Full Three Hour Show for February 1, 2016

Abe Amoros, Pennsylvania Legislative Director for LIUNA joins Rick to talk about the need for a massive infrastructure plan to rebuild the nations faltering in light of the news coming out of Flint, MI and how that need is being addressed by Presidential candidates.

Cole Stangler, Labor reporter at the International Business Times joins Rick to report on Friday’s Longshoremen walkout at ports in New York City.  What prompted the action? Has it been resolved? And all questions in between.

Kevin Mahoney, Editor Zero at the Raging Chicken Press joins Rick to highlight organizing campaigns going on across the nation on college campuses and to preview the upcoming Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union election. 

Shalon Miller, 15 year Detroit Public School (DPS) teacher who wrote an article published in the Washington Post about the state's disinvestment in DPS and the horrible conditions there joins Rick to talk about how and why the DPS and other poverty ridden school districts have been defunded.

Gloria Johnson, former Tennessee state legislator and retired public school teacher joins Rick to talk about her organizing efforts against Tennessee's proposed school voucher bill.