Episode 440 - "I'll Win With or Without You" (w/ Eric Blanc)
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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What's next for labor under Trump? Biden's reputation as the most pro-union President in a generation took a hit with his opposition to the railroad strike a year ago and was further diminished following recent reporting that Kamala Harris dismissed Teamsters president Sean O'Brien saying, "I'll win with or without you." The Democrats' procedural bungle also resulted in the National Labor Relations Board swinging Republican two years before it had to. Certainly things could get worse under Trump, but is there evidence for optimism in the labor space? Author of the new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor & Winning Big Eric Blanc joins Bad Faith to make the case.
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| 0:11.0 | I'm really glad to be joined today on the podcast by Eric Blanc. |
| 0:43.8 | He is an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. |
| 0:47.4 | He blogs at the substack labor politics and is the author of the new book, We Are the Union, |
| 0:52.8 | how worker-to-worker organizing is revitalizing labor and winning big. |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome, Eric. |
| 0:57.9 | Thanks for a minute. |
| 0:59.2 | It's been a while since we did a labor episode. |
| 1:00.9 | So I actually have some housekeeping items that I wanted to talk to about |
| 1:04.0 | before we talk about your book. |
| 1:05.7 | And this piece he wrote recently in Jacobin titled Labor's Resurgence |
| 1:09.8 | can continue despite Trump. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm very interested in knowing what your short view, long, midterm view is on how the Trump |
| 1:17.9 | administration is going to affect what have been some pretty significant labor gains over the |
| 1:24.3 | last few years. |
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