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January 21, 2021 IAM Headquarters this week is officially launching the Organizer’s Toolkit, a library of both customizable and static materials designed specifically for organizing campaigns. The toolkit, which is being run by the Organizing and Communications Departments, will include access to a customizable campaign website, organizing meeting presentations, handbills, banners, social media graphics and more. “Growing our membership continues to be priority No. 1 for o...

Shelter in place. officials are releasing what chemicals are being released into the air, but so far no reports of injury. google was seen as the place to work. theyre facing backlash from employees. theyre claiming sexual congratulationses and issues on climate change. on monday google fired four employees. some employees are accusing google of suppressing its critics. someone tweeted google fired four of my co-works after asking if google was helping families at the border. others call it un...

Labor has been plummeting near will 35% of american workers were unionized in 1954. in 2018, 10.5%. one of the reasons for the decline is historical as the longtime labor reporter steven greenhouse documents in "beaten down, worked up." ronald reagan delivered labor a crippling blow when his administration fired thousands of striking air traffic controllers, ushering in an era of union busting. why else has it declined? globalization and technology have rewired the american economy. the american...

Set the scene for us. there appears to be -- i think thats john delaney going on behind you. what can we expect at this thing? >> reporter: thats right. ill keep my voice down. congressman delaney is the first speaker. this schedule scrambled by bad weather. you have union leaders from across the state of iowa whose votes are important but so too are their support. these are organizers, activists, folks who will go back and talk to their shop stewards, talk to folks in their factories and office...

We have one here. >> i ahmedgar brown. im part of the local union 279 for electrical workers. we had a previous governor that used to love to get on tv and say when she said union busting, another company would call and want to come to the state. i felt that was very detrimebt l of all citizens. how do you feel about unions? >> i am thankful to our unions, and i am thankful to you. there is no question at all that organized labor and our unions are the reason that all of us regardless of whether...

And were back in south carolina with kamala harris. lets go to more voter questions. we have one here. >> i edgar brown. im part of the local union 279 for electrical workers. we had a previous governor that used to love to get on tv and say when she said union busting, another company would call and want to come to the state. i felt that was very debtmen al of all citizens. how do you feel about unions? >> i am thankful to our unions,

Served for 40 something years. barack obama in his white house did not attribute to income inequality but all of this is going to be played out. barack obama even said himself that the primary made him better. its going to be a clash of idea. >> others including and especially bernie sanders who is next in almost all the polls, pretty far behind but next after joe biden, heres what he said in a fund-raising notice on friday. talking about joe bidens fund-raising events, these are not grassroots ...

Record with barack obama. they did not contribute to income inequality. the primary made barack obama better, so its not just a clash of ideas. >> its not just bernie sanders who is next in the polls, pretty far behind, but next after joe biden. heres what he said in a fundraising notice on friday. these are not -- talking about joe bidens events. these are not grass roots events. these are high dollar functions hosted by corporate lobbyists, a casino ceo, and union busting lobbyists. in march h...

>> when joe came and watched bobby perform, i think it was an extraordinary moment for joe in understanding that the runt of his litter, bobby, was as tough and as smart as he was. and for bobby, it was winning the paternal acknowledgment that he had spent his life trying to get. >> as bobbys reputation grows, a young politician decides to join him at the hearings. >> at the time, john f. kennedy is the pretty undistinguished senator, one with great ambition. he becomes part of that investigatio...

Extraordinary moment for joe in understanding that the runt of his litter, bobby, was as tough and as smart as he was. and for bobby, it was winning the paternal acknowledgment that he had spent his life trying to get. >> as bobbys reputation grows, a young politician decides to join him at the hearings. >> at the time, john f. kennedy is the pretty undistinguished senator, one with great ambition. he becomes part of that investigation and really distinguishes himself thanks to his younger broth...