Taking the risk to pursue extraordinary opportunities is preferable to living in constant fear of losing one's employment.

“I would rather try and run with this ball as far as I can take it as far as I can till I get tackled than to refuse to pick it up”

Hasan Piker advocates for sectoral bargaining through unions to ensure equal pay and benefits for all workers, regardless of their origin or immigration status.

“the solution is to document them process them and allow them to engage in the process of sectoral bargaining through unions and therefore everyone's wages go up”

Amazon classifies delivery drivers as third-party contractors to avoid providing benefits and legal protections associated with direct employment.

“it's very clear to the workers to the teamers to anybody who pays attention in this stuff that this is a misclassification that Amazon does this so that they don't have to deal with benefit and the things like workplace discrimination suits”

The government must intervene to prevent AI-driven automation from displacing millions of workers in sectors like transportation.

“my view is we should have regulation saying you have to have truck drivers on a truck. I mean, I don't want planes without a pilots. You know, we want to have I don't want 6 million people left out in without a job.”

A federal government that supports new organizing and takes on corporate greed is necessary to fight for social democracy.

“We need a federal government that will actually support new organizing, that will take on corporate greed, and will fight for a real social democracy.”

Francesca Hong supports the repeal of Act 10 and the establishment of a constitutional right for workers to organize and collectively bargain.

“Now it's not enough to make sure that we repeal Act 10, which we can do through legislation or it can get struck down in the courts. However, we want to make sure that a bill like Act 10 never comes up again. And so I'd like to see Wisconsin actually be able to take an issue like this to the voter t”

Ordinary citizens can successfully disrupt ICE operations by employing decentralized, grassroots organizing tactics like recording agents, delivering food to targets, and signaling their presence.

“If you can get ordinary people who have real leverage over these companies to stop going along with what ICE is doing then ICE's basic ability to function stops.”

The federal government should protect labor by limiting the power of business owners to mistreat workers.

“when the people elected FDR he began to use the federal government to protect labor to limit um the the the things that business owners could do and he really pushed the idea first of uh regulation of business and second of the construction of a basic social safety net”