Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews - 9/05/23 – Labor Day and the Autoworkers Strike

Episode Date: September 6, 2023

Happy belated Labor Day, y’all, and on tonight’s Skews we’re keeping with the spirit of the holiday as we discuss the ongoing Summer of the Strike, namely a forthcoming action from United Auto Workers as they prepare to take it to Detroit’s Big 3. Join us. Support the show

What's up everybody? Welcome back. Happy excuse day to you. It's September 5th, 2023. I'm Trey Crowder. That's Mark, Labor Day weekend.

How about it? I mean, it's over now, but it was Labor Day weekend. Yeah, but in honor of Labor Day, we're talking about some, the upcoming auto worker strike, what is going to happen starting next week, and some changes from the Labor Department.

I think it's going to have me saying a few nice things about Joe Biden. So I know that hits for a lot of the viewers when I do that. A couple things we get to the show. Mitch McConnell had another brain freeze. The one last week, right? Like not another one after that. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

There's two total. Yeah. And Joe Biden said some nice stuff about it as a fellow old. But then Mitch's caucus is coming for him, it looks like, because that's funny. Just a fucking nest of vipers in the Republican side. But they found a doctor to say, oh, he's fine. I don't know where, like, all these politicians find their version of Michael Jackson's doctor. Yeah.

He was like, just whatever you want to say, I'll say it. That seems to be one of the major perks of having wealth and or power is having a doctor who just, like, works for you basically, and we'll just write whatever note or whatever script or just whatever you want, you know what I mean? Although, dude, I don't know. I've known some regular people who apparently had a doctor like that, too. you know what I mean like some doctors they'd be like actually Joe Zimmerman a very funny comic friend of mine he had a bit on like an album of his years ago

he said he went to the doctor and was like hey I think I might have ADHD and the doctor was like okay let me ask you do you have health insurance and he goes yeah and he goes yeah you got it yeah it was some riddling yeah it is

I just don't know like he's got to be clinically dead and a doctor would be like well indigestion It's like, I'm looking at a dead guy, man. I don't know what to tell you. Like, they're like, oh, he's dehydrated. Like, I've, I've been dehydrated. I didn't forget how to talk for 30 seconds and have another adult have to leave me around. I don't know.

Yeah, there should be some kind of remotely plausible medical explanation that they could give, even if they wanted to then say, but he can work it out and he'll be okay. Even if they wanted to say that, you think they could give something a little more plausible than just like, yeah, you know, shit happens. You freeze up sometimes. I don't think you do. Another news, a big get for Tucker Carlson tonight. He got the, he got, he's a long sit-down interview with the guy. This guy's been floating around for like 15 years, but he says he had gay sex with Obama in the 90s while they did crack together.

What? Yeah, and it's like, that's the level of guess. Like, this guy's been interviewed by all the right-wing tabloids for a long time. And he seems like a guy who definitely did crack in the 90s. But like, this supposedly happened in 1999 when Barack Obama. Obama was 38 years old and a state senator and an employee of a like a partner in a white sheet law firm. And it's just really weird. He'd also be out of the streets doing crack and having sex in the back of a car.

But so, but the funny thing was he says, and he says, hi, my name's Barack Obama. And I had no idea who he was. Which like, yeah, he's just the state center. I probably couldn't pick my state center out of a lineup. But like the, the, the Barack Obama part is a really weird tell because Barack his whole life went by Barry. So, like, he wouldn't have introduced himself in his socialists, too. It's like, you already gave away the game, but you just started going by Iraq so people like him wouldn't think he was trying to hide the fact that he had a foreign side of it. Like, it's like, I'm just Irish.

Barry Obama, you know, it's like, I don't know. Is this tied into the, aren't they also? And I know this is the thing that bring up every now and then it gets floated around amongst those circles, dip shit circles. But like, aren't they also on some stuff lately about something to do with him? He's gay and Michelle's a man or what? wasn't man or something like that is this related to this dude is it all part of the same thing or are they two separate things it's all over it's only related to the same thing in the sense that they're all fucking nuts right they just have to like it's like i don't care

if what i don't care if brug obama was blowing dudes and doing crack in 1999 what the fuck does it doesn't make to me that's between him and michel uh especially now you know what i mean he's long since not been the president or whatever you know what i mean like what what is even the oh they think he's still running the country through Biden. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. All right. Yeah. So another news, Enrique I Tario, the leader of the proud boys, got 22, it was sentenced today to 22 years in prison, federal prison for a consideritious conspiracy, among other charges. You don't remember him. He was like, he's the guy who, uh, he wasn't even at January 6th,

even though he orchestrated a lot of it because he was arrested for weapons charge, and at least plane landed in D.C. So, like, very much just like, he didn't even get to have the fun of walking around the Capitol. He's also the, I mean, he was their leader, but like he's when they're token minorities, right? He was like one of the only brown guys in the prominent in the proud boys or whatever. Yeah, he's always gone by Enrique. I know Enrique is Spanish for Henry, but they was caught, everyone in his sentencing was calling him Henry today and pleading for leniency.

So they went with the white guy name for the sentencing, which probably smart. Yeah, makes sense. But so, but the other, they hit his family up there talking about what a nice guy is. And he was begging, please don't take away him my 40s. from me, you know, 22 years a long time we'd want to go. But here's been quote from the news report and asking for a later sentence. Tario's lawyers pointed out that he has a history of working undercover with law enforcement. Usually don't want to plead, I'm a snitch, actually, before going to federal

reasons for two decades. Yeah. The bold strategy, cotton. Yes, yes, it is. But he was sort of like he was hampered by the fact that all these guys have been claiming, oh, I've given up on politics. I don't even follow it anymore. January 6th was wrong.

They'd these, like, crocodile tears. about what he did do to their family from him to go to prison. And he did get a downyard departure from what the prosecutor was one. They wanted 30 years from him. So he, air quote, only got 22. But he was probably hurt by last week. A guy did the same song and dance number. And then as soon as the judge gave him 17 years from the government wanted 25,

he turned around and pumped his fist and said, Trump won, motherfuckers. And then, so yeah, so maybe they intentionally fucked Tario because he, you know, he was a snitch. but he's also Joey Biggs. Another guy was sentenced last week went on Alex Jones show after he was sentenced and talked about like plans on Trump pardoning him. So all these guys are treating this like as a joke still.

So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I guess they are like in their heads. They are probably banking on, you know, Trump getting, being rightfully reinstated at some point, whether through the election or whatever. And in which case, obviously, they'll be pardoned and then celebrated and, you know, celebrate amongst the masses for the heroes that they are. is what they've got going on upstairs, I imagine. It's Trump.

If it'll cost him any sort of mild inconvenience, he won't do it or just forget. But also, like, you're betting 20 years of your life on Trump getting reelected in part. Like, I buy a mega million tickets. I get it. But, like, what are you doing here?

One more update before we get to the show. In the case, we talked about a couple weeks ago, Ken Paxon's impeachment trial started in Texas today. His Attorney General of Texas, if you guys don't remember, where he's basically, he got impeached for a bunch of corruption shit related to a developer named Nate Paul and also just being a lot of chinty stuff. But there was, it started the day and it did not, it does not look good for him, but

it was not going well. But some more other news reports, like former staffers came forward this week or last week and had some stories about stuff that he did, including taking unexplained Caribbean and European vacation trips. I mean, as the Attorney General at Texas, the cost taxpayer is $90,000 because if it was personal security detail. He bought a $600 sports code and charged it to a nonprofit event organizer. And this, he took more international trips than the governor, lieutenant governor combined.

Like he went to Qatar to watch the World Cup, which I'm not sure that's Texas Attorney General business. Right. He also got personalized license plates or special license plates. I guess would have cost $12.50 but never paid. This, like, this, but this anecdote. still, like, you wonder why after like two decades of being horrifically corrupted public life while they came for him.

Here's the kind of thing they were actually mad about. And they quote from the story, around Christmas for years, Texas grocery giant H.E.B. sent a coconut-dusted cake to the Attorney General's office, which staff shared. That changed after Paxton was elected, according to three former employees. One said Paxton had once told staff not to touch the cape because it was for his birthday, which is December 23rd. Another said Paxton brought the cake to a Tex-Mexamist. restaurant for a staff lunch but never served it.

And a third watched Paxson and an aide walk out of the office carried the kickbox. The cake costs $45. He fucked these people out of a bite of cake and they are getting him in peace over. Right. Well, it's funny. We talked last time when he got brought up. It's like, man, you got to be a real piece of shit. Like as a Republican AG in Texas to get impeached by the super Republican majority they

have in the state house there or whatever. Like, what has this guy been doing? And it's like, if he was just doing the regular like Clarence Thomas thing, Like, you know, some Bahamas trips and stuff here and there, whatever, everybody probably turned a blind eye, but you can't just be not sharing the cake. You know what I mean? The official office cake, that'll piss people off. But, yeah, I mean, I guess they do have a line somewhere in it somewhere around, you know,

stealing cake. But this guy was, I think also the larger point is just this dude was evidently just stealing everything. Cague's license plates. Like, he just wasn't paying for anything. Like, the taxpayer was footing the entire bill. He stole a, remember he stole a colleague's block pen until he was called on camera and had to give it back. But like, remember of a part, like, remember his wife's the state senator?

She's sitting in on the trial. They took away her ability to vote. But a part of this is like, Nate Paul gave his mistress a job, like a no-show job, so to pay her to fuck Paxton or whatever. And the, so his wife's sitting there and I'm like, if I humiliate, forget, even if I just cheated on my wife, much less humiliated her to this fashion, there would not be a trial. I mean, she might get a trial. But, like, the guy just, this level of stand by your man is, like, unprecedented. And this hopeless trial, the guy representing him, his name is Tony Busby. That sounds familiar.

That is he, who is that? He's a guy. The Sean Watson, not his logger, but the other, but the accusers are. I've heard that name before. I'm almost certain. And I, and as like a Texas attorney. Yeah. You Google it well.

Well, I tell this because he's running for Houston City Council, Busby is. He's also announced his company, a company he started that he's going to sell non-alcoholic, Delta 8, T-8C-infused seltzer with T-HC-infused seltzer. He's partnering with a real estate exec on that. And I'm like, your lawyer, your impeachment hearing is selling weed seltzer. It's like, it's probably not going to go well. But the guy was like, he's up there like, he is, he represented the women. In the Deshaun Watson case, he also represented the victims of that Astro world. Remember that, the Travis Scott concert where those people, he represented those people, too.

I knew I'd heard that guy's name before. Well, those are both pretty successful cases. So maybe you got good, but what I saw with lawy videos, most of it was like emotional pleas, like, what the hell are we doing here to a good man like Ken Paxton? And then cut to a vote where he lost 22 to 8. So it's just, it's just, it's, yeah, well, you can't win them all, buddy. I mean, it's guys. You guys really making it hard.

It's like it's like being Antonio Brown's lawyer. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know what you're supposed to do with that. Do you see today, if you guys don't know, Antonio Brown's a thoroughly crazy former NFL wide receiver and he announced today that he has CTE and everybody's like, yeah, we don't. First of all, you can't. He can't. No one doubts it, but like he, you can't, it's like, you know, declaring bankruptcy or

whatever. Like that's not, they can't know that until after the person dies, right? right like you can't know for sure until an autopsy so like he can't just do that but you know that's sort of his MO is just doing wild things at least this one actually does make sense or checks out you know yeah yep yep all right let's get into it with us as always his producer Matt this is weekly skews before we continue I want to remind you of course of a few items of business number one if you'd like to see me perform live I'll be in Texas next weekend actually in Austin and then after that I got a Five-night, five-city run through Ohio, hitting them all up, Lexington, then Washington State, Charleston, a whole bunch of places coming up in the near future. Go to tracrouter.com.

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Let's see this video. The state has now done that for new construction. They're trying to go after and regulate ceiling fans. I got to tell you, it's hot in Texas. We don't want to get rid of our ceiling fans. And now these idiots have come out and said, drink two beers a week. That's their guideline. Well, I've got to tell you, if they want us to drink two.

two beers a week. Frankly, they can kiss my ass. No, okay. I brought a beer to drink with you. I'll drink this non-out. I'm not allowed to drink on camera, but. So I've never seen, like, if you asked me to imagine what it was like having a beer with Ted Cruz, this is exactly what I would imagine. If you guys are just listening, it's a room full of guys who are standing quietly behind him drinking beer with kind of a look of annoyance and disdain while Ted Cruz makes this. this pre-formative speech about how they can kiss you like saying they can kiss his ass it's like

they're all like they're all also out of like central casting for like real men in texas or whatever they got like their hats and they're flannel and they're just they look like working men you know what i mean it's like you know that's not an accident and they're flanking him in the shadows presumably feeling pretty awkward as he uh tries to look like a badass while drinking that beer and then later in the video the host it cracked me up and the host was like um okay uh just the way he said that was funny, but things like, I'll drink one with you. This one's non-alcoholic. And then Ted Cruz is like, yeah, well, mine's not. And then that guy's

like, well, I'm going to drink a real beer after the show, just so you know, again, this whole thing, like, just trying to prove how manly and cool they are by drinking beers or whatever. But it's also like, I mean, I know you're about to, we're about to cover this, but like,

the people that get out guidelines for, like, how many beers you drink in a week, that's like, that's a thing with everything, right? Like I'm saying we have guidelines for sugar or meat or cheese or milk or any of that stuff. And it's like no one's ever blamed the president for it. I don't think or acted like it was like, you know, legally binding requirement. Exactly.

It's just like, no, they make suggestions for healthy lifestyle or whatever. And you can say fuck that if you won't. And it's always been that way. Why are you now acting like it isn't? Because I mean, that's what this is, right? like a new guideline for yeah so this is a this is this week's more manufactured moral panic uh it's about two beers what happened at least what they're getting harder and harder to figure out and like uh the the white house uh press press secretary is saint pierre can't think of her name right now

she was asked about this by steve deucey and even she didn't understand what the fuck he was talking about so what happened was the director of the national institute and alcohol abuse and alcoholism uh got named dr george coob was given an interview to the day male. And they were asked how U.S. alcohol guidelines could change when the revised in 2025. And Coop said that alcohol consumption guidelines, if they were to go in any direction, it would probably be more in line with Canada's where they got some new guidelines that recommended citizens limit alcoholic drinks at two a week. And he said, here's the money quote. I mean, they're not going to go up, I'm pretty sure. The guy is the director of Keep an American

Sober. And he said, maybe you ought to drink less. And they're like, Yeah. Go ahead. This is one more step towards communism is one doctor for one government board saying maybe you should only have two beers. Right. What do they expect the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to say?

I mean, I'm surprised it's even two coming from that guy. Also, this dude's name, George Kub, maybe it's just me, but I feel like it doesn't really fit his, because he just sounds like the biggest tank in the fraternity to me. Coob, you know what I mean? Like, Coob, Coop, Coop, Coop. Yeah, he's got a drinking name to sound to me. But, you know, good for him. This all reminded me, like, I don't know, what do you want your doctor to prescribe you to get drunk? I don't know. Like, what the fuck? Like, but they didn't remind me of my buddy Paul when I lived in Texas. He happens to be his parents are from India. And his dad didn't drink at all. But then his doctor, he had some sort of like, I don't know, high cholesterol or something that would be good for him to drink, like a beer occasionally. So his doctor prescribed him one beer a day and he liked it. But he didn't want his wife to see him drink. So he'd drink in the bath, his beer in the bathroom.

But he liked it so much that he turned that beer into a 40 ounce. So he'd drink one 40 ounce a day alone in the bathroom. There's orders. Yeah. It's still just one. Yeah. So it's like, I don't know, like, I don't know, man. It's like, what do you?

Like, these people are so fucking insane. Like, but like, you could, my buddy Charles made the joke that like, if you could, if you could get some. government officials say that you should eat no more than one battery a day, all these people would fucking die. So we just need to do that. I hope Ted Cruz's doctor prescribes him to drink a fifth of vodka and then operate a backhoe. That's what I'm hoping happens. All right. Our honorable mention for Daily Domazas is Joe Biden for not doing anything about climate change when he first took office during the ice age. Marjorie Taylor Green explains.

I'm at change? You're going to tell me that Back in the ice age, how much taxes did people pay and how many changes did governments make to melt the ice? The climate is going to continue to change. And there is no reason to just open up our borders and allow everyone in and continue to funnel over 50 billion dollars or however many billions of dollars or trillions of dollars to foreign countries all over the world simply because they don't like the climate change. so mark i mean i could be wrong but like that sounds to me like she's just sort of like stringing a bunch of their bullshit together do you know what i mean like a like a republican madlet like are those things actually relate like she goes like climate change ain't real that's why immigration sucks and also fuck ukraine everybody else that wants our money or whatever but trying to make it into

like one cogent argument that she's making which has never been her strong suit but like right i'm not sure trying to say i was mostly focused on the uh the climate change part of it because these guys said like she's trying to say the climate always changes and God knows because humans don't do it. Right. Except that the ice age was caused by an asteroid hitting Earth. So I guess she doesn't

believe that either. Maybe God sent the asteroid. I don't fucking know. But Congress is coming back into session and they're coming back off their summer breaks, you know, because they need a good seven months off a year. And a lot of people spend having fun, for example, Ronnie Jackson, you know, the former White House doctor slash

pillhead is now a congressman from Texas. He got arrested drunk at a rodeo. So you had a good time. Marge has been running around the country trying to make her case to be Trump's VP candidate. She's basically seems to be in a dead heat with Carrey Lake at the moment. The two of them hate each other. These are psycho-rivelries intriguing me. Like, we've talked about Bobert versus Marjorie before and now it's Carrey Lake. They all seem to agree that each other aren't serious people, but don't own mirrors, I guess.

Right. The Bobert and Carrey Lake had each other? Or is it just they all hate MTG? Or is it like a triumvirate of hatred? They all three. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen anything about Cori Lake versus Boebert. But of course, they're not competing for anything the way that the other sets of the trio are.

It's like in Congress, MJT and Bober can beat for attention and to be basically the same person. And then the VP thing in the other end. Right. So like, so as climate change becomes more and more obvious and we can just like see it and touch it, they're getting way, way stupid. Jupiter. Like, and it's going to become the permanent, you know, issue of our time. So they have to figure out. God, I fucking hope so, man. Like, I don't know. I don't know. Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, it does, but not with these unsurious people arguing. Because one of the things Green said recently, this is a couple days ago, she went on Alex Jones's show to talk about Burning Man.

And she said two things about Burning Man that are the exact opposite. One, she said God sent a tornadoes to Burning Man to teach them a lesson, which I didn't see anything about any tornadoes, but I don't doubt. But she also said that whatever happened to Burning Man was a conspiracy theory to get everyone in one place. There were these conspiracy theories floating around all weekend about how FEMA was trying to trap people there for some reason to contain an Ebola outbreak. That was a joke conspiracy theory. And then there, but Marjorie is saying that they trapped them there and flooded it to convince them climate change as reals and all these people would go home and spread climate propaganda. So like, is it God sent tornadoes or the.

government manufactured the weather or both or I'm not sure right well see they only planned on maybe the flooding but then God sent the tornadoes just to up the hanny a little bit or whatever but yeah I mean there were no there weren't tornadoes right just rained a lot no yeah it rained a lot people got people's cars like sank in the mud so nobody could get out it was pretty funny uh they like expanded their definition of like you know god smiting people with weather to because it used to just be the gays right gay sex led to all these earthquakes in california or whatever it's like you know california's the gayest place that's why it's always on fire and being uh you know getting hit by earthquakes and stuff but then gay sex also

causes hurricanes and tornadoes and things of that nature but i don't think everybody at burning man is gay or maybe you're gay while you're at burning man but you know what i'm saying like uh yeah like just anything, any kind of liberalism can now cause tomatoes. Barney Man's brand currently used to be a really hippie thing, but then with all the tech guys, it's sort of like for tech

libertarians. I mean, I said, 80,000 people went there, is 75, so it's a broad cross-section of just people who want to do drugs and listen to trans music while they look at weird art projects. But like, I don't know. Right. Well, it's also supposed to understand it. It's supposed ostensibly be like super

anti-capital. It's like a deconstructural. It's like a deconstruction of capitalism or something like that, but it's been co-opted by Libertarians. Silicon Valley and, you know, tech bros or whatever. But there's no money there.

There's no currency, all that shit. They still do that. But yeah, it's like turned into something that it wasn't, which is what happens to anything that, you know, gets too popular.

I think the guy who owns it as a hardcore libertarian, if that matters at all. But it's just like, I mean, there's no currency unless you count trading drugs for sex, which, what's that?

I don't know. Yeah. Barter system, Mark. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, Labor Day. Yeah. So we just had Labor Day in the middle of pretty big. You know, we've been talked a lot about labor, which is sort of weird. We're going to talk about the automaker strike and how many people are about to be on strike and how this level of labor action used to be kind of normal, but just isn't anymore.

But I was wondering how we got Labor Day. I looked it up and it's a pretty funny story. Well, it's not funny to the people who died. but so so Grover Cleveland all right Labor Day is sort of unofficially started as like a march by labor organizers in North Carolina in, sorry in New York City

who would just have it once a year wasn't any sort of official state thing they were just like march around or whatever but then there was a Pullman strike in Chicago Pullman was like a company made railroad cars so a bunch of people in Chicago went on strike Grover Cleveland sent in the army to fucking crack their heads and hurt people

broke the strike and then when people got mad at him forward he's like ah fuck I guess you guys all get a day off now, but they chose it at the end of the summer instead of May Day because May Day is for communists. They didn't want to be associated with that, all right? But it reminded me of how we got Columbus Day. We talked about it back during Columbus Day, but if you don't remember,

there was a hate crime where a bunch of Italians were lynched in New Orleans. So Benjamin Harrison was like, okay, fuck, all the Italians are mad at me. Everybody gets a day off work. So what I'm thinking is, we all currently, we get, every time the government fucks up and a bunch of people die, we get a day off work. So we currently get like, I don't know what, 7, 8, 10 Mondays off a year. If we have like 40-some other disasters, we can have a four-day work week, Dre.

Sure. This is my plan here. Yeah. You know, you think our government would commit that annually. You know what I mean? If it depends on the government fucking something up and that's how you get a holiday. Yeah. They're holding out on the holiday front because they definitely keep fucking things up.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Neither Cleveland nor Harrison got reelected, by the way. So they all got, they gave us a free day off and they got nothing for it. So fuck them. So there's about to be another big strike. United Auto Workers voted last week, and 97% of their members voted to approve a strike. The work stop, which would start the September 14th, which is next Thursday.

Yeah. I might be doing the math wrong. No, that's right. So that would, that's 150,000 auto workers. If they do it, it would be the most workers that have been on strike in a single year since 2018. Of 2018's numbers in our current modern context were artificially inflated by teacher strikes, which were like statewide in a couple states. So that was a shit of ton of people in one labor action. And they got some decent results.

Which a, oh yeah, okay, yeah. That's a graph map throughout. I didn't see that graph. So this is like, if we're counting here, like, this is that most people that have been on strike in a year since it would take the number of 450,000. Which is the most in a long long time, other than 2018, the most in a long long time. The important thing I know here is in the 70s and 80s, 400,000 plus people being on strike every year was pretty routine. So this is something like getting back to normal relations between workers and their employees. Yeah, I guess I didn't really, I mean, I guess I never really thought about it.

But I know there was a lot of like blood, sweat and tears involved with getting, you know, unions on the board in the first place and some labor reform, like when it all first happened. but I didn't realize that, you know, that this, because I mean, it's been all over the news all summer, the summer of the strike, everything. I didn't know that this would just be like literally every other year for a big part of this country's history. It's like this was just the norm. I didn't really know that until the 80s. Wonder what happened in the 80s. Ronald Reagan, baby.

Always. Was it 83 Reagan broke the air control, air traffic control strike and a bunch of auto manufacturers move their plants to follow his lead, move their plants to write the workstates, and then workers lost power. and they're trying to reclaim some of it back. So, like, I think in general, like, I feel like if somebody just got all their news and watching the show, I think things are getting continuously worse

instead more, it's like things are always just sort of like a cyclical version of bad and getting better and worse in some ways and having to fight the same fights over and over again after, you know, bosses get too cocky. Like, the people in charge, in theory, their job is to make deals, but I think they've forgotten how to make deals

and sometimes you have a losing end of a, you know, the stick. I don't know. something I've been thinking about in Twitter in terms of the strikes we're on right now where they've already lost but won't give up. So the auto workers, this headline made me mad when I first read it, but then when I've read the story,

it made it feel bad because it read like, you know, corporate media propaganda. The headline reads, UAW presses big three with audacious demands, edging closer to strike as deadline looms. Now, the kicker here would maybe not mad as. The word audacious comes from the guy

leading the United Oil Workers. Right. I ask they're audacious. that's right buddy um and how you feel what would you do how did you end that how do you feel about that because yes the the guy leading the the uaW the people they're striking he's the one who called the demands audacious yeah what you think about that choice of words on his part i would have used that i wouldn't use that word because like i'm not even sure how much the PR war matters in this stuff but like because it's really just money right that doesn't really matter money doesn't care if people think of it.

But I just wouldn't have said that out loud. But I encourage, I like people being audacious. If you wonder what audacious means, they're asking for 46% pay raise, a 32-hour work week without losing any of their pay, and a restoration of traditional pensions. Now, the pensions should be a layup. They should never lost those. But they did the thing where they gave away stuff when the automakers said they were on hard times, they had to do it to survive.

Their profits went back up. They never gave them back. their pensions, right? Yeah, imagine that. It's also like, but calling those demands all day, to me, and I don't know shit, but there's also, you know, negotiation leverage is important. It sort of reads to me, like, acknowledging, yeah, we know we're probably not going to get all this.

Or do you know what I mean? It's like, we're coming in high or whatever type of thing, like you're doing negotiations. It feels like sort of acknowledging that. Like, yeah, you know, we're wilding right now, but. Yeah. the 40 work week thing is like is one of those things that every academic or study you see says it's the thing that should be everyone should do because you know one loses productivity actually productivity goes up because people who are less tired more motivated their jobs and it's just still never going to happen like they part of the thing because like and i know they're fighting a big crusade against this right now but i also like when i was working an office job i thought that like wide scale work from home shit would probably never happen in this country and then you know one pandemic later but again i know republicans are trying to of they're like trying to make that illegal to work from home because because you know because corporate real estate's really hurting right now and somebody's got to think of the corporate you know real estate overlords and their offices are sitting empty it's like maybe people could live in them well now that doesn't make any sense won't you think of the offices tray the offices are so lonely yeah but anyway I mean like if you they're already I mean I think some work for home stuff's here to stay but they're clawing a lot of it like Zoom made its employees return to the office which is like Zoom should be like, you know what?

We're going out of business because like these two things can't exist in the same, you know, whatever. So the union leader we're talking about is a guy by the name is Sean Fane, who really hits for me. He's not like just a pure organizer. He actually worked in an auto factory. He's a 54-year-old electrician. He came out of a Chrysler factory in Kokomo, Indiana. And last month, during a Facebook live event, he condemned a contract proposal from Stalantis, which is one of the big three automakers now, is trash and tossed a copy.

copy of it into a waste basket where it belongs. So, yeah, he's fired up. I didn't realize, I don't follow, you know, the auto industry closely. Stalantis is the parent company that owns Chrysler Jeep Fiat right now. I just don't, I don't understand that. Like, I mean, I guess it doesn't matter because, like, it's not like you go to the lot and buy a, you know, Stalantis Wrangler. Like, it's still Jeep at the lot.

You know what I'm saying? But, like, I just think that's weird that they, you know, that instead of Chrysler. or whatever. It's a Stalantis now. It's a European company. Maybe there are Stalantis is somewhere. I don't know. Yeah.

So here's Sean Fane saying they get out of control of salaries. They get pensions. They don't even need. They get top rate health care. They work whatever schedule they want. The majority of our members do not get a pension nowadays. It's crazy. We get substandard health care.

We don't get to work remotely. And you talk about the profits they're making. Four GM of Stalantis made a combined $21 billion in profits. just in the first half of 2023 and 250 billion in profits over the last decade. So they got it to give, that's what I'm saying here. This isn't like the 90s when they're not a hard times. Like American cars have rebound in relation to like foreign-made models because everyone wants big trucks now.

Okay. I was going to say, that was another thing I didn't realize because it was just all you heard for so long and then lead up to like bailouts and everything. It's just like, you know, the big three were fucking hurting. You know, Detroit's a ghost town. The big three automakers are getting wrecked by, you know, Japan and Korea and all this shit. I didn't know that they had turned it around to that degree, like, fucking $20 billion in profit a year. Pretty good. Or wait, no, half a year. 20 billion dollars in profit is just

the first half of this year. Yeah. They never want to give it back, though, even when they're making it. Like, this is the number from the, you know, it's Labor Day. It's the AFL-CIO president. My name. My name is Liz Schuller. gave a big speech over the weekend where she talked about the union January reporting, showing the average CEO now makes 272 times with the average. which worker makes in a year. Even 50 years ago, that was like 20 times. Right. So, yeah.

Why is this happening now other than their contract being up? The leverage the UAW has, besides there being huge profits and the company's not wanting to, you know, stop that gravy train. There's a few things going on, but something to know is like the UAW has an announcement where they're going to strike all three automakers at once or just pick one. they usually just pick one, like a couple years ago, they picked just GM, and GM over a 40-day strike lost $3.6 billion, which I'm betting is not what it would have cost them to pay their workers to not strike those 40 days. But I don't get, does it, like, you know, like with us and our strikes, it's against, like, you know, the AMTP, or whatever, like, which represents all the, you know, the studios and everything. And it's an agreement everybody comes to, like, collectively. What I'm saying is, like, if they pick just GM, Ford and Stalantis, they still have to, like, they all have to agree.

They can't, do you know what I mean? Even though they're not striking all of them, if they do it that way, they're still trying to reach an agreement with all three of them, ultimately, in which case, it's like, why wouldn't Ford and Stalantis would be like, fuck GM? I don't give a shit. And it's like the only GM that's incentivized to find, to reach agreement, you know what I'm saying? It's not, it strikes to demonstrate resolve, but you can rotate who you strike.

The problem, the reason you pick one is because you don't want to, they have like an $875 million strike fund that they where they pay struck workers out of it and pay for their health care and they don't want to burn through it more slowly right so like they might do 40 days for GM than 40 days for Atlantis yeah but yeah right around a little bit

I don't I don't actually know anyone to talk about my ass but I'm assuming they'll have to buy by the same agreement right so it looks like this time if they pick one to go first they'll probably pick Stalantis and that's because they had their biggest beef list is with Stalantis because Solantis shuttered a factory in Ohio that the

union wants them to reopen. So part of the leverage they have is electric vehicles, all right? Automakers are poised to release a new slew of electric vehicles that could be delayed by a strike, all right? So they're, they need a rapid advances technology and new brands. They're rolling out and a strike would fuck all that up. And they only, because the vehicles are new, they don't have like a huge backstop to like dump on the market.

So strike would really fuck them. The company's only leverage is the electric vehicles on the other end, they're basically saying that like the electric vehicle companies are competing with have far lower labor costs because they're they're not union and they're basically appealing to the Biden administration saying hey it's a nice clamin you have well you don't have a nice climate plan these workers are going to fuck it up right right um and electric vehicles are kind of a big deal on a strike which is sort of cool but they're a big deal in any way shape or form of someone who wants to you know have my niece and nephew not have to grow gills in 30 years um part of with the union one

is they want union rep at 10 EV battery plants that are partially owned by the companies but it's a joint venture with a South Korean company who is not used to paying union wages all right

anyone who's seen any sort of you know South Korean movie or TV show recently I'm just thinking specifically a parasite or a squid game knows that they have they have just as big a beefs with you know lay stage capitalism if not really we do right

let me quote here um so go ahead i just the in all of those all of the uh auto manufacturers from over there like that they're all non-union right and that was i would think so yeah how does that like you know i don't know how do they maintain that you know what i mean like they're still they have plants in this country and american workers and everything right who i mean i know there's like a Nissan plan in Tennessee or there's you know, you think you just you just answer your own question, buddy.

They put it in Tennessee. Right. It's a right to work state. Right. Right. So let me quote here about the atomic electric vehicle EV battery plants.

I'm quote here from fame. These battery workers deserve the same wage and salary demands like generations of auto workers have fought for. Part of this is to protect the union in general because like, electric vehicles are simpler to build. They have way fewer moving parts, so they need fewer workers to assemble them.

So there goes some union jobs. In addition, you know, as a combustion engine vehicles were replaced and those jobs are moved to EV plants, there's less union jobs. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, it's like these jobs are eating the union jobs. And one of the things they want is to put a stop to that, which is where the Biden administration comes in because this is like one of those headaches that come from trying to actually govern responsibly. Because you have two competing priorities here, right? You have all your climate

measures related to, you know, the Inflation Reduction Act. And you have like trying to, you want working people to have decent jobs. And they don't have an answer to this question yet about how to go fast and make electric vehicles and also have them also be union jobs because you know, negotiations take a long time. And factories unionize pretty slowly. They're doing some things to try to help. We'll get to in a little bit. But the, let me quote here from a senior Biden administration official, he said, there's no magic solution in the administration's back pocket on the joint venture facility question. The issue throws a new complicated dynamic in the contract talks are usually centered around

traditional economic acts, like higher wages. And the guy, I mean, here's a quote, we agree completely that battery factory workers deserve every right to organize and negotiate for jobs that provide the pay and protection's need for economic security and economic dignity. But this dynamic is why the UAW has not endorsed Biden yet. Right. It is a weird thing because it'd be like if, if AI, right, was saving the planet into any degree. Right. You know what I mean? In our population, if it was like somehow AI, that was good for the environment and everybody knew it was bad for us, right? So, yeah, it's, but we're not in that. But it does make it a bit of a sticky situation. I can. Well, the solution is. simple, it's just painful for rich people.

The solution is you just have AI everywhere except for job protections for the industries where, you know, it actually displaces people. That's what essentially what the UAW is asking for is like, yeah, electric vehicles are great. And they say the electric vehicles are great. And they want to stop climate change. Just make sure the battery plants are union. That's the simple solution. Right, right.

But it's not simple to the automakers, right? Yeah. So the main reason they withheld, this is all the main reason they've withheld. their endorsement. That's not to say they're going to endorse Trump or some other candidate. And I may quote here from their statement about this, quote, another Donald Trump presidency would be a disaster. But our members need to see an alternative that delivers real results. We need to get our workers organized behind a pro-worker, pro-climate and pro-democracy political program to deliver for the working class. They're just like withholding to put Biden's feet

to the fire on this. And it appears to kind of be working. So Biden administration had a couple cool things recently. They put out a big report from the Treasury Department, based making the argument that unions are great for everybody which is not something that for example a Republican administration would ever fucking do or even probably Obama or Clinton's administration the report it was titled Labor Unions in the economy

it talked about spillover effects basically how union jobs are good for non-union workers as well because they raise everybody's wages like they have workers here yeah because you want to you know if you want to be competitive or what like if you want to hire good people to make a good product and remind

competitive or whatever, you're going to have to like, you know, be able to match or come close to match and what they get in a union position or whatever. Yeah, I mean, it just makes sense. Here's a graph from that Treasury Department report. It has the red line is the income share of the top 1% and the blue line is union membership rates. Now, you can see how they correlate right there. Union membership goes down, top 1% goes way up, right?

So that's part of the argument they're making. But the numbers are, like, for every one percentage point increase in private sector union membership rates, it translate to a 0.3% increase in non-union wages. So, like, if a union worker gets a dollar raise, then, you know, a non-union worker gets a 30-cent raise. So there's also non-economic reasons. Companies and conservatives hate unions, which is like, I thought that was interesting to include this data. Like, for non-union, sorry, union voters are more likely to vote by 12% because they encourage their members. to vote and they make sure the companies give people time to vote. They're also more likely to volunteer and donate to charity. I'm assuming because they have more money and free time.

But I just wanted, like, after Labor Day, I wanted to make the case that, like, everybody should be rooting for unions. And Nikki Haley and her campaign for president made the case more effectively than I ever could. Here's a standard Republican talking point about how we all need to work until we die. You know, you've got multiple candidates on that stage that said they wouldn't touch entitlements, including Trump. And any candidate that says they're not going to touch entitlements means that they're basically going to go into office and then leave America bankrupts. Social Security is going to go bankrupt in 10 years. Medicare is going to go bankrupt in eight. So the way we deal with it is we don't touch anyone's retirement or anyone who's been

promised in. But we go to people like my kids in their 20s when they're coming into the system and we say the rules have changed. We change retirement age to reflect. life expectancy. Instead of cost of living increases, we do it based on inflation. We limit the benefits on the wealthy. And we expand Medicare Advantage plans. What's the right age there, then, Ambassador? Well, I think we have to do the numbers. We've got to figure out what it is, but what we do know is 65 is way too low. And we need to do. It's all right. Fuck you. Cut it off. Yeah, dude. That's wild. It's like, and we had talked before, I was like, I just don't understand any of these Republicans think this is a winning strategy to go after Social Security and

everything, considering their base and the mammals and papals and whatnot. But like, and you had pointed out, and she says it right there, she's just like, listen, we're going to leave y'all alone. We're just going to fuck these kids is what we're going to do. And like that is a winning strategy on the right. And it's just so, it's just such a baldly shitty thing to have be a major, like a, you know, a foundational part of your party's platform or whatever. It might actually make sense that the Republican Prize.

America because young Republicans are already all rich or think they're going to be rich. And your older voters, you're just telling them you're going to let them off the hook, but probably cut their taxes because they have to pay security for young people. But yeah, I get it now, you know. But to make this argument that we need to raise the age of retirement because life expectancy has gone up is extremely stupid at a time with life expectancy is going down for Americans. Yeah. This is like the most cynical, you're just fucking lying.

This is like, like, here are the quotes of numbers. here from the CDC. That decline, from 2020 to 2021, the life expense decline from 77 to 76.1. That's for people born in 2020, I think. So even for babies, they're going to die sooner. That point nine year drop in life expectancy in 2021, along with a 1.8 year drop in 2020,

that's a lot of that would do to COVID. I was about saying that's got to be COVID related, right? It has to be. But it still got lower than the COVID year was the biggest two-year decline at life expectancy since 1921 to 1923, which is the tail end of the Spanish flu epidemic. All right. So you're going to need a pension because these motherfuckers are going to take yourself security. And if you ever want stuff like paid family leave, you're going to need to get it from your union because Michigan is trying to pass a paid family leave bill right now. And Republicans are running around calling it summer break for adults.

this is paid family leaves you can take care of your newborn baby or your dying mother or your dying wife and they're saying it's summer break for i just don't get that like doesn't pretty much every working person like some time off like you know what i mean like universal who doesn't like time off and it's like they're just insulting people who like time off to their fact you know just the idea of time off or taking care of a baby or whatever it's like you know yeah that's gay what you want what you want to What are you, a child, a gay child? You don't need to go to fucking summer camp. You work 12 hours a day until you die like a man. Yeah, let me quote here. This was like a leak to the Michigan Republicans accidentally leaked to this fucking these talking points. But this one, the one of them was a tiring,

aspiring tyrants never tire of grand plans of telling you how to live. Offering you to chance to spend time with your newborn infant is telling you how to live. You don't have to take it. Right. You don't have to fucking take it. It's like, this is absolutely insane. But the thing is, people are getting wise to this game. And it's probably while Republicans are trying to end the right to vote because young people are, you know, turning pretty hard left pretty fast.

There's some new polling from last week. 88% of young Americans support labor unions, which makes Gen Z puts Gen Z on track to be the most unionized generation of American history. Overall, right now, that's 67% of Americans say they approve of labor unions. That's from a poll by Gallup. up from 54% a year ago. Again, up from 54 to 67. This is like, it's been 40 years since union support was even remotely this high. It was just around 50% in their early 80s when we still had a heavily unionized workforce.

So like, people are fucking fed up, Doug. We always talk about it. Which Biden's trying to capitalize on all this. I mean, sorry, capitalized sounds like it's cynical. But he's trying to lean into this. because it's a popular movement also, it's good. Biden's NLRB, the National Labor Relations Board did a couple cool things recently. On Friday, it released a ruling in a case called Semex Construction Materials Pacific.

Basically, they changed the burden of proof in union disputes. It used to be like the union have to prove that the company was squashing a unionization movement. Now, the company has to prove bad faith negotiations. They have to prove that there's not really 51% support for a union, which is harder to do. So it makes a lot easier to fucking, basically, if you, they're caught operating in bad faith, for example, for firing unionizing workers as Starbucks has done hundreds and hundreds of times in the last few years, automatically union recognized. Fuck you.

Automatically union. So when I talk about how, like, they're trying to help the unionization efforts, the electric vehicle battery factories, this is what I'm talking about, this kind of stuff. So hopefully this kind of stuff helps get, you know, the UAW's endorsement and helps the union, more importantly, because it's, you know, real life people stuff. But they still bump up into the central problem of Democrat brain, the thing we complain about here. One of the reasons these changes happen so rapidly, rulings of consecutive days, is because one of the three Biden appointees on the Labor Relations Board, their terms about to run out, her name is Gwen Wilcox. Once she's off the board, there will only be three members left since one of the Republican seats has been vacant. Basically, the system is, like, tradition is there are three, three representatives or president's party to represent us from the other party.

All right. And so if the one Republican seats empty, that means there's three to one Democrat to Republican. Once her term expires, it only be three people left. And the tradition is you don't do any more stuff, all right? Right. Republicans know this, so they haven't nominated anyone to replace the Republican seat because they know that the Democrat. Democrats won't nominate a replacement until they do. Right. Yeah, because that's also a tradition, right?

The tradition is like you don't, yeah, if they don't nominate somebody, then the Dems won't nominate a replacement either, which would leave the board with just three people. And then there's a separate tradition that says when there's only three people, they don't do shit or whatever. And it's like, where are these arcane traditions come from, man? Like, why do we need shit? Like, there are these unwritten rules for the National Labor Relations Board? It's like, just do the stuff you're supposed to do. What about the tradition where if Republicans are supposed to nominate somebody for the seat?

They nominate somebody for the seat. That's also a fucking rule, right? Yeah. Unwritten rule. So why is it, why is it every time good stuff starts happening? It's like, oh, we found an obscure rule in the back of a knack in 1934 says we actually can't do any more good things. Sorry, guys. It's like, oh, fuck.

They're basically betting that Mansion and Cinema won't vote to, like, seat somebody just because Republicans are being dickheads, and they're probably right. But like, who do these people work for? Anyway, I thought it was moving because, like, people get mad at me when I criticize Biden, but it's not because I hate him personally or anything. And, like, I do think he does a good job on a lot of stuff, but here's a good, Bernie Sanders gave a speech Saturday that I think kind of summed it up for me. It's no secret that I want Joe Biden to be reelected president.

And he and I share the goal of beating back right-wing extremism. We also want Democrats to have majority control over the Senate and the House and governors' mansions and state houses all across the country. In my view, if that's going to happen, if we're going to defeat creeping authoritarianism and right-wing extremism, there has to got to be an ideological change, of course. Democrats up and down the line are going to have to be much clearer to the American people as to what they stand for, most importantly, which side of their own the greatest fuggily now face. So Biden did a bunch of stuff that's on the side of working people and the auto workers. and then somebody says a rule says that Manchin Cinema won't vote for something and the whole Democratic Party lays down.

And that's the passive part that frustrates. Again, Republicans are the evil actors here. But you don't have to be hapless in the face of it. That's the part that frustrates me. But I'm glad the, I'm glad in the National Labor Relations Board with those good, cool steps. Yeah, being hapless in the face of evil actors is, you know, it's pretty much the Dems number one.

That's chapter one page one. Find us some comments, questions, and whatnot. I did want to share us a piece of good news. A friend of the show here, yeah, Valerie Dixon, it's a good, yeah, good point. Why shouldn't we have a summer break? They take it. Fucking, all of Europe's on vacation, basically, from June to the end of August. I don't know how they pull it off and we can't.

But anyway, a friend of the show, Representative Laura Johnson, we had her on. She's one of the Tennessee three. She's officially launched a campaign for the 24th Senate to take on Marsha Blackburn. So that's cool. Diane saw that coming, evidently. Diane Obusack on YouTube says Gloria Johnson for U.S. Senate. Yeah. Yeah, I was excited because, I mean, she's got a lot going for her.

She's, you know, plain smoking, good-hearted, you know, good values. On the other hand, Tennessee, and she's a sane person with good values. Yeah, we don't generally go for that sort of thing. Dude, Marshall Blackburn was a pretty back-breaking moment for me in the current political landscape as a Tennessean because, like, you know, she was running against Bredesen, right? And Bredison was a former, you know, governor and mayor of Nashville and all this stuff who was like, well-liked, you know, was generally well-liked in back in the day. And he tried all that, like, and he was being like moderate, you know, or whatever. And just got absolutely wrecked, man.

And that was a very eye-opening for me. And also, I just hate Marshall Blackburn with every fiber of my being. Tonda Lewis says, these scum have no idea what a physical job does to the body by even 55 years old, they can sit on their ass in the office and maybe they can work longer. I mean, yeah, that's true, you know, and it will be people that, like, real working people will be the ones that are most expected to, you know, work beyond the current retirement age or whatever. Like, rich people, you know, sit on their ass and their money makes some money. They can retire wherever they want to, whenever they want to. Richard Daniels says Americans have been brainwashed into believing they don't deserve time off

for retirement. Yeah, when I was saying that earlier, I was like, who doesn't like? time off. In my head, I was like, man, actually, there are plenty of people out there who are like, no, you know, you work. That's what you do. Like the value, you know, hard, working hard. That's what being an American's all about, even if it's, you know, if you like it, you know, yeah. If you like it, you like, if you like it, that's fine. I don't care if everybody wants to work themselves to death. But yeah, like, the person's talking about the physical, like, my wife weighed a lot of tables and they had to like make herself a band into like an adventure job that she created to the restaurant. She worked. attack because her knees and back were given out, and she was only like 32. That's just what it, that's just waiting table. It's not digging ditches or anything. My dad worked construction and basically couldn't close his hands the last 20 years of his life in time he was 40 on because of operating heavy machinery. Yeah. Price is right. Says two weeks notice will get you a raise. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes they get real mad at you and tell you not to go back for the rest of

two weeks. They continue. I tried to quit three times, ended up with three raises. hell yeah buddy it's a solid move yeah but yeah Mark said they might also just be like alright well fuck off

that that's the kind of move that like it's my personality yeah or it's also like a price I'm just call you price

I'm assuming that's a nom de plume but the nom de guerre which one we go with it's the undercover name my charisma level or whatever it is

if I try to move like that, I immediately get told to fuck off. Oh, buddy. Me too. Absolutely. No way I pull at all. Price is very well liked to insure me and good at their job. Russ Stanford says my 401k, I'm assuming.

Oh, okay. 403B disappeared in 2009, $80,000. Poof after 25 years of working at the same place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's horseship, man. I was just watching, I rewatched the big short last night. Great movie. But it was like if maybe i was just every time i watched that movie i'm just marvelling at how like it's all just made up like it just it results in like people's lives just being ruined

you know what i mean across the whole country like real people very real consequences and it's all based on like just made up shit that's not even you know what i mean like the the cdos and synthetic cdos and all that shit they were doing it's just like some sort of fucking you know i rewatch that uh that movie it just got out of netflix if you guys want to watch it i fucking love that movie but it makes me so mad every time i watch it because like none of it makes sense you watch the characters slowly go insane when they realize that the whole system need to vote their lives too is just nothing but fraud right but uh yeah we read yeah we read that yeah yeah so i've recommended to you the documentary telemarketers is

dropped on h HBO if you watch that and don't want to do a fucking revolution i'm not sure what to tell you because it's like the level of scammery and I realized how many charities my mom has been taken by there are nothing but complete fraud it's just like Jesus Christ yeah I've been hearing wild things about that doc that docu series uh got got brought up to me earlier today uh to check it is hilarious it's basically about a bunch of guys who worked at a call center in due jersey in like the early 2000s realize they're a part of something deeply corrupt and weird started filmed themselves in their camcorders. They're all doing drugs on heroin, high at work,

calling old ladies pretend to be police officers, taking their paychecks, cops are getting a cut of it. It's fucking grace. Jesus. All right. Michael Lobe or Lebebe says, yes, Gen Z, Labor. I agree. All right, thank you guys for watching,

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