After over a decade on Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant is launching a national coalition called Workers Strike Back to fight for wages, universal healthcare, LGBTQ rights, a clean energy transition, and more.
Kshama Sawant joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the need for an independent workers’ movement that doesn’t answer to either corporate party.
Kshama Sawant has spent 10 years on the Seattle City Council, during which time she accepted only workers’ wages, increased the minimum wage to $15, and fought to increase taxes on Amazon. Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative.
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I love you, Kshama! Seattle, WA here. ❤
What a woman! Kshama is wonderful, simply wonderful!
She is an Indian plant sent to ruin American manufacturing so as to benefit India. So if minimum wage is 25 pH then manufacturing of goods just went from up an extra 80 bucks per day per person. So price of goods will go up by at least the same same percentile if not more. The production in India which seems to be America's new favourite manufacturing destination. Quality and wether they can make it work is another issue. At a couple dollars an hour, we can just fire Kenny in HR and pay the wage for a while office in India.
No one will want to buy the American products since they will be so overpriced. Geuss we gotta put tariffs on India too like Got done to china. Otherwise no one will CHOOSE to buy local when made in currymuncherLand is so cheap. Might have a smell to it, but the cheap price makes it tolerable
Her claim of them syphonning money from Businesses so the lower class doesn't get a share of it…. But… Why would they if they are only employees and not shareholders. Upper echelon like business owners and other shareholders are entitled to it. No matter how much you produce, it's your job. Ask for a payrise. Otherwise I'd you take it, it'd be stealing dude.
As much as I would like the working class to have access to more funds, it will only help to eliminate the manufacturing industries as it will raise prices of things much higher. Making display prices of goods much higher and not necessarily of higher quality either.
When they get the 25 min wage, it'll still be minimum wage and will be able to acquire nothing extra since the inflation and interest rates will rise even higher just to counter the raised minimum wage.
good luck
Kshama Sawant is the kind of leader many of us have been hoping for, and of course, that means she can no longer be a candidate for office. She understands the system won't be reformed from within by those who reap its rewards, she's taking her leadership to the workers, to unite them. Unless we unite the huge majority of workers, the system will not provide any openings for meaningful change. She's not afraid to use scary words like "fight", "militant", and "STRIKE".
the rich work hard every day for power and money and workers have to do the same
go to your local government meetings and learn how to make changes
This lady is from India, she does not know everything about our American Constitutional Republic. So, I disagree with her a lot on certain things. I do agree that our own government is corrupt and needs to be thoroughly cleaned out. Capitalism, not crony capitalism will always be far better than socialism. Socialism, the government takes full control and it turns into Communism tyranny or just straight up tyranny.
Unions are terrible. They take your money and do nothing to help you. They tell you when you can work and when you can't, yet you still have to pay them, even though you are not working. Unions have out lived their usefullness. Also, look at the Unions that supported Biden and put us where we are now. One reason to say no to her.
Great – an immigrant explaining how our working conditions offend her sensibilities
You wanted 15 dollar minimum wage and currently McDonald's is offering it and cannot find workers, and with the inflation that Dems voted for and extra 10 dollars won't help. As far as unions are concerned , the only sectors that have unions are the government employees.
Climate change is overblown
GO ON STRIKE AND FIND A ( A I ) ROBOT IN YOUR SPOT IF YOU COME BACK
OMG I UNDERSTAND WE NEED MORE TO LIVE BUT THE MORE THE WAGE GO UP SO WILL EVERYTHING ELSE HELL KEEP GOING MILK WILL BE 50.00 A GALLON
My dear young woman you have quite the accent there honey let me ask you something did you have all that you are demanding from the United States in the country that you fled from if so why did you flee if not why are you not in your home country making these demands there.
After all you clearly came here from somewhere else and judging from your accent it wasn’t that long ago.
History is repeating itself.
I don't know why YouTube keeps autoplaying this. Kshama Sawant us a grifter and autoplaying me into this three dozen times won't change that.
Communism 😅