0019 - Striketober
There are so many strikes going on right now, and so many people claiming workers are "lazy" or "entitled". Clearly those people can go fuck themselves, but we have gathered some info and sources explained why the can. Sqeaky and Mako also took a stroll down to the Omaha Kellogg's plant to interview the workers on strike and took a dive deep into the claims being made on both sides and try to tease out as can be known.
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Sources used in this episode.
- SOURCE [02:17] NBC News on FDA of mix and match vaccines - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-oks-moderna-jj-boosters-mix-match-approach-rcna3191
- SOURCE [03:32] - Body of evidence 70 - https://bodyofevidence.ca/070-car-safety-and-the-astrazeneca-saga
- SOURCE [03:32] - The Lancet Psychiatry on long term covid effects - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(21)00084-5/fulltext
- SOURCE [05:09] - World Info Meters worldwide deaths - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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- SOURCE [8:29] Some more serious self help advice about not being pulled down - https://impossiblehq.com/crabs-in-a-bucket/
- SOURCE [8:29] Urban dictionary Crabs in a bucket - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crabs%20in%20a%20Bucket
- SOURCE [13:12] Majority of Americans say unions are positive for the country - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/03/majorities-of-americans-say-unions-have-a-positive-effect-on-u-s-and-that-decline-in-union-membership-is-bad/
- SOURCE [15:23] Heritage Foundations take on unions - https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/biden-wants-more-unionization-do-american-workers
- SOURCE [19:40] Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law Led to Huge Drop in Union Membership - https://www.mackinac.org/michigans-right-to-work-law-led-to-huge-drop-in-union-membership
- SOURCE [21:24] Union voted down at Volkswagon - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-union-vote/vws-tennessee-workers-vote-against-union-representation-idUSKCN1TG014
- SOURCE [21:24] Union voted down at Nissan - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uaw-mississippi-nissan/nissan-mississippi-workers-vote-heavily-against-unionization-idUSKBN1AL02O
- SOURCE [28:44] The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/bust-the-police-unions/619006/
- SOURCE [29:46] David Sklansky, Stanford Law professor and author of Democracy and the Police - https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780804755641
- SOURCE [31:25] Sam Walker, UNO, Police Unions increase violence - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3813635
- SOURCE [37:02] Statista has simple stats about the amount of workers on strike - https://www.statista.com/chart/19407/number-of-striking-workers-in-the-us-per-year/
- SOURCE [37:32] According to the Economic Policy institute the 80s are also when worker productivity and earnings diverged - https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
- SOURCE [39:56] Executive pay from Harvard Law - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/01/29/sp-500-ceo-compensation-increase-trends-4/
- SOURCE [44:44] AP News strike hub - https://apnews.com/hub/strikes
- SOURCE [46:30] John Deere Executive pay - https://www1.salary.com/DEERE-and-CO-Executive-Salaries.html
- SOURCE [46:30] Kellogg’s Executive pay - https://www1.salary.com/KELLOGG-CO-Executive-Salaries.html
- BULLSHIT SOURCE [46:54] Kellogg’s Myth propaganda - https://kelloggsnegotiations.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MythvsFact-2021.10.pdf
- BULLSHIT SOURCE [1:02:50] Kellogg’s Propaganda website - https://kelloggsnegotiations.com/