@snoopydawg

People have been so propagandized they don't realize it. For years unions kept worker's rights safe and added more rights which meant that companies couldn't work you to death. But that has all changed over the years of so much anti union talk.

Most of the comments here are anti union. I saw one that mentioned the work they have done, and this is how that was explained:

Pragmatichist

Good job, 'Bama!! Reject the totalitarian state that unions bring, reject the pettiness, reject the hassles of the union!Yes, without certain unions we would still have kids in our factories and making pennies on the dollar, but times have changed since then. Unions had their place in the sun once, but that sun has set. Now unions are just as greedy and uncaring about "their" workers as the so-called "greedy corporations". Finally, some common sense in the world.

I would say that union leadership anymore fits that bill. They have joined hands too much with democrats and union membership has been destroyed. I guess it is better if everyone works 'as is' and can be fired for any reason without consequences. Work for a company for 50 years and a week away from retirement and all those juicy bennies? Tuff.

Great comeback:

But unions just don't make sense anymore in a country where the rich get richer, the middle class is disappearing, companies can just hire "contractors" instead of employees so they don't have to provide benefits or rights, corporations don't want any restrictions on sending jobs overseas, and the dream of owning a home has completely disappeared for a huge number of Americans.Unions belong in middle class nations like in Europe. Not in the 2-class America we are headed to.

Emails Reveal Amazon Pushed USPS for Private Box at Alabama Warehouse as Union Vote Began

"Amazon felt it was above the law and worked with the Postal Service anyway to install one. They did this because it provided a clear ability to intimidate workers."

Leaders of the effort to unionize workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center were outraged following the revelation Thursday that the tech titan pressured the United States Postal Service into installing a private mailbox outside the warehouse just as employees began voting on the measure,

The Washington Post—which is owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos—reports one of the reasons why the mailbox is so controversial is that NLRB, which is supervising the Bessemer unionization vote, had denied the company's request to install boxes at the facility, citing concerns for worker safety amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The labor board should be stepping in any minute and overseeing what actually happened with the vote that went down in flames. It could be in Alabama people are very anti union, or it could have been something else. Answers would be nice. Seems to me that the US post office worked hand in hand with Amazon to defeat the vote. That seems kinda bad.

ETA

Howard Dean everyone's once favorite progressive is now telling Biden not to lift vaccine patents for poor countries. Nice sociopathic behavior eh?

@ban nock when I remember it, and sort through various videos people bring to my attention.
I am not dedicated to watching anything.
Hope one and all are healthy and happy here.

He was the right, and Krystal the left, but both were on the populist track. Krystal was also a big booster of Ojeda who ran for congress in WV. I don't do much watching of anything nor podcasts, more a reader. Glad she has her thing going on though. Williamson also has some good ideas.