Why unions are winning: Michael Moore & Ari Melber on labor striking back

The United Auto Workers union announced they reached a tentative agreement with Big Three automaker General Motors to end their strike. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the historic breakthrough and is joined by Filmmaker Michael Moore, who calls the agreement “amazing.” (Check out The Beat's playlist: msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: / arimelber )
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#uawstrike #generalmotors #michaelmoore

[@kcuzz4091]

Congratulation auto workers!

[@sandracomeau4873]

Awesome for Biden to stand with the striking workers ! Also, Michael rocks! Respect from Canada 🇨🇦

[@t.boutwell2434]

Reagan and his party hurt the American dream. Greed!

[@theresebortzfield188]

VERO

[@marywallace4086]

Reagan hurt a lot of things in the US.

[@giuliana413]

Don’t forget the EXTREME irony that at one time Reagan was actually the president of SAG!!! Thus making him the only president of the US that has ever had membership in a union!

[@heathwirt8919]

Reagan's tax on social security (to offset a tax break for the millionaire/billionaire class), is still with us today!

[@user-gl5ux5xk3k]

he was one of the worst presidents in modern history

[@niclewis9610]

United we stand divided we fall. Great win for working American's whose Labor delivers those profits.

[@DS-zl4up]

Great win but vehicle sales are tanking hard. Biden should make an executive order banning corporate gifts, stock buybacks and stock bonuses. Go after CEO pay hikes by making a percentage of raises go back to all employees as a bonus for companies making over certain review a year. $10m Revenue 25% back to employees $25m Revenue 50% back to employees $50m Revenue 75% back to employees $100m Revenue 90% back to employees

[@annepankau8329]

I was born 1951 in Detroit. Blue collar family & neighborhood. We all had good health insurance (BCBS, the best at the time), dental, overtime, REAL pensions. Detroit was booming. Life was good for working class families. So glad to see the unions take back their essential role.

[@bbaff8622]

And you were not crying for a 32 hour work week and a 36% pay increase at the same time.

[@user-uh6yr4te2i]

​@@bbaff8622that was 60 years ago dufuss

[@peforster6725]

If only the executives making millions in bonuses would do the right thing & not pass the cost of higher wages onto consumers. That will never happen. Greed is evil.

[@bbaff8622]

@@user-uh6yr4te2i asking for 32 hour work week and 36% increase that was UAW just last month.

[@gustavodeugarte9460]

@@bbaff8622 Show more Respect...if you can..

[@nitroluskincaid]

Mannnnn...... My brother got me tearing up over here!!! God Bless the working man!!! We have to continue to fight for ourselves and each other!! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@susanbengston3208]

Vote Blue For Me and You!!

[@p.j.graham9395]

Absolutely. Give the blue-collar workers a step up. And Go Blue, Mr. Moore!

[@robertlujan9061]

what about the blue collar oil workers that lost there job because of biden shouting down our pipe lines hmmm makes me wonder

[@ursulatee]

Powerful and thank you Ari for giving the platform to Michael.

[@mitziewheeler8517]

Thank you President Biden for standing up for workers. Thank you thank you UAW for not only fighting for yourselves but in truth fighting for all of us 🙏

[@grusso810]

JOE BIDEN WE LOVE YOU!!! Thanks for lowering health care costs, accomplishing a record increase in jobs, passing an infrastructure bill, taking care of our students, veterans, troops, workers and Union members, joining Auto Workers on the front line, caring for everyone and getting things done - for everyone! YOU ROCK!!!

[@sandrakerbow5247]

God bless our President Biden!

[@commonsense3632]

Huh? Trust me don't please ever use god and Biden in the same sentence.

[@josephsonora3787]

Joe Biden is a War Monger funding World Wars and Terrorism.

[@Juliet_Capulet]

@@commonsense3632 Cry harder. P.s. your guy lost. Be a man about it already.

[@sharonmassey2923]

What I'm remembering at the moment is Biden throwing the railway workers under the tracks, including their safety concerns, which may well have been responsible for the subsequent disaster in East Palestine...which is ongoing, by the way, although all news people have "forgotten" about it.

[@judychandler8485]

​@commonsense3632 You don't know squat about PresBiden.. You're obviously only familiar with the stupid lies you have fallen for. Why not listen to PresBiden instead of your cult 45 leaders for a change...SMH 🙄

[@orffrocks5667]

Thank you Michael, (and Ari) for always supporting those of us that keep this country functioning.

[@christophergomez7435]

That's an excellent opportunity for all these workers. President Joe Biden has done for Americans, an amazing job to stand with them the people 👏

[@robertarthurs328]

Fortunately I won't be around to see my great great grandchildren still recuperating from the Joke Bumblin administration

[@gd2bking1]

@@robertarthurs328 GOOD!

[@powerWithinUs4055]

For all the world to see. Everywhere people are taking to streets. This is the change we deserve.

[@gregscottfordemocracy]

​@@robertarthurs328he's a lot better than the traitor Trump who obviously doesn't care about democracy and neither did he care about his own vice president electoral process telling him to send back the electoral votes which was unconstitutional. That's proof the Trump really doesn't care about the Constitution..He just cares about himself and gaining power

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

@@robertarthurs328 You won't be missed. Hey, will you cry when Trump goes to prison?

[@MeTubeUser]

Hopefully american workers will start too stick together and join a union.

[@randymillhouse791]

Well, you may want to look at an organization called CUE. They help companies fight unions. I am ashamed to admit I attended a Cue conference in 2019. SCUM! They are a right wing (IMY OPINION), people USING, ANTI-UNION pathetic group.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Agreed, MeTubeUser!

[@user-qm2li8zx2d]

I can only think of that kid from Seinfeld when I see this sentiment 😂😂😂 By the way I agree.

[@micheleconner5083]

If someone would wake them up to the benefits of the union,there'd be more that would join. Lots of states have what they call right to work laws,which sound good by its name,but is actually against workers . A more apt name would be right to fire people without reason or cause. Unions put an end to that.

[@irenafarm]

I'm in a right to work state. It's absolutely brutal. It's difficult to find entry level/unskilled work that pays more than $12/hr.

[@user-cy3ok7by1f]

Thank you Mr. President Biden, this what you call fighting for the people. Thank you for your leadership ❤

[@ruthsnyder4315]

when the illegals start taking your jobs, are you going to be thanking him then?

[@andrebarrett9095]

I'm from Flint,Michigan and worked at Fisher Body and Chevy Truck & Bus in the early 70s. When Ronald Reagan sold us out and broke the unions. It was terrible for Michigan! I'm very happy to see the union becoming strong again. Big companies will not do the right thing if you settle for what crumbs the give you while they profit more and more from your hard work. Union has to stick together to get respect and results. I never met Michael Moore but was told he lived down the street from my mother while I was in the Navy. I came back to Flint to see the factories shutting down and even leveled later and it broke my heart. We had it good when the union was strong and the state depended on union workers.

[@filrabat1965]

Big companies may not do the right thing unless forced to; but their executives sure are great at PR: articulate, well-dressed, great style sense, politely spoken, class (well, superficially). I'm sure you remember the old marketing term "The Clothes Make The Man" (ok, older than the 80s, but even so). The middle aged and elderly of 40 years ago - Reagan Voters (at least in the small towns without a lot of factories) - put too much faith in the image, not the content.

[@shirleystadlwieser4832]

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[@shirleystadlwieser4832]

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[@susanbengston3208]

Thank You Andre, for Your Service to We The American People , We Are Forever Grateful. Wishing You a Peaceful and Relaxing Veterans Day Weekend ❤️💕

[@Michelle-hf6pj]

THANK YOU PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN FOR STANDING WITH WORKERS!!!

[@thomasjohn6041]

Bwhahaha like how he stood with the union railroad workers? Bwhahahahahaha. You indoctrinated sheep are funny.

[@winonafrog]

Too bad he’s sending billions overseas to fund his friend Netanyahu’s war crimes

[@marcwarren4393]

👍👍👍👍

[@glenn71144]

👍Las Vegas 165 represented.

[@douglasreagan4979]

BREAKING: The president will be in three States tomorrow: The State of confusion, the State of semi-consciousness, and the State of unconsciousness.

[@nancydouglas8772]

Im so proud of President Biden standing up for unions and the American people instead of big money.

[@scabcrawler632]

😂

[@luci2roads896]

Absolutely, time to raise Corporate Taxes soon and billionaire taxes.

[@mudderofgod7762]

@@ginjjiigok364 The joke is your inane comment.

[@ginjjiigok364]

Biden is just a puppet for Blackrock and other evil corportist. Society has been co opted by elitist.@@mudderofgod7762

[@normanbrown3466]

@@ginjjiigok364 proof please, you are talking again without taking your meds ,silly boy.

[@Maplecook]

Ronald Regan, what an vile person he was.

[@mikebriganti2187]

They don't teach how to spell in Canada huh??

[@reason6835]

No he wasn’t. LOL. He was universally loved. A very likable man.

[@tvdinner325]

@@mikebriganti2187 Nice sentence construction, MAGAT.

[@tami4951]

"Vile" would be an upgrade.

[@tami4951]

​​​@@tvdinner325 3 word chants and grunts are all MAGAts understand.

[@kathleenaustin327]

I am watching updates on all the cases against Trump. The Colorado hearing on Amendment 14 was really educational.

[@cynthiahutchins5790]

Thank goodness! A President that cares about workers……finally.

[@scabcrawler632]

🤡

[@mikebriganti2187]

But he hates America so........

[@robertlujan9061]

no cares about himself an only for publicity now its time for his nap ha ha ha

[@rahimmajid647]

@@robertlujan9061 Now try that again in English.

[@shogreene9215]

Biden cares about the workers as much as his granddaughter he was publicly shamed into acknowledging

[@ray-hv9is]

I work 25 years and then finally got a union job that had healthcare benefits for my kids. My first time ever in my career at Freightliner in Portland Oregon. God bless President Joe Biden for standing with US ❤️🤍💙

[@LyleHouk55]

Its nice to have a president that is pro union and can see what the people of this country need.

[@randymillhouse791]

PRESIDENT BIDEN 2024 SECURED!

[@carloscarlos7044]

What union has endorsed Biden ? Not the auto worker union

[@Ryuujinv01]

@@carloscarlos7044 The AFL-CIO representing 60 different unions and 12 million workers has. But I get why others would withhold it, I don't expect working class people to cave to politicking especially after the situation with the rail workers. I was hesitant of Joe every step of the way as he gave his full throated bipartisan support to Reagan every step of the way from the house while Reagan destroyed the middle class. But that hesitancy hasn't stopped me from seeing that he's on the right direction far more days than he isn't now. Seems like he's either learned for the better since then, or the electorate is reverting to more of a pre Reagan timeframe and he's adapting. Either is acceptable.

[@bobbafett1849]

​@@Ryuujinv01Biden had the FIRST Secy of Labor who was a UNION MEMBER. The NLRB is *finally* staffed with pro-union members, another FIRST. And is the FIRST potus to walk a picket with rank and file. Agree that he should have done more for railroad workers but railroads should be nationalized anyway.

[@gititgotitgood]

Labor unions are what stops working class from becoming peasants

[@cowarddonnie-ji5yz]

Please elaborate

[@gititgotitgood]

@@cowarddonnie-ji5yz ask the Google gods what labor unions have done to help working conditions and the rights of workers over the years it positively effects even the non union laborers.

[@kenpatterson2948]

Growing up in the 1970's my Dad as a United Steels Worker had free health care for himself and for his children it was 10 bucks a month per child. I never remembered leaving the Dr. or Dentist Office having my mom make a co-payment.

[@Ryuujinv01]

​@@cowarddonnie-ji5yz Like with the auto workers strike, much of the raises are just from keeping pace with inflation over the years. Labor has been outpaced by inflation every year since Reagan, by a lot. Labor is the only entity in the market that's forced to beg and bargain to keep up with inflation while every other participant just automatically upcharges it. Having a strong union is having an advocate to look at the books and authoritatively call nonsense on the typical bs reasons to avoid raises. Individual workers deserve it regardless of performance, it's inflation, everything other than that is demoting them every year and they shouldn't have to bargain for it in secrecy and against union busting tactics from every business owner wanting to run their own private little dictatorships. Think of it like a school of fish, and the repercussions of not forming that school of fish are just as dire.

[@micheleconner5083]

Labor unions are what made the middle class. Then repuklicans saw how unions were helping workers get ahead,and (Reagan) set out to do away with all unions. Anyone who grows up in a family with union workers knows how beneficial they are in helping the workers. Better pay,better healthcare,job protections. That's why I can't understand the people in the south being anti union. Then I look at the political leaning, and fully understand. Non-union places look out for themselves,not the workers!

[@TheBohemianGranny]

Love biden love michael moore love ari melber.... Thank you for always keeping it real and making it digestible to a broad audience. ❤

[@alrodriguez4933]

46 actually cares about common smericans...jobs... medicine...social security...medicare... infrastructure...child welfare...he takes care of Americans...he cares about all Americans

[@middleclassretiree]

I can’t tell you how glad I am to see the resurgence of the unions in this country, I myself am a retired union man but I feel like I’m in the forgotten generation as I began my career as Reagan was breaking the unions I have waited and worked for this day for decades and it almost makes me wish I was still working

[@floydkizzie8728]

One of the most progressive moves by a president. The workers getting a 25% raise. Dems stop hand wringing and whining, time to stand up for grandpa Joe. Vote Blue in 2024.

[@thomasjohn6041]

Bwhahahaha. XIDEN has nothing to do with this but a photo op. You indoctrinated sheep are funny. Yeah, Xiden is so progressive he won’t give people healthcare, wrote a racist crime bill that exploded the prison population, voted for wars, and struck down a railroad union strike. 😂

[@shagdad76]

What about the railroad workers??? You have to make it right with all unions !!!! Not doing so leaves votes on the table for the GOP !!!

[@middleclassretiree]

@@shagdad76- it’s all in the timing, next contract remind management and the union it’s your time

[@Nowarundertrump]

Floyd, No thanks I dont like open borders and war!!!

[@vercoda9997]

I've been in a union, and been the Chapel leader for it at my company, representing staff getting bullied and abused by the sociopath owner, who was hugely like Trump - a self-pitying narcissist who regarded people as objects, who resented paying staff, etc etc. Glad these unions got a good deal, and hope they approve it. Unions and workers' rights are very important.

[@corwin8558]

Reganomics is destroying our country

[@BlazingShackles]

Yep, and the Republicans keep doubling down on its failed policies.

[@Bat_Boy]

Thanks to Bill Clinton, the economy was restored.

[@gregmiller9710]

that's when and where it started..voodoo economics//

[@reason6835]

Wealthy people deserve a tax break.

[@lazyassbum]

​@@reason6835"Only poor people pay taxes!" - Leona Helmsley

[@joep5815]

Trump should be nowhere but in prison. For him to still be free after his failed coup three years ago is preposterous. America has lost control and needs its a🤬 kicked for this injustice.

[@scabcrawler632]

You should be in prison by now

[@davidrhinehart7764]

If only you were able. Right?

[@mikebriganti2187]

LOL. I remember my first beer. LOL!!!

[@ginjjiigok364]

Biden is killing millions of people and people are mad at Trump/?

[@AugieRockero]

as should you @@scabcrawler632

[@tinay9491]

Thank you President Biden Vote Blue 🔵🔵🔵 Save Democracy

[@scabcrawler632]

Bot

[@gd2bking1]

​@@scabcrawler632SAYS THE TRAITOR!!!!

[@user-uh6yr4te2i]

​@@scabcrawler632traitor

[@FidoHouse]

Trickle up, not trickle down. Thank you for reminding us that market "freedom" is for the workers' benefit and not just the capital-owners'. Thank you for interviewing Michael More and for reminding us that President Reagan benefited as a union-member while an actor, spurning unionizing in his later role.

[@DrakeSmith-tn6ij]

There is no question that life actually feels great in America right now with Joe Biden as our current president.

[@scabcrawler632]

Johnsmith propaganda bot farm account

[@ginjjiigok364]

Biden has destroyed the economy. The left dont seem to care what Biden does

[@mikebriganti2187]

Where?? In Ukraine???

[@ginjjiigok364]

Are you on crack?The dollar has lost like half its purchasing power.

[@davidcohen7106]

🦆 In Democrat Run California Regular Gasoline is $ 6.65 for one tiny Gallon. So you drive to the store using your $6.65 a gallon of gas and when you get there all the things you drove there for are out of stock. What a waist of $6.65. At least Ukraine gets $ 340++ Billion U.S. Tax payer dollars

[@grizzlyfan41]

I hope workers from Amazon, Dollar General and Walmart are listening...there is power in unions....

[@berthabridges3483]

Thank you Ari for covering this, especially with our friend, Mr. Michael Moore, who used his voice so powerful for others. Many people were really struggling having to work a few jobs just to cross the finish line at the end of each month with enough to buy a pizza and a brew... Congratulations to President Joe Biden and the union's for doing the right thing and supporting our worker's. Good job! ⚡️

[@David-kk5fx]

Love Michael Moore, love his documentaries. He speaks up for the downtrodden working classes and out against the establishment and 1%ers. Unfortunately here in the UK, the broadcasters and media refuse to air his documentaries. Here, the only way i've got to see Moore's documentaries is by buying dvd to view. Here in the UK we are in awe at President Biden doing what you rarely see in the heads of government, and that is publicly standing up for workers rights. Here's to a Biden 2nd term and to Trump in prison.🎉🎉🎉.

[@nickmartin8495]

President Biden 👍🏽💙

[@scabcrawler632]

🤡

[@ragauerk9310]

Love seeing you, Michael Moore, one of my Favorite heros!!! You are a great man. Was a pleasure to hear so much about your wonderful family. I catch your youtube pod cast off and on (working too many hours, like everyone else). And Ari you are great too :). So glad for the UAW outcomes. All respect, Sean Fain. Appreciate President Biden's action. I get the workers sense of distrust from the B. Clinton opening to the global market, we've learned some things, some losses, some gains. But those looking at voting Dump, that is just Really blindsided. As in that is harming the greater good and your own interests. That will be some rough karma.

[@Coffeecup.0110]

I’m proud of Biden for standing with workers. Regular people have been taken advantage of for way too long.

[@joca6282]

42 years going on 43.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Lll

[@Ahtaht227]

He’s a blue collar guy I don’t understand why maga doesn’t understand he’s the one to put them in a better position in life.

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@joca6282 Well, I'd say the legislation that Biden has gotten passed has stopped trickle down to a certain degree. What really is needed is a repeal of the Trump $2 trillion gift to Corporate America and the haves and have mores, his tax cut. At least the Inflation Reduction Act has that minimum 15% corporate tax. GE and Amazon can't pay $0 anymore, or Tesla for that matter, having done so in 2022.

[@sess5206]

​@@Ahtaht227They're a sucker for a red hat?

[@ronaldcole7415]

The memory of Trump and the current GOP will remain in the American consciousness like a lingering fart.

[@johnsykes3526]

That is the only poetry i have heard with the word fart in it my friend.

[@mikebriganti2187]

From The mind of child.

[@scabcrawler632]

We don't win elections, we rig em- demokkkrats

[@davidrhinehart7764]

Like the memory of slavery that the democrats gave us ?

[@kenteague4802]

Just a bad smell tainting the air around these repugs

[@Taiwan-on-5938]

Mr. Reagan was the reason I fired the Republican Party.

[@joca6282]

There is not a one of them I trusted. The only one I could have ever trusted was Eisenhower and too bad I was born in the first year of his second term. The Right wing became the Reich wing and took over the KKK the day he left office. The racist Dixiecrats became Republicans. That was the major shift. They're anti New Deal terrorists.Nixon and Reagan were both Joseph McCarthy lackeys. Fascism was on the rise in 1961.

[@pamelapeterson2987]

Same here

[@ginadoyle4089]

He was an awful president and the middle class is still suffering.

[@kymberlyceres6802]

What would we do without Michael Moore. America's conscience personified.

[@josephboyce4522]

I'm very proud of the dynamic leadership of our President as evident in the state of our country. Cheap food and gas and no wars, he is just so inspiring. His powerful speeches give me chills.

[@Dos_Caffeine]

He's in court dude

[@pambatterman6154]

Hold the right people accountable! The greedy record profit oil companies! The greedy record profit food retailers! Corporate GREED is destroying our nation! REVERSE CITIZENS UNITED! Time for them to pay their fair share! Vote Biden 2024!

[@mvvpro8688]

When will Republican voters who are not millionaires realize that their party does not represent their interests, but those of the ones who profit from their work while underpaying them?

[@ginadoyle4089]

They don’t realize they are minions…Or maybe they don’t mind.

[@irenafarm]

A surprising number of them are content to be drones, as long as the government is saying comfy things.

[@audio2664]

Jail Trump immediately . Dangerous to all America 🇺🇸 citizens !

[@NikonKamera-Eins]

And Trump is dangerous for the rest of the democratic world, too! Vote for Democracy! Vote Democrats!

[@boardcertifiable]

Trump for Prison 2024

[@liberalshaveitallbackwards4667]

No, dangerous to illegal aliens, dummy

[@liberalshaveitallbackwards4667]

​@@boardcertifiable You hate America THAT much, huh comrade

[@SaraKeen-zi4qd]

Working for a major airline for many years , we took pay cuts 10 to 15 percent off and on for several years. The airline became solvent but the CEO got a huge bonus.

[@susanbengston3208]

That ceo crap has to Stop!

[@liberationstory]

Labor won; now Labor needs to Get Out The Vote so Biden does🗳️

[@scabcrawler632]

How is your welfare check sir?

[@dnate697]

@@scabcrawler632 Ask the Rich who got the Two Trillion in Trump tax Cuts and even more Loophole added to the Tax system for things like Private Planes, Yachts, expensive cars and Mansions? This while trying to squeeze taxes out of the poor, SALT tax removal and trying to lower Tax write offs on used cars LOL!

[@TruthrConsequences]

@@scabcrawler632 Your one-liner is irrelevant, inaccurately addressed, and apparently the best you could do. 😁

[@user-uh6yr4te2i]

​@@scabcrawler632we work unlike Republicans

[@rahimmajid647]

@@scabcrawler632 Why do you ask? Yours not in yet?

[@kathleenaustin327]

I worked for a company that had profit sharing. The longer you were there ...the more you got. A happy worker is just good business!!!

[@melissaha]

Godspeed Ari and Michael Moore And all the Laborers.. !!

[@albeit65]

That's a great win. Now, will the leaders of these companies take cutbacks in their compensation to help pay for this, or will they just pass these costs on to consumers or hourly workers. Part of the problem lies with the ridiculous compensation of corporate executives and their cohorts,

[@davidthomas4489]

I worked for both a community college and a for-profit college. Full-time. There was a real stark difference between the two in that the community college had a union and the for-profit college did not. The community college union was extremely helpful in maintaining the status quo and keeping our salaries and benefits as competitive as possible with other community college districts. They even supplemented my healthcare after I retired. I also had fringe benefits where I got $300 per month and put that in a TSA. Every two years during contract negotiations it was a tug-of-war, but eventually, the union would prevail. At the for-profit college someone did try to start a union, and he was quietly terminated, although they stated his exodus was due to personal issues. It's interesting to note how people in top administration at both schools are very dismissive of individuals who are just simply trying to make a living. I am fortunate and thankful for the union that supported me throughout my 33 year career.

[@glennmorgan937]

It's like back in the good old days the average guy could have a retirement plan and some extra money put away for retirement

[@batgurrl]

I’m so glad MSNBC posted this interview. Michael Moore is truly a man of the people, IMHO. I was hoping to see a post with him in Fall Back later in the episode, because I had s couple of remarks LOL

[@sammi-joreviews1135]

I spent years working at a company where the CEO didn’t like unions; however, that being said, he put his money where his mouth was because he said the one way to stop unionization, all you ha$ to do was pay a livable wage, generous healthcare insurance, paid time off, sick time, short & long term disability, reimbursement of books & tuition as long as you passed your classes (required bringing in transcripts proving you passed), stock investment but employees didn’t pay into the stock shares, the company paid for it. There were many others. This man worked hard to do right by his employees. It’s a shame corporate America stopped caring.

[@user-hg2tk3xj9y]

My brother was a director in a large corp, one year before he hit full retirement with life time medical, they canceled the life time medical.....if he was union like me.....that would not have happened.

[@anncata7368]

Remember the vanishing PROFIT-SHARING PLANS??

[@barrylenihan8032]

One other criteria I would add to your list is to respect the right of your employees to be a member of a trade union if that is their desire. True freedom only comes with economic freedom.

[@sammi-joreviews1135]

@@barrylenihan8032 Part of what you say true. On the other hand, unions have been rife with crime & strong arm tactics all because of greed. It’s a tightrope to walk of course. Though, if corporate board members cared more about their employees than their billion dollar bonuses each year, unions would be unnecessary. Just a thought to add. Union dues sound too much like employees having to pay an employer for the honor of working. It simply doesn’t make sense. It sounds a bit too ‘scammy’ to me.

[@sammi-joreviews1135]

@@anncata7368 I’m sure it happens; however, I never had to pay into profit sharing. In fact, the CEO didn’t allow it. Even though I left the company a month or so before I was fully vested, I received all my profit sharing in addition to a substantial bonus.

[@dannmarceau]

Trump never had Biden's numbers.

[@mikebriganti2187]

0% your right

[@fencig2331]

​@@mikebriganti2187*you're*

[@DrakeSmith-tn6ij]

Biden has higher approval ratings than Trump.

[@TruthrConsequences]

@@mikebriganti2187 Do you speak English? Asking for a friend.

[@johnwebster76]

Donald Trump's highest approval rating is 49%. His lowest approval rating is 34%. So I agree, Donald Trump was a very unpopular president and can't believe he lost this country's biggest popularity contest

[@NixMagoo]

It’s about time the top shares in the wealth and appreciates the strength of their employee’s efforts! Good news in a time that’s a rarity lately!!!

[@strangeworldmasterjack143]

Putting their money in off shore accounts and devising shell companies to avoid paying taxes.

[@LaurenBies]

So happy for the Union Workers.

[@MariaeWaters]

Bravo Biden*****

[@audio2664]

Keep up the amazing work 🩵🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🩵🇺🇸💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💙🩵🩵🩵💙💙

[@yomama6444]

I love this

[@bcyes409]

The workers get pension, dental too!!! Truly rare in these days

[@pameladamaris3204]

I wish they would have Michael Moore on more...

[@justsayineh3447]

Thank you Ari and especially Michael for reminding everyone that unions are why we have many of the things that are taken for granted today. If every trade had a representative union, everyone would benefit. Sadly, mutual benefit has been vilified by corporations that run on greed ever since unions were first discussed. It's way past time to correct this!

[@tesslake6787]

All years , I was inspired by some presidents , carter was with us all along .. now we have president Biden stood for us all.. he come down from stage and be around Americans and guide us out of troubles and going into light. With such compassion and humble

[@robertlujan9061]

really he's done nothing for maui oh I'm sorry he gave 700 dollars for them but for Ukraine billions guide us NO makes us weak in the eyes of the world inflations high gas high he's done nothing but bring this nation down down down trump in 24

[@eugeneminton2613]

i'd support retaining tax breaks for companies with unions... but not for those who oppose them. profits are the means when dealing with capitalists.

[@joca6282]

That's as centrist as people be.

[@internetpeople6113]

Biden 2024 !!!

[@scabcrawler632]

Said nobody ever

[@DrakeSmith-tn6ij]

I’m very proud to have Biden as president.

[@mudderofgod7762]

@@scabcrawler632 Traitor tRump 20-24 years in prison said everyone with more than 1 working brain cell!

[@ginjjiigok364]

Biden isnt gonna run again, dude is decrepit

[@user-uh6yr4te2i]

​@@scabcrawler632cope! Trump lost bigly

[@ianreed9571]

Vote Blue to keep Trump in prison and out of the White House!😊✌️💙

[@scabcrawler632]

Sounds fascist

[@ginadoyle4089]

And keep crazy right wing candidates out of local and state offices💙💙

[@marywallace4086]

My crazy phone won't let me use emojis but my fingers are itching to hit blue hearts Galore!

[@williambarger8043]

Where trump would have made things worst. It's great having a President that is working for all of us. He is even working for trump's ungrateful simpletons instead, of only thinking about himself.

[@joerogain5025]

Michael Moore for President!

[@nenaaa1444]

No I’m Ridin With Biden

[@marywallace4086]

I like Michael Moore right where he is. I'm definitely voting for Biden in 24!

[@lifecoachwithlora1481]

Great piece 👏 and i love Michael Moore, been following him for decades

[@davidrobinson3434]

They put corporations on equal footing with people, but corporations are given more rights than actual working people.

[@andercoyote4170]

Citizens United. A poison to our society. A la SCOTUS.

[@johnsteiner3417]

Talkin' UAW wins it's only right to have Michael Moore on the show.

[@intheether2842]

Great for the workers, those of us lucky and unlucky enough to do it on our own with our own companies have to slug it out. This is great for them but what about everybody else? Our system is broken.

[@anncata7368]

As long as the republicans gerrymander districts, legislate against voter rights, ban books, take women’s rights away, favor the wealthy and corporations and cut social programs to the neediest but give the largest tax breaks in 2017 to the elite Hmmmm🤔

[@ryanweible9090]

we need more obviously, and hopefully this will spark more workers to stand up, but the interesting thing is that unions tend to affect non union places, because they dont want all the good workers to quit and go to the union place. it was recently reported that toyota, a non union place, is reevaluating how they pay, coincidence? maybe, but unlikely. if the other guy is paying better, the only way to retain good workers is to keep up with them.

[@intheether2842]

@@ryanweible9090 cool but my point is those of us who are entrepreneurial and want to make a go of it on our own are truly on our own. In every way. There is no safety none. It is a risk-reward situation clearly but it's almost as if we're being penalized for having the initiative to go it on our own. Not every business founder is a multi-millionaire. I guess what I'm getting at is that this should be a universal health care and benefit situation. Again I do not fault the auto workers. I am happy for them and proud of them for standing up but there are so many of us that do not have this support. Even without the support I would never go back to a corporate situation. Ever.

[@shauniebnaturalista6672]

I'm a business owner. I absolutely love this push for unionization. You have to pay and care for your people or you're just no good as a boss.

[@susanbengston3208]

Thank You!!

[@jcdhalia1241]

It has to take someone who knows the history of Labour Unions, to speak of what it was and what it is becoming. Bravo!

[@alise1973]

I'm Gen. X and I have a pension because I am a government worker. we never gave up our unions.

[@mikebriganti2187]

You live in your moms basement and have a you tube channel for income. Nice try.

[@SeansModelBuilds]

Good for you. Almost 15 years ago, I joined the Federal Government after the Private Sector jerked me around for 11 years. A decade from now, I will be preparing for Retirement.

[@user-db5io9ni2j]

Go union!!!!

[@esm5666]

THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH FROM MY HEART ❤️ THAT YOU'RE HAVING THE BALLS FOR TELLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE TRUE FACTS 👍🏾

[@toddflickinger5171]

Trickle down never does. Just ssk Kansas, they tried it and went broke.

[@deliciousful]

“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday-but never jam to-day.” “It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected. “No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know”

[@Tubes12AX7k]

You MUST fight for workers, safety, fairness, stand together, and buy locally as much as you can. Keep your weekends and keep the 7th day as a day of rest. If Saturday or Sunday is your day for services, exercise that. Ignore that at your own peril. We will return to the days of sweat shops otherwise. I took a tour of the Tenement Museum in NYC and it was a sobering reminder of how hard people used to work under difficult conditions.

[@user-dl1xw3bg5h]

we love you Michael ❤

[@kayo.cart3]

Good news!

[@terrihartbarger]

The transportation crews throughout the country should have called that bluff. What do you think the American people would do? I myself would have supported that situations. I was also a flight attendant at that time. So many missed opportunities for We the People 🇺🇲

[@anncata7368]

Who remembers TWA?

[@sarkybugger5009]

@@anncata7368 Pan-Am?

[@lazyassbum]

Where has Moore been All this time.

[@deliciousful]

I didn't know he's an auto worker.

[@scabcrawler632]

Posing as rosie odonnel in the mirror

[@davidrhinehart7764]

At the buffet tables.

[@mikebriganti2187]

At the all he can eat buffet with Rosie Odonell.

[@bzat2024]

Physicians cannot unionize- I am not sure how much longer I can last as solo private practitioner in East Bay of Northern California as insurance companies price gouging reimbursements and inflation means ,unless I start treating patients like numbers ( every 10 min appointments and only one problem/ visit , no time to listen to concerns), there is no way to survive .😢 Healthcare in USA very broken system .

[@susanbengston3208]

I too am a Medical Professional, an RN, and I’m so sorry Physicians have no Union Representation. The state of Healthcare, along with many other aspects of Our American Lives, have gone into terrible decline. We Nurses have had Union Support for quite a length of time, decades, but even that has been stripped away as Corporate greed takes over nearly everything . We must reverse this Oligarchy overtaking Our Lives. Fare Thee Well, Safe Travels and Always Vote Blue For Equal and Honest Democracy!

[@Columbiastargazer]

A genius doesn’t call himself a genius… a billionaire doesn’t call himself rich… but a traitor calls himself trump

[@mikebriganti2187]

Yawn.... Let me know when you get to the 4 th grade.

[@fkknight1]

👍💯

[@maryannc4776]

😂 Agree.

[@Magaforlife24]

Even the alternative fact agrees

[@nickt.devlin8561]

So so correct!!! Love it, thanks!

[@gjipstra1]

Best news I've heard in a long time.

[@jimeagle5509]

Poor Michael. Still hasn’t recovered from 2016 ….. Thanks ~Jim Eagle

[@grusso810]

I haven’t either.

[@elvinn9434]

There's a lot of bots in the chat!! Anyways, good reporting Ari👏🏾👏🏾

[@scabcrawler632]

Yes it is all msdnc has. You are one of them

[@MsUtuber2]

Good to see Michael Moore with Ari.

[@peforster6725]

The problem is, this will make vehicles more expensive cause we all know the executives will always take huge bonuses before considering their employees & consumers.

[@gigigeorge-taylor8692]

Are you saying that the workers should be undercut because of you? Talk about a selfish clown

[@deborahpinkey1264]

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

[@gonefishn5138]

These 3 companies will suffer substantial losses in the future. Many of the workers that were on strike will be unemployed, it’s just a matter of time.

[@ginadoyle4089]

It’s nice that you are hoping for this rather than saying maybe the executives should have more reasonable salaries. These people took pay cuts when the government bailed out the companies. They never recovered from that but yet I see plenty of the gas guzzling SUVs everywhere

[@gonefishn5138]

@@ginadoyle4089 In the 90s I used to work for a company that made frames for Ford and GM and know that the cost of building cars (the way it’s set up) is just a drop in the bucket compared to the sticker price for the vehicles. Most of the money for the vehicles went to top executives and the CEOs and also for advertising. 1 CEO would make enough money in 1 year to support 25 families of 4. Plus every year they would get a new car or truck for free.

[@diannadima7082]

Bless you and you deserve every dollar you make. No bullets. Please don't make BULLETS!! I AM GLAD FOR YOUR INCREASE IN BENEFITS AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU GAINED. I AM GLAD FOR YOU.

[@deevalerie5857]

Some CEO's of car manufacturing companies are paid $24 million, or $29 million dollars, *which is 362 x times the salary of average workers* ... *So the unions did brilliantly,* to get a decent wage increase!

[@jackoalltrades5708]

so many trump supporters want to go back to how it was in past times Its not possible to go back, the past is a different country that no longer exists

[@ellenebay3470]

I get it that the US Gov't bailed them out in 2008, when I, like others, lost so much of what we worked for all our lives. However, as a Senior, (born in Michigan) currently working at a International Retail Chain making the minimum wage of $15.50 in CA, it's hard for me to feel their pain when we r paid so much less with virtually NO benefits. I hope nothing happens to my 2018 Honda Civic (yes I've owned Chevies) which won't be paid off til April of 2016 because this will bring the cost of owning a car beyond the reach of most Americans. Guess now we'll be like the rest of the World but they usually don't have to travel to to work as far as the average American.

[@snailscourge9873]

Michael Moore? Now that's a "Michigan Man". Can't say that Harbaugh meets the standard. Collective bargaining now and always!

[@grusso810]

As a Flint native myself, I couldn’t agree with him more. Kudos to him for using his platform for the betterment of our country.

[@eldenringer6466]

Mike Moore is the best! Rumble is great! And hes pretty accurate in his predictions. ❤❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@franknemeth7430]

We the people need a strong sane Republican and Democrat party's - who pro-con-debate and come out with answer's instead of no - for the American people - not for special interest-or the wealthy - but for the people - enough already .

[@susanbengston3208]

At this point in Time, forget about a decent republiCon party, they’re lost in the swamp of their own making. Vote True Blue for Me and You!!

[@FBIMitch]

Biden acted like the leader of the free world; this inspires people around the world.

[@steve2070]

Hmm I wonder if the automakers will take that 67% increase out of their bottom line or will only auto workers be able to afford auto's from now on?

[@powerWithinUs4055]

Buy stock. The growth and dividends, a nest egg, a new car fund. Buy shares of the company stock.

[@steve2070]

@@powerWithinUs4055 Cant get to work because you cant afford a car? No worries just buy stock in the companies whose products you cant afford until you can!