The Auron MacIntyre Show - October 11, 2024


Union Bosses Serve the Total State, Not American Workers ｜ 10⧸11⧸24

Topics
Supreme Court coup big labor union leaders
Hosted by
Auron MacIntyre
Mentioned
Harold Daggett Winners Blaze Unlimited Robert McCullough Joe Biden Oren Ron DeSantis Matt Taibbi Chris Ruffo Glenn Beck Prudentialist Rocky
FEMA Failures and the Future of Disaster Response ｜ Guest： Kevin Dolan ｜ 10⧸9⧸24 Understanding Nick Land's 'Meltdown,' Part 3 ｜ Guest： The Prudentialist ｜ 10⧸14⧸24

Episode Stats


Length

12 minutes

Words per minute

143.6

Word count

1,803

Sentence count

120

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

The International Longshoremen s Association and its 45,000 members went on strike last week, threatening to paralyze 36 U.S. ports along the eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast. But the strike has already been broken by the organizers.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a designer dress from Winners,
00:00:03.740 I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:00:08.500 Like that woman over there with the Italian leather handbag. 1.00
00:00:11.460 Is that from Winners?
00:00:12.660 Ooh, or that beautiful silk skirt. 0.99
00:00:15.200 Did she pay full price?
00:00:16.420 Or those suede sneakers?
00:00:18.000 Or that luggage?
00:00:19.100 Or that trench?
00:00:20.240 Those jeans?
00:00:20.920 That jacket?
00:00:21.660 Those heels? 1.00
00:00:22.520 Is anyone paying full price for anything?
00:00:25.480 Stop wondering.
00:00:26.760 Start winning.
00:00:27.680 Winners.
00:00:28.060 Find fabulous for less.
00:00:30.000 The International Longshoremen's Association and its 45,000 members went on strike last week,
00:00:43.660 threatening to paralyze 36 U.S. ports along the eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast.
00:00:49.320 The already fragile American logistical system gave the Union significant leverage,
00:00:54.780 but the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene
00:00:58.060 made the need to reestablish supply lines even more urgent.
00:01:02.660 Now, since I wrote this piece, that strike has already been broken by the organizers.
00:01:08.040 I don't think they expected the level of backlash that they got with one hurricane already devastating
00:01:13.420 people and another potentially disastrous hurricane bearing down on Florida.
00:01:18.380 The optics of denying hurricane victims needed supplies was just too bad,
00:01:23.260 and Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida had already threatened to actually break the strike by using
00:01:28.100 National Guard personnel to make sure that supplies continued to flow to disaster victims.
00:01:33.480 But the temporary agreement with the Union is just that.
00:01:37.300 It's only going to exist for a few months, so we've only delayed this issue.
00:01:41.200 We haven't resolved it, and I think all the points in the piece are still very relevant.
00:01:45.060 Now, conservatives have traditionally opposed unions for a long time,
00:01:49.640 but a recent shift to focus on working-class conditions during the Trump era
00:01:54.420 has really made many on the right more sympathetic to collective bargaining.
00:01:59.120 However, as ILA President Harold Daggett declared,
00:02:03.060 I will cripple you, many conservatives found it difficult to reconcile their newfound support for labor
00:02:09.880 with the brash statement from a leader seemingly indifferent to the struggles of suffering Americans.
00:02:15.820 Those on the right must learn a hard truth.
00:02:19.200 Big union bosses don't serve the working class.
00:02:22.580 They serve the total state.
00:02:25.540 We hope you're enjoying your Air Canada flight.
00:02:28.100 Rocky's vacation, here we come.
00:02:30.820 Whoa, is this economy?
00:02:32.440 Free beer, wine, and snacks.
00:02:35.420 Sweet! 0.95
00:02:36.500 Fast-free Wi-Fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land.
00:02:40.580 And with live TV, I'm not missing the game.
00:02:43.600 It's kind of like, I'm already on vacation.
00:02:46.760 Nice! 0.94
00:02:47.940 On behalf of Air Canada, nice travels.
00:02:51.040 Wi-Fi available to airplane members on equipped flights.
00:02:53.140 Sponsored by Bell. Conditions apply.
00:02:54.500 See your Canada dot com.
00:02:55.620 In 1911, sociologist Robert McKells published Political Parties,
00:03:00.500 a study on power dynamics that closely examined the inner workings of German labor unions.
00:03:07.160 The book became a foundational work in what is now called elite theory or political realism
00:03:13.660 due to McKell's formulation of the Iron Law of Oligarchy.
00:03:17.320 The Iron Law of Oligarchy asserts that complex organizations,
00:03:22.240 no matter how democratic or egalitarian they claim to be,
00:03:25.980 will inevitably elevate a small group of organizers into a ruling class,
00:03:31.200 transforming that organization into an oligarchy.
00:03:33.880 The organized minority will always lead the disorganized majority.
00:03:39.700 As McKells puts it,
00:03:40.880 quote,
00:03:41.460 It is organization which gives dominion of the elected over the electors.
00:03:46.440 Who says organization says oligarchy.
00:03:49.740 End quote.
00:03:51.040 The Industrial Revolution radically transformed the relationship between individuals and their labor.
00:03:57.360 Subsistence farmers and guild craftsmen,
00:04:00.000 who once had a direct and personal connection to their work,
00:04:03.480 suddenly found themselves thrust into the alienating environment of factory wage labor.
00:04:09.440 Scale became a significant factor,
00:04:11.940 yet society has largely overlooked its impact.
00:04:15.600 As production and consumption scaled up,
00:04:17.980 so did labor negotiations.
00:04:20.320 Workers could no longer have individual discussions with their bosses about wages
00:04:24.860 because their bosses were simply cogs in a much larger machine.
00:04:28.640 The boss was no longer an individual owner with a meaningful connection or decision-making power,
00:04:35.360 but a manager representing a faceless conglomeration of investors.
00:04:40.560 Collective bargaining became the only way for workers to leverage their labor
00:04:44.800 against the vastness of massive capital.
00:04:47.820 In his analysis, McKells discovered that despite labor unions claiming to represent workers,
00:04:53.720 union leaders often put their own interests above those of their membership.
00:04:57.760 Don't kid yourself, the future of the Supreme Court is on the ballot.
00:05:01.360 The radical left want to eliminate the court's conservative majority
00:05:04.120 by packing the Supreme Court with their own hand-picked justices to get the outcome that they want.
00:05:08.920 Even President Biden has gotten into the act by making reforming the court one of his final priorities
00:05:13.560 before he leaves office.
00:05:15.220 But don't be fooled, their endgame really is to pack the court.
00:05:18.760 At First Liberty, they call this assault on the court what it really is,
00:05:22.080 a Supreme Court coup.
00:05:23.200 The frightening thing is that come January, their plan could become our nation's reality.
00:05:28.440 Simple majority votes in the House and the Senate combined with the President's signature
00:05:32.220 could turn their plan to pack the court into law.
00:05:35.700 That's why First Liberty is sounding the alarm and they need you to join them.
00:05:40.160 If we take action together, if we unite our voices,
00:05:43.420 we can put a stop to the radical left's plan to take control of the Supreme Court.
00:05:47.420 As the 2024 election approaches, we need to do three things.
00:05:51.560 Find out where each of your candidates stand on the radical issues of packing and purging the court.
00:05:56.420 Share what you learn with everyone.
00:05:58.320 And do your civic duty by voting.
00:06:00.200 The future of the court, or preserving it as an independent judiciary, is literally in your hands.
00:06:05.420 If we lose the court, then we lose the country.
00:06:08.040 That's why First Liberty is taking action and they need all of us to join them.
00:06:12.060 With patriots like you standing for the Supreme Court,
00:06:15.240 we can safeguard the independence of the judiciary, just as the Founding Fathers intended.
00:06:19.640 And by saying no to the left's Supreme Court coup,
00:06:22.120 we can secure the blessings of liberty and protect the future of our constitutional rights
00:06:26.280 for our children and grandchildren.
00:06:28.360 Please go to SupremeCoup.com slash Orrin.
00:06:31.560 That's SupremeCoup.com slash Orrin
00:06:34.620 to learn how you can help stop the radical left's takeover of the Supreme Court.
00:06:38.840 Union bosses may start as a common worker,
00:06:42.240 but their skills quickly elevate them beyond their peers.
00:06:45.540 They transition from performing daily labor to full-time organizing and activism.
00:06:50.620 Their days are spent speaking with politicians and negotiating with CEOs,
00:06:54.960 which separates them from the very conditions that they aim to improve.
00:06:59.260 Labor leaders inevitably realize their personal interests differ from those of the average union member.
00:07:05.160 They're best served by becoming influence brokers within the ruling class,
00:07:09.820 rather than securing benefits for the workers.
00:07:12.900 In the end, it's the organization and its influence that serves the leaders,
00:07:16.980 not the leaders who serve the organization and its constituents.
00:07:21.520 While I support American workers earning a wage that allows them to raise a family, 1.00
00:07:27.040 own a home, and even striking for that particular cause,
00:07:30.620 that's not the primary interest of the ILA or Harold Daggett.
00:07:36.200 Although he may be negotiating for higher wages at the moment,
00:07:40.240 his primary goal is to demonstrate influence,
00:07:43.860 not to serve the long-term interests of the working class.
00:07:47.440 The ILA endorsed Joe Biden and supports the Democratic Party,
00:07:52.460 which is responsible for allowing the nation to be flooded with cheap foreign labor from illegal immigration.
00:07:58.280 In addition to increasing crime and the cost of living for their union members,
00:08:03.460 this influx of illegal labor drives down wages for native-born Americans.
00:08:08.940 If Daggett or the union actually cared about the condition of the working class,
00:08:14.260 they would never support something like this.
00:08:16.300 In fact, they would fight tooth and nail to stop it.
00:08:19.660 But the ILA and Daggett don't care because workers aren't their real concern.
00:08:25.120 Their true goal is power and securing a position of influence within the oligarchy.
00:08:31.880 Now, I won't pretend that I knew anything about Daggett before this incident,
00:08:36.100 but once I started looking into him, he's unfortunately exactly who you expect him to be.
00:08:41.340 He embodies the image of an oligarchic elite pretending to be the champion of the working class.
00:08:46.540 As a labor boss, Daggett earns over $900,000 a year with bonuses.
00:08:53.860 He drives a Bentley, and he owns a 76-foot luxury yacht.
00:08:58.920 The Justice Department has accused him of being connected to the notorious Genovese crime family.
00:09:05.780 Daggett beat a 2005 racketeering charge after the decomposing body of a key witness
00:09:11.760 was found in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.
00:09:15.500 He lives like a criminal oligarch because he is one.
00:09:20.560 Now, again, I would like to make it clear that I'm not against unions in principle.
00:09:25.960 I don't like public sector unions because they're basically just holding American taxpayers hostage.
00:09:31.260 They get more tax money from politicians and then use that tax money to get those politicians re-elected.
00:09:37.280 It's just a closed feedback loop that doesn't help anyone except these unions.
00:09:42.340 Ultimately, though, I do think it's justified for workers if they want to organize to demand a better wage and better working conditions.
00:09:51.820 Many laborers do deserve better wages, safe neighborhoods, and affordable housing.
00:09:57.140 But none of that can ever happen.
00:09:58.840 None of those negotiations can ever be fruitful for the working class unless the borders are closed. 0.92
00:10:03.260 As long as corporations have access to infinite cheap labor, they're never really going to come to the table.
00:10:10.940 The recent shift by many on the right towards supporting the well-being of average American workers is a positive development,
00:10:18.400 but we must be cautious not to embrace the corrupt oligarchs posing as labor leaders.
00:10:23.980 Soulless corporations aren't the heroes here, but neither are big labor union leaders advocating for open borders while pocketing giant donations.
00:10:35.040 Ultimately, both are part of the same destructive system.
00:10:53.980 It's got some big names like Glenn Beck, Matt Taibbi, Chris Ruffo, along with people like myself and one of your favorite co-hosts, The Prudentialist.
00:11:13.800 But Frontier Magazine is just the beginning, and Blaze Unlimited is an entire new membership tier which comes along with all kinds of benefits.
00:11:22.300 As a founding member of Blaze Unlimited, you'll receive a limited edition founding member card, even more behind-the-scenes content, VIP event access, and the big one is a chance to have your voice heard.
00:11:37.340 Founding members will help to shape the future of Blaze Media and help determine how they push back against the mainstream media machine.
00:11:45.300 So if you'd like to go ahead and join and get that first edition of Frontier Magazine, you can go to blazeunlimited.com slash Oren.
00:11:55.300 That's blazeunlimited.com slash Oren.
00:11:59.300 Thank you everybody for watching, and as always, I'll talk to you next time.
00:12:03.340 I'll talk to you next time.