Irwin Aronson, labor attorney joins Rick to discuss the latest battles in the ongoing War on Workers as the Pennsylvania State Senate passed its version of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s model “Paycheck Protection” bill to make it illegal for the state and its employees to negotiate a dues checkoff agreement and to discuss the right wing push toward fulfilling its No Rights at Work agenda.
Dave Jamieson, labor reporter at Huffington Post joins Rick to discuss his latest article on the confirmation hearing of President Trump’s choice of CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary, explain what has held up his confirmation thus far, and where things are heading in the coming days now that Mr. Puzder has completed his ethics paperwork.
Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News Columnist & Author joins Rick to explain why America should be outraged over Republicans silencing Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren over her reading of the letter and offered testimony of Coretta Scott King during the failed 1986 confirmation hearing of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to a federal judgeship and the plethora of other lies, distortions, and abuses of power.
