A classic workers versus corporate greed battle is underway right now in Erie, Pennsylvania. Just about 2,000 workers who make locomotives are walking the picket lines in freezing weather—and I talk with Scott Slawson, the president of the union, to get the details on their struggle against, Wabtec, a union-busting company. Kimberly Ellis is back […]
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Episode 122: A Union Fights Corporate Greed in Erie, PA; Kimberly Ellis Runs Again!
Posted on 06 March 2019.
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Episode 92: UnBought & UnBossed Debuts; A Progressive Works To Dump One Of The Worst Republicans in Congress
Posted on 25 July 2018.
Republican Steve King is a racist, a despicable politician who fans the flames of hatred and division aiming mainly at immigrants. So, I welcomed to the show J.D. Scholten, the progressive Democrat who is aiming to take this guy down in November in the race for Iowa’s 4th Congressional district. Kimberly Ellis comes back to […]
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Episode 45: The Bad Seeds Taking Root In Iowa and California
Posted on 30 August 2017.
Remember the election for the Democratic California state party chair? It has stayed sleazy. I circle back with progressive chair candidate Kimberly Ellis to hear the latest—sexism, racism and just plain bully tactics are still the order of the day. Then, just two weeks after I talked about a big-time corporate fleecing of taxpayers in […]
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Episode 33: Did Democratic Party Insiders In California Steal An Election…Again?
Posted on 07 June 2017.
“Politically speaking, you will be murdered and we will personally take part in murdering you”…that was the message Kimberly Ellis heard from her “sisters” in the California Democratic Party when she began running for the chairmanship of the party. And the “murder” took place—possibly through voter fraud. In her first extensive interview since the election […]
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Episode 32: Upbeat Stuff…Wage Theft, Election Theft, CEO Theft, War Crimes
Posted on 31 May 2017.
It’s an action-packed podcast. I look at the daily stealing of workers’ wages, to the tune of billions of dollars—right in time for an annual deep-dive to look at a big hike in CEO pay in 2016. There is also breaking news on what could be another chapter in Democratic Party insider shenanigans—was there fraud […]
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Kimberly Ellis Challenging Dem State Party Election
Posted on 30 May 2017.
In Episode 31 of the Working Life podcast, I reported on the drama of the progressive battle to take over the California state Democratic Party…and the possible shenanigans the insiders employed to squeeze out the chair victory…or maybe not a victory…because breaking today: Formal Challenge Issued in California Democratic Party Chair’s Race For Immediate Release […]
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Episode 31: Get Good or Get Gone
Posted on 24 May 2017.
I kind of love the bottom line message delivered to Democrats by my guest, California progressive leader Karen Bernal: Get Good or Get Gone. In the discussion on this week’s podcast, Bernal was speaking directly about the insider Democrats in California who are trying to hold back the rising wave of progressive activists who came […]
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