Special Reports & Tweets - 20130829_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2013-08-29
Duration: 03:36


=== Fight For $15 (02:22) ===

[00:00:00]  What brings me out here is, well, really long standing support in my own denomination for
[00:00:16]  workers and for workers' rights.
[00:00:18]  Today we're out here to fight for workers' rights, particularly in the restaurant industry, to have a livable wage.
[00:00:24]  My name is Sophia Portier and I'm out here with United Students Against Sweat Shops and we're supporting Fight for $15.
[00:00:30]  Fight for $15 is a campaign that fast food workers are running across the country trying to attain $15 an hour for the work that they do.
[00:00:40]  This is an extension of Dr. King's work, 50 years ago, that was a march on Washington for freedom and for jobs.
[00:00:46]  I've been a fast food worker myself, and so there's no reason why people who do those types of jobs can't get a living wage.
[00:00:52]  They deserve to be paid the wage that their work is worth, and their work is worth a lot more than they're being paid now.
[00:00:57]  $15 an hour to work at fast food, that's a little high.
[00:01:00]  What would you say to those people?
[00:01:02]  I would say that they should work as a fast food worker for a little while and see what it's like to do that type of job.
[00:01:07]  You know, the way the rhetoric always runs on these things is if we're going to give them a pay raise, $15 an hour, then we're going to have to cut back on the number of workers we have.
[00:01:17]  Nobody talks about cutting the profit margin.
[00:01:19]  That $15, when it goes into the pockets of the normal people, is going to go back into the market economy.
[00:01:25]  So it actually does better for the economy than not paying them.
[00:01:30]  When you don't pay them, They have a much harder time living.
[00:01:35]  They have to then rely on all of the public programs that we have.
[00:01:39]  For the union makes us strong, Solidarity forever strong.
[00:01:48]  Does it concern you at all with the current health care system, the Obamacare,
[00:01:52]  where employers are actually cutting their workers hours, so the workers can't qualify for health care?
[00:01:57]  Does that concern you?
[00:01:58]  Right, that's another big problem.
[00:02:00]  Not everyone has access to medical care, to healthcare.
[00:02:03]  The kinds of actions that you're talking about where people are cutting hours so that someone falls just underneath the healthcare threshold, that's the action of corporate autocracy.

=== Wake Up Your Friends Politically (01:29) ===

[00:02:14]  That's the action of a corporate system that really does not care for the people that it That it employs, really does not care for anything other than their own bottom line.
[00:02:22]  And if that means they have to subject people to inhumane treatment in order to get that
[00:02:26]  bottom line, that's what they'll do.
[00:02:42]  Skaters have always been against the grain socially.
[00:02:45]  Now wake up your friends politically.
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[00:02:48]  We have Divide and Conquer or Brainwashing.
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[00:02:59]  This one has a lot more concave than I have on my board.
[00:03:01]  And I like concave.
[00:03:02]  It makes it easier to turn and feel the board.
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[00:03:05]  I mean, it's almost the same shape as mine.
[00:03:08]  It's not really a sport, and it's not really art.
[00:03:10]  It's just kind of freedom, you know?
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[00:03:31]  This is Jake Nunn.
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