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Velshi: You can't be pro-worker if you're anti-union - Velshi - MSNBC (2 videos)
Increasingly, America's working class is poised to be an important political force in the 2024 election cycle. Support for labor unions among Americans is high, standing at 67% according to a Gallup poll. So it’s no surprise that candidates are looking to curry favor with this growing political bloc. The Republican party has attempted to pitch itself as the party of the working class. Which is curious, given the GOP's historical hostility toward workers organizing to gain collective bargaining power. - Aired on 09/23/2023.
Teamsters official: It’s due time American workers ‘get what is theirs’ - Velshi - MSNBC
The current labor union movement is having an outsized impact on the 2024 election as we see how much candidates actually support the working class. Vice President of the Western Region for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Lindsay Dougherty joins Ali Velshi to explain why understanding this movement is so important.
“We have to get ours. It's due time for all workers in the United States and the world to get what is theirs, which is just simply asking for enough to provide for their families to put food on the table and God forbid maybe even go to college, but just to live in this world is all that workers are asking for.” - Aired on 09/23/2023.