Building Bridges: The Fate Of Public Sector Unionism; Obama on the Brink: War or Peace?; New Obama Executive Order for Good Jobs?

[Rosenberg, Mimi]

Building Bridges over WBAI radio, 99.5FM
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., June, 23, 2014, 7 - 8pm EST
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The Fate Of Public Sector Unionism

In The Hands Of The Supreme Court
with 
Nicole Berner, SEIU Associate General Counsel

The gravest threat today to public-employee unions—which represent

nurses firefighters,  teachers, and other city and state workers—is a

Supreme Court case named Harris v. Quinn. A well financed group of

Illinois state employees seek to rob unions of their bread and butter, their

way of financing services, by eliminating their payments to support such

union operations as collective bargaining, grievance handling, and training

to support the union, which they claim violates their free-speech rights.

The case pits several of the nation's mightiest labor unions, such as the

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American

Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),

against their longstanding foe, the National Right to Work Legal Defense

Foundation, which helped bring the case. National Right to Work is funded

by some of the biggest names in conservative philanthropy: the Bradley

family, the Waltons of Walmart, Charles Koch, and DonorsTrust and

Donors Capital Fund, two dark-money ATMs. Labor officials see Harris
as an effort by the deep-pocketed conservative movement to wipe public
employee unions off the map.  This Supreme Court's decision is expected

this week
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Obama on the Brink: War or Peace?
with
Marjorie Cohn,  Prof. Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former

president of the National Lawyers Guild and author of Cowboy

Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law. Her latest

book, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical

Issues, is scheduled for publication this fall.

President Obama stated that the 300 U.S. troops he intends to send to Iraq
would be doing training, but CNN reports his spokesperson Jay Carney
stated they would also 'provide airfield management security and logistic
support.' Does this mean that they will become the required forward air
controllers for the military action that Obama says he is preparing? If the
U.S.is going to target ISIS, will it be limited to Iraq or will it eventually go into
Syria? Prof. Cohn makes the case that the introduction of U.S. troops into
the hostilities in Iraq violate the War Powers Resolution and moreover, the
UN Charter only allows a military attack on another country in the case of
self-defense or when the UN Security Council authorizes it; that is not the
case at the present time. 
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U.S. Government's $1.3 Trillion Purchasing Power Could Lift
8 Million Workers Out of Poverty
with
Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos Policy Analyst & co-author of new Demos
report Underwriting Good Jobs
 
Eight million workers rely on low-wage jobs supported by the federal
government’s $1.3 trillion in annual spending a new report by the public
policy organization Demos . Building on Pres. Obama’s executive order
that raised the minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of federally
contracted workers, it calls for raising labor standards more broadly.
The Good Jobs Executive Order advocated in the report would apply to
the entire workforce of federally-supported employers significantly
benefiting women and minorities – who make up a large percentage of
low-wage workers in the federal purchasing footprint. It advocates for
spending agencies to incorporate higher workforce standards when
evaluating and awarding federal contracts including collective bargaining
rights, living wages and good benefits, compliance with workplace
protection laws and other applicable business regulations, and limits
on excessive executive compensation.
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