There was no Social Security, no unemployment compensation, zero, to sort of families to form the united auto workers. Why did they do that a . Why did people marched as farmers, some 200,000 farmers in six months in a few counties in texas in late 1880s to start a populist progressive movement, the most fundamental Political Reform Movement in our country. Well, one reason was received injustice themselves. The farmers were being fleeced by high interest rates, by the banks, loans for crops and by high Railroad Freight rates to get their crops to market. The women felt deeply disrespected and they felt the men were not addressing a lot of the issues that women were concerned about. The workers could not live on what they made working 50, 60 hours a week in an auto plant. Its not easy. And the hazards and the occupational deaths and the diseases. So we take the first motivation was perceived selfinterest. They were not abstract to injustices that accumulated all these specific injustic
An enormous step forward. Now, the agency has been in existence for only four and a half years, but has already done some important things. Its taken some enforce actions, its done policy work to protect those people who are not entitled or not eligible for anything other than subprime loans to protect them in the market. It has proposed some, some curtailment of the right to mandatory arbitration. But thats just the first step. That agency is under assault constantly in congress. I talked to my friend rich, he stopped counted the number of times hes been hauled up to the hill to testify. It was, i think, 50 at last count. Hes not only been there for a few years. We need more legislation, and in order oo eer to do that, we ne organize. We need to personalize these stories, and we need to look at the level of powers that are available to us and try to exercise power. So let me talk about a few things. One is if you look at mandatory arbitration, congress understands how powerful a force