{"id":3390,"date":"2019-10-16T03:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T03:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2021-01-17T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T11:50:54","slug":"uaw-strike-workers-make-music-video-to-cover-their-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"UAW Strike Workers Make Music Video to Cover their Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UAW\/GM strike is in its 5th week and the UAW workers are trying everything to make money to cover their wages. The UAW workers now have RSpriggie, the rap-parody alter-ego of Richard Spriggs, a 34-year-old forklift operator at GM\u2019s Fort Wayne, Ind., assembly plant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spriggs has stepped forward with \u201cOr We Strike,\u201d a take on David Banner\u2019s 2003 hip-hop hit \u201cLike a Pimp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Uq6xMRkJFE\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRap is all about what\u2019s happening on what they call the streets or whatever,\u201d Mr. Spriggs said. \u201cBut I do it about what\u2019s happening on the factory floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Earle, 64 years old, has taken on labor issues in his work, but he said today\u2019s labor movement would benefit from younger musicians\u2019 voices. The next thing up is for somebody nationally to take an interest,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spriggs siad, \u201cIf Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie were singing at picket lines today, they would be rappers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAW\/GM strike is in its 5th week and the UAW workers are trying everything to make money to cover their wages. The UAW workers now have RSpriggie, the rap-parody alter-ego of Richard Spriggs, a 34-year-old forklift operator at GM\u2019s Fort Wayne, Ind., assembly plant. Mr. Spriggs has stepped forward with \u201cOr We Strike,\u201d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cropped-GM-Strike.jpg?fit=1825%2C1026&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}