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 175: Health Care Workers and Transit Workers Face The Pandemic
Posted on 01 April 2020.
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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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Episode 95: The Torching of Education; The “Opportunity Zone” Tax Scam.
Posted on 15 August 2018.
The destruction of our education system hasn’t just been a natural phenomena like the sun rising in the east. It’s been a determined assault on our schools and teachers by right-wing ideological zealots. To get the facts about this campaign of destruction, I talk to Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about […]
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Episode 88: Janus Comes Down—The Bad, the Really Bad and The Fight Back
Posted on 27 June 2018.
Today, the inevitable happened. The Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME, with the now-familiar right-wing conservative majority siding with the anti-union billionaire forces against public sector unions, and, really, the entire middle-class. I welcome back Celine McNicholas from the Economic Policy Institute to look at who is hurt by the decision. I, then, give […]
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Episode 71: Scurrying About–The Cockroaches In The Axis of Bigots-Supreme Court Justices-Greedy Billionaires
Posted on 28 February 2018.
The attacks against public sector unions—an attack on all working people—reached their legal pinnacle Monday when the Supreme Court heard the case, Janus v. AFSCME. But, something else is exposed in the case: the links between the conservative right-wing ideologues on the Supreme Court, greedy billionaires and piles of money that have funded bigots, racists […]
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Episode 7: Death Rattle Of The Democratic Party? Who’s Going To Run The Show?
Posted on 07 December 2016.
It’s ugly. Is it terminal? Nothing ever is in politics. But, it’s bad, bad, bad for the Democrats. This week, I looked at the fight over who should be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee—and what that choice will say about the vision of the party. I spoke with Donna Brazile, the interim […]
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Don’t Blame Workers
Posted on 24 December 2008.
I’ve made the point over the past many months that the current financial crisis will be used–and has been used–as a cover to attack workers and, particularly unions. There is a struggle going on over two visions of society: a decent standard of living vs. a Wal-Mart standard of living. I made that point […]
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Randi Weingarten For U.S. Senate
Posted on 23 December 2008.
This is not a post about why someone should not be the next U.S. Senator from New York. It’s advocating for someone who should: the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. If you want the full history and credentials for Randi, check it out here. Here are my basic reasons for […]
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Moving On and Up?
Posted on 14 February 2008.
This was no surprise, actually. It had been brewing for some time and a few days ago I was told it would become more public: Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that she’s contemplating a new job – president of the national teachers union. Weingarten’s possible ascent to the […]
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Moving On and Up?
Posted on 14 February 2008.
This was no surprise, actually. It had been brewing for some time and a few days ago I was told it would become more public: Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that she’s contemplating a new job – president of the national teachers union. Weingarten’s possible ascent to the […]
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