Workers' Rights Amendment Could Transform Labor Power In America | Tim Drea | TMR

Sam hosts Tim Drea, President of the Illinois AFL-CIO, to discuss the Workers' Rights Amendment that is on the state ballot next Tuesday. Tim Drea joins as he and Sam dive right into what the Workers' Rights Amendment in Illinois entails, working through the right to a safe workplace and worker safety alongside securing the right to bargain, before diving into why the WRA is necessary with the rising trend of state-level attacks on workers rights already having come to Illinois, with the labor-supporting legislature successfully fighting off Bruce Rauner’s union-busting policy. After a greater discussion on Illinois as an epicenter for labor organizing in the US, Tim and Sam walk through the various fights the Illinois AFL-CIO is engaged in, and why you can’t favor creating jobs over making sure that the workers come home from them.

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It is a pleasure to Welcome to the program Tim Draya. he is the president of the Illinois AFL-CIO. and he's here to talk about the workers right Amendment. This is on the ballot. Tim isn't in it in six days. six days. That's correct. yeah. okay alright so what is the workers rights amendment? The workers rights amendment will amend the Bill of Rights of the Illinois constitution to give workers the fundamental right to collectively bargain. the fundamental right to a safe workplace. no diminishment of safety worker safety worker rights in current statute. and prohibit well preserving the right to collective bargaining in Illinois. So this is basically a way to inhibit what we've really seen over the past 10-15 years . I mean it's existed down south quite a bit. But Wisconsin I guess it was 10-12 years ago Scott Walker, largely funded by the Koch brothers and the Americans for Prosperity, started this almost like an experiment where they're going to see how we can destroy things like the safety net in Wisconsin, the Health Care in Wisconsin and the right for workers to organize. and so this sort of heads it off right? Will you talk about that Dynamic. yeah exactly well in 2014 the voters of Illinois elected Bruce Browner who wanted to be another Scott Walker. and he came in and he held the state budget hostage for two and a half years until he could try to get a worker friendly majority legislation teacher to bust unions. especially public employee unions. and the leadership of each house of the general assembly said no we're not going to do that. and they finally broke Bruce Rauner on what he caught his turnaround agenda.