The Rick Smith Show Full 3 hours for May 19, 2016

Mike Davis, International Staff Representative with the Communications Workers of America joins Rick to bring everyone up to speed on the latest talks with Verizon as members have been on strike for more than a month and to talk about the upcoming weekend of planned kid’s activities to help members families get through this courageous fight.

Mark Price, Labor Economist with the Keystone Research Center joins Rick to discuss their findings on what benefits Pennsylvania’s workers will see under the Obama administration’s latest overtime regulatory changes and to dispel the attacks.

Jerry Oleksiak, President of the Pennsylvania State Education Association joins Rick to talk about Governor Wolf’s veto of another Republican anti-teacher bill and where or not this legislation is another in a long line of ALEC-esque bills flooding the general assembly.

Katie McGinty, Democratic Senatorial candidate joins Rick to talk about her campaign and highlight the state of infrastructure in the nation given recent news on what caused the Amtrak #188 train derailment.

 

Dan Barry, New York Times Columnist and author joins Rick to discuss his latest book, “The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland.”  A real life story of human exploitation and blind-eyed labor and human rights abuses right in the American Heartland.