Posted on 10 June 2020. Tags: Black Lives Matter, Judy Conti, MLK, Unemployment, Working Life TV
The big news—it’s the first regularly scheduled Working Life TV Show!!! View the show now and sign up at www.youtube.com/WorkingLifeWithJonathanTasini But, all our audio podcast listeners will still be able to hear the show in the long-time format. The unemployment system is in chaos—jammed phone lines, crashing websites. People can’t get the checks they […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast
Posted on 23 July 2019. Tags: Caterers, Eileen Appelbaum, Elizabeth Warren, Judy Conti, Minimum Wage, Private Equity, Unite-Here, Wages, Wall Street
I like the ring of The Stop Wall Street Looting Act, don’t you? True, it’s part of the business model of the joint, especially the private equity pirates. The Act is, in fact, aimed squarely at the private equity industry, who have stripped and destroyed hundreds of companies. I’ll talk about the Act with the […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Workers
Posted on 28 March 2018. Tags: 32BJ, Airport Workers, Judy Conti, Lillian Salerno, NELP, Restaurants, Texas, tips, waiters
The gall of greedy employers never seems to end, right? This time it shows up in the restaurant biz where the other NRA—the National Restaurant Association–was trying to get its hands on waiters’ tips. I talk to Judy Conti, a key leader in the successful battle to slap down that money grab. I, then, […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics