Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Where The Right to Join a Union Can Make the Difference
Between Life and Death
With
Cecil Roberts, President, United Mineworkers of America
Ricky Polk, Member, United Mineworkers of America
With the deadly explosion in the Massey’s Upper Big Branch Mine in West Va. which killed 29 miners last April still fresh in their minds, Ricky Polk and Cecil Roberts blast the Republicans in Congress who have held up mine safety legislation. Both also make the point that the safest mines are union mines because of collective bargaining safety provisions but because of employer intransigence to uniionization, we also need Legislation to make it easer for workers to form unions. We talked with them at the One Nation Working Together Washington, DC March and Rally.
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Prostrated at the Altar of the Balanced Budget - Sacrificing Economic
Recovery, the Unemployed, Social programs, and Social Security,
with
James Galbraith, Chair in Gov't/ Business Relations,
at the School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin
Budget deficit mania is hobbling Washington’s response to economic recovery. Having a balanced budget is more important they say than implementing an economic stimulus to create our real bottom line – jobs, and more jobs. To cut federal budget deficits without first rebuilding the economy is a sure path to stagnation, to a double-dip recession – possibly to a second Great Depression!
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