i was a union worker ever since i got out of the service in 1966. unions, we need unions. thank you. guest: homer, i want to amplify what he said. while women get lower wages and the general economy, our union jobs, women don't get lower wages. they get equal pay. blacks don't get come up people of color though get discriminated against. they get equal pay for jobs they do. it really is a silver rights thing as well. we protect them, we end -- it is a civil-rights thing as well. we protect them. we end discrimination. that's one of the best things about the union. it's a civil-rights movement as well as labor movement. host: a text here from tony in florida who wants to know, said he keeps hearing that unions are mandating vaccines. do they support vaccine mandates? guest: yes we do. if you're coming back into the workplace, you have to know what is around you. first of all, if you come back in and you are not vaccinated everybody in your workplace is jeopardized. if we don't know if you've been vaccinated or not we can't make the proper accommodations to make sure that yo

that is what unions are. a collection of people who basically want rights, respect, decent wages and benefits. that is what we think a modern labor movement should really be. workers in every sector, every kind of job, should have that right. that is up to us in the labor movement to show the world we are up to the task. >> in many ways the economy is quite strong. in a strange way, does that kind of hurt your effort to do more for workers right? >> i don't know. every worker i talk to these days doesn't see the economy being strong, right? most people have been falling through the crack's. we have seen the social safety net, the lack of, during the pandemic. women especially, who have lost jobs disproportionately in the pandemic, i think more than a million more jobs than men. the lack of child care, elder care, care for the differently abled, the fact that we have no support for working families who are trying to get by. luckily, we have investments on the table with this build back better agenda that we ho

, and when the united farm workers union merged with the united farm workers committee to become a union, she was one of the main communicators out there to the radio and the tv and the printed media and the goals of the union, and also contract negotiator which was something that which she was extremely successful. she was as well a picket captain and one of the strategstrategyi the great boycott. it was a great boycott that grew from a local level and grew to be an international level by 1967. so what happened is that in times when there was not much harvesting activity, basically grape pickers and farm workers just went to super markets around the nation asking consumers not to buy grapes that were produced by companies that did not negotiate with the unions. and it is the first time that consumers were made aware of the human cost of the produce. so here, she is wearing a sweater that was knitted by a supporter of the union and given to her. dolores had as i said, by the time she started the national farm workers organization with ceasar chavez, she had seven children and another one

what union do you belong to? >> local 41 idw,idw, i want to s been the best thing that's ever happened to me. wages, health benefits, pensions, and every person i talked to said that i wish that i got into union at a younger age. free education. it's good programming and it has a bad name. we have to be productive and we are very productive with our wages and scale, right to work is wrong. lee don't understand -- people don't understand the true purpose of the union in today's day and age. guest: i couldn't agree more. i would like to amplify a few things you said and that you said, greta. one of the best kept secrets in the country is about education. other than the military, unions provide more education every year than any other group through an apprenticeship program. we create the most skilled workers and because they are the most skilled workers, they can get higher wages. employers compete and they outbid everybody in the industry because our workers are more competitive and productive. and then we bring t

you have a pin of the union with arabic script that says vote for the union and another one that is abol of the women. something that i found very interesting with all of the pins is that they refer to the reach of the boycott, to the international and multinational reach of the boycott and its composition as well. the pin with the arabic message really speaks about the yemeni workers who were part of the movement, and this is a movement that has been often referred to as mainly a mexican and mexican-american movement, but it was broader than that. the filipinos were extremely important to the movement, but also african-american workers there were white-american workers, and puerto rican workers and yemeni workers. and this series of pins speaks to that international reach and multicultural reach as well with the effort and the whole message of this being a moral cause. this is a bit of the conclusion wall to exhibition where we see the piece of dolores huerta of leading a life of community organizing being arrested two dozen times. and actually in the late 1980s, she was the victim o

union officers hired him as a servant. although he offered intelligence in military assistance, they distrusted him and suspected he was a confederate spy. singleton was soon given an opportunity to demonstrate his loyalty. union soldiers caught a young confederate major from the 1st north carolina cavalry and asked singleton to identify the prison's identity. singleton proceeded to furnish officers with further information about the location of the unit. based upon this intelligence, singleton participated in an attack on kingston on horseback as a guide. he approached the confederates unarmed and the skirmish resulted in the injury of his horse. he informed one colonel that i would not fight any more unless i was prepared to defend myself. prior to the war, african-american men in slave holding states were not permitted to bear arms. a right of which historians take for granted. this was one of many citizenship claims refugees demanded in exchange for their service. the officer responded, quote, the war will be over befo

what is a union? it becomes more and more popular, and he is a rival force to cesar chavez, not because he wants to run the labor union but as a credible voice for farm workers. he also sort of embodies the more radical element of the movement. not in terms of their politics interfering but in their independence. so if any of you know or have dealt with people who are real politically active, they have strong opinions. there comes a period of time in 1967 when those opinions are not really welcome. chavez, i think, never particularly believed in a democratic organization. he did a good imitation in the earlier years of being a democracy, but it never really was a democracy. so in 1967 are the first purges. luis valdez did a great session with me at the los angeles public library earlier this week, which is also online, and he talks publicly for the first time in that video -- audio, rather, of being purged. i found all the records. he told me the story, but then i actually found the written minutes of

the union must be saved by the colored volunteer. oh, give us a flag, all free without a slave, we'll fight to defend it as our fathers did so brave. the gallant company a will make the rebels dance, and we'll stand by the union if we only have a chance. published in the liberator magazine on june 19th, 1863, this excerpt of the song "give us a flag" was written by an unknown private in the 54th massachusetts regiment, and by the way, the majority of the people who served in the 54th massachusetts regimeny were either themselves from virginia or were the descendents of virginians. so this particular regiment, this song expressed, and this is just an excerpt by the way, and i will not sing it, expressed the sentiments and the passions of many who volunteered in their fight for freedom and the freedom of their people during the civil war. indeed, the civil war was a watershed for american society. as visitors will see when you actually go to the american civil war museum and you look in galleries four, five, and six that talk about the

so, union soldiers really value this. and confederate soldiers did to when they were able to capture it off of captured union supply wagons. but the problem with the confederacy is, that's the only way they can get this, or many other canned foods. the confessedly -- 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 other canned foods meant that they weren't able to consistently supply their armies with the food they needed. the confederate army had increasing problems supplying 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 of near starvation or actual starvation among many southern armies. the fact that the confederate armies could not get the food supplies they needed was a major factor in the desertion rates that were starting to occur in those armies, particularly t

there's unions tied into that. what happens over time taps changing its line moves on to something else, does the credit union to change based, or just two blocks from where i grew up, there's a major processor, what happens from communities affected by whether or happens to the credit union connected with cornstarch processor? i'm looking at the micro and macro as we approach this. >> that's wonderful and i look forward to the work you're doing because in nevada in the west, wildfires, it is a daily thing and devastating impact to families and structures and businesses, small businesses and farmers and ranchers on the range and so i'm hoping part of your focus as well. >> last year when we have the wildfires, we had a number of credit unions applying for urgent needs because their systems were completely destroyed as a result of wildfires and we helped make sure personal credit unions have access. >> great, thank you. your written testimony recommend adopting a two-pronged approach to climate change. my question t

and teachers you don't have to be in a union you can leave your union and still work.teve: great discussion. we will see you later in the show. just a quick word before break former president obama stood up on the dance floor and told the ridiculous fear mongering brigade where to get off no mask or social distancing a massive crowd tightly packed indoors having fun just like the good old days before the country was taken over pseudo- scientist and zealots if you been vaccinated you are cruel incompetent authoritarian government done misinformation of the panic super spreaders you can according to obama ignore them all. look, this isn't my first rodeo and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it's just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, it's helped over a million americans. a reverse mortgage loan isn't some kind of trick to take your home. it's a loan, like any other. big difference is how you pay it back. find out how reverse mortgag

the unions don't like throwing another one at them. you're going to get pushed back and that's what you're seeing. yeah, that's exactly what unions remain to come out in the 1st place. excellent point. consider here, professor richard will thank you for your time. thank you. the time now for a quick break. so when we come back, hundreds of flights keep getting cancel weaving, passengers stranded and crowded airport at a time when coven cases are already on the right, we'll discuss the impact next. and as we go to break sure the numbers, that's the clothes shoes . ah. okay, let's go to nigeria, here's a country that is suffering from inflation. they have a huge population of 200000000 or more very young people that are already online already on their phones. and the government is not really able to crack down, let's say is you could see in china, they ban all those things together. and you have a breakout, you have a breakthrough, you have the big point, standard emerging. and that's so exciting because it means that the world will be b

the unions don't like throwing another one. that them you're going to get pushed back and that's what you're seeing. yeah, that's exactly what unions remained to come out in the 1st place. excellent point. consider here, professor richard will thank you for your time. thank you. time now for a quick break. so when we come back, hundreds of flights keep getting cancel weaving, passengers stranded and crowded airport at a time. one covey cases are already on the right. we'll discuss the impact next. and as we go to break sure, the numbers, that's the clothes shoes . ah ah ah, the news came me the new gold rushes underway, and gunner thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the goldfields, hoping to strike it. rich children are torn between gold and education. my family was very poor. i thought i was doing my best to get back to school, which still it will have the strongest appeal the the, the, the the welcome back. it's the notification. no traveler wants to receive hundreds of flights cancelled for a 3rd day for those

i was the union worker ever since i got out of the service in 1956. we need unions. thank you. guest: i also want to amplify what homer said. while women get lower wages in the general economy, on a union job, women don't get lower wages, they getting pay -- they get equal pay. blacks and people of color don't get discriminated against, they get equal pay for the jobs they do. it is really a civil rights thing as well. we protect them. we end discrimination. we fight hard to make sure that our members are treated fairly and the late -- and equally. the contract guarantees that. that's one of the best things about the union, it's a civil rights movement as well as a labor movement. host: a text from tony, in florida, who wants to know. he keeps hearing that unions oppose vaccination mandates by state and local governments. does afl-cio support vaccine mandates? guest: we do. it's important. if you are coming back into the workplace you have to know what's around you. if you come back in and you are not vaccinated, everybody in that workplace is jeopardized. if we don't know whet

the union military. it also helps us see that in these little pockets throughout the war where there are concentrations of refugees, that the people who really come forward are the people who have long been engaged and some sort of rebellious activity, extra illegal activity, or resistance activity, right? and so they are kind of ready for this moment. they don't think that -- i think they kind of hope against hope that something will happen in their favor. i don't think it is inevitable that they will be accepted all received into the army, but it is something about their history, tells us that they think it is worth to try to keep coming back. with singleton, he keeps running away throughout his life, and you can see that he's kind of the perfect candidate for reconnaissance work in the u.s. military. the union military. >> -- black military service in the united states. within that tradition is black service in the u.s. navy, which was continuous. i was hoping you could address the role of black sailo

particularly the union. now, the union and the confederacy took a much different approach with regard to these animals. the union took a more centralized approach. they would purchase these animals for their armies. whereas in the confederacy, it was the soldier who would have to procure their own horse or mule very often. that also meant the union took a much more centralized approach to the care of these animals. by 1863, the union has developed a veterinarian corps where they have veterinary officers dispatched to cavalry units to make sure the needs of these animals are being looked after including their veterinary needs. the confederacy took a very decentralized approach with regard to the care and feeding of the animals. that largely fell to the individual soldier. as the war goes on, the confederacy has a tougher and tougher time meeting the needs of its animals. particularly things like adequate food. despite the best efforts of both sides during the civil war, the war takes a terrible toll on equine

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position of european union. and there was no disagreement in the block, but your next door, you're right physically, we are next door. yes. but the same arguments held where there was a debate about russia imposing sanctions. i would say on its own people, off to crimea where europe and union imposed sanctions and, and russia and both factions that made foot more expensive or some, some products that usually came from european union, unaccessible for, for, for russian people. so this was not the faction against european union, but entrance against against the russian people. but still there were impacts on, on the trades that we had a big part of re export because the geographically we close, the big part of free export went to, to russia. there was a decent share of agricultural production that went to russia and as we had to pay this, is that too expensive for us? but, you know, when you deal with the markets that are no rule of law, countries that are not stable regimes where you can be sure that your rights

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

confederacy wherever union troops were present. freedom seekers designated as contrabands of war struggled with finding them a permanent safe haven with most in constant motion because they followed the union troops wherever they went, and wherever they moved throughout the southern region, because, like in fort monroe, they were ejected from the fort, itself. the u.s. government though, they were ill prepared to provide sustenance and support to the thousands of refugees to the union lines which is why they had an incredibly high mortality rate. the officials saw the lines in forts as transitional areas from which the freedom-seekers would be resettled. the areas however were reselt resettlement areas would be ill defined and ill supplied. mostly the sole focus was fighting the wara and the xis -- exigencies of these areas resulted in large numbers of death. in "sick from freedom" historian jim downs highlighted the challenges that many of the civil war refugees faced. he observed that many of those fleeing from slavery to union l

it wasn't a union let. they weren't quite ready when they were founded to start a union.1965 -- i know some of you know in history, the filipinos that was on september 8, 1965. chavez and the nfwa are going to join the filipinos in that strike on september 16, which is a big mexican holiday in 1965. the strike is to walk out of the fields in protest for higher wages. the strike is going to last five long years. along the way, i told you at the beginning of the lectures that the strategy shifts right from the strike to the boycott of grapes, right. but it takes five long years of farm workers organizing themselves boycotting grapes, protesting, trying to get consumers to not consume delano table grapes, to get the industry to finally sign contracts. that does happen in 1970. that's a kind of a short history of the u.f.w. but i want to spend a few minutes talking about luis valdez and the plan for deleno which is the document i had you read. because i think this document captures some of the spirit of the time, the spirit of the 1960s particularly talking about max men -- m

for joining the union. those are the big fears that people who were my students who lived this history to their families that's something they reported. i made this comment in your papers for those who talk about fear as a theme to focus on. because this goes for all workers in the country. when you look at the history of labor. we talk about the homestead strike in the 1890s. workers took over carnegie steel works. what happened to that strike, it was crushed by td employer. so again the idea of joining a union and the fear of doing that, it took tremendous courage to do it. but at the same time i understand the other side. i understand why people went to work. my grandmother was not a supporter of the union. she took it as a point a pride as a consumer to not be told by anybody where she could and couldn't shop. that was her outlook and world view. these are very good comments. others. there must be other issues. again i have questions on the board. maybe i can pick on a few of you. so i'll let me start w

the unions don't like throwing another one. that them you're going to get push back, and that's what you're seeing. yeah, that's exactly what unions remain to come out in the 1st place. excellent point. consider here, professor richard will thank you for your time. thank you. time now for a quick break, but when we come back, hundreds of flights keep getting cancel weaving, passengers stranded and crowded airport at a time when coven cases are already on the right, we'll discuss the impact next. and as we go to break sure the numbers that the clothes shoes ah ah ah ah, i will. the last when i was shot, the wrong one all just don't the rules. yes to shape out the same because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves, well, the part we choose to look for common ground in ok, let's go to an area. here's a country that is suffering from inflation. they have a huge population of 200000000 or more very young people that are already online already on their funds. and the government is not really able to c

unions. unions built the middle class.here is no doubt that richard trumka built the unions that built this country. i use to kid, he was from soft coal country and i was from hard coal country. he used to be president of the united mine workers. that is how he got started. folks, let me now turn to the day's events. i want to thank bernie for being part of the best workers in the world. thank you to the president of the uaw. it's good to see you. [applause] i also want to thank the leaders of the big three companies for being here. mary barra from general motors. [applause] i think she is one of the reasons we are here. we had a long discussion on a zoom call with a bunch of labor leaders and other major business leaders, and she made a commitment. and she is keeping it. thank you very much. jim farley of ford. [applause] by the way, my dad was an automobile business and he did -- he sold ford products but mostly general motors projects. you see that sucker over there? 0-60 in 4.1 seconds, and it is all electric. i want t

convince them to accept peace or freedom on the union's terms.ch about the armies of deliverance, three particular insights were central to my thinking and the union were complex political construct internally divided by faultlines of race, class gender ethnicity, religion and so on doing so is profoundly distorting and anti-confederate southerners, southern unionists were crucial to the union victory and indeed and aimic of my back was to highlight the role of black olsoutherners in lincoln's coalition and the ways that the liberated were in fact the liberators. this was given an impetus by my hometown ofer charlottesville virginia. even before the shocking violence of august 2017, researchers and educators in charlottesville have been hard at work recovering a suppressed history of black unionism in the region. the efforts to recover were redoubled after the attacks on the city and the efforts have made a difference in the recognition of the fact that over half of the population and county and the fact many black men thought in the union regime

european union. i took a very reasonable stance and very reasonable negotiations position, for example, with iraq, which is very important because all arguments so to say in front of countries of origin somewhat limit that may be, but your opinion has quite strong arguments when it deals with the countries for what you mean is that there was a context with iraq, right to prevent direct flights from back to men's to continue. so people couldn't so easily go to bellows as before. it's not just about their flights and limitation of flights because i don't know how the government was about how the people are being used for the goals that have nothing to do with the welfare of those people. at this situation they had just used as the instruments for very evil intentions that this about this final question question. let's talk about the people. right. so we've also met them in several camps. of course. yeah. lithuania, small country not really prepared. right for more than 4000 people arriving. so the situ

he thought the union should be upheld. but his vision of the union never included black rights. he was now an antislavery guy. he was from the south. so he was for the union, and there were a lot of people like that, northern democrats like that, who were for the union, didn't want anything to do with black rights. so you know, johnson, his racism is what really impels him. you will see this in his actions. and this is the failure of johnsonian reconstruction. he is not a continuation of lincoln. people said, oh, presidential and congressional reconstruction. yes, there was a conflict of interests involved between the president of the united states and the congress, who will control reconstruction. but lincoln worked with the congress, right? he worked with his party, with the republican party. johnson was really a man without a party. and he does these things like he revokes these land grants that have been made by the freedmen's bureau, and remember the field order number 15, all the abandoned lands they had had freed people settle on, sherman's 40 acres and a mule, all that l

good paying, union jobs. want the world to see that there is a consensus that we are at an inflection point in world history. if we act to save the planet, we can also come out of it better. we can create millions of jobs and generate economic growth and opportunity, and raise the standard of people not only here, but around the world. but i also want to put the world on notice -- america is back. america is back. [applause] we are in the competition for the 21st century, the future that will be built right here in america. let me close with this. our economy is recovering. in six months, we ha seenv -- have seen the fastest job growth at any point in history. the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years. and we have shown the world that there is no quit in america, none, none, none. and it is never a good bet to bet against america. we are the united states of america. there is not a single solitary thing, nothing, beyond our capacity to get done if we do it together. we have to act. and that is what we ar

>> i would say that, yes, you know, i was looking at union motivation.marily historian of the south and studied the south a great deal so for me the learning curve with regards to union motivation and i read a lot of public deliverance discourse and i was tempted initially to sort of dismiss this propaganda as the things politicians say to build a certain kind of case and to promote their own power and success. it was when i read soldiers, letters and diaries and saw those echos to in the moment sources, the private sources of that deliverance rhetoric i realized that i had as i said briefly to account for the emotional appeal of this discourse because its really sunk in, in the northern population, and as david said, we have this wonderful access to both public resources and digitized letters and diaries so we can compare and cross-referencing at the heart of or work, compare and contrast the public pronouncementses with the private ones, retroactive pronouncements with the in the moment ones. >> thank you. dioutside change your mind but one speck of yo