Economic Update: Working Class Power

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[S10 E48] Working Class Power
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Biden's 'new economic team,' big US banks falling short in key stress tests, India's 250-million-strong general strike, and lastly, huge chunk of US relief funds aimed at small and medium businesses grabbed instead by big business. The second half of the show features an interview with Flight Attendants Union President Sara Nelson.
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Sara Nelson is the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO. She played a key role in helping to end the government shutdown in 2019, and she worked closely with Chairman Peter DeFazio to secure federal payroll grants to keep aviation workers employed and connected to healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic while banning stock buybacks and capping executive compensation. Sara became a union Flight Attendant at United Airlines in 1996, but the events of 9/11 and the economic pain that followed informed her calling to fight for worker safety, secure jobs with good wages and benefits. Sara has led major campaigns to ban knives on planes, increase Flight Attendant federal rest requirements, fight on-board sexual harassment and assault, create mandatory training for Flight Attendants to recognize and report human trafficking and much more.
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@notabene7381 3 года назад

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” ― Voltaire

@MathUDX 3 года назад

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime" --Aristotle

@nachannachle2706 3 года назад

"[...] Until the abundant supply of the poor turns into an angry mob with revolutionary grievances" such as The Hong Kong demonstrations, the Yellow vests marches, the #BLM, the Punjab-Haryana farmers strike, etc. Voltaire never lived to see the French revolution, otherwise he wouldn't have left his statement incomplete. >__

@charlesmartino1456 3 года назад

Voltaire had an incredible mine, Every man is guilty of all the Good he didn't do. and Those who can convince you of absurdities can make you commit Atrocities.

@treefrog3349 3 года назад

God, why won't anyone say it? : Workers of the World Unite!

@robertreynolds580 3 года назад

bcos it ends with millions being murdered.

@theparadigm8149 3 года назад

I’m more of a Longist, but I agree! Workers, unite! ✝️🙏❤️

@devinfaux6987 3 года назад

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

@robertreynolds580 3 года назад

until someone else shackles you back up again. Nice.

@devinfaux6987 3 года назад

@@robertreynolds580 Don't you have a bridge to hide under?

@AlLindsay 3 года назад

"Ruled by Psychopaths"...Welcome to "The Frankenstein Culture in America"

@MountaineeringSense 3 года назад

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Albert Einstein. Love the Wolff! “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell

@georgefurman4371 3 года назад

Most of what is been done is the same old same old. It isn't just telling truths it is the active input and political awareness and pressure we can do in the practical, in the activism of what is said that can be revolutionary. We are barely doing something not yet consequential enough. Prfr. Wolff points out the unions are not taking a position of leadership that they are called and supposed to do. That would truly be consequential and revolutionary.

@alexpodolsky8980 3 года назад

@@georgefurman4371 we need new unions. or change all leadership out in old ones

@MathUDX 3 года назад

"Poverty is the mother of crime and revolution" --Aristotle

@kwakkers68 3 года назад

@@alexpodolsky8980 Many a lesson to be learned from what's happened to some unions in the UK - like the Labour Party, the Establishment have sought to control, destroy from within. To be effective, Unions *must* be controlled and run by members/workers

@michealklee8844 3 года назад

Big Respect to India 🇮🇳 solidarity forever ✊🏻union Strong 💪

@chrisbird186 3 года назад

Ms. Nelson is a true badass! Keep fighting!!

@santiagoinfantino2368 3 года назад

India is an example of organization and a source of INSPIRATION!

@anthonysugarhouse 3 года назад

I'm an ex airlines employee and this lady kicks butt. Love it

@robynbrennan8558 3 года назад

We need a Citizen’s Union...for all US citizens and send great representatives (unlike our elected officials) to Washington! 🧐

@mitchclark1532 3 года назад

That’s called a political party 🙂

@ryanchampion9696 3 года назад

We need a global union to make demands of the 1%. They r global and we need to be also. We could end poverty and get real change on climate.

@robynbrennan8558 3 года назад

@@mitchclark1532 At this point, it’s fair to say...both of the current parties could merge into one, the Corporatist Party. 🤔

@LordKorgyab 3 года назад

I totally agree!

@Wild-Wally 3 года назад

It time for everybody to join the Peoples Party, which is just being formed at the grassroots level. Perhaps check out peoplesparty.gov to read about their platform. Power to the People!

@caseyakasubzero 3 года назад

Richard wolff looked mesmerized when she said strike I love a woman who stands up for the working class

@jakethesnakestoner 3 года назад

Me too! I loved when I saw that in Richard’s face. 🙌🏼

@erlendkimmich9448 3 года назад

I love you Dr. Wolff. Keep bringing it! and hopefully we will all get busy organizing all over the place.

@raushaunrigsby1181 3 года назад

Richard Wolff is the TRUTH!!!

@roselawson277 3 года назад

How can anyone dislike this channel! Love this man!

@Pepewannahug 3 года назад

Wow, I never realized what the aviation labor unions were doing for us all. They give me hope in this hopeless ear we live in.

@alexpodolsky8980 3 года назад

me too. But we would be better of if they would take there company and convert to coop. public already paid for that twice.

@mjachner 3 года назад

Sara nelson is amazing, really hope she becomes the president of the AFL-CIO... if she does, the US will be again starting to regain some power in the Labour movement... She knows and understands better than anyone the power that Labour has... a general strike would be the worst nightmare of the ruling capitalist elite, and so many desperately needed social programs could be achieved through true Solidarity

@mauibill7233 3 года назад

We need a1000 people like this woman. Love her energy and heart.

@flash_flood_area 3 года назад

Hey, super good to see Sarah Nelson on here! Was just introduced to her on the Bad Faith podcast, with Briahna Joy Gray and Virgil Texas.

@kreyvegas1 3 года назад

Amazing description of effective action !!! What a powerful message regarding the crucial role of the word “strike” as a fundamental and concrete example of our power as regular citizens and workers. Kudos to Flight Attendants Union President Sara Nelson, and obviously to prof. Wolf for his great work !!!

@lynnebarnes3840 3 года назад

Rise, like lions, after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake to earth, your chains, like dew, Which in sleep has settled on you, For we are many, they are few.

@georgefurman4371 3 года назад

Oh Spartacus where are you.??? You said will be back and be millions. Our blood was spilled for generations and revolving our martirs in their graves for our slumber. Like your poetry.

@lynnebarnes3840 3 года назад

@@georgefurman4371 not me, the quotable, Shelly Bische Keats, read by Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury.

@georgefurman4371 3 года назад

@@lynnebarnes3840 doesn't matter. You made it yours. Thank you. The intention matters. It isn't plagiarism I know. I am not good at poetry in English. Otherwise would share some in Spanish translated. I may try.

@lynnebarnes3840 3 года назад

@@georgefurman4371 I love Spain and Spanish people and culture, such a musical language.

@georgefurman4371 3 года назад

@@lynnebarnes3840 I am Mexican. But spaniard poetry has some great poets of the revolution. Like Hernandez, j. Manoel. Serrat and others. Latin America has Benedetti and many more. Chile has Violeta Parra and Victor Jara etc. Mexico has many I would like to mention a recently covid victim.. Oscar Chavez.

@eldridgedavis 3 года назад

Biden administration is: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

@georgefurman4371 3 года назад

Your words and face are the beauty of the working class leadership in action my lady. They need to fear us. They must.

@dominiqueluzTV 3 года назад

This woman is a worker's Goddess!

@grigorirazumovski1012 3 года назад

Thank you for the video. Everyone involved.

@bonegrubber 3 года назад

If we could somehow bend the ears of those in current leadership toward proff wolff's words

@AlexDeLarge1 3 года назад

Prof Wolff is just relaying information that has been around for many many years. The elites don't care.

@tinet7056 3 года назад

They don't care

@gwills9337 3 года назад

all of this is well known, which is why it doesnt get done. All of the crises we've lived through have been contrived

@flash_flood_area 3 года назад

Better to bend the ears of the masses of people. The leaders don't want to do anything differently.

@SuperSpidey313 3 года назад

Great Show!

@bernardheathaway9146 3 года назад

Thanks democracy at work

@jamesmorton7881 3 года назад

The STATUS is just QUO. Zeros making no changes. UNDER CAPITALISM, EVERY PENNY OF A BILLIONAIRES FORTUNE IS A PENNY OF UNPAID WORK THAT SOMEONE ELSE PERFORMED. Capitalism is based on freedom ? Capitalism is based on on money and failure Wealth is fueled by debt, and debt grows faster than the economy. When I have asked a few simple questions of the investor types, not a single one will answer my questions. This leads me to believe that A) they never even looked at how capital gains are generated, or B) these investor types are perfectly willing to siphon off the wealth of the bottom 90% or get bailed out by the U.S. Treasury in order to get capital gains. Either way, capitalism is not the great freedom giver and poverty annihilator that the propaganda makes it out to be. Here is how I addressed my unanswered questions to investor types: For those of you who are commenting one way or another on the merits of investing, I would like to ask a question or two. When the sum total of financial assets ( "investments" ) in the USA top $90 trillion and the economy as measured by GDP is around $21.5 trillion, how do "investments" make 6 to 7 percent while the GDP only grows by 2.56% annually? With wealth being larger and growing faster than the economy, how does the economy pay off the dividends wealth earns?

@mateuszbak1060 3 года назад

then what do YOU propose. capitalism works in scandinavia and people there are happier then anywhere else in the world. its not capitalism that's broken in america its the people running the system

@tanyaa8604 3 года назад

She is so excellent.

@geraldmeehan8942 3 года назад

Very pleased to see this type programming. We must resurrect labor's power in this country

@johnnydevault7838 3 года назад

It's time to for the American people to mobilize! We need a leader and continue to make noise(s)!

@homelessgamerxx9982 3 года назад

Lets do it , I'm down!!!

@mitchclark1532 3 года назад

We don’t need a leader. WE NEED TO BE OUR OWN LEADERS. #GeneralStrike

@comingviking 3 года назад

@@mitchclark1532 Agreed. You don't need a leader. You need a movement. Not the same thing.

@larryross1819 3 года назад

Democrat Joe Biden reads from a teleprompter as long as it moves at the correct speed for him at that moment, he sometimes sounds okay - a bit robotic, totally scripted, but okay. Trying to recite from memory or engage in a logical train of thought on his own, though, democrat Joe Biden often falls into the word salad, argy-bargy. It’s awful listening to him trying to claw his way from there into rationality. Is there a real Joe Biden somewhere in between? Clearly, when he’s speaking from the heart, with passion, with anger, he speaks from his core self where he truly lives. That’s when and from where we get “hey, fat,” “dog-faced,” “are you a junkie,” and “you ain’t black.” Honest words, completely in character for democrat Joe Biden. Some might be inclined to chalk these recent comments up to the stress of the campaign or to his obviously increasing dementia. It was no mistake, though, in 1988 when he used a black criminal to get a few laughs as he joked he might be mistaken for Willie Horton’s attorney. Now imagine him as President in normal times. Chairing the National Security Council, hosting White House dinners, meeting privately with dozens of world leaders during the UN General Assembly, guiding overall military, financial, and foreign policy for the country, and talking and talking and talking, off the cuff and from the heart. Makes your democrat shoulders hunch up and your democrat soul just cringe, doesn’t it?

@lizthor-larsen7618 3 года назад

Dear Mr. Wolff becomes 'Archie Bunker' just before 8 mins; so cute. He's such a good guy. So much energy.

@edc3743 3 года назад

I"ve never spent a cent on an NFL game. Too bad the vast majority of Americans didn't do that too.

@rafimhanna9327 3 года назад

Last month I read Understanding Socialism And yesterday I read Understanding Marxism 2 wonderful books very easy to read and entertaining. Keep up the good work Democracy At Work!

@dinnerwithfranklin2451 3 года назад

I enjoyed them very much as well. They made me curious enough to start reading the communist manifesto which is really an interesting book as well. The language is older but it is interesting.

@scottmccampbell72 3 года назад

When she talked about the first couple flights stopping and having a huge effect. It reminded me of the nationwide concern over a potential or very brief railroad strike in the 1980s that I've never heard anyone talk about since. I remember for about three days solid it was front-page news and a national preoccupation of the media.

@georgefurman4371 3 года назад

You just won my patreon contribution . I was waiting for this consequential presentation. Prfr. Wolff you are walking the talk. Thank you. For being consequential and find the conclusions to your whole work . I'll dare to say this is a ...parte aguas en la evolucion de la clase obrera en este pais. A crossroads in the evolution of the working class consciousness of this nation.

@darrellhayward6673 3 года назад

For of Sara brilliant ya ty Mr Wolff for awesome insight ya much love brother sister 🌳🌱❤3

@erlendkimmich9448 3 года назад

Sara Nelson and the flight attendants union!

@flimflam6652 3 года назад

I loved this, and am so glad this show exists, we need it Also - Patreon is pronounced p-AY-tree-on, not p-AT-ree-on

@SiLiFaLyO 3 года назад

Noooooooo Richard! She is the leader of our union (FAs), she did a horrible job during this pandemic; she gave us up so she can clime the ranks of the establishment. We 5500 FAs with United airlines were let off without any real compromise. Our friends at other airlines got so many benefits before they were sent on furlough. In our case, nothing. We pay for our own insurance if we wanna keep it, our travel benefits are about to expire, in our last check they toke hundreds or $ that was supposed to be deducted from our checks in a year or so... In general, she sold her soul to get up there, and the victims are working people in their most vulnerable moment.

@gwills9337 3 года назад

I dunno, I'm not in this industry but she's speaking truth to power, supports general strikes, and knows who the enemies are. Whats your criticism?

@SiLiFaLyO 3 года назад

@@gwills9337 thats what the establishment does perfectly; talk the talk, but never actually walk the walk. she agreed with our company to let us get furloughed with no real compassion/insurance/flight benefits for at least a year like our brothers and sisters in American airlines.. It was really just, you're on your own, see you maybe if we are busy again. Delta has no union, they still haven't furloughed anybody. 🤷🏽‍♂️

@benbascheable 3 года назад

Sara Nelson should lead the American Worker’s Party

@flash_flood_area 3 года назад

People's Party!

@benbascheable 3 года назад

@@flash_flood_area I question the judgement of something where Jimmy Dore has a leading voice

@finnmccool7543 3 года назад

She gave a shout out to Big Bill Haywood too. ❤

@ryanburchett8455 3 года назад

Sara Nelson is awesome!

@sajindal1 3 года назад

excellent guest. A person of substance.

@tiamarie1226 3 года назад

The volume is always too low I strain to hear please turn up his volume.

@MountaineeringSense 3 года назад

I agree with you as well, and hopefully Mr. Wolff will be able to increase the volume somehow because everyone, and I mean everyone, should be able to hear and listen to him! I have learned a great deal from his youtube channel that has clearly exposed the utter failure and hypocrisy of the educational system in this country. Turn it UP!!!!!! Love the Wolff!!! "sing it long and sing it loud" Neil Diamond

@vg7985 3 года назад

So true. My iPad is on max , and barely hear anything.

@Ghostcamel 3 года назад

Exactly, we have to stop negotiating with these entities as if they have a "conscience". No negotiations. The aid packages have to be structured to explicitly ban, and also criminalize, profit-taking. Because if you turn on CNBC for any length of time, you will hear them talk about how best to profit from any relief bills. That's literally the only thing that they do, profit. In their minds, anything else, is inefficient, wasteful, quasi-criminal even. If we don't fight against this mindset, it will hollow out any attempt to bring relief. I'm pessimistic that we will be able to do that.

@clarestucki5151 3 года назад

Wolff finally gets one right! Nothing much ever changes.

@dinnerwithfranklin2451 3 года назад

Oh things change all the time. Just not in the favour of the majority of us.

@HarryC-Smith 3 года назад

Awesome!!

@remediossantos9847 3 года назад

Prof Wolff: thanks for featuring the case of the airline union power. I hope more union assertion will be featured and the power generated.

@christopheryou 3 года назад

Sara is great

@rickgoodman3687 3 года назад

Thanks, very informative and even inspiring.

@kwakkers68 3 года назад

the Aviation industry could become a very valuable lever in achieving genuine public healthcare. So many corporations being reliant on it Hit DC

@kn9ioutom 3 года назад

New Norm ! Rich Richer ! Poor Poorer !

@merbst 3 года назад

This country needs more women like her.

@larryross1819 3 года назад

@michaelmappin1830 3 года назад

@woody7652 3 года назад

Socialism, comrades!

@alexpodolsky8980 3 года назад

in the form of coops!

@kobemop 3 года назад

@@alexpodolsky8980 coops won't solve everything, especially if it were still operating under capitalism.

@theresasanders8251 3 года назад

Sound has been really low & difficult to hear lately. I would rather turn you down than not hear you!

@cabotbudlong874 3 года назад

shes a Great speaker

@justanotheroldguy738 3 года назад

At about the 7:30 mark, he says "we have" and it is so damn perfect.

@patriciafarrow9586 3 года назад

KUDOS to Bernie Sanders for voting against the $740B Defense bill- an obscene expense for these times!

@smokyondagrass2353 3 года назад

We got money for bombs but not food for the masses. If corona virus was bombable we would spend all the money in the world

@patriciafarrow9586 3 года назад

@@smokyondagrass2353 It also points out that there was no money for a biological attack because whether this virus was natural or a weapon, we are not prepared. $740B what a waste - preparing to refight Vietnam - last century thinking.

@dentonfender6492 3 года назад

Way to go India, and thumbs up to workers who would not tolerate being gypped out of wages owed by the Wistron Corporation.

@breft3416 3 года назад

Sarah Nelson- you know what I like!

@danadcock9743 3 года назад

WOW !!!!! Sara Nelson for U.S. Secretary of Labor!

@MrTazKen 3 года назад

The American oligarchs' primary concerns are money and power, the two obviously being inextricably tied. Because they have the political system bought and paid for, it's impossible to directly attack their power, so you have to attack their source of power - money. Why have they spent the last century or so systemically destroying unions? Why do they exert so much effort towards creating social conflict - straights vrs gays, black vrs white, blue collar vrs white collar, rural vrs urban, immigrant vrs domestic, etc, etc, etc? It's a class war and they do everything possible to convince you it's not. And they'll never give anything until they're forced to. Successfully disrupt their commercial efforts and you win. A general strike is the answer - not for a few hours or a few days, but until they give the majority a fair share of what the majority produces.

@singaanom3305 3 года назад

Good..........👍👍👍👍

@antwanhodges1591 3 года назад

The question Wolff asked her was about all Union's not just aviation. A lot of good stuff with the airlines was said, but not much else. Wolff's criticism that generally unions have been silent still holds.

@lauramcconney9367 3 года назад

It means we need all workers need to organize their own work places and be ready on a specific day to stop all work across the country at the same time. That would be right after Biden takes office. Since he said all workers have the right to organize, let's hold him to his word!!! We will have nothing to lose!!!

@edc3743 3 года назад

And as Graham Elwood reported few days ago, Tom Brady (worth, approx, one-third of a billion NOT COUNTING his wife's money) got a million bucks, lying it was for "a small supplement business he runs", and bought a yacht with the money.

@davidcherry5664 3 года назад

This is the way.

@GUILLOTINE_GANG 3 года назад

Sarah Nelson *EXCELLENT* *GUEST* Economic Update *EXCELLENT* *SHOW*

@michaelhemming 3 года назад

This was a great discussion. Ms. Nelson is a passionate advocate for the Association of Flight Attendants, and she called out many advances they've made through worker organization. She also highlighted cases where other their advances are pushed out to other companies/sectors - just what happens with workers organizing. Like others on the Left, she points out the only way forward is workers organizing, arming with the word 'Strike'. Thanks to everyone who brings these discussions to us.

@jdcjr50 3 года назад

What a gift to hear this reasoned narrative!

@ponderosopine 3 года назад

Bernie said he's going to make sure lawmakers are stuck in DC until they pass a deal that includes relief checks, even if they're there on Christmas. I wasn't sure of how he was going to accomplish that, but after this interview, it has me wondering if there's another flight attendants strike in the works.

@James22426 3 года назад

The general working conditions of most Americans in the 1930's were worse than the general working conditions today. Today there is a big percentage of workers with great working conditions as compared to the 1930's. This will make it difficult to create a large base to make progressive changes.

@sreedharkurakula 3 года назад

Public strike in India is mainly against 3 laws passed by federal government that supports corporate exploitation of agricultural sector. Nothing else.

@carolynbrzezinski5779 3 года назад

Excellent show! Yes, a #GeneralStrike is what’s needed. Strike for #MedicareForAll

@Devin0327 3 года назад

When is the aviation union going to get some fucking comfort and basic human dignity on planes? Lol

@Appealsman 3 года назад

The brilliance of the NLRA from the ruling class perspective is that it shifted fights from the streets and the shop floor, where workers are strong, to the courts, and to the federal bureaucracy, where the moneyed classes have the clout. We need to put the fight back onto the streets.

@ShamanartsFlorida 3 года назад

ahhh just keep em too broke & hopeless to strike,. Hustling is the American dream career now

@jamesmorton7881 3 года назад

The 40 + million with NO JOBs, will be the lever for change. The rest of use have no guts for a real change. As long as you leave my RICE BOWL alone . . . . . . . . We have the government we deserve. VOTE FOR CHANGE. PROTEST FOR CHANGE

@Keepskatin 3 года назад

You people should have voted Trump

@charlenek11 3 года назад

Thank you for covering India properly. I knew that the coverage that was going on here was terrible, and even a left outlet that we pushed to cover it (Rising) didn't cover as well as you did. Maybe you should contact Krystal Ball and help her to fix that mess.

@ttarbill8109 3 года назад

I have yet to see any of your talks about the strike in India. Why not?

@otnielradu6324 3 года назад

Great guest Prof. Wolff. Bring back Ms. Nelson as soon as she can!

@VinsLeMans 3 года назад

Wake up people

@ricardocerrillo1897 3 года назад

...and there it is again. A massive unionization of working class interests during the 30's that changed the course for the middle class from that moment on. Nobody seems to be able to launch this kind of movement presently because there is way to much divisiveness and confusion and unwillingness to take a new approach.

@PaulHosse 3 года назад

I wrote an article a few weeks ago which outlined Biden's picks. Almost every single on are Obama or Clinton retreads. We have a 3rd term Obama.

@vg7985 3 года назад

This is why my coworkers in Southern State hate Unions. We don't get any health insurance, no vacation, no overtime pay, not even paid Christmas Day. People here feel that Union workers are overpaid, spoiled and are getting special treatment already. I understand that unions are looking to help their members, but unless they figure out more inclusive language, my coworkers would not join any general strike and would never support Unions. They would rather wait for Trump to come back

@ianpatrick3589 3 года назад

To me, the term Human Resources became normalized as the union movement came under unrelenting attack during the 80s and 90s. And it occurred as the management groups - the owners - wanted to diminish the idea that they were responsible for people's lives, in favour of the idea that the only thing that matters is the bottom line. And that requires changing the value system away from the person, and toward the thing. In fact, the term "person" disappeared along with the demise of the term Personnel Department, to be replaced by the aforesaid Human Resources Department. The shift was subtle. After all, what could possibly be impersonal about "human", and the answer lies in what also replaced the idea of person. That word Resource says it all. It turned the human into a disposable item, to be exploited and discarded as management saw fit, to keep a bottom line in the black. A Human Resources Department promises that everyone in the organization can really become something. A Personnel Department delivers the massage that everyone is already someone.

@thecitizen49 3 года назад

But didn't the airlines layoff 90,000 people after the airlines got their bailout in March?

@merlynschutterle7242 3 года назад

If the unions raises wages to a "comfortable" rate, who is going to pay for the higher prices? Just other consumers. If we are going to get the money to do that from the rich, we would need an income tax on them. People are not ready for socialism even it would be to the benefit to the working class.

@monroefuches2707 3 года назад

Wages come out of profit. That is why employers fight to keep them low. Prices are always and everywhere the most that the market will bear excepting of course the odd loss leader to get you into the store

@breft3416 3 года назад

So let's just sit on our hands and take what they give at lower class expense? Reagan started this baloney 40 years ago and now if you aren't ready for socialism the same bunch of dorks will let you eat cake until you drop dead from exhaustion! The working class is not the bottom 40, 50 or even 80%- it's more like 90 t0 95% that collect a paycheck with deductions for SSI, withholding and wage taxes and that's who's getting screwed, I don't care if you are making 300 or 400k/year. It's a sick joke, really.

@treefrog3349 3 года назад

As one wise observer once noted : "shit flows down hill". America the beautiful in 4 simple words.

@reubenmorris487 3 года назад

Highly qualified aviation mechanics, engineers, pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, and people who can pass a drug test cannot be easily replaced like a typical McDonalds burger flipper. Aviation is an extremely unique industry to work in and unlike most others. Workers in aviation have quite a bit of influence over what goes on. You gotta' choke out these managers with "NO" until they suffocate and finally 'get it.'

@DualTasticToday 3 года назад

I remember when air traffic controllers striked under Ronald. He fired them all.

@KenLeonard 3 года назад

As it needed to be. Ya don’t get to blackmail the economy.

@breft3416 3 года назад

Yes, and they laid down like dogs to their master. That's what Sarah is trying to tell you- stand up to that crap! The USA is now a bunch of Oliver Twist's, happy with a bowl of gruel.

@breft3416 3 года назад

@@KenLeonard but it's OK if it's extorting you, isn't it?

@DualTasticToday 3 года назад

@@breft3416 what year and make car or truck do you have?

@breft3416 3 года назад

@@DualTasticToday I take the bus, Gus! I think they're Hondas.

@nachannachle2706 3 года назад

The Biggest problem of the USA lies in its political terminology. In a country where the major factions are called "Republicans" and "Democrats"; you would be an absolute fool not to realise that economics essentially matter more than democracy. The labels "Labour", "Liberals", "Nationals" and "Greens" that are used in the political landscape of other Developed nations (UK, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, Holland, etc.) make much more sense. They give clarity to voters so that they know where they stand and what policies they can support over time. In the USA, people (whether apprentices, workers, employees or retirees) are never factored in the political landscape. This is because the country has adopted the governance model of profit-driven Corporations: The very fews make the decisions for the majority, with ZERO CONSULTATION whatsoever. Is it any wonder that workers Unions are non-existent, forever weak and debilitated? That said, the moment people realise that their greatest strength lies in banding together, there will be a once-in-a-lifetime defining moment for US politics. Don't ask for the power, GRAB it. All is well.

@peternyc 3 года назад

Wolff asks Sara Nelson if she sees the same amount of activism and willingness to stand up in other areas of labor. I am an ex organizer and currently work for a labor union that is relatively high profile. My union supported Hillary in 2016 (without a rank and file vote). We did not support Bernie in 2020, either. Labor is a joke. Sara Nelson answered that the young generation in labor are aware and not afraid. She's right, but that isn't an answer to Wolff's question. Young people in general, union or not, are aware and strong. Union leadership across the country has to be purged. Thrown out on their asses. They are corrupt and dirty. Socialists and communists once again have to rise and take control.

@bigdaz7272 3 года назад

The Dystopian States of Amnesia

@emmetcraig828 3 года назад

hello from Ireland Richard... discretion is used(in this case) not for humility but for secrecy... need you ask why?... I have no (for want of a better word) stature... please express a suggestion for All of us... with thanks keep up the good work!

@markuspfeifer8473 3 года назад

In Germany, there’s a more or less left wing outlet - Telepolis - that had the resources to actually investigate that India story. They had someone there and he has a network of people all over the country that he can ask. Result: the numbers were nowhere near 200 mio. That number had been put out ahead of time by the organizers and they then just kept running with that. And the last few years it was just like that too. True, there was mass protest, but for the Indian population it was vanishingly small. The article went on to explain why it’s still significant: if you get even a small fraction of the population of such a poor country to be in the streets, that really is something. So there’s no need to copy-paste some clumsy propaganda.

@brownerjerry174 3 года назад

I am from India, and I don't know who wrote those "protest demands list" for you but quite a few things are wrong, and I don't know of any leader or really anyone blaming or even talking about Muslims in this entire thing so that too. The farmers bill is to allow the farmers to sell their produce outside of the designated market, which for now is the only place those famers can sell their produce by law, this system was constructed to help the farmers but it is largely hurting them nowadays as the buyers(these buyers are given licence from the government and only these guys have the right to buy from the farmers) in those farmers market often collaborate under the table to not offer the farmers a single rupee more than what all of these buyers have decided(which is very low of course, and I mean very low, like sometimes if farmer doesn't want to sell at that price the best option he has is to just dump all of the produce as taking it all back to the village would cost more), the new bill is so that all of this doesn't happen, farmer can sell to anyone no need for licencing. A large chunk of this protest is built on misinformation, and just the anger that absolute desperate conditions that these farmers endure. Also some anti-india, and jihadist(maybe this is where the whole Muslim involvement thing is coming from) organizations are also reported to have been performing their deeds in the name of protests, like just today hundreds of mobile tower were destroyed to block communication in the Punjab state, so yeah it's not as black and white as it is potrayed. I respect you Dr.Wolff, I myself am a socialist, but a lot of things are wrong in your analysis on this particular topic maybe because the main sources were English media which is famously/infamously very biased against modi government.

@rogbrogb5341 3 года назад

Why doesn't the Labor Movement call for jobs programs like FDR had? Because many in the labor unions' leadership are oriented to the capitalist (un)Democratic Party, and hostile to anything socialist. This is continuing fallout from the McCarthy period when Socialists and Communists were driven out of the Labor Movement. Even when FDR installed the public works programs, it was to "save capitalism", as he accurately bragged. We needed, and need today, such programs, but we won't get them unless we credibly threaten them with a socialist revolution, as was done in the 1930's. FDR's economic advisor, Adolph Berle, said "we may have anything on our hands from a recovery to a revolution. The chance is about even either way." They were scared. Huey Long phoned a RETICENT FDR, saying FDR would clinch the nomination if he embraced the Bonus Marchers, the veterans of WWI who were still waiting for money they were promised, while dealing with a crashed economy. FDR: "I'm afraid I cannot do that because I am not in favor of a bonus." (!) Before Huey Long hung up, he told FDR he was "a gone goose". FDR's staff realized that "the Kingfish" was right, and wrote a speech for Roosevelt that didn't openly endorse the demands of the Bonus Marchers or other people hit by the Depression, but promised vaguely "a new deal for the American people". ( from Lance Selfa's book "The Democrats: A Critical History") FDR bragged that he "saved capitalism". Thanks, FDR for nearly another century of wars, unemployment, repression, and now the threat of extinction.

@emmetcraig828 3 года назад

p. s... note BOEING 737 MAX :Reality VS efficacy of?.. one example of many.