and what will probably be a bumpy ride all the way to november 8th. president biden is talking about the normalization of political violence, the spread of big lies, and one ever-growing donald trump who is calling for lawlessness and promises, even promising pardons to those convicted of violent insurrection and crimes. trump took the stage last night for the first time since the fbi searched his home. he claimed that they searched the room of his wife and teenaged son, and again ramped up the dangerous rhetoric against president biden, and against law enforcement. because we should not forget the good news, the cdc recommending a new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant, and the economy guesting a boost with another solid month of job creation, and there may be some hope ahead for the residents of jackson, mississippi, who are now in their seventh door without clean water. in a moment, i will ask the head of fema about the progress made to end that cris
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equity with over a fifth of survey respondents saying that their own personal experiences with racial in equality have influenced their career choice. the pandemic also accelerated the demand for remote work availability, made employee well-being a top focus, and has put pressure on, for better compensation. how can these shifts in worker preferences be leveraged to energize people in to the labor movement? well, the pandemic deemed everybody essential workers and if we re essential, that weens we re a necessity, that means the company needs us and if they need us and we re essential workers, they need to pay us and treat us as such. i think right now what we need to do is make sure we know our value as workers. you know, our value is a lot more than what we ve been getting in the past.
now, who don t support the efforts of unionizes in these corporations, fighting for workers rights and higher wages and job security, these things are basic needs and we shouldn t have to fight as hard as we are. but as organizers and activists, that s our job, you know. our job is to push the elected officials that represent us to doing their job. so right now, it s a hand to hand relationship, you know, i have a lot of politicians, in the past, but now they re supportive and doing more but a long way to go and this is a long fight, and this is david versus goliath, and you can tell you now, we all got to be david. all right. and let s turn now to worker preferences. the pandemic has changed a lot of people s attitudes and priorities, when it comes to the workplace. especially amongst the younger generation of the national high school of high school scholars survey found that gen-z top priority is the workplace, including a company emphasis on
market feeling the same way. this is more of a contingent force rather than voluntarily picking up a couple hours here and there. shannon, i want to come to you on this in a second, you talk about worker preferences. obviously the main alternative to uber are taxis which also have a kind of troubling history around shutting out folks in the labor market as well as, we know, for example, in places like new york, long histories around the question, for example, of racial profiling when actually providing their service. i guess i m of two minds on the uber of it all. well, taxis raise that s sort of a whole different ball of wax. taxi drivers are also working under very difficult circumstances, and i frankly disagree with the independent contractor classification for taxi drivers, too. but i think what we can recognize a big difference between uber and taxis is that uber has a lot of control over its drivers that the taxi companies simply don t have or