SWAMP PERSON: A Humble Offering of Pro-Union Propaganda from the Left with Jenny Hunter

About this episode

Welcome back to Swamp Person! Today we welcome our first GUEST. Her name is Jenny Hunter, and she’s a labor lawyer and writer based in DC. And we are so excited to be answering some important questions about LABOR UNIONS + THE SUPREME COURT. THINGS WE TALK ABOUT: • First things first: Jenny’s cat Smokey • The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), what it does for workers, and what the Supreme Court is doing to undermine it • Lindy’s existential question: why don’t we all agree that every person deserves to have our basic needs met? Was the Supreme Court a good idea or nah? • The myths of bootstraps and billionaires. • Why the concept of “unskilled labor” is a zero-sum game where nobody wins? Sorry but working retail and being a server involves…skill? • Lindy’s eye-opening stint as local chimney sweep • WTF a secondary boycott is • How the Supreme Court has always been pretty evil towards workers • FDR’s political pressure applied towards the Supreme Court to achieve his New Deal agenda • The performative aspect of the Supreme Court • Why adding justices to the Supreme Court is a path to a better balanced court • Alito’s self-precedence??? • Republicans being okay with a cred