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Speaker 1: Let's going out to Mary Kay Henry, president of the

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Speaker 1: Services Employees International Union, also known of course as the SEIU.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see you and welcome back to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: There's one labor deal that I did not mention, and

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Speaker 1: that was at UPS and the threat of a Teamsters strike.

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Speaker 1: Mary Kay, I wonder if you see any of these

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Speaker 1: other actions happening if it weren't the precedent set by

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Speaker 1: the Teamsters and UPS earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the UPS drivers made it crystal clear

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Speaker 2: that joining together in record numbers and making a demand

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Speaker 2: on wages and safety protections for the amount of weight

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Speaker 2: they had to lift and the heat conditions of this

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Speaker 2: past summer helped raise the bar and inspire workers. And

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Speaker 2: the way you just reviewed from Hollywood to the Big Breed,

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Speaker 2: to the casinos in Vegas, to the Kaiser Permanente workers

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Speaker 2: that we represent that also achieved an historic agreement with

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Speaker 2: that company and two fast food workers who now are

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Speaker 2: going to have a seat at the table in California

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Speaker 2: at a half million, going to twenty dollars an hour

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Speaker 2: in April, and being able to raise wage and benefit standards.

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Speaker 2: I think we're seeing an unprecedented solidarity season from workers

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Speaker 2: who have collective bargaining to workers who are organizing like

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Speaker 2: as Starbucks and want to reach a first contract with

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Speaker 2: these companies.

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Speaker 3: Well, you had a big win today when it comes

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Speaker 3: to Kaiser workers a new labor deal sizeable increases. This

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Speaker 3: deal approved by ninety eight point five percent of union

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Speaker 3: members who voted for this, and this is guaranteeing a

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Speaker 3: twenty one percent wage increase. So, given the fact that

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Speaker 3: you were closely following this and in part of this,

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Speaker 3: do you expect more in not just the healthcare space,

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Speaker 3: but really just across the board.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I think that workers are fired up and fed up.

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Speaker 2: They spential workers, especially led us through a pandemic, and

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Speaker 2: they're using their collective power in their unions and in

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Speaker 2: organizing and striking and demanding to become a part of

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Speaker 2: a union to raise wages and protect themselves. The Kaiser

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Speaker 2: workers were also concerned about their patients and chronic understaffing

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Speaker 2: that they think this wage increase will help address, along

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Speaker 2: with the employer commitment to do training and upgrading of

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Speaker 2: incumbent workers in the system to help fill all the

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Speaker 2: open positions.

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Speaker 1: So who's next now that you have this momentum, Sean

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Speaker 1: Fain has been talking a big game about Tesla or

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Speaker 1: is it Starbucks? Mary Kay, Who's next?

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Speaker 4: We don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Choose, So all those workers are demonstrating and organizing. We

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Speaker 2: want Starbucks workers to achieve a seat at the table

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Speaker 2: with that corporation. We want airport service workers, who I

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Speaker 2: was demonstrating with today at DCA, from all over the

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Speaker 2: country to get written into the FAA reauthorization so workers

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Speaker 2: who work for the most profitable airlines in the country

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Speaker 2: can have a living wage and paid time off. A

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Speaker 2: wheelchair attendance, baggage handlers, cabin cleaners. They've been written off

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Speaker 2: for far too long, and we want Congress to hold

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Speaker 2: the airlines accountable by writing them into the FAA reauthorization.

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Speaker 3: President Biden was asked today about the UAW going after

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Speaker 3: and trying to unionize. Joe mentioned Tesla, but also Toyota,

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Speaker 3: and the President said, quote absolutely, do you think President

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Speaker 3: Biden has anyway here in terms of why we had

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Speaker 3: such a hot labor summer, And as Joe talked about,

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Speaker 3: you know, the cool deals of the fall, did the

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Speaker 3: President really put his thumb on the nail trying to

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Speaker 3: say because he's the most pro labor union. Really had

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Speaker 3: to do with the fact that wages are not keeping

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Speaker 3: up with inflation.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think when the President of the United States

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Speaker 2: goes to a picket line, it sent a message to

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Speaker 2: every worker everywhere that the man with the most power

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Speaker 2: in our nation and around the world is willing to

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Speaker 2: stand with workers who want a fair shake with the

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Speaker 2: employer that they sacrifice for during the bankruptcy and we're

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Speaker 2: trying to recover from the sacrifices they made. And he's

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Speaker 2: also sending a message to Starbucks workers who are fighting

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Speaker 2: to get a seat at the table and want to

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Speaker 2: be able to collectively bargain like the UAW members just did.

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Speaker 2: And so it is a source of inspiration to workers

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Speaker 2: when the President of the United States understands that working

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Speaker 2: people are still.

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Speaker 4: Trying to make ends meet. In this economy.

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Speaker 2: Sixty percent of American workers are living paycheck to paycheck.

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Speaker 2: Forty percent can't afford a four hundred dollars emergency, and

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Speaker 2: so it's important for workers to be able to use

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Speaker 2: their collective power to be able to raise wages and

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Speaker 2: create decent jobs in every sector of the economy.

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Speaker 1: So where we go from here then as we head

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Speaker 1: into fall, Mary Kay, the President of the United States

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Speaker 1: is looking for endorsements. Does he deserve one from the

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Speaker 1: UAW because we look back at voting data from the

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Speaker 1: last election and you see a lot of rank and

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Speaker 1: file members voting for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the UAW members are the ones that

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Speaker 2: will decide that. I know that the members of SEIU,

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Speaker 2: by eighty percent, voted for President Biden in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: and our service and care workers understand this is a

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Speaker 2: president who sees them, who understands that the dignity of

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Speaker 2: work is about more than just a paycheck.

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Speaker 4: It's about having a voice on the job through the union.

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Speaker 2: And so I expect that our members are going to

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Speaker 2: be fired up to turn.

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Speaker 4: Out and vote in record numbers in November of twenty

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Speaker 4: for president of the SEI.

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Speaker 3: You Service Employees International Union President, Mary Kay Henry, thank

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Speaker 3: you so much for your time.