But let's start with like what the 2022 CHIPS Act really did and how that's impacted the semiconductor industry here in the U.S.?

Well, it cut right to the chase.

It gave a ton of money to the executives and improved the bottom line for corporate profits.

helped to make investors more secure about pouring money into the industry.

Let me tell you what it didn't do.

It didn't provide provisions for workers to form a union, have a voice at work, engage in collective bargaining without employer interference in those kinds of decisions, and it should have.

That's a major deficiency.

Yeah.

There are definitely benefits to getting older, you know, when we use that.

Those aren't talked about very often.

We don't talk about the upside of getting older.

It's just this terrible thing you should avoid at all costs.

Yeah, so there's something very interesting that I think everyone should know and should be basic education for women, for young women, even for girls and children, that when a woman is transitioning through menopause, that this is not just some sort of entirely negative thing physical change that she should just be quiet about and not complain about and that we don't want to shouldn't talk about as a society.

But that this actually is sort of a leveling up to a new phase of life.

And so so here's the here's the fascinating, true fact that I want to share with people that there are only six species on this entire planet who have menopause, humans being one of them.

So can you talk about what it actually involves and what maybe the science behind it says? We had some great things to share at the workshop though.

This seems like if there was ever a moment in my lifetime where everybody should be in, this? No?

Well, I think it's...

You and I have kicked around in the labor movement long enough to know that the jurisdictions and fiefdoms of different unions are a real obstacle to that.

What we would like to see is regional or metro labor tables.

where the UFCW, the Teamsters, the service employees, communications workers that are organizing AWS, that these different unions come together to share information, to collaborate, to get to know one another and build trust at the local level.

We don't have to wait for Liz Schuller and the national AFL-CIO boobas.

We've got to start doing this work locally.

And that seems to resonate because I think we have to have consumers who buy into this as well.