Alternative Visions- Is US Labor’s ‘Great Detour’ About to End? + Biden’s Phony ‘Bidenomics’ Tour

With Teamsters-UPS contract negotiations deadline of end of July approaching, the Writers-Sag-Aftra unions’ strike continuing, and Auto workers about to begin bargaining to reverse past concessions, is union Labor about to rise again? Dr. Rasmus describes the various forces behind US labor’s ‘Great Detour’ that began in the late 1970s and continuing now for more than four decades: offshoring of jobs, free trade deals, deregulation of transport and communications, shift to services, substitution of precariate jobs (part time, temp, gig), ‘WalMart Effect’, pro-company NRLB & court shift, atrophy of minimum wage and wage guarantees, top union leadership dependency on the Democrat party, expanding of open shop and anti-labor legal offensives, etc. What happened with last year’s Railroad Union negotiations. Will new leadership of Teamsters and Auto workers unions and new worker militancy mean the beginning of the end of the ‘Great Detour’ of union labor in America? The show then describes why Biden’s current tour promoting his economic policies are not what they seem. Rasmus describes the truth about jobs, wages, inflation, and GDP today.