Welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or five workers is a member of a tra
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one year ago. the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i have just come from a visit to kyiv. and i can report that kyiv is stands strong. kyiv strands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. very powerful speech from the president yesterday. very powerful and different than what we heard from vladimir putin in the morning. don and i are here in new york and caitlyn is live in warsaw poland again this morning. reporter: a couple of hours from now, the president is going to wrap up his final day here in europe on this trip. he will meet with the eastern allies, they are known as the bucharest 9. the tensions are riding high for a year now. and testing a ballistic missile from president biden was in ukraine. what our cnn investigating uncovered. live from the pentagon. then this that is starbucks ceo howard shultz talking openly about the pickett line and the push to unionize their stores. a one-on-one is ahead. but we start with preside
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