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"You vote in MA? Then sign this ballot petition!" We've all been stopped outside the grocery store to sign petitions to get issues on the 2024 ballot. And we’ve been told that they all do good things for every day people. Be careful, though, because these claims are not all true.
“You vote in MA? Then sign this ballot petition!” We’ve all been stopped outside the grocery store to sign petitions to get issues on the 2024 ballot. And we’ve been told that they all do good things for ordinary people. Be careful, though, because these claims are not all true.
What does a 20-foot-tall inflatable rat have to do with the long history of public expression in the labor rights movement? The answer: a lot more than you'd expect.
Dr. Robert Bruno, Professor and Director, Labor Education Program, University of Illinois, joins John to talk about how the U.S. is in another major industrial shift, how that shift is impacting the labor market, if members of the UAW deserve higher pay, the pay disparity between company CEO’s and their employees, and why pay raises […]
CHICAGO — One warm evening last July, SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer got a call out of the blue from Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who wanted to meet.