the union that we had built, bankrupt. sure, what is the union? a letterhead? an office?trike? we would crawl back to our jobs. it hurt. ♪ then in 1929, the whole world began to hurt. this was the time for which the union should have been ready. the time when the union should have been strongest. it was left a hollow, bankrupt shell, owing $2 million. $.10 milk we could not afford to buy. depression, yes, depression. >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> he was the turning point in the life of america. and in the life of the union. nra, blue eagle, there was a code now. a code of fair practices. >> with every passing month we , we are making strides in the orderly handling of the relationship between employees and employers. conditions differ of course, in almost every part of the country, and in almost -- >> section 7a, we did not know it but it would write a new history and american labor and the ilgwu. >> when you are just a business agent, you say hello to a fellow. now your head of organization took off. >> mike, mike deleo. glad to see you. have a sea

has a union. giving workers a voice in their workplace and negotiating for good family-supporting wages and worker safety is crucial to a family's ability to thrive. democrats will deliver on this important legislation today. but it's interesting republicans lately have been trying to falsely rebrand themselves as the party of working people while opposing the strongest bill in congress to give power to workers. the same republicans that fought tooth and nail to reduce stimulus checks and unemployment insurance preventing an increase in the minimum wage from being in the covid relief claiming they're for the working people. they refuse to vote for $1.9 trillion investment in the american people. and their tax break for the top 1%, by the way, even included a provision that might make it easier to send jobs overseas. yep. that's fighting for the average worker, in china. please, if you are the party of working people, then i'm a stunt double doppelganger for brad pitt. i hope you enjoyed me in the

what the european union is asking is reciprocity between britain and the european union.n't like that. this has to be dealt with in intense dialogue between the european commission and the british government. let's not blame either the europeans, nor... neither the europeans nor the british. we have to discuss. we have to dialogue. we have to find solutions. we are not in war and we are not enemies. we are allies. well, i wonder if you've told your successor, ursula van der leyen, that, because it seems sometimes she still is prepared to fight a war. just the other day, she said if this situation doesn't change, "we will have to reflect on how to make exports to vaccine—producing countries dependent on their level of openness." that sounds like a threat. no, i think there is some confusion in the general public, if not in the minds of decision—makers. the european union has a major conflict with one producer. that's astrazeneca. and this producer has to fulfil the commitments it has entered and the contract between them and the european union. it's not, although it seems

member, former union member leader is named secretary of labor?that is very significant. joe biden said when he was running for president that he wanted a union leader to be in his cabinet, and he has delivered on that promise. we have someone who understands what it means to be a working person as the secretary of labor, someone who has devoted a good portion of his life to working with unions and trying to make conditions better and who understands what this is all about. and i am delighted that marty walsh is our new secretary of labor. amy: stuart appelbaum, thank you for being with us, president of the retail, wholesale, and department store union. and michael foster, rwdsu organizer, leading the charge to unionized ama

the union soldiers really valued this. the confederate soldiers do, too and they are able to capture it off captured supply wagons. the problem is, this is the only way they could get other canned foods. the confederacy did not have the infrastructure to provide canned foods of this type and that meant they were not able to consistently supply their army with the food they needed. they had increase in problem supplying their armies as the war went on. particularly as livestock and other things were captured or destroyed by union troops. that, in turn, caused conditions near starvation or actual starvation among many southern armies. the fact that the confederate armies could get the food supplies they needed was a major factor in the desertion those armies were seeing toward the end of the war. the union could supply its armies, as opposed to the confederate failure to do so, was one of the major decisive factors in the outcome. we talked about food. animals also play an immensely important role in supplying some of the pr

some surveys show 50% of the workers of america would like to be in a union if they can get into a union but only 10% are in a union and part of that is because some of the sanctions of unfair labor practices like firing somebody illegally when they try to form a union, if you fire people, that is an unfair labor practice and the sampings regrettably is none at all. the sanction is that you would have to rehire the person and pay back pay when somebody is trying to pay their mortgage or get food, a year from now, they need a job. the other part of that is you get to dunth what was made in the process. if you fire somebody from the job and they get another job and make even as much or even more there may not be liability at all. you don't have to fire many people in this situation without meaningful sanctions for everybody to get the word about what happens if you are caught trying to sign a union. we discouraged that kind of thing. guest: u.s. chamber of commerce came out against this bill and wrote this legislation strips workers of their privacy and imposes california's disastrous inde

unions lift up workers, i both union and non-union, and both union and non—union, and especially— both. i have made it clear, i made it_ workers. i have made it clear, i made it clear when i was running _ i made it clear when i was running that administration's policy would be to support unions organising and the — be to support unions organising and the right to collectively bargain _ and the right to collectively bargain. i'm keeping a promise. with_ bargain. i'm keeping a promise. with that — bargain. i'm keeping a promise. with that kind of support from washington, the union believes now is the time to confront the might of amazon, which employs more than 800,000 people in america. �* ., ., more than 800,000 people in america. ., ., ., america. amazon has transformed indust , america. amazon has transformed industry. after _ america. amazon has transformed industry, after industry. _ america. amazon has transformed industry, after industry. and - industry, after industry. and what it is doing may become the model for work in the future and that's something totally unacceptable. peo

unions raise the wages of union workers, which is a good thing.king it more expensive for employers to hire workers. >> we said that in the '80s and '90s. automation, production, this is going to kill jobs. it's another one of the fear thing, the fear tactics that have been used to keep employees from coming together. >> reporter: so which side is likely to prevail? on the one hand says steve greenhouse: >> it's not easy to win a unionization battle in the south. >> reporter: but on the other: >> the bessemer-birmingham area is an old industrial area. it had steel mills and coal mines and a pullman railroad plant and it was heavily unionized. so it really could go either way. >> reporter: hat, if any, would be the significance of a union victory in bessemer, alabama, against amazon? >> it'll be a boon, a huge victory for labor. it will encourage workers at other amazon fulfillment centers to try to unionize. it will encourage other workers in the south to try to unionize. >> reporter: and if the union loses? >> it's certainly a blow to the union,

unions. is it mostly unionizing your fighting? or are there other ways if trying to organize collectively that you find interesting. or do you think unions are kind of the answer? >> and a lot of these cases there are people who are unionizing. although in some cases there unions are sort of atypical kinds of unions, right? so the videogame programmers are unions and i write about a lot of that organizing is innate and not traditional shop by shop collective bargaining model. but by a sort of international organizing for the workplace it's been to the organizing projects. so there are traditional unions that are coming back to some old practices in some cases like the teachers unions. they are sort of new units figure how to organize a new field like the game programmers union. then there are people like reinhart who i write about who was a worker at toys "r" us were something like 30 years and then toys "r" us went bankrupt in all of these thousands of people around the country who worked at

star union.nvited both ms. bates and amazon founder and executive chairman jeff bezos. i'm very happy miss bates agreed to testify, unlike mr. bezos. miss bates, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you, determine sanders, ranking members graham and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today. amazon brags it pays workers above the minimum wage. what they don't tell you is what those jobs are really like and they certainly don't tell you that they can afford to do much better for the workers working at amazon warehouse is no easy thing. the shifts are long the pace is superfast. you're constantly being watched and monitored. they seem to think you are another machine. i started working at amazon in may of 2020 not too long after they opened. by my third day i was hurting and i looked around and saw it wasn't just me. i mentioned it to my sister who also worked there at the time and she just told me it only gets worse. at amazon you are on your feet walking

so unions soldiers really value this. and confederate soldiers did to when they were able to capture it off of captured union supply wagons. but the production was the confederacy is that's the only way they can get this or many other canned foods. the confederacy didn't have the industry, nor the infrastructure to provide canned foods of this type. and the fact that the confederacy didn't have this kind of supply of camped foods meant that they weren't able to consistently supply their armies with the food they needed. the confederate army had increasing problems applying their armies as the war went on. particularly as confederate farmlands, livestock and other things were either captured or destroyed by union troops. so, that in turn caused conditions near starvation or actual starvation among many southern armies. the fact that the confederate army's cutting get the food supplies they needed was a major factor in the desertion rates that were starting to occur in those armies, particularly toward the end of the war. i

but some hopeful spark an explosion of union organizing across the united states. was called welcome to the program the pandemics disproportionate impact on women could reverse years of progress towards gender equality that is the stark warning from a new report published by the world economic forum it shows that at the current rate of progress it will take another 133 years to achieve gender parity in the areas of economic opportunity political empowerment education and health the biggest gap remains in politics where globally women occupied just over a quarter of all seats in parliament this despite the fact that female leaders have one particular praise for the handling of the pandemic one big problem is the so-called double shift throughout the crisis women have taken on more childcare and home schooling demands than men as a result they've become more likely to drop out of the workplace less likely to ascend into leadership roles and unsurprisingly have experienced more stress 30 hours 80 joins me now she is a managing director at the roald economic forum and

according to the center for union, 46% of union households voted republican, yet 86% of the union political support went to democrat candidates in 2016. clearly there is a stropping difference of opinion between union bosses and union members on the best pathway forward. but union bosses continue to spend their members' money with little accountability. workers across wisconsin and this country pay annual union dues to labor organizations in exchange for representation. not to line the pockets of the politicians. this amendment would stop unions

unions. is this mostly unionizing or finding? or are there other ways they're trying to organize collectively are trying to fight interesting? or do you think unions are kind of the answer? >> and a lot of these cases of course these are people who are unionizing. although in some cases there unions are sort of atypical kind of unions, right? the videogame programmers unions and i write about a lot of that organizing has been not in a sort of traditional shop by shop collective bargaining model. but by an is happened as much online as it has happened in a particular workplace. it is been a really targeted organizing project. and yeah. they're sort of traditional unions that are coming back some old practices in the cases like the teachers unions. there are sort of new unions are figuring out a new field like the gaming programmers union. then there are people like ann marie reinhardt who i wrote about who was a worker at toys "r" us for something like 30 years. and then toys "r" us went bankr

now here again the union was able. to couple its industrial mite in agricultural might to dramatically out produce the confederacy in terms of wool and goods and in fact the union produced 17 times more woolen and cotton textiles then the confederacy over the course of the war. now another basic material needed during the war was leather. and that comes some animal hides and that was used for all sorts of things during the civil war. my belt is made out of leather. my holster is made out of leather. my cat box is made of leather things like saddles rains. all sorts of critical things made out of leather, but perhaps the most important my boots are made out of leather and boots and shoes were virtually all made of leather during the civil war. you could not put shoes on your armies unless you use leather. once more the union is able to use its industrial and agricultural mite to far out pace the confederacy in fact the union during the course of the civil war produced 30 times more leather goods than the confederacy. no

do you see challenges get more people into unions, or strengthen the hand of unions organize?ifferent kinds of unions, what would you want to see on that front? industrial in the last century. we're going to havee new forms of unions, actually a lot of independent contractors that are starting to organize like alphabet workers or coworkers with the right rideshare drivers. when you start to see that evolution, what is really important is to give labor a pathway to see how allo of this can be organized. that's a great example of mutualism. understandably biden's went to talk about what it's needs too succeed. and i think once we start to say this is going to be, people need to be able to organize in their own way, in their own community. need to organize in the way they actually work. and the traditional labor movement we have a job of delivering the next safety net, not just giving that up to either the employee or the government. the union work should be doing that. they already use so many didifferent things in addition to collective bargaining from training, upgrading, prog

the union has to have a bargaining agreement. win recognition but a year later not to have a contract. it is also possible, although unlikely, that amazon can say we don't want a union here, so we believe. that is the dark side. the light side of all of this is the genie is out of the bottle. there are already efforts to unionize and other amazon plants. the momentum of this campaign has re-vamped, revitalized the labor movement across the country. amazon has lost in many ways, even if the vote is negative. amazon has still lost because now we have a popular, national discourse, conversation abt why unions make a difference. one of the things that is important to remember, amazon tries to sell itself as the pro-worker, progressive organization. in fact, they have signs up around the plants saying we support congress' push for a $15 minimum wage, so they can come up to our wages. but the fact is, unionize labor, poultry workers, factory workers make more money than $15 an hour. $20 an hour is the prevailing wage for unionized labo

actually are in a union. part of that is because some of the sanctions for unfair labor practices like firing somebody illegally when they try to form a union. if you fire people, that is an unfair labor practice. but the sanction, regrettably, in many cases, has none at all. the sanction would be that you have to rehire the person and pay back pay when all is said and done. when somebody is trying to pay their mortgage or buy food for the family. when all is said and done a year now, that doesn't work very well. they need a job. the other part of that is that you get to deduct whatever was made in the process. if you fire somebody from the job and they get another job to make almost as much or even more, they may not face any liability at all. you don't have to fire many people in this situation without meaningful sanctions for everybody to get the word about what happens if you are caught trying to form a union. so we put in meaningful penalties to discourage that kind of thing. host: you probably saw the u

i am a union guy. i support unions, unions built the middle class. it is about time you start to get a piece of the action. [applause] from the county executive, to the mayor, everybody who is here today, i want to say thank you. thank you, congressman for the passport to your district. i appreciate you being here. i wanted -- i am honored to be with you. two years ago, i began my campaign here in pittsburgh. i said i was running to be billed -- to rebuild the backbone of america. today, i return as your president. to lay out the vision of how i believe we do that, rebuilding the backbone of america. it is a vision not seen through the eyes of wall street and washington, but through the eyes of hard-working people. people i grew up with. union families, union workers. people like the folks i grew up with in spring and in delaware. people who get up every day, who work hard, raised their family, pay their taxes, serve their country and volunteer for their communities. ordinary americans doing extraordinary things. people who break their next every day

so there are a couple of nonnegotiable's for the european union.ple, e protecon of intellectual property rights. so, before these are solved, i do not think we will see that much of a strengthening there. >> i would like to pick up on something you set. china is considereto be a difficult partner, especially when it comes to market access. what you make of the eu's recent investment tax with a country and you think it would be ratified by the european parliament? >> first of a, i think it is a step in the right direcon that the european union and china are on the negotiating table, so that is a first thought on this. however, the european union is being promised lots of market access through this packed, -- pact, but one crucial point that is normally always part of investment treaties is missing, namely a proper and state-of-the-art dispute ttlementechanism. wiout this mechanism, the whole treaty does not have that much teeth, in fact. so, because you are asking me about ratification, when we think of europe, and how we have difficulties these day

you can find out about credit unions. the point is start off by thinking what am i and with other people i care about, do i want to form or are there a group of people or environmental issues but the most important thing after you've identified that is to then say how are we going to pay for it, let's form an organization and start to have some kind of do's. let's put a meal together, eat together and these are the things that begin to build. what doesn't build things is to just have a campaign as say it's all free for everybody because when it is free for everybody you haven't put a stake in the ground and that is nothing wrong with that when you think about the organizations you belong to whether it's your religious or community, credit union you open your wallet because you want to give back that you want the next generation to all's well so those are the most important things. >> eating a meal together is interesting and i know you talked about that in the freelancers union context as well that some of what makes this

of americans private sector were unionize incline therein of unions you see that the peak years unionization weree from 1940 to 1978 and those were xeangt the years when we have the greatest degree of equality in this country and in terms of income andor wealth spread much more equitably than today. >> and ms. bates i appreciate having you here today, and i want to make sure they give you some time to answer this question -- and it is similar to question that you were to ask earlier. so my question is what would having the opportunity to join the union mean to you and to your coworkers? >> having a union would mean to me an my coworkers is that -- we, our voices have been emphasized to give us even playing field and able to negotiate better pay wages which means that living wage and not just minimum wage that amazon voices. so it would mean is that we'll have job security that people won't get fired for mundane things or be afraid they're going get fired for doing something they have no idea of doing. i will bring respect and bring us sense of empowerment when we stand that we continue to be

a plan to unionize amazonas hatched and. fast forward to today almost $6000.00 workers voted for or against unionization now the votes are being counted union activists say that won't be the end of it likely if. it's a pro union leaf but. if the workers win this vote it's going to be a big struggle. to come to any agreement with them you know. bargain with them but we all know it's a question of power. and there's also the other side of course. we are against it and we are very happy with what we are getting is far has been if it we're happy with working conditions we're happy with the opportunity. speaking of advancement whatever the bessemer vote will be amazon is sure to face more pressure for unionization in the future. we've got some tips for your bucket list. it's hard for some. and some great cultural memorials to boot. w. trouble. just listen this is the sound of time passing as forests the size of 25 football fields are lost every minute adding to greenhouse gases but what is the sound of a tree not for us the sound

or members of the trade unions. we had that mix. and back from the days of a great strike on broadway in the theater days, there had been a tradition in the picture business to reconcile the differences between stage hands. what had happened in the theaters in the old days was that a stage hand did everything in the theater, not just backstage with the stage. so that if a seat needed fixing out in front, he came out like a carpenter and fixed the seat. and this had led to the jurisdictional strike on broadway. and the settlement finally was that everything behind the prosenum arch belonged to the stage hands. everything in front of it belonged to the craft units, plumbers, electricians, carpenters and so forth. in hollywood they made the prosenium arch the sound stage door. anything in there was stage hands. but every studio had mills where they made in sections the sets. and you'd see at the end of the day the sets for the next day's shooting being wheeled down on rollers down the studio streets, huge sections like

do you see the challenges getting more people to the union or different kinds of unions?what do you want to see on that front? >> you can see in the 18 hundreds in the last century and especially independent contractors. with the rideshare drivers and that evolution to get the labor a pathway and that's the design of the mutual list. president biden will talk to the afl-cio what we need to succeed and then to organize in their own way and their own community to organize as a way that they work in traditional labor has a job of the next safety net not just giving that up to the employer or the government. they already used so many different things with collective bargaining retiree assistance so we just have to expand what they do and that's how they come together. it isn't all pollyanna. but once people see somebody once them to survive and thrive, they are much more open. but under siege the future doesn't look bright if you are fighting for your survival. >> so depending on what the future of work is or should be and what comes along with that what it is of hard to know

those reforms ultimately undid the soviet union. and finally, there's a sort of emerging school of thought, which is the school i want to belong to, right, that reagan and gorbachev worked together to set the foundation for a peaceful end to the cold war and the dissolution of the soviet empire. i think gorbachev deserves most of the credit although he probably would like to take it. he was a valid socialist, but i think his policies ultimately are what undid the soviet union. but i think reagan deserves a lot of credit for working with gorbachev in order to basically establish better relations to enable gorbachev to carry out those reforms at home. that's where i fit in. i know i'm speaking to a more conservative audience, so i'm not either one of the first two. so don't be too angry with me, right. all right. let's go ahead and jump into the 1980s. so conservatives were frustrated with reagan's foreign policy throughout the 1980s, but they were also really frustrated with other things reagan attempted to do in the foreign policy a

they convey their existence is denied by the soviet union.lbania, by 1944, commonest aversion under the red leader results in only one governing party being recognized in albania. the albanian workers party, the commonest party. having cited the commonest pot -- policy as the dove of peace, this is manchuria destroyed after six months of soviet and chinese liberation. these are men trained factories. -- manchurian factories. khrushchev says our state has rejected the loot and violence of occupation. here is grim evidence to the contrary. it was only one of the many incidents of wanton looting. the example of mongolia. this mongolian official is an agent of the kremlin. he has ordered -- he is ordered to moscow to ask for form role corroboration of mongolia into the ussr. the example of yugoslavia. in may 1946, stalin some is the head of the federal people's republic of yugoslavia. they signed a treaty of mutual assistant -- assistance and friendship. he is unanimously remotely -- reelected president by the constituent national assembly. subve

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it's a pro union leaflet. if the workers win this vote it's going to be a big struggle for sam has to come to any agreement with them you know the laws. have to bargain with them but we all know it's a question of power. and there's also the other side of course amazon employees who don't want the you know we are against it and we are very happy with what we are getting as far as benefits we're happy with our working conditions we're happy with the advancement opportunities. speaking of advancement whatever the bessemer vote will be amazon is sure to face more pressure for unionization in the future. and that's all from in the business team here in berlin if you want more from us to check out our website as we don't come slash business you can also find us on facebook twitter. too next time go by and take that. entered the conflict zone the government of sri lanka has been strongly criticized the un human rights council which warned them into curating situation in the country and the increase marginalize ation

and the union busting business came up and union membership started declining, productivityity kept zooming up but workers' compensation was totally flat. since 1989, productivity has increased 70% but compensation only 12 pfpblgt what about income inequality, we go to the next one. for the last 00 years, income inequality has tracked union membership almost exactly. so if you take the share of income, taken by the top 0% of the work force, you can see that as union membership grew, income inequality fell. look at the difference that the national labor relations board act itself made in 1935. union membership shot up. the wages of the top 10% shot down as a share of everybody's. we got more equal. we achieved the american dream. and now with 1,000 cuts to union membership, we're down to 6% of private sector workers being in unions, there's incredible divergence and the wealthy have taken all the gains and workers aren't in unions anymore. let's look at some specific stuff as we get the next slide up here. let's start with benefits. union members make -- have more benefits and better

of workers wanted unions.if you watch the movie the irishman you have seen that. >> i haven't. the teamsters, right? >> jimmy hoffa was a national celebrity. household names. who could name the leader today? >> i have heard i guess like the critique that has become normalized in a lot of ways, is kind of blaming unions. you asked for all these things and push these companies out of the united states. it forced these companies to either close, go bankrupt as general motors did, or whatever, like replace everybody with robots. how do you respond to that? >> the guy from "wall street journal" accorsi said look at flint today, look at the uaw. >> exactly. and detroit, too. >> flint was a one horsepower town. everything was gm. gm's hourly workhorses, in the '70s, i think i'd that in the book, in the 1980, flint at the highest salary for young workers of any city in the country. >> 1980? >> 1980, yeah. i think they had like 80,000 gm workers another have like x thousand. they only have come companywide you have 10%

so these are union scouts union soldiers who function wearing at times confederate uniforms. so that they can infiltrate and get information from the enemy well major young his scouts were well aware. of one particular individual who potentially could go back and forth between union and confederate lines without arousing any suspicions at all, and it's a fellow you see there on the right side of the screen tom laws. so this was an individual? that major young and his scouts believed in their words was loyal to the union and shrewd. thomas laws was in his mid 40s at this stage of his life. he was an enslaved man from millwood in clark county, virginia. he undoubtedly had a great affinity a great loyalty to the union cause but there was one thing that he had. that major young thought made him the perfect individual to come back and forth between those lines again without arousing any suspicion. he had a pass. that was signed by confederate officials which allowed him to enter winchester three times a week. to sell produce and vegetables to confederate soldiers as well as civili

anyone who is a union activist or has been put in their job or on the school board by the unions, they are empowered. these activist quote teachers bullying parents, doxxing parents and targeting them, they are not teachers. they are radical leftists who i agree should be fired immediately. what's happened is the dedicated teachers like myself, there are millions of them. they are trapped in a corrupt system. they have been bullied literally, laura, for about 60 years. teachers like myself have been bullied because the unions use mafia tactics to shut teachers up and so we all all have to stand together.to >> laura: we support those good teachers. i mentioned in my angle loudoun county teachers blacklisting parents. andrea weiskopf, teacher in seneca ridge middle school named of a father who criticized crt. "an educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor." rebecca. a teacher calling herself a revolutionary? well, maybe finally that teacher is telling the truth. she is a revolutionary. >> exactly. what she's done is she has shined a light on what these u

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were unionized, and the decline of unions, you see the peak years of unionization were 1940 until 1978, and those were exactly the years we have the greatest degree of equality in this country in terms of income and wealth spread more equitably than today. sen. lujan: ms. bates, i much appreciate having you here today and i want to make sure i give you some time to answer this question. it is similar to a question you were asked earlier. what would having the opportunity to join a union mean to you and your coworkers? ms. bates: what having a union would mean to me and my coworkers is our voices are being amplified. it would give us an even playing field, to negotiate better pay wages. that means a living wage and not just the minimum wage. it would mean we had job security and people will not get fired for mundane things or be afraid they will get fired for doing something they had no idea of doing. it would bring us respect and a sense of empowerment, that we believe we are valued. it would bring commitment to the job. having a union to amplify what we are saying would bring us secur

today, their existence is utterly denied by the soviet union., by 1944, communist subversion under the red leader results in only one governing party being recognized in albania. the albanian workers party, the communist party. this is manchuria, destroyed after six months of soviet and chinese liberation. khrushchev said, our state has refused all that rests on loot and violence of occasion. here is grim evidence to the contrary. it was only one of the many incidents of wanton looting. the example of mongolia. this mongolian official is an agent of the kremlin. he is ordered to moscow to ask for formal incorporation of mongolia into the ussr. the example of yugoslavia. in may, 1946, stalin summons the head of the federal people's republic of yugoslavia. they signed a treaty of mutual assistance and friendship. july, 1946, he returns to czechoslovakia from heading the government in exile during the war years. he is unanimously re-elected president by the constituent national assembly. subversive elements arranged a coalition government. very soo

um, i think that unions -- i believe unions are serious in terms of wanting to see kids educated, but i think unions to some degree have conflicting views. for example -- i heard shavar talk about the democratic party needs to be pushed on some issues. the other thing the democrat party has the push unions on is more accountability. as the union president, and i will be very honest, up until i had this a-ha moment of quality education for kids, i didn't have a teacher that was a bad teacher. that's ridiculous, because we've got bad folks in every profession. i'm just saying, the democratic party has to push unions more on accountability and quality instruction. that is one of the things that i think is going to be important. but i do believe unions from a philosophical standpoint would support quality education as a civil right. again, i am not speaking on behalf of the decision-makers. i'd be very surprised if unions wouldn't get behind any type of legal action that would guarantee kids' right to a quality education. regarding how unions view other schools outside the traditional pub

drive, and organizing efforts across america. >> unions lift up workers, both union and non-union, and on whether to organize a union in your workplace. it's your right, not that of an employer. it's your right. no employer can take that right away. so make your voice heard. >> joining us now, stuart appelbaum. the president of the retail, wholesale, and department stores union. what joe biden just said there, saying to workers, it is your right. no company can take it away from you. in fact, many states, particularly in the southern united states, they've worked really hard to either discourage or take that right away from workers to unionize and to collectively bargain. >> yes, that's true. and it's good to be with you today to talk about this. we saw today several congress members coming to alabama to understand better what it is the company is doing to try to intimidate them and to try to thwart any organizing effort that is going on there. and i believe they were amazed and outraged by what they saw. they heard about how amazon has been holding mandatory lecture people on why unio

they— minds of european union citizens. they say— minds of european union citizens.e astrazeneca vaccine this week, 12 have _ astrazeneca vaccine this week, 12 have now — astrazeneca vaccine this week, 12 have now fallen underlying given the european _ have now fallen underlying given the european medicines agency the green li-ht european medicines agency the green light earlier today. what we are seeing — light earlier today. what we are seeing hesitancy grow in the uk where _ seeing hesitancy grow in the uk where we — seeing hesitancy grow in the uk where we have had a huge response, positive _ where we have had a huge response, positive response to getting the vaccine — positive response to getting the vaccine i— positive response to getting the vaccine. i got mine as an early 50—something yesterday and i was expected _ 50—something yesterday and i was expected to wait a long time at the school— expected to wait a long time at the school which is doubling up as a vaccine — school which is doubling up as a vaccine centre, and i was straight and there — vaccine cent

with days before voting closes, what is at stake. >> union now, union later, you need forever. >> inssemer, alabama, the fight for economic and racial justice merged, as thousands of amazon employees look to become the first unionized house in the u.s.. >> when we saved black lives matter, we mean black lives at work. they finding one of the biggest companies in the history of the world and are going to keep pressing. >> workers are voting on whether to join the retail, wholesale and department store union. among main grievances, insufficient break time at the intense monitoring of employees, during physically demanding shifts that last up to 12 hours. >> we are aching, legs sore, hands cracking, cramping so bad, i try to him cramp it in your aching all over. >> since the start of the pandemic amazon workers have come under increasing pressure amid the rise of online shopping. to meet growing demand, the tech giant hired half a million people in the past year. meanwhile, the company delivered a record performance in 2020. net profits jumped 84%, compared to 2019, at annual revenue in