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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Almost as quickly as it began, the port strike was over,
well the least delayed until the middle of January. Joining
us to talk about political analyst Debbie George gattis also
in the RNC as a committee woman. Welcome back to
the show, Debbie. You are you a little suspicious of
the whole strike in general? There's some people who think
that maybe this whole thing was a setup so that
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the Biden Harris administration could quickly solve it and look good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think a lot of people are thinking that. I
also think they'll probably try to claim that, but there
are a lot of deeper dynamics going on. I mean,
the unions normally support Democrats, and Democrats support unions, but
the very things are changing in this world, and in particular,
the union world that used to always support the Democrat
Party isn't doing that so much anymore. Teamsters, Teamsters recently
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voted members voted sixty to thirty eight that they prefer
Trump over over Harris. So I think they're battle going
on right now between the Union and the America really is.
I think the union people figured out this is not
going to play well if we strike during an election season.
It's going to hurt people, and they didn't want to
be on strike. I think the economy is really bad,
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and they already recognized people the American people would turn
against the unions if they really mess up our supply chain.
So I think they decided it was a bad time
to strike. But I also think they think Republicans are
friendlier to unions than they used to be friendlier to
the American people. The American workers.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Not so much the union leadership. You know, the minute
all those stories started getting thrown out there about the
head of the union and his salary and how he
lives and what he drives. All of a sudden that
it took a different narrative, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh it did? They lived? You know, the union leaders
with Bentley's and yachts. It's always offensive. But you know,
I'm trying to say, why I have this plays in
the politics. Is Donald Trump had managed, in the time
he's been prominent in the political world to convey a
message to American families and American workers. We the Republicans,
we care about the people. We care about keeping jobs
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in America, we care about families being able to put
food in the table. And the Democrats have made a
very leftist, globalist turn. The whole party is more concerned
about globalism and less concerned about America and Americans, and
I think that is really resonating within union membership in
this country. I do think the Democrats will try to
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claim this is a big victory for them, but I
think the long term dynamic favors unions began to realize
it's Republicans who want to keep their jobs safe and
keep the American economy safe.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, that became very evident with the Teamsters, as you said,
because they pulled the Teamsters membership and it was over
sixty percent in favor of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Isn't that just staggering? And you know they did three
different polls. I think they were trying to figure out
maybe that was an anomaly. But yeah, I think you know,
hard working Americans, whether a union member or not, you
can see what the Democrat Party is doing to America.
They are globalist minded, They're fine with jobs going overseas,
and American workers want the jobs here. They like the
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message of Donald Trump and today's Republican Party. We believe
in the American economy, the American worker keeping jobs here
and will adjust our policies or trade deals to make
that happen. That's a great message to working people and
union members, and I think it really is resonating.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, it's not just some members, it's a group that's
negotiating the contracts and holding the contracts. Are multinational and
they're globalist, and you know, we're going to get to
revisit it again January fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We are. They put off resolving the automation issue, and
they settled wages, which was a big piece, But in
the automation parts. You know, on the one hand, unions
already have a lot of automation in their ports. They're
not physically lifting these massive crates off of these carriers
and carrying them onto the docks, so already using automation.
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But I think there's a concern and I think it's
justified if you could automate so much of what workers do.
And again, if you're a union person, you're saying, who,
which party here is going to care that there aren't
jobs in America? Which party is going to help us
get either? Push more American made products, make the automation
products in America, so jobs go there. They wanted to
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hear from the parties. I care about the American worker,
and the Democrats are not conveying that anymore. But me,
the automation issue will plump in January fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think it is. Hi, Debbie, thanks for joining US
political analyst de Wie George Gattis