Full Three Hour Show September 30, 2015

Irwin Aronson, Labor Attorney and Rick Smith Show contributor joins Rick to talk about the recent report by State Rep. James Roebuck on Pennsylvania charter schools and what Rep Roebuck calls the "Wild West" spending or borrowing practices and lack of transparency by privately run schools with taxpayer dollars.

Daisy Cruz, Mid Atlantic Director of 32BJ SEIU joins Rick to talk about why in the aftermath of Pope Francis and the #walkwithfrancis visit thousands of workers are in the streets of Philadelphia #walkingforalivingwage. 

Doug Cunningham, Reporter at Worker’s Independent News joins Rick to raise awareness to the most important worker stories of the day from Detroit to talk about the UAW’s contract fight, to Cleveland for the AFL-CIO kicking off its Race Commissions, to Chicago as nursing home workers Fight For $15 and a union. 

John Dodds, Director of the Philadelphia Unemployment Project joins Rick to talk about today’s minimum wage event at the capital in Harrisburg and lay out why the minimum wage needs to be increased now.