Labor Day 2026
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What is the opening introduction and purpose of the Labor Day 2026 episode?
It is Monday. September 7th, 2026. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live to tape steps from the industrially ravaged Guanas Canal in the heartland of America. Downtown Brooklyn, USA Folks, it's our special Labor Day. Traditional show. Here, Emma, jump on here.
Hey, I'm here. There we go.
Uh just to extend the tradi uh tradition. The music just cut out. Um very abruptly. Uh it is uh Labor Day
and uh So Sam's taking the time to discipline his labor force. Exactly.
Exactly.
Uh
Uh Matt, uh if you just have a couple of moments after uh the show, I'd like to talk to you in my uh office, please. Um it is Labor Day and uh as is tradition around here, uh Emma, I think you'll recall, uh what do we do on Labor Day?
We play our traditional Labor Day episode.
That's correct. Uh that's exactly it. And uh we're going to do so again. Now
I should say I actually don't remember. What what do we do?
We play our traditional Labor Day as well which is a compilation of of different speeches of uh uh important labor speeches. You know There's um there's a little bit of a dearth of it, uh of some of these speeches 'cause some of the best ones were, you know, uh uh back in the early nineteen hundreds, uh nineteen tens and nineteen twenties, and a lot of it was in Yiddish, uh you know, back in the day, and at least in the New York uh New York area. Uh but we've uh we've got a compilation that we've been leaning on for years. And Um But I will also say two years ago in 2024 we played a couple of interviews uh that we did with Jane McAlevy, the late uh great Jane McAlevy, who uh was a uh great union organizer.
And uh that's also worth revisiting. Um I think if you're a member you're able to go back and and check those out. If not, uh next year we'll replay those. But you might be able to find them on YouTube separately. as well. But this year we have uh uh FDR um his labor department, uh fr uh Francis Perkins uh was uh very important she was actually from Worcester. I don't know if anybody knew
that. I I remember this from you telling me this last year. Very g fun fact.
Yep. Uh went to classical high school where my parents went too. I mean obviously they were probably a couple of years after. Um and uh sorry? Anyways, uh Mario Savio um uh giving a speech which incidentally uh was also an inspiration for uh the uh speech given during the Labra episode on Battlestar Galactica when they had landed on the one planet and uh the We can check that out. Uh and uh John L. Lewis, of course, and Bernie Sanders reading the words of Eugene Debs.
That's awesome. I mean, Frances Perkins, just to point out, like that it's pretty cool that the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet was someone as cool as Francis Perkins and like doesn't do what the modern Democratic Party does, which like sticks, you know, people, minority uh figures sometimes like the Biden administration did, in uncomfortable positions, like, you know, defending the genocide at the UN, for example, Linda Green, I'm forgetting her full name. But yeah, like yeah I probably should have looked that up before. Yeah, like But that like Frances Perkins, first woman to serve in a presidential candidate, also a badass as well. Yeah. Standing for the right things.
Yep. Uh Wormtown Rocks. Right. Yep. There you go. Uh and all roads that lead back to Worcester.
And and yes, and this is a especially I think important Labor Day to emphasize that right now labor unions are at their highest in terms of favorability in the country. uh that they have been in quite a while. Forty seven percent, according to Gallup, a poll that came out a few days ago, think that labor unions in the US should have more influence than they do today, a record high in the past quarter century, and roughly double the twenty three percent who want unions to have less influence. This is a completely changing paradigm here in terms of how la uh th this country feels about labor unions versus ten, twenty years ago.
Um and one day maybe uh Hopefully we can
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and purpose of the Labor Day 2026 episode?
0:06–5:22
2
How does the show explain the recent surge in public support for labor unions?
5:22–11:23
3
What historical context does the episode give for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s labor speech?
11:23–17:28
4
Why is Mario Savio’s 1964 Berkeley speech highlighted in the compilation?
17:28–22:33
5
What insights does Bernie Sanders provide when reading Eugene Debs?
22:33–29:18
6
How does the program describe John L. Lewis’s role in the United Mine Workers?
29:18–37:26
7
What is the significance of the Blue Land product plug within a labor‑themed episode?
37:26–45:13
8
What concluding remarks does the host give about future labor actions and the episode’s legacy?
45:13–53:05
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