Posted on 10 October 2018. Tags: Amazon, IATSE, Jeff Bezos, Mike Ellison, Oregon, Riggers
I’ve been featuring dozens of progressive candidates running at all levels. Many of them have not won their races, largely primaries. But, as I’ve said before, the conversation that such progressive bring to a race is so key—especially in more conservative areas. So, I talk to Mike Ellison, a working class union member, who is […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 28 July 2014. Tags: IATSE, New York City Metropolitan Opera, Peter Gelb
The tender landscape of art can often obscure labor nastiness, and stupidity, that rivals anything you’d find in the corporate world, with stupidity and greed part of the mix (take Arianna Huffington, grand narcissist, who is happy to leach off writers and make tens of millions along the way). Welcome to the New York Metropolitan Opera, folks, which, true to form, is trying to lay blame on its workers and threatening a lock-out, when mismanagement has been the order of the day.
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Posted in General Interest