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co-host of the system check podcast. man of many names, many talents. thanks for joining us this evening. thanks for having me, jason. thank you so much. my first question is where do you think this has come from? look, president obama wasn t even the most supportive person in the world when it came to unions, but they have really seen a come back in the last five, six years. why do you see that s changed and where is it coming from? today is the tenth year of occupy wall street, for those of you that remember that social movement that emerged today in new york with the mantra, remember, the 1% versus the 99%. and so i mention occupy wall street because as you know scholars have talked a lot about movement cycles, so we ve been in a decade of a movement cycle, people organizing and joining together to take action to say
no more. this is this is not injustice is not acceptable. you think of occupy wall street the next weir we saw the fight for 15 in a union launch in terms of a low wage fast food workers organizing. huge victories on raising wages in terms of $15 an hour in many places. the last remaining step there is the union part. so i do think when you think of occupying wall street and think of the movement for black lives and think of me too and the climate change activists, we re in a movement cycle. people are mobilizing and so it s no surprise workers themselves whether it s teachers or door dash delivery folks or amazon workers as you said or starbucks workers, people are fed up and they re joining together to say no more and we can change the conditions that affect our lives. and also what i think has been happening is some of the language even if it s not the policy some of the language about labor unions has begun to change even from sort of main line and centrist democrats. i want