{"id":529,"date":"2026-11-05T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2026-11-09T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:47:29","slug":"the-american-people-won-the-election-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"The American People Won the Election! Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Merrill spoke with Richard Lipsitz, former business agent of Teamster&#8217;s Local 264 in Buffalo NY and president of the Western New York Area Federation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertyandjustice4all.net?utm_source=navbar&amp;utm_medium=web\">Liberty and Justice For All<\/a>. Their talk is about how unions build worker power and fight corporate greed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read a lightly edited transcript of their conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertyandjustice4all.net\/p\/28aa7a4c-64b6-42bd-a3e3-1c5070a1fe5a\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/libertyjustice4a\/p\/the-american-people-won-the-election?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web\">writes about their conversation in more depth here here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or watch the conversation on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertyandjustice4all.net\/p\/ep-0012-richard-lipsitz-how-unions?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;timestamp=13.9\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Merrill spoke with Richard Lipsitz, former business agent of Teamster&#8217;s Local 264 in Buffalo NY and president of the Western New York Area Federation for Liberty and Justice For All. Their talk is about how unions build worker power and fight corporate greed. Read a lightly edited transcript of their conversation by clicking here. &#8230; <a title=\"The American People Won the Election! Now What?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?p=529\" aria-label=\"Read more about The American People Won the Election! Now What?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29,30,23],"tags":[34,32,33],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egberto-willies","category-liberty-and-justice-for-all","category-michael-merrill","category-podcast","tag-corporate-greed","tag-richard-lipsitz","tag-union-power","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}