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Speaker 1: Podcast. All right, well I've done my job for the day. Wow,

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Speaker 1: if you've even by our standards, that's a that's an intro,

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Speaker 1: that's actually thank you. This is, of course it could

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Speaker 1: happen here a show about how things aren't going so great,

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Speaker 1: things could be better. That would be nice. Let's try

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Speaker 1: and do that. Today is one of the maybe things

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Speaker 1: could be better episodes. And we are talking about the

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Speaker 1: ongoing wave of strikes. We had strike Tober last month

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Speaker 1: with John Dear strikes and and and strikes uh and

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Speaker 1: like what you call it, a couple of different food companies,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of strikes um. And today we would like

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Speaker 1: to get an update on all the motherfucker's who are

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Speaker 1: the great Kim Kelly. Kim, you are a journalist who

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Speaker 1: focuses a hell of a lot on labor. You've been

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Speaker 1: up and down to some of the cold strikes that

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Speaker 1: have been going on. You were there for the Amazon

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Speaker 1: attempt to form the union in um O Gez. Was

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Speaker 1: that Arizona um Alabama, Alabama. UM, and you're writing a

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Speaker 1: book on the history of labor um in the United States.

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Speaker 1: So I'd like to just kind of turn the floor

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Speaker 1: over to you. There's a four, there's okay, there's a floor.

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Speaker 1: There's the floor. It is filthy, just as it ends up.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're doing our best, aren't we ye weird?

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Speaker 1: Yeah you are, we are not I am. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to keep up with all this labor action, this exciting action,

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Speaker 1: abor stories, they are a big deal to the people

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Speaker 1: world who are watching and like rooting for them. But

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Speaker 1: it on dateline or whatever. But that's something that happened,

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Speaker 1: and I think there's been a real shifting consciousness that

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Speaker 1: like Striketober is fun. There's all these these big strikes

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Speaker 1: to remember that that didn't happen in a vacuum. There's

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Speaker 1: people on strike now who have been on strike since before,

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Speaker 1: since before it was cool, right, since much earlier. Like

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Speaker 1: shout out to the St. Vincent nurses up in Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: who have both been on strike for over eight months,

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Speaker 1: they kind of got a little bit left out of

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Speaker 1: I mean strikes or was exciting. But you know, there's

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Speaker 1: strikes giving, which I guess we're doing. Yeah, strikes giving

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Speaker 1: strike Smiths, strike in time, day thank you very I

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Speaker 1: guess day forth strike you Lily, Yeah, yeah, it's it

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Speaker 1: gets worse Earl really until we get to labor day,

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Speaker 1: and by the Striker's Day, that one works pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I'm also a fan of striking Time's Day, um strike

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Speaker 1: this going. Yeah, strike strike. There's a missed opportunity there.

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Speaker 1: Although that that frightens me, Garrison that the band Ween

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Speaker 1: And there's just so much happening that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: I think the general strike is kind of a morphous idea,

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Speaker 1: instead of never talking to them, Like a general strike

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Speaker 1: would have a huge impact, but on who, Like who

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Speaker 1: needs to be like some systemic way you approach it right,

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Speaker 1: Like there's a proper way to fix an engine, right,

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Speaker 1: and we can do that, Like we can start building

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Speaker 1: those networks. We can start you can organize your workplace

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Speaker 1: people want to be around other people, and they'll even

430
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: change the way they talk to be like oh yeah,

431
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't the best way to hang out around

432
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: people because it's going to drive people away. So yeah,

433
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: I'll change the way I say some things because like

434
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 1: it turns out people actually, like a lot of a

435
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: lot of folks just kind of want to make their

436
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,919
Speaker 1: lives a bit better and that's really their main focus. Yeah,

437
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: it's hard to not to do that, and it's it's

438
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: it's just this matter of like so much of what

439
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 1: um so much of what kind of the way that

440
00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: discourse happens online has poisoned aspects of active is M

441
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 1: is in like making it difficult for people to relate

442
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: in that way without feeling like, well, okay, but if

443
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: I can't get them on board with all of these

444
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: other things, like I can't talk with them or whatever,

445
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: like because they're because they don't agree with you like

446
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: this and this, like we can't organize like the purity

447
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: of ideology. Yeah, Like I feel like most people who

448
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: aren't terminally online don't even necessarily have like a specific

449
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 1: ideology not yeah yeah right, Like there's just stuff that

450
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: they have learned or they have decided that is true

451
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: about the world. They just kind of go with it

452
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: and they'll interrogated all the time, and you can like

453
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: those are people you can talk to and maybe ship,

454
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: like I've done it with my dad, Like I've seen

455
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: it happen with some of these conservative coal minor folks.

456
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: Like something as small as being able to humanize, like like, okay,

457
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: if you're talking about something, oh like, well, the thing

458
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: you said like that really upset Joey and you like Joey,

459
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: so like maybe think about that, and they'll probably be

460
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: chiller because like, oh, well that's you know, it's Joey.

461
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: I can't don't want to be a dick to them.

462
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: If we can just find a way to enact that

463
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: on a pray broad scale, life would be a lot

464
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: better for a lot of people. Yeah, it's this. It's

465
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: this dichotomy between a lot people want to own the

466
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: folks they see as like being against them or being

467
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: on the other side. But also people don't want to

468
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: be a dick to people that like they like, you

469
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 1: don't want to feel like you're a dick. So if

470
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: you if you lean more into the weird in opposition,

471
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: then you're going to trigger the well I want to

472
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: I want to make the person who disagrees with me

473
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: angry side of the brain. But if you can lean

474
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: into the like, hey, like we can get along like

475
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: and I and and maybe you don't want to feel

476
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: like an asshole if we get along, then I don't know,

477
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: that's a productive place to to continue conversations from and

478
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: a good way to shift people. I think. And then

479
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: when you're and then when your area floods because of

480
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: severe rain and storms, that we have people that can help. Yeah,

481
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: it's the importance of interacting with people in person like offline,

482
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: which is like obviously more difficult to do because we're

483
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: still trying to depend Yeah, like their caveat, caveat, caveat,

484
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: but like it's so much easier to talk to someone

485
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: and kind of like see the world you shift, or

486
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 1: even to humanize yourself to someone who is inclined to

487
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: not thinking of you as someone worth talking to, Like, yeah,

488
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: as long as it's not you're not putting yourself in danger,

489
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: like there's yeah, obviously I'm a blond lady, you know.

490
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, still we're not talking about like, oh, you

491
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: have to go be friendly to people who want to

492
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: murder you because your trance. No, it's about No, we're

493
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: not saying that. But most of these people don't think

494
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 1: that maybe they have some regressive attitude or or they'll

495
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: use the word gay to mean something, you know, not cool,

496
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, hey, you don't have to to

497
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you know, I'm you know, I'm actually

498
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: gay jan or maybe don't hope that maybe you do

499
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: depending on the situation, to be like yeah, maybe maybe

500
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: there's other words that we can use for this, because whatever, yeah,

501
00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:01,479
Speaker 1: and and you can shift people into a your alliance, um,

502
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: just by becoming a human in their eyes and also

503
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,120
Speaker 1: letting them become a human in your eyes, um, which

504
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: is necessary. The other option is not a pleasant one.

505
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: So I would prefer the option where more people grow

506
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: to see each other as human and worth supporting. Right,

507
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: I know there's better tactic to me. Yeah, I know.

508
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: There's this argument where like, no one is like I

509
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to educate you, I shouldn't have to put

510
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: the time into to shift you, and like that is valid,

511
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: that's fair, Like you shouldn't have to but ideally know, yeah,

512
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: but if you want to that change to happen, it's

513
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: probably not going to happen unless she puts an effort

514
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: in because they're probably not gone. They think they're fine.

515
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: And I don't know, there's a bunch of ship that

516
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to do that we're also all gonna

517
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: have to do Like I shouldn't we I shouldn't have

518
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: to say, hey, guys, maybe we don't kill the ocean.

519
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: Maybe killing the ocean is a bad idea, Like I

520
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to no one should have to say that,

521
00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: but we do not top not please the fact that

522
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to do something. Also doesn't mean that

523
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: like the thing doesn't need to be done. And obviously

524
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: I don't think that the primary onus on speaking to

525
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: let's say, the kind of increasingly radicalized white, lower middle

526
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 1: and middle class. I don't think that falls primarily on

527
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: on people of color, on on the LGBT community. It

528
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: falls on people like you and make Kim. You know, Yeah,

529
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: but it's still has to be done. Like it's a

530
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: thing that needs to be done. And I'm not saying, hey,

531
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: you out there, who you know, left where you grew

532
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: up in rural Alabama because someone was going to fucking

533
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: murder you and you had to get to a place

534
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: where you could not deal with that. I'm not saying

535
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: you need to go rolling back to Alabama. Um, but

536
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: it's good that people are talking and working with and

537
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: trying to build connections with folks out there and change

538
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: the nature of kind of aspects of the culture and

539
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: make things better, because that needs to be done. We

540
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: can't just be like, well fuck some of those people. Yeah,

541
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: and we get that. That is definitely easier if you

542
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: are like one of the bros. If you are you know,

543
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: a bigger sis adjacent dude, that is that is of

544
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: course going to make things easier. Yeah, I mean when

545
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: you think about like that's kind of the text, that's

546
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: the right word. But the fact that you do feel

547
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: comfortable and you're you're safe and you're not under a

548
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: threat in those spaces because of who you are, like

549
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: as like a white sister or even a white says

550
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: lady like you like the price you pay for that

551
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: is making it easier for everyone else to feel that too,

552
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: like exactly, like that's your job, other people's jobs to survive,

553
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: and you can be the one that pushes the boundaries

554
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: on these things. So when someone says something not great,

555
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: you can kind of call them out in like a

556
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: browish way, and they can respond to that a lot

557
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: better than, you know than a lot of other people

558
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: who they don't know, you know, screaming at them in

559
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: a no context scenario. We're like, oh, like, oh, you don't.

560
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm a pretty lady. You don't want to

561
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: make me upset by being wooed that exactly, yeah, Like

562
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. You should see this thing as rude and

563
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: not okay. Like the amount of men who have apologized

564
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: me down there for swearing it's so funny. Yeah, man,

565
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: my dude, I live in Philadelphia. But that's cute. But

566
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: if I could dis harness any of that like chivalrous

567
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: whatever rose patriarchal viewpoint, like hey, apply this to being

568
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: cool to my trans friends are like not being rude

569
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: to anyone else, Like sure, I'm down. Yeah, we don't

570
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: take collingly to miss gendering around these parts. Yeah, for

571
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: a lot of people at least, like you know, when

572
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: I worked at like smaller workplaces, you know, where it's

573
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: like a small business where I know the owner. Even

574
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: if I mean if some other employees want to unionize,

575
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: the prospect is always kind of more weird or challenging

576
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: because you know, it's a smaller business. Maybe it's like

577
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: connected to like a larger, you know, larger overall industry.

578
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: You know, like when I was like when I when

579
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: I was like a park or instructor, right, I had

580
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: discussions with other with other like employees about doing you know,

581
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: like a Parker instructors union type thing. But but it's

582
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: it's it's hard when there's there's like not many of

583
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: you or like you know the owner. What would you

584
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: say is like good good ways to at least get

585
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: get that conversation going among other employees and then you know,

586
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: like similar similar examples from other stuff for people who

587
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: deal with like smaller workplaces that aren't you know, like

588
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: a co worker. They're not working for the Amazon or anything.

589
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's more like small local stuff, right, So,

590
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: like the most important basic building block of of all

591
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: this is one on one conversation that's organizing. Right, And

592
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: even if you just work with like three or four

593
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: other people and maybe unionizing and a formal structure doesn't

594
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: necessarily make sense or it seems like it might be

595
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: too much of a headache, you're still you know, like

596
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: a group of workers coming together is still a union.

597
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the n l r B has

598
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: to say about it. And you you have shared interests

599
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: and share challenges, and there's things that work you probably

600
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: want to change. So even coming together and discussing that

601
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: through coworkers, Like, there's no law that says you have

602
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: to be in a union. If you want to get

603
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: some ship done, you can march on your boss at

604
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: WW style and make them and demand a meeting. You

605
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: can make a petition, you can do public pressure campaigns,

606
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: like all of the things when all of them, but

607
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: a lot of the tools that we see organized labor

608
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: engaging in and union is engaging in those are those

609
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: are available to everyone else too. It's easier if you're

610
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: within that framework because you have that firepower behind you

611
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: and you have maybe some legal protections, but just as workers,

612
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's more like the IWW solidarity

613
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: uneuse a multiply where like we didn't like we don't

614
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: need to do no stinking badges like we're a union

615
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: because we say we're a union. We're going to take

616
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: control of things in our own way. Like you see

617
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: this in UM. I'm trying to say, I think what's

618
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: it called diversity threast there's a there's a threast shop

619
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: and I think Richmond, Virginia where workers just like they

620
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: weren't being treated properly. I think it was like a

621
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: like a queer community space that wasn't living up to

622
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: its values due to actions by management, and so they

623
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: just put a letter on the doors that we're not

624
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: coming to work until you fix this. Here are clear demands,

625
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: here's what we need. Here you go figure it out.

626
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: Like I don't think they're in a formal union, but

627
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: they're acting collectively and that's something that is totally available

628
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: that to everyone as long as you're in a workplace.

629
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: If you're independent contractor like me and probably some of you,

630
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: that sucks and it's harder, but you can always find

631
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: your people and you can always there's always options, right,

632
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: Like you don't have to just join at union. You

633
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: don't have to be a teamster to get shipped done. Yeah.

634
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: I think you know when you were saying that, I

635
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: was going through my past experience as a place like that,

636
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, we we kind of did do

637
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: some of that stuff to varying degrees of success. Sometimes

638
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: it works out well, sometimes it doesn't work out so well. Um,

639
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean there was definitely a while where

640
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: we did that did definitely make them make some decent

641
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: changes kind of based on on that model. Yeah, it's

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