Mary Kay Henry
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Mary Kay Henry is the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), advocating for workers' rights and minimum wage increases. This interview reveals her commitment to empowering workers and her strategic approach to building coalitions that address systemic challenges in the labor movement.
“When we feel really proud of the progress we've made in changing the debate on wages in this country, we think that the courage and fearlessness of people like Terrence Wise in Kansas City, who is a 36-year-old second generation fast food worker, his mom is a fast food worker in North Carolina.”
“I that's a good question. I would say that our white conservative membership that is that we hear are responding to the Trump appeal are more concentrated in the Midwest and the South. But this is In getting people to think about how Trump isn't saying anything that's responding to the basic problem.”
“Which I got really interested in because I was part of the MPERG organization in East Lansing and my student work study assignment that year was to help lobby on health hazards in the state legislature.”
“I think he's touching this vein of the terrible anxiety that working class people feel about their current status but more importantly how terrified they are for their kids not being able to do as bad as well as they have never mind doing better you know so that broken sense of the future And not that emotion having an easier appeal to fe…”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 21 - Mary Kay Henry
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