Randi Weingarten
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253 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Nov
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So we've been filing based upon... the issues and the things that really affect people as opposed to waiting for the big headlines.
Well, let me say this. And I've been a Democrat all my life, and I've had the honor for 25 years between a local leadership and now a national leadership to be the elected leader who champions educational opportunity and economic opportunity, equal opportunity, all every single day. All of us, we're not monolithic. We have
a responsibility as labor leaders to serve our members and to help them get the best life they can get. And I would argue to help our communities have that as well. That's our job. And so there's a lot of people we all represent who are allured by and who like Trump's passion. They think it's, you know, they think he's authentic and he's a master salesman.
We may not believe a word that he's saying, but he's a master salesman. So our job is to actually really fight for and lift up who are the champions of the working class and how do we actually, and I'll use a teacher, I'll use something I learned as a school teacher. It's not, you meet people where they are and it's frankly not what you say, it's what people hear.
And so a lot of folks, you know, they are fighting for, every single day to get better wages, decent conditions for their members. And they see this strategy that they're using as a more efficacious one. And my job is to actually not be oppositional every single day to Donald Trump. I mean, I've said to Linda McMahon publicly that we could do work together on issues like career tech ed.
We shouldn't have college, we shouldn't have high school be only about college prep. High school should be about opening the aperture to do different kind of pathways. And if she's interested in that, she should be working with us on that. So I think that the real issue becomes what is the value system and what are the values that we believe in?
And if we believe in our democracy and we believe in voice for people and we believe in fairness for people and we believe in opportunity for people, that is what I am driving to. And then you see whose side is Sue on. I don't think Donald Trump is on the side of workers. I think that's become more and more obvious every single day.
And I think you're seeing that in the polling that we just saw that you put up in terms of kids. But we have to prove that to people. People are cynical, and that's part of our job.
I should talk about widespread fraud and abuse. Oh, yeah.
The irony here is at the same exact time as Elon Musk and his coders have information across basically that affects all Americans, he refuses to disclose his interests as someone who is a government contractor. who gets probably millions, if not billions of dollars in his own companies in terms of all of this. So number one is to try to stop the data breach. That's number one.
And number two is to try to actually get Congress to do the kind of accountability on all of this. But that's why we're going to the courts to try to get the courts to interpret the law and stop this invasion of privacy.
Where's the money going? Who's taking it? Are they trying to take that money that kids get for tax cuts for billionaires? What's going on? That's why we have to see what they're doing. It is illegal to take that money out of children's mouths and give it to billionaires.
States and localities run education. They basically, that's where 90% of the funding for education goes. They already want it. They should run it. The federal government should not run it. Oh!
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