It’s the permanent government—the corporate lobbyists who have friends in both parties. It is at the heart of why we don’t have Medicare for All, why the Pentagon is rolling in dough and why banks and Wall Street rip us off. Jeff Hauser, the executive director of the Revolving Door Project, talks about what the […]
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Episode 205: Stiffing Corporate Lobbyists; Short-Time Work Salvation; Nurses On The Line
Posted on 28 October 2020.
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Episode 175: Health Care Workers and Transit Workers Face The Pandemic
Posted on 01 April 2020.
The other night I was watching an episode of Season 3 of Ozark and there was a scene in which the mother, played by Laura Linney, walks out of a supermarket with her son, both of them pushing a shopping cart. My head went immediately to, without a thought: I hope they sanitized that bar […]
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Episode 144: Wal-Mart’s Guns In Teachers’ Sights; Boeing Breaks Labor Law; Nurses Fight Retaliation Firings
Posted on 21 August 2019.
Sometimes CEOs and the economic elites do stuff that is so transparently absurd that it sort of makes me laugh. Add to that list the letter, “A statement on the purpose of a corporation”, released this past week by the Business Roundtable, signed by a couple of hundred CEOs, promising to be, well, nice to […]
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A New Love Affair: CNA Hearts SEIU
Posted on 20 March 2009.
I’m only about peace and love these days when it comes to the labor movement–there is plenty to write about in the AIG-side of the world that makes you want to cry. So, it was nice to read the email in my box announcing an agreement between SEIU and the California Nurses Association to […]
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