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Change between now and november dont go anywhere americas lawyer starts right now. Facebook is trying to help other companies prevent unions from forming with a new 2 called facebook workplace the tools going to give employers an overhead look at what employees are saying to each other and i have ferrand cousins from the trial lawyer magazine and all around just great journalist who writes about these types of things to talk about it share and listen this this is. We have watched zuckerberg turn in from this this hero of the left d to this dark dark character who understands Money Matters right so now this is his new money plan talk about right its this platform called facebook workplace and what it is is it gives an employer like walmart or starbucks those are 2 companies who are using this. Their employees can log into their facebook workplace and its like a regular facebook interface except its only for those employees so they can talk to each other about work related items they can you know talk about what happened on the shift and things like that but management and this is how facebook pitched it management at those companies has the ability to filter out certain words basically what they called content control by doing that by preventing certain words from popping up like in their presentation they said unionize the union i dont use those words they actually can control the flow of these conversations and almost influence the way these employees are thinking and speaking of this the you love this part of starbucks right starbucks of the theyre theyre the new progressive businesses young hip theyre using the product ok youve got walmart youd expect that Campbell Soup yeah theyre using the product but heres the point the ugly part of this story theres so many a good parts but one ugly part was they were using this they would get in a group of c. E. O. s or whoever is make a management decisions and say look this is what were selling you they were equivocal were selling you this so you can spy people then they get caught right Spokesman Says oh no no no this was just an idea we havent ever launched this well theres talk was well this is a feature only in Early Development you think well thats you know we already have companies that are currently using this fall with the intercept is the reporter here he knows what hes talking about he did a phenomenal job really an end to this as well as a brilliant reporter leaf and we did a story last week when he was victimized by survive on one of his coworkers because he said something that the coworker thought was politically incorrect this is a great reporter here so hes digging into this nobody else is are that right and hes the one who found. This information out he is the one who follows you know the rabbits down all these different holes and thats how we know that this is not as Facebook Says oh its just something were kicking around maybe an idea for the future this is something that can easily be implemented right now some companies are already using it and theyre using it to be the thought police of their employees they do not want them talking about certain things they do not want to you know see any criticism coming from them and if they do they could use that as grounds to you know maybe get this rabble rouser who wants a union get them out of their fire or move into a different shift with people who dont like unions ok now this is taken place when america is regarded i mean this was less it was an International Trade Union Association that they did a look at all developing and developed worlds all economies they said the United States is the absolute worst when it comes to protecting labor ok so here you have this organization that says hey were going to make that even better one part of the story i think is really interesting theres theres the shake up this this war taking place it was described the walk but the word the wording its a its a shake up between the snowflakes sensors at facebook and the new business types that are at facebook ok you got the way leftwing snowflakes versus the corporate types theyre saying look were a business were not here for the fun of it where is that going to land. Its going to land on the corporate side 100 percent you know even if the people who dont like where facebook is headed and to be honest i wouldnt either you look at this it is turned from this you know hip cool social Media Company to just another corporate but he method has its hands in too many honeypots right now but it its going to go with the money you know i think executives theyre going to be the ones calling the shots zuckerberg is going to either continue to lose control over parts of his company or hes. Going to become just another you know faceless but he myth of Corporate America and is is as unions disappear as workers rights disappear our middle class disappears and so goes the story where you have 110th of 110th of 110th of one percent that have all the money in the United States trumps Reelection Campaign is in big trouble and hes now turning to the experts to turn things around the democrats need to start taking this seriously ok the turd blossom is back the turd blossom of course is karl rove and he was given that name interesting only enough by bush the bush family regard him as the turd blossom and theres a reason for it is an ugly little character is that slimy little ways that he goes about it he goes all the way back to the southern strategy with lee atwater where they actually won by scaring the bejesus out of everybody so now the turd blossom is back and hes telling hes telling hes telling trump shut up ok get control of what youre doing take it take it from there well obviously i mean i think everybody at this point understands trump has huge problems with his reelection you know the rally this past weekend was a total bust but his Current Campaign manager brad karsh kale the guy is a grifter you know he is driving around in a brand new ferrari hes using his own companies to contract through for the Trump Campaign he is bilking donald trump for every dollar he can and now karl rove has come in its likely parra scale will be gone in the coming days or weeks or months but not only as rove coming in as a savior of the campaign but also because the corporate donors in the Republican Party have wanted him to go in the past few days there have been reports that these republican donors are calling the Trump Campaign theyre demanding answers well give you money if you do follow our playbook heres our playbook ive got david lamb coming on the show later brilliant briley. Pollster always calls so call rove this is the new plan law in order that the the sale is that dems have lost control of the entire country just look at chaz look at chaz in seattle d where look at many annapolis the the left has gone crazy in the dems are part of the thats the 1st sale the 2nd sale the dems are promoting burning down our country changing our culture and revamping our culture thats the 2nd sale the 3rd sale is is is is joe biden is his brain is fried and i think this is an interesting thing to just see the video they sent out where they have joe biden and obama running down a hallway and then theyve got trump it looks he looks like hes ill walking down that ramp after he gave a speech thats part of the sale and that the dems are a disaster where it comes to the economy and more importantly dems want to do way with police thats the playbook that were going to see from call rove promised right and one of the things were seeing right now from trumps people you know those aligned with the campaigns is they are all on the same message and that message right now this week is joe biden is hiding joe biden cant be seen in public because when he is he says stupid things and thats true he does but so does trump but thats why trump spent so much time at that rally talking about why he had to have help down that ramp because hes trying to say i am perfectly fine and mentally and physically fit joe biden is not that to me is the big message and rove knows hes got to get a handle on that because he had to handle george bush my god wasnt there at all he brought George George bush from an abysmal position so all these dems that think its over right all these dems like call you know like whats his name were at war. With a guys name looks like a loser carville carlia but you know oh its over that is so dangerous that its just so dangerous so as we go forward on this heres the heres the heres the difference. Youve always had something i go with my gut i know what to say i go with my gut call rovers say and ill be damned if youre going to go with your gut youre going to go to the play book and you going to stick by the play book youve got to see some discipline and thats an interesting development. Has destroyed one of the best policies from the Trump Administration i mean one of the few things drug did right my god you have an Appellate Court that always sides with big pharma always i mean i as you know thats what we do right day to day in this law firm we go toe to toe with big pharma and the courts always side with big pharma lay this story out for us health and Human Services but the Trump Administration a little over a year ago came up with a new rules that arent big pharma youre not going to lower your prices heres what you have to do you have to in your advertisements put the cost of a 30. 00 day supply of your drugs what you would charge somebody on medicaid or medicare for a 30 day supply of your drugs thats it just added to your advertisements and now this is the 2nd court ruling that says no you cant do that you cant have them put these drug prices on there because its unfair and this decision was headed up by an obama appointee and a carter appointee joined in on this ruling i didnt know the well ok order to go we talk about this all the time we talk about the fact that we have become people watching this program how they can so tribal im a republican i can only think republican im a democrat i can only think about the democrat so now were saying what the Obama Administration did with Court Appointments and were seeing the result of that you realize this court actually said well we cant allow this because its confusing its going to confuse its going to confuse consumers its going to be harmful to consumers its a tenuous argument and what theyre saying is the reason for that is is because medicaid and medicare sometimes. That prize to where they dont always pay that price we talk about drugs that have a 10000 percent markup and this damn court doesnt have enough sense to say that should be important for a consumer that you think this is exactly what consumers do need to know even if its not the price they pay they need to know that there are people who have to pay that price or you know theres inhalers actually just had to switch off one because it was 500. 00 a month breo which is what it was so ill call them out right here by name breo almost 500. 00 a month for me and people need to know that they need to understand because maybe their prescription because 75 percent of people take a prescription every day maybe there is a generic thats been out for 50 years and they pay 10. 00 a month great these new drugs like like breo that has been out to long theyre absolutely putting people through the ringer for no real number then they can trump when you ran said im going to do this i want to take on the Pharma Industry he also said im going to take on big corporations that are sending business out of the country theyre sending work out of the country we have to stop that so hes trying to deliver this one of the few things i mean i obviously got i cant even think of anything that this guys done maining full this is one of the biggest problems in america is drug company raping consumers 10000 percent of Companies Like fives are in lurk in i could go on little eli Lilly Johnson and johnson riping consumers so all of a sudden the trumpet ministration says were going to were going to solve that were going to get were going to make you put your price up there in this court tries to find a way to get around and i wonder sometimes we always talk about the politics of the judiciary how dangerous it is when the judiciary comes political what is your take on this one i think its absolutely obvious that these judges understand there was no danger in this the only danger came into. Form of danger to corporate profits merck and eli lilly might not have made as much money now they could have still made just as much ali this did nothing to look lower the actual price it just said you have to advertise it and these judges absolutely said listen. We may maybe we have corporate backgrounds live in nuns you dont have all these i was there thats nice all the judges are of Corporate Law and its just you know you all made me really do the same for ok fern cousins thank you for joining me as usual these stories are important keep them coming ok thank you American Workers are the backbone of one of the worlds greatest economy yet studies are showing that ultimately theyre at the mercy of employees of employers when it comes to the workers rights and workers protection that more when we come back. Its fair to say many of the protesters on the streets of america want social justice nominally speaking thats a positive message the problem is that message is translated into concrete political demands and what it means if you dont agree with those political. International memorial awards has extended its deadline for submissions. All media professionals and eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or a part of a global News Platform you can submit to your published works in either video format go toward go to auntie dot com and it or no. Of the worlds richest nations the United States ranks absolute last where it comes to workers rights are to resist antos joins me now to tell that story what can you tell me about the latest findings by the Worlds Largest trade union federation. Well the International Trade Union Confederation has ranked the United States last among the worlds us. 7 largest advanced economies when it comes to workers rights now the ratings go from best to worst on a scale of one to 5 depending on compliance with collective labor rights the us has been given a rating of 4 which means that the government and companies engage in serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers and put fundamental rights under threat america is the only group of 7 nation with systemic violations of rights in the workplace other countries around the globe that also bear for ratings include mexico nigeria congo and venezuela all of which have fewer resources than the United States. What kinds of violations resistor or the most common against. Right now what do you see is the true. What the global rights index has exposed is a breakdown in the social contract that governments and employers have with workers now this isnt only happening in the United States but on a global scale and in fact violations against workers around the world have reached a 7 year high with upward trends and restricting collective bargaining criminalizing striking and excluding workers from joining or establishing unions well its not illegal to strike or establish unions in america workers who try to do so here are often retaliated against by employers you know back in 2017 a judge had ruled that tesla c. E. O. Elon musk broke the law by threatening employees and retaliating against them for wanting to unionize another u. S. Based company that does things like this is amazon you know theyve been accused time and time again of firing workers who have led or participated in strikes. You know one story that we did awhile back of that was really interesting is that there were actually doing plants there putting plants inside around workers to act as spies to figure out whether unions are developing to find out who who has a complaint its really ugly process but the point to me thats important here is as we beat down the unions in the. States the american middle class is disappearing theyre not around anymore and thats in what that ends up doing is moving to the point 0001 percent of the economy of americans holding on to all the money this is really its really ugly story with this federation says look we looked at everything and this is bad i want to ask you this how has the coronavirus pandemic allowed companies to even advances for their own worker agendas. Well since the cove in 1000 outbreak Many Companies have changed the rules to boost their own financial interests at the expense of workers now in some Industries Employees have even been asked to sign away their rights to sue their bosses if they contract the virus on the job and the u. S. Chamber of commerce is now lobbying for National Liability protections but we really see violations of worker safety and health playing out in the meat packing industry thousands of pages of documents reveal how major meat packing Companies Like tyson Foods National beef smithfield and others have failed to protect over 24000 workers from contracting the coronavirus emails and records show how meat packing plants were too slow to implement social distancing measures install protective barriers and have workers where masks meat Packing Companies have even used their protective their power to circumven