Building and strengthening trade unions is essential to improving living standards and countering the rise of far-right politics.

“And the only antidote I think to what's happening in this world really is obviously support progressive politics but also build trade unions.”

The trade union movement is the essential tool for fighting against corporate greed and billionaire power.

“The trade union movement is the way that we fight back the worst scourges of capitalism and the billionaires who are choking out our world.”

She supports the labor movement and believes the president should act as a partner to organized labor.

“I think the revitalization of the labor movement organized labor right now is one of the biggest things going on so one of the things you they would really know that they had a partner in me”

Democrats should be more vocally and substantively supportive of workers and unions.

“it is also true that more generally Democrats particularly Senate democrats should be more actively vocally and substantly supportive of workers and unions”

He advocates for the general strike as a form of people power that can successfully challenge the administration when led by labor organizations.

“When labor organizations and others decide to lead the way, the people will follow.”

He argues that unions fail to consider that their demands can lead to the closure of unprofitable business locations.

“congratulations. By the way, >> you protested and you wanted two more jobs and you killed 12 jobs. Very good. Very good.”

The union leaders of the longshoremen are corrupt and their strike demands are unsustainable and harmful to the American economy.

“These people there was relevant time for unions, you know, if like with like women being chained to a loom for like 12 hours. But, these days they are they are living off of in most cases your taxpayer dime, too, when you look at public sector unions.”

Brandon feels that gig workers should be thankful for the access to software that allows them to work rather than being entitled to union protections.

“I don't think that these people should feel entitled at like having a set wage. I think that they should be thankful to have the access to this software that gives them the ability to make money when they want to.”

Hollywood unions are fighting for a shrinking pie, and their demands for things like banning AI are not feasible and will fail.

“I think this is one of the fundamental things that the unions and Hollywood have not yet groked completely which is they're not fighting each other they're fighting Tick-Tock YouTube podcasts and people making their own content”

Hollywood unions are failing to address the fundamental shift in the industry and their attempts to block AI technology will not work.

“I think they're arguing for more residuals for like you said the kind of lower level performers so that they can get health care yeah average ones yeah so I I can understand that at the same time they're demanding that writer's rooms not use AI software which they're already doing yeah which it's ju”