Laura Flanders & Friends | Labor Safety, Project 2025, & the Far Right’s Plot Against Workers: What You Need to Know @LauraFlandersAndFriends | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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What risks do working people face this Labor Day? Workers continue to die on the job and struggle to protect worker safety, but the dangers for labor go beyond bad bosses. On the federal level, the far Right’s Project 2025 playbook has plans to gut unions, fire federal workers and limit the power of agencies like the National Labor Relations Board. In this special for Labor Day, Laura Flanders is joined by co-host Maximillian Alvarez, of The Real News Network @therealnews) and James Goodwin, Policy Director at the Center for Progressive Reform. The episode also includes a report from the School of Labor and Urban Studies at the City University in New York (@cunyslu) on the rise of construction worker deaths in New York City; and an excerpt of “'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy”, a report from The Real News Network’s Marc Steiner on the Texas effort to overturn workers’ rights to mandatory worker water breaks. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on people as policy, and the late union organizer and author Jane McAlevey.
“You do not need to be in a union to act like one, even in the most exploitative industries with the most dangerous working conditions. When workers know their rights and band together to exercise them, they can accomplish incredible things and drastically improve their lives.” - Maximillian Alvarez
“The disparities between me and my bosses are going to be made even bigger. My coworkers who may not look like me, who may be queer or people of color are going to be fearful to speak out because they don't have recognized civil rights anymore . . . That's the dynamic that Project 2025 is trying to set up . . .” - James Goodwin
GUESTS:
James Goodwin: Policy Director, Center for Progressive Reform
Maximillian Alvarez (Co-host): Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network; Author, The Work of Living
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Credits:
Executive Producer: Laura Flanders
Supervising Producer: Sabrina Artel
Senior Consulting Producer: Rory O’Connor
Consulting Producer: Jordan Flaherty
Senior Video Editor: David Neumann
Audio Director: Jeannie Hopper
Development Director: Sarah Miller
Communications Director: Janet Hernandez
Executive Assistant: Nady Piña
Technical Creative: Nat Needham
00:00 – Intro
02:30 – Prioritizing Workplace and Labor Safety
08:12 – Right to Self-Govern and Texas’ “Death Star” Bill
12:56 – Project 2025; Returning Power to The Public
15:24 – Working In Government, Section F
19:18 – Division in Society Through An Authoritarian Blueprint
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What risks do working people face this Labor Day? Workers continue to die on the job and struggle to protect worker safety, but the dangers for labor go beyond bad bosses. On the federal level, the far Right’s Project 2025 playbook has plans to gut unions, fire federal workers and limit the power of agencies like the National Labor Relations Board. In this special for Labor Day, Laura Flanders is joined by co-host Maximillian Alvarez, of The Real News Network @therealnews) and James Goodwin, Policy Director at the Center for Progressive Reform. The episode also includes a report from the School of Labor and Urban Studies at the City University in New York (@cunyslu) on the rise of construction worker deaths in New York City; and an excerpt of “'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy”, a report from The Real News Network’s Marc Steiner on the Texas effort to overturn workers’ rights to mandatory worker water breaks. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on people as policy, and the late union organizer and author Jane McAlevey.
“You do not need to be in a union to act like one, even in the most exploitative industries with the most dangerous working conditions. When workers know their rights and band together to exercise them, they can accomplish incredible things and drastically improve their lives.” - Maximillian Alvarez
“The disparities between me and my bosses are going to be made even bigger. My coworkers who may not look like me, who may be queer or people of color are going to be fearful to speak out because they don't have recognized civil rights anymore . . . That's the dynamic that Project 2025 is trying to set up . . .” - James Goodwin
GUESTS:
James Goodwin: Policy Director, Center for Progressive Reform
Maximillian Alvarez (Co-host): Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network; Author, The Work of Living
🎧 PODCAST: Listen to this week's episode on major podcast platforms (Available 9/4): lauraflanders.simplecast.com/episodes/labor-safety-project-2025-the-far-rights-plot-against-workers-what-you-need-to-know
✏️SHOW NOTES: Visit our Patreon for Show Notes and learn more about this week's episode (Available 9/1): patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriends
Laura Flanders & Friends is non-commercial independent media that relies on the contributions of viewers and listeners.
DONATE TODAY at lauraflanders.org/donate or consider becoming a PATREON partner at patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriends
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Credits:
Executive Producer: Laura Flanders
Supervising Producer: Sabrina Artel
Senior Consulting Producer: Rory O’Connor
Consulting Producer: Jordan Flaherty
Senior Video Editor: David Neumann
Audio Director: Jeannie Hopper
Development Director: Sarah Miller
Communications Director: Janet Hernandez
Executive Assistant: Nady Piña
Technical Creative: Nat Needham
00:00 – Intro
02:30 – Prioritizing Workplace and Labor Safety
08:12 – Right to Self-Govern and Texas’ “Death Star” Bill
12:56 – Project 2025; Returning Power to The Public
15:24 – Working In Government, Section F
19:18 – Division in Society Through An Authoritarian Blueprint
