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📣 Aug 31 Special Guest Bernie Sanders - The Save London Transport Rally (Original Post)
Donkees
Aug 2022
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moondust
(19,986 posts)1. Bernie probably knows this.
Donkees
(31,409 posts)2. the event will also be livestreamed, link to follow soon...
Donkees
(31,409 posts)3. Interview: Bernie Sanders on anger and hope in the US and UK
The Vermont senator rose from the political margins to become hugely influential within the American left. As he prepares to speak at a London rally, he explains why unions on both sides of the Atlantic must reassert their power
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Both are unlikely political sensations who were long consigned to the fringes: Bernie Sanders, an octogenarian US senator who inspired an army of voters far younger than himself; and Mick Lynch, a former blacklisted construction worker and child of Irish immigrants who, as the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT), shot to national prominence when he humbled hostile but underinformed broadcast journalists. I think Lynch is touching a nerve, Sanders says.
The de facto leader of the US left has swung his considerable political heft behind a new campaign Enough Is Enough launched to fight Britains mounting cost of living crisis, which was founded in part by Lynch and the RMT. It has certainly touched a nerve: at a recent rally in Clapham, south London, many of those who had queued around the block were turned away for lack of space. Enough is enough, funnily enough, is an expression we use a lot here, Sanders says. People are sick and tired of often working longer hours for low wages; sick and tired of their kids having a lower standard of living than them; and theyre sick and tired of billionaires getting richer and richer while they fall behind.
Why, with all this new tech out there, are they not seeing an improved standard of living? Why not more equality, rather than less equality? Why are living standards deteriorating, not improving? Lynch is asking that, Enough Is Enough is asking that and its hitting a nerve, because people are tired of being ignored while the rich get richer.
On Wednesday, Sanders will bring his trademark oratory to an RMT rally in central London.
Does Sanders believe both labour movements are learning lessons? I think what were beginning to see here in the US is a significant acceleration of trade union organising, he says. We are seeing more workers organising in unions, filing with the National Labour Relations Board [NLRB] to get certification more than for a very long time.
What has made him particularly optimistic is workers struggles in the union deserts of Starbucks and Amazon. Sanders recently joined striking Starbucks workers on a picket line in Boston. After more than 85 union organisers were fired by the coffee chain in recent months the NLRB has filed multiple complaints against the firm his support has boosted the national profile of the fight. In Starbucks and Amazon, hundreds are joining unions in Amazon, theyre taking on Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest person in the world. Were seeing struggles in university campuses, hospitals, nurses were seeing unprecedented organising compared to what weve seen in recent years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/people-are-tired-of-being-ignored-while-the-rich-get-richer-bernie-sanders-on-anger-and-hope-in-the-us-and-uk
Excerpts:
Both are unlikely political sensations who were long consigned to the fringes: Bernie Sanders, an octogenarian US senator who inspired an army of voters far younger than himself; and Mick Lynch, a former blacklisted construction worker and child of Irish immigrants who, as the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT), shot to national prominence when he humbled hostile but underinformed broadcast journalists. I think Lynch is touching a nerve, Sanders says.
The de facto leader of the US left has swung his considerable political heft behind a new campaign Enough Is Enough launched to fight Britains mounting cost of living crisis, which was founded in part by Lynch and the RMT. It has certainly touched a nerve: at a recent rally in Clapham, south London, many of those who had queued around the block were turned away for lack of space. Enough is enough, funnily enough, is an expression we use a lot here, Sanders says. People are sick and tired of often working longer hours for low wages; sick and tired of their kids having a lower standard of living than them; and theyre sick and tired of billionaires getting richer and richer while they fall behind.
Why, with all this new tech out there, are they not seeing an improved standard of living? Why not more equality, rather than less equality? Why are living standards deteriorating, not improving? Lynch is asking that, Enough Is Enough is asking that and its hitting a nerve, because people are tired of being ignored while the rich get richer.
On Wednesday, Sanders will bring his trademark oratory to an RMT rally in central London.
Does Sanders believe both labour movements are learning lessons? I think what were beginning to see here in the US is a significant acceleration of trade union organising, he says. We are seeing more workers organising in unions, filing with the National Labour Relations Board [NLRB] to get certification more than for a very long time.
What has made him particularly optimistic is workers struggles in the union deserts of Starbucks and Amazon. Sanders recently joined striking Starbucks workers on a picket line in Boston. After more than 85 union organisers were fired by the coffee chain in recent months the NLRB has filed multiple complaints against the firm his support has boosted the national profile of the fight. In Starbucks and Amazon, hundreds are joining unions in Amazon, theyre taking on Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest person in the world. Were seeing struggles in university campuses, hospitals, nurses were seeing unprecedented organising compared to what weve seen in recent years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/people-are-tired-of-being-ignored-while-the-rich-get-richer-bernie-sanders-on-anger-and-hope-in-the-us-and-uk
Link to tweet
Donkees
(31,409 posts)4. Youtube livestream: Save London's Public Transport Rally
Donkees
(31,409 posts)5. I look forward to joining @RMTunion in London at 2 PM ET to rally to save public transit.