The Key Bridge disaster was caused by the oppression of workers
24 hours after Max returned to Baltimore from East Palestine, Ohio, the shipping vessel Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it into the Patapsco River. The catastrophic collision and collapse of the bridge claimed the lives of six immigrant, non-union construction workers who were working the night shift at the time, filling potholes on the bridge. In this interview on The Valley Labor Report, Alabama's only weekly union talk show, hosts Jacob Morrison and Adam Keller speak with Max about The Real News Network's coverage of the bridge collapse, the connections between Baltimore and East Palestine, and about the conspiracists and "anti-woke" grifters who are trying to capitalize on this tragedy for their own gain.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but to me it comes down to the question, _"do we exist to serve the economy, or does the economy exist to serve us?"_ It's absolutely shameful that America won't guarantee healthcare and housing for its citizens and workers, but has the arrogance to constantly brag about being the richest and most powerful country in history. Solidarity forever ✊
The.entire world economy is serfdom (Agenda 2030), based on stay at home, 15 minute cities,e- commerce, A.I. start-up networks and the Stock Market Exchange. More needed inspections and enforcement in all areas of Commercial transportation and S.E.C. As a cross country truck driver I absorb the impact of these discrepancies, especially since the Truckers lost leverage by not being Union. We have sleepers on the trucks that assures us as laborers stay on the road away from home and and a normal life. Since 2007 all states lost revenue relying on a non-union abor force called Privatization. State employees were let go. those job losses kept the dollar bill from circulating in all communities, these companies went outside the U.S. for manufacturing credits. Profit and dividends is now the priority. The only concern in commerce is how they can satisfy their golden key stockholders, and the fact is government is not even concerned about your personal safety. Look at the money you spend on Cable TV Companies, with commercials you pay for, that broadcast disclaimers of Pharmaceuticals that can terminate your life. Why are these products advertised and why do people tolerate this action?
And give ANYONE AND EVERYONE aide EXCEPT AMERICA. I DON'T CONSENT
And yet give everything free to illegal immigrants. Getting money from the government is much like pulling a lions accessed teeth. Unclaimed property is a joke. They charge you interest in the money the owe you. It's your money. They never call you back. So all the money they owed me. I didn't get one red cent.
@bertbaker we serve the economy to keep the country running and to pay our own bills . Historically France has been said to have the best healthcare system in the world,and they pay through the nose for it. Canada has socialized medicine for which they wait months, maybe years for testing and treatment . Neither system is perfect, and USA’s system is a combination of both. Stay healthy and try to avoid using the system for anything other than informing yourself on how things are going. Get a blood pressure cuff and learn how to use it as well as a glucose meter. Learn about a truly healthy lifestyle and decide what works best to keep yourself resilient. There are many fine MDs andRNs online who give sound information and guidance for the cost of having an internet connection.
@@snuder9832 why is there always trillions available to spend on war but there's never billions for housing and healthcare? If your dependent on your employer for housing and healthcare then it becomes compulsory. It's much easier to exploit people if they're in a desperate situation. It'd be a lot harder to get people to work at Walmart or other low pay menial jobs if they weren't worried about being homeless or starving to death. 25,000 people die of hunger *everyday* even tho we produce more than enough food for everyone. The economy has been designed to force most people into these desperate situations so that a tiny fraction of folks can live in unfathomable opulence. People will still need to work, but the economy can be set up in a way that doesn't condemn billions to brutal lives if oppressive drudgery.
We are ALL being poisoned
The problem is that there is way too much criminal corporate malfeasance as well as piracy.
Capitalist profits depend crucially on abuse of labor and the environment. Eliminate the malfeasance and I wonder if there is a workable business model that can support your and my comfortable 21st century high tech lifestyle. Maybe there is (for starters, make banking a public utility, not a profit center for rich folks), but we are nowhere near the kind of societal consensus needed to even approach what is necessary. Good luck overturning our deeply ingrained cultural religion of fake democracy, "rational" markets, endless economic growth, and Darwinian economic individualism. I do not see how you get from there to a government that actually enforces the public interest. I am open to more hopeful conclusions, but to me it looks more and more like western civilization is way past its sell-by date, if it could ever have been sold in good conscience to begin with (and there are numerous exploited / genocided peoples in the world who would tell you it was not).
Those workers didn't refuse a ride to the hospital because of the cost, they do that because they're afraid of arrest or deportation.
There is NO evidence that these workers were illegal immigrants. In fact working for a contractor for the state of Maryland there is even more controls to prevent hiring of illegals then companies with no contracts with the state.
There's a disconnect w Max, when he'll blame "corporations" for the demise of the American union worker, and yet never mention U.S. immigration policy which is an assault on the working class' wages. The fact that the workers that were on the bridge- that sadly appear lost- are foreign national immigrants, is not seen as proof positive that the U.S. worker is being supplanted in the pursuit of profit by the reduction of labor costs, highlights this disconnect.
I noticed that right away. Bridge maintenance jobs should be high paid skilled jobs.
The closure of this port and the detour around the collapsed bridge together with putting the people dependent on the bridge and the longshoremen on unemployment insurance is going to have a devastating effect on our economy because it’ll cause a loss of demand and an interruption in the supply line that’ll drive prices up on everything that nobody on unemployment can afford. To make higher profits the factor of greatest concern in the decision making process is obviously a big mistake. Wall Street should realize that it doesn’t work for a sustainable business model! Meanwhile, the empire is crumbling faster than reporters can keep up.
You ain't lying
But we can build a port in Gaza faster than one here in the US!!!
@@cornn16~ .. and we can make sure that every Israeli has government subsidized education and healthcare; but not for U.S. citizens! Help dismantle our hegemonic empire so we can become a nation among nations rather than a nation above others. Vote for Dr Cornel West this November and put capitalists out of the business of politics.
@@cornn16 i get your point. I think they're building a Mulberry Harbor in Gaza, named and based on what they used at Normandy after d day. You're right tho, there's nearly a million homeless people in the US, and tons of other things that that $4 billion we just gave Israel could have been put to real use.
The hospitals are required by law to give care for those in need. As a nurse for 40 some years I personally took care of “ million $$$” babies of illegals and those with no insurance because that is the policy. No one in dire need gets turned away .
Yes and after they are treated ICE will be waiting when they discharged.
I wonder what you imagine is on the cargo manifest of Dali.
Weapons?...a n uke?..
If I'm not mistaken, if contruction projects are underway on federal structures the pertaining throughway should be shut down. According to Ocupacional Safety and Health Association(OSHA). Contracts fall under Davis Bacon law, meaning wages are union scale. Two way radio communication for supervisor and crew and on and off shore. Coastguard or homeland security on standby would also be a prerequisite. On most DOD contracts.
Sudden death syndrome IS NOT NORMAL for cardiac issues started WHEN ???
I am so sorry East Palestine 😢😢😢
Why, they don't give a damn about you.
It appears Baltimore shall be the first to know economic collapse. They are fast becoming the ones we will only aspire to be, having others worrying and hoping for the best outcomes can’t last long once these preventable crises enter more n more communities which they undoubtedly will. Flint Michigan started their awful game and much love to Baltimore but this is just the beginning folks. God be with us all
You are right about that. Just the beginning.
7:18 two crucial minutes missing from black box data ,!, speaks volumes!!@#
The situations of East Palestine and Key Bridge are not exactly the same. They rhyme.
The Communist squirrels is laughing and high fiveing each other !
The key question what were the existing channels of warning in the eve of the Mayday announcement regardless of contracts status? Is the state and police suddenly obsolved from their duty to protect the citizens bc of contracts stutus with a private industry? What is the labor board technical standard regarding incidents management and prevention of this type of work? What is the oversight role of the labor department? That is the silence question on the bridge workers
I have worked as crew on a forien flagged container vessel. Life was very good aboard.
The problems that represent the breaking of the social contract referred to here can only be solved one way.
Every bridge in the US that has shipping traffic passing under it should have structures protecting the support columns adjacent to the shipping channels. The Skyway bridge disaster happened over 40 years ago and the new bridge has huge "dolphins" that prohibit ships from hitting the support columns.
They would use one of many other methods at their disposal to, keep the plan ongoing !@#
#MedicareForAll Because all hardworking Americans deserve healthcare.
what they deserve is AFFORDABLE health care, not free.
@@mjonhoustonhealthcare for all is less expensive and will therefore be more effective. It works like health insurance but covers everyone and does not run out if we're sick or injured, can't work, and lose our jobs. There are no gaps if we need to change jobs and have to wait until we're eligible for our new employer's healthcare system to become available to us. It just makes sense.
None of us should be running around like a chicken with our heads cut off. Especially the chickens. Poor girls 😞 #refusetonormalizeviolence
Have you guys covered anything about the national opioid settlement by chance?
Would really really like to know what that music is in your intro, that mountain kind of old timey music. Please if anyone has any information on that, let us know. Thank you.
Me too! It sounds like Bluegrass. Reminds me of the music performed in the really awesome/ creepy/ interesting film very early in Jennifer Lawrence career called Winter's Bone that takes place in dirt poor, meth ravaged, rural Arkansas.
So true, i am 63 and i would have worried about the cost. The insurance i get with my pension covers very little, with very high deductibles. I have paid inportioniate amounts of taxes for 40 years. In return our government cares only for economy and corporations. Greed has stolen the country from the people who work to support it.😢 Popular Vote now! Join the PPC march for moral revival 🎉. Forward together, not 1 step back.
The bridegroom collapse was due to cyberattack.
Things wont change until us workers refuse to work this way anymore. The government and media are on the side of evil.
All of this has you guys WOUND UP. For good reason. You ought to look into the trucking industry. "Profits" have taken precedence over worker & highway safety........to a MAJOR extent over the last 40 years. All the BS rules we have in this industry supposedly for safety are ALL SMOKE & MIRRORS
"load bearing pylon" Land of the Lost, anyone?
Preach🎉😢
The French invented a machine in 1789 that will fix this problem in a snap, or i should say, a CHOP🙂
In 90 seconds they wouldn't have been able to get off that bridge. Don't know what part they were on but it went down like a domino. Maybe they didn't get word. But maybe they were busy trying to save lives they Could.. it wasn't because ones wouldn't care. But I would like to know how he knew if they tried to contact or not. Did they say. Nope. Didn't try or think about it. Or have a way to. Cuz it kinda wouldn't BE something they would have on speed dial.. I think we r expecting it's like they were in heavy combat and we send em in with no way to contact. In a 2 minute window.
Do you support the PPC?
And I got no time...
In an invasion it is typical to take out key infrastructure to limit defense ability and distupt suply chains.
The government corperation IN America is complicit they have given comfort and aide to the enemy .They have allowed every terrorist and cartel to come freely into America They have Activly made America unsaved .They have destroyed America purposely. America has been captured.
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#InsideJob24
Actually DEI is not a good thing ... The diatribe at the end was stilted .
Stop arguing. The bridge was destroyed by sheer stupidity. Force ship owners to pay for tug boats with pilots.
With Flag of Convenience ships, finding the owner is as the saying goes, like a needle in a haystack. The time has come to end Flags of Convenience for safety and security of Transport.
By of For?
this may sond inposblie but will a new illens return after covid?? 😨
Max! STOP YELLING IN THE MIC!
40 years of deregulation and cost cutting ,tax loopholes, to serve the already rich corporations, which endangers health and safety of poorer neighborhoods, where train lines run. Thank you Ronald Regan! Corporate raiders did same thing on train line frrom Coquille to Eugene , Oregon . Corporation was based out of Florida that sold out the rail line. Also US corporations undermining smaller countries nutritional health and increasing diabetes rates, tooth decay, and pollution by marketing soda pop and packaged foods , when their native foods were and are much better for personal and environmental heal. The Caribbean islands and sea coast is inundated by plastic and styrofoam waste, marketed without a plan to recycle. Oil corporations.... Vote with your dollar, and question everything in the news!
Man , talk about bigotry ! Regardless , you both have said many things that I agree with . Thanks
I had heard that the shipping company was owned by Mitch McConnell's recently deceased sister-in-law, which is China owned.
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Great job, Max!
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I doubt I’ve ever heard more shit flow from a single person at one time. Shipping, transportation, construction has always been a messy business and always will be. God bless the souls lost.
Sorry I disagree with your speaker. If we need more working people in our country, then the government should vet these people and have them come into the country legally like my grandfather did. He worked hard as a stone mason. He worked hard and built a business and was an asset to our country.
I enjoy your commentary and your in-depth research but could you possibly cut down on the word like? Keep up the good work though!
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Imagrant lives ?? AMERICAN LIVES ???
All workers are invisible to the master , but the government CORPORATION IN America have allowed slave labor CHILD LABOR to become rampant .
Who do you support for president?
Dei means the n word. These guys are hilarious. You need to take that show on the road.🤣🤣🤣🧂🧂🧂
I'm sure these two guys talking have paid all the medical bills for these people and have taken migrants into their homes.
I never heard one person say it was a conspiracy,I dont know what your talking about.
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Wasn't the shipping company embracing DEI?
jjjj.....
DEI lives rent-free in your brain, doesn't it? Stop being so emotional, lol
@@lynns4426 Stop projecting. If I am experiencing any emotion, it's smug satisfaction
Racist
@@ShaunHensley satisfaction of what exactly? Being unproductive and toxic?
Palastine not Palasteen.
The people of East Palestine, OH pronounce it as Pal-es-teen, so take it up with them. It’s not pronounced the same as Palestine in the Middle East.
Helpful, thx. @@RealRyanFlynn
Just never heard it pronounced that way. First time for eveything.@@RealRyanFlynn
This podcast sucks
No... The Key Bridge disaster was caused solely by HUMAN INCOMPETENCE!!!! This is exactly why we as a whole must demand the rapid advancement and implementation of A.I. self-operating boats as well as self-drinking vehicles and self-flying aircraft as well. No more incompetent crew behind the wheel constantly threatening our safety and infrastructure. The time is NOW!!!
B.s. @#
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and you think machines created and programmed by HUMANS would be any better? lol
@@chezchundy8892 Yes! Even by a few percentage points.... It would still be an improvement.
@@megacide84 I get that it’s easy to be disillusioned with humanity to the point you are optimistically hoping for some other force to save us. But I invite you to read a few of the articles exposing how AI is inherently biased and racist because we, the inherently biased and racist humans, programmed it. This wasn’t even done intentionally or maliciously, it’s just so ingrained into humanity that we can’t program it out.
What in the communism is this channel
I enjoy your commentary and your in-depth research but could you possibly cut down on the word like? Keep up the good work though!
you posted 2x... y?
@@yiannimil1 I'm guessing KZhead glitch. Not sure if I'd even know how to post the same comment twice.
There should always be two bridges! Any ship docking here should have to prove safe conditions and fair pay.