And before you knew it, 2010 was upon us with home prices near 3/4 of a million dllr, gas at $4.00 pr gal, etc, etc...
I can see now with sadness that people have become "slaves of progress" in this Capitalist Society.
The only ones who benefited are those at the top of the "Pyramid"... The System is Rigged folks.
I remember my first job, I was 16 and it was 1969 and the minimum wage was $1.69 per hour. In todays dollars that would be about $13 per hour.
@gayboyzig We need both.
@gayboyzig PS I was 16
@@alanbailey5621 Nobody is going to survive anywhere in America in 2021 on $13 a hour guy. More like $20+.
@@joeldavis5815 I was merely pointing out that when I was 16 years old I was making equal to $13 per hour Dumbass. $30 per hour is a living wage , not $20.
The Quiet Resignation:
Sleeping Slave No More‼️
When the worker needs money, they will come back.
Thank you for all Prof. Reich.
I've seen some stupid union regulations when I worked in a manufacturing company and I dislike the mafia/corruption leaders in some unions. Those things need to change. HOWEVER,
what the wealthy owners are doing to labor is unforgivable! We must bring back stronger union representation! 💪
It's the same problem as there is in politics, people are put in positions of power that should not be in positions of power. And other people are letting it happen, because they don't want to do the work themselves. And are far too busy to be bothered with everything. People have to split their attention to too many issues, so they outsource them to specialists, which works fine if you outsource things to some specialists like mechanics and plumbers, it doesn't work when you outsource other things like the running of a union or political party to specialists, because the specialists are going to abuse their station, that is what makes them specialists in the first place.
"Let's seize the moment!" - Robert Reich
I'm with you on that! Seize da moment my brothas and sistas!
Let's seize the means of production
Solidarity! Si, Se Puede! Thank You, Professor, for evoking our proud labor history.
The professor always tells it like it is.
Truckers are the most screwed of all. You should see how they don't get paid for alot of work. Since they deregulated the industry in the 80s theirs been a massive shortage and for good reason
Power to the People.
Support the independent truckers, they are being ripped off !
I remember watching an old film a few years ago called The Wages Of Fear from 1953. It directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It is the story of four men who volunteer to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin to put out an oil field fire. The journey was very hazardous and deadly. Around the start of the film an oil company executive who happens to be American, states that he doesn’t want anyone to do the job if they belong to a union.
The Wages Of Fear was considered to be anti-American because the oil company in the small Latin American village was supposed to bring prosperity to it. But instead of bringing prosperity, it causes the village’s decline with workers who become sick from unsafe working conditions.
Clouzot said his film wasn’t anti anything.
The Wages Of Fear was remade in the 1970’s as Sorcerer.
There is opportunities in times of danger. And it showed when the wealthy made more money and were given a tax break. They had it both ways. We can’t have it both ways. We can’t have it at all.
We need to unionize all across the country to get what we need and want.
Thanks. I'm going to have to watch that movie now. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 100% (!) approval rating.
At least back then, workers were unionized, and a strike meant something. Now...not so much!
1) A dollar: Currently worth $.02 (two cents).
2) Living wage nearly impossible, now.
3) So, the wage don’t fit, the people do quit‼️
I made more money working for myself then I ever did filling some fatass executives pockets
So quit. Illegals will work. Why do you think the government is flooding our borders with cheap labor?
They will work.
@@youtubesucks1499 it's all how people are raised, if you're given everything and never forced to earn anything you grow up to be an entitled adult and nothing is good enough and you think the world owes you, but only get given the bare essentials and forced to earn everything you learn the don't owe you sh!t and to work hard and if you don't like your job get a better one or do like I did, start your own business and work for yourself
@@hellhound1389 A thought: *slaves* were given the bare minimum......guess they werent owed their freedom?
My thoughts go out to all of the striking workers across the pond.
Stand up for your rights, we know that you can win, no matter the setbacks.
Glad to see this happening demand better pay and work conditions by standing up together in solitary; strength in numbers.
It won't end until unconditional basic income and rent caps are implemented
¡Viva la revolución!
Very informative. I love Reich's channel.
Be nice to have a real middle class again.
Pitchforks rise!!
You make us proud! Keep up American labor!
Everybody that resigned, just didn't go back to your job or were just let go during the pandemic, go join a union right now and let them represent you to these corporations. In addition to asking for a living wage demand that companies cut the millions they pay the management.
@Ink Bass Better than nothing at all, thats for sure.
Ok. It's time for a change.
Next year is a negotiation year for my local union. It’ll be an interesting one.
Let’s push for more fairness as they try and squeeze us out.
I hope they do squeeze out the union.
Unions suck ass.
@@youtubesucks1499 hahahahahaha
You Tube Sucks
@@paxorra5528 Sue, I worked as a commercial electrician. I opted non union and opened my own business. It took 12 years and became a company.
I am a woman and my business partner was black. I sold him my interest in 2015.
So, being a woman with a black business partner is being a troll?
Ok. Are you a racist xenophobic Trump Supporter??
@@paxorra5528 Sue, you do realize unions don't promote based on ambition rather seniority? So the stupidest guy who has been there the longest gets the promotion.
So when there is no work, according to the unions you can't work at your trade... you can lose your licenses and get fined.
So if there is no work for 3 months you sit on your ass with no income or you get a job in another field.
So yeah, unions suck. Why do you think genius I opted non union?
The MONEY was better.
Derp. Sue don't speak about things you clearly don't understand little girl.
Hallelujah! I hope the workers make it.
Robert Reich: 'Let's seize the moment'.
Terry Pratchett: 'Carpe Jugulum'!
Solidarity!
These things only happen in America and England while Sweden and countries like those are enjoying great life today.. America is a capitalistic Empire strictly about work work work work work and consume nothing else.. and you wonder why only in America and maybe England a lot of people have work burnout.. it's times like this that I work for myself anyway..
It's also called neo-liberalism. Different from progressive and liberal ideas/ideals.
Not only in America. Canada unfortunately copies a lot of their bad habits.
@@robertbolstad9465 here's the best summary I know of.
ua-cam.com/video/vG37wwhbS88/v-deo.html
I heard that, I stopped filling someone elses pockets and started my own business and I ended up enjoying it more and making more money too
@@eliljeho well fed boyfriend that is definitely true
Thank you
I work for the school district and we have our bargaining coming up. The problem is that the OSEA, our union , is a joke. They don’t bargain they budget! The district tells them how much and they say how high. It’s ran by family and people who are complacent. The one time we had someone call out the district for not bargaining they stopped the meeting, kicked out everyone bug administrators and our classified team, and proceeded to yell at the person who spoke up. Telling them to never do that again. It’s like the senate in that the people don’t have a voice and the ones with power won’t rock the boat. We are hurting personal wise and it’s because our pay isn’t competitive and the retirement has been cut back so much I had to get two extra retirement on the side, tier one is gone and we want it back!
Sounds like you all need to communicate beforehand so the one that spoke is speaking for a collective and not alone
Thank you Robert.
Oh, Prof Reich, if only actual reforms were to take place, but for the first time in my life, I am not optimistic.
Well, I guess you can say it does "trickle down" in booster rockets lifting the wealthiest among us into space. You can't get anymore "uplifting" than that!
Yes, YES, and HELL YES! Stand with workers!
A worker’s income should be paid in Value Given…such as:an affordable home/health INS/etc.
This constant raise prices game is lose lose for most people.
certainly uplifting and encourraging!
Did not know the economic prosperity after ww2 was a result of strikes and unions!
Sadly, 5 million people is a far cry from the thousands we currently have. Something needs to happen soon. My wish for iris to have universal care!
Inflation is wiping any income increases..and it’s even worse for gig workers that see no increases. As a freelance musician, gigs are paying the same or LESS than they did 25 years ago.
Not good.
We do people have more power than we know we just don't realize it or we are divided.. it takes something like this m ademic to make us come together..
We were divided a long time, it started with Vietnam, when the rich and the corrupt saw a crack in the solidarity of America they took full advantage of it until it has now become the divided states of corporations
@@hellhound1389 so true my friend I couldn't say it better myself the country so divided it's not even funny.. this more us and less of people in power we can easily change things if you want to but with two divided.. I'll get example look at North Korea if the people of North Korea teen fear this guy took him out and took over the country long time ago but he leads with fear and people don't have the guts to take him down but they can if they choose to and came together.. it's just like that long ago were divided nothing going to change..
Trickle down economics, that means you have been pissed on.
Railroads have been told by companies that there will be no more gains in future contracts. Railroad workers are not allowed to strike, what are they supposed to do for leverage? If they strike, they'll be treated as the air traffic controllers were.
This very scenario led to the rise of the teamsters and Jimmy hoffa when big business tried to control the trucking industry
"Passing it is essential for workers..." Which is EXACTLY why the GQP (and our two turncoats) will prevent it.
Let's seize the moment? Let's seize the SOURCE OF THE SUPPLY! KICK THE CORPORATE OFFICERS OUT OF THEIR OWN COMPANY! TAKE OVER THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND HANG THE CEOs!
Robert, why can't the Union's demand compensation also like the executives, where annual bonuses result in large amounts of company shares?
I really love this guy...but I really don't think we are capable of the solidarity necessary to prompt long-needed change.
Join the Union! Exercise your collective power!
Republicans, if some of you watch this, don't take Reagan as the best post-war president, take Eisenhower, he was much better!
As civil rights leaders of the 70's said: Where There's People, There's Power!
Well said.
Several years ago I remember hearing calls for a "General Strike". Now I don't hear squat on a such a thing occurring. What happened since then?
Hopefully. Look at the rise of anti work on Reddit. I hope this is the rebellion making a comeback. This pandemic has been empire strikes back, this could be the return of the Jedi.
It'll probably be more mad max by the end
Why is there no organised national strike? I thought this was supposed to be organised labor? And why is there no transparency in union finances to prove there's no corruption?
PS , if the corporate collective can unionize why can't the people?
We could use a guy like this we're i work. He has good ethics.
If Biden were smart, he'd make Robert his Chief Economic Advisor. Tim Ryan 2024
Biden is an establishment Democrat. He's not in office to serve the interests of the working class. He's helping to promote all of the narratives to garner minority votes but that's about the extent of his benevolence for the commoners. Why do you think that he is proving to be a very unpopular President. It's business as usual in Washington D.C.
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@@alanbailey5621 I agree 💯 percent but I seriously doubt that our politicians are going to back such a bill as long as their constituents do not demand it.
Here here!
Activity for the algorithm.
Unionize Amazon!
Bob, the PRO Act cannot pass without removing the filibuster, which Manchin and Sinema have said they won't, so what's the point in talking about it?
I wonder if there will be change or if it will just end up being some sort of compromise.
One difference I see in the US compared to back then is that the US economy had little competition and could afford higher wages but now it's all more globalized
We need to abolish the Stock Market! No shareholder payouts, no buybacks, no stock compensation baloney, no billionaires, no financial vodoo.
King George said it best in Hamilton. 🎵 Empires rise empires fall 🎵 America is no different. If I’m lucky it will happen in my lifetime.
I really think Katie would wear those glasses better, Rob.
Frickin rights!
Glad to see the strikes. Workers can't even survive today's ridiculous pay.
I live in NYC. Many small business are foreigners. They get licensed and loans and leases, and tax breaks very very easily. It’s not fair.
Anyway, Many of them hid their cash on their “fifth register.” They kept truckloads of cash over the decades. Many get great stimulus now. When it gets rough, they close up and leave. They are flush with cash. Some go back to their Countries with all that cash.
Americans are waiting for them to protest the restrictions. What a naive waste of precious time. Such owners are closing down and taking all that cash, they hid, with them. They cleaned up.
Let's seize the moment? HOW?!?
I'm wondering if anyone has thought to speak loudly on the parallel between what the Republicans have done to the unions and what they're currently doing to the voters? I'm not talking about in forums like this. I'm talking about a concerted public campaign promoting a "They did this to them. Now they're doing it to you! Where will it end?" message ‽
Duck and roll and cover. Forage and hide,
Or,
TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK‼️
Brilliant.
In 2019 I was a firm believer in mass protest being the engine that will drive America down a more equitable path. But then 2020 saw the biggest mass movement the country had ever seen and yet real sustainable police accountability still remains elusive. Maybe it's still too early to make a judgment on the effectiveness of the police accountability movement that happened a year and a half ago, but I admit that my faith in people power has been shaken
Just a flash in the pan unfortunately.
We don't have the tenacity of our predecessors.
Agree let's change the future. Another great video. Lead the way.
Union middlemen, if needed not as good as, a collaberative of shared goals.
You can't join a union in the gig economy, we've sold our agency for convenience
Now we just need to make it official.
When the wage don’t fit, the people do quit‼️.
And they then downsize:
They stop buying all the junk they have been hoarding. They cut subscriptions. Find movies and audiobooks on UA-cam and Tubi and DailyMotion, etc., They watch their own children. Clean their own homes. Cook their own food. Polish their own fingernails. Workout at home. Wash their own clothing, and stop impulse buying and excessive dry cleaning. Wear a capsule wardrobe. Develop other skills for future and for fun. They Declutter everything. Even garages. Clean their own car. Rotate certain chores. It’s becoming a one earner household again. It’s a wash.
Sounds like a dream
Reminder that Reich is a lawyer not an economist
Stick together, now is the best time, we can do it, GENERAL STRIKE! !!!
Our Standard of living
At least when the mom's were at home, the families seemed to be better off. One working parent should be enough. To have both parents out there working all week just to have the same standard of living makes no sense. Wether husband or wife, someone needs to take care of the home!
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No pensions no retirement crappie Insurance
'Trickle down' is evoked during the video. In California, this broken promise undergirds several new housing/zoning laws allowing build everywhere/build to the skies throughout the state--almost all of it market-rate--meaning that any Labor rebound will not likely provide enough gain to permit its members to afford a place. The idea is that eventually the swells who can afford high rents will move on--their student loans all paid off and the down payment in hand--and that vacated units will somehow become cheaper. (This is why in part I think economics is a pseudo-science.) This is happening as many people and businesses are leaving, but then these new laws are not about providing for need but profit for developers who hire 'lawmakers' to steer the course they set.
I do reasonably well in my 70s, thanks to a company and union pension. When our new super-plant was built the union locals were disinvited. Years later, I took a course and during intro's a fellow student said he was working there, so I chatted him up, to find that union representation had been restored! ..