(audio) “I also think that one of the major challenges for Trade Unions is to explain that Trade Unions are not just protecting like a specific type of job that is by and large no longer realistic for many young people and for many young people, Trade Unions are something for old people--old white people, for boomers, right.”
That’s Cas Mudde (KAS MUDA), a political scientist from the University of Georgia. “That’s why Trade Unions at universities are important but of course universities are among the most privileged. Right and so you have to get to that level of people who are overall skeptical about old school type of mobilization which on top of that seed--is kind of mobilization as something for kind of rigid structures whereas they are going to work in an economy where they jump from one job to another.” Political scientist Cas Mudde (KAS MUDA), on State of the Unions, the AFL-CIO podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1931, 60,000 unemployed workers rallied at a Pittsburgh stadium. Today’s labor quote is from “Yablonski Murder,” by Hazel Dickens. United Mine Workers reformer Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on this date in 1969 by hitmen hired by union president Tony Boyle. Boyle was convicted of the crime and eventually died in prison. Well it's cold blooded murder friends, I'm talking about Now who's gonna stand up and who's gonna fight? You better clean up that union, put it on solid ground Get rid of that dirty trash, that keeps a working man down Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you’re thinking about buying a new or used car soon, you can use the Union Plus Auto Buying Service to see what others are paying for the car you want, and lock in your price so there's no haggling at the dealership. Plus, you get rebates on new union made vehicles. Visit unionplus.org/autobuying.
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