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Mar 2024
11m 52s

Swamp Notes: The play for union power

Financial Times
About this episode

Union workers used to be a reliable pillar of the Democratic party’s voting coalition. Then Donald Trump arrived on the scene. The FT’s global business columnist, Rana Foroohar, and US labour and equality correspondent, Taylor Nicole Rogers, join this week’s Swamp Notes to examine how President Joe Biden is trying to win workers back, and why unions may decide November’s election. 


Mentioned in this podcast:

America’s most powerful union leaders have a message for capital

Union workers score big pay gains as labour action sweeps US

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Swamp Notes is produced by Ethan Plotkin, Sonja Hutson, Lauren Fedor and Marc Filippino. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. 


CREDIT: UAW


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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