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Young people who haven't had the job experience, these people aren't worth $15 an hour, in most cases. >> he just came out and said it, the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, young -- they're not worth it. i'm afraid you're was wrong. because the economy -- this is how it is. labor scares. some are having to do just that. some businesses have quote found a way around the worker shortages which is raising the wages to $15 an hour more. like this ice cream parlor -- between january and march, so he decided to more than double the starting wage to $15 an hour plus tips to see what would h...

Labor movement where workers can actually bargained for their wages and their health care and their secure retirement and other benefits, vacation, things that make it a meaningful life, those things can change. you could have a whole bunch of worker power that games something in one month, and is taken away in the next. if you don't have a union, that contract that is in black and white like those executives demand themselves. >> robert, the question is how temporary this is and how structural. we have been pursuing this model for 40 years, which is breaking down in different ways, attacked b...

When it is scarce, it's going to cost more money. another way to say labor shortage is just to say worker power. and worker power has been largely missing from the u.s. economy for literally 40 years if not more. since the reagan era and the last great bout with inflation, we've seen a vast transformation of the american and global economy. we created in reagan's shadow a new economy that offers this mark, consumer goods are cheap, everything from burritos to flat screen tvs to all the stuff you can buy on amazon or target because it's made by people in other countries making very little money...

Have to grow the labor movement. this is what president biden is saying and he's absolutely right. if we don't grow that sustained labor movement where workers can bargain for health care and vacation and things that make it a meaningful life, then those things can change. the corporate elite can change them any day. so, you can have a whole bunch of worker power that gained something in one month and is taken away in the next month if you don't have a union and the contract that is in black and white, just like those executives demand for themselves. >> robert, do you think -- i mean, the que...

On May 26, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden nominated Gwynne Wilcox to fill an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board.