Subscribe to the show today!Support Working Life @ https://www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePo...or @ actblue.com/donate/working-life-1I have discussed a number of times the union organizing campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. S

Ep 219: A Social Fund For The Planet’s Poor; Challenging A Corporate Mouthpiece

Mar 24th, 2021 36m 41s

Subscribe to the show today!Support Working Life @ https://www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePo...or @ actblue.com/donate/working-life-1I’ve spent a lot of time on the crisis facing workers around the world who before the pandemic even hit us fac

Ep 218: There Is No Debt Crisis; Taking Down A California Corporate Democrat

Mar 17th, 2021 32m 43s

Subscribe to the show today!Support Working Life @ https://www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastor @ actblue.com/donate/working-life-1It’s those zombie voices again. The ones who rise up from the dead, or from a hidden policy corner, to start

Ep 217: It’s All North Carolina—The Fight for 15 and The Campaign For A Progressive U.S. Senator

Mar 10th, 2021 42m 4s

Subscribe to Working Life today!Support us @ https://www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastor @ actblue.com/donate/working-life-1Episode 217:It’s all about North Carolina today—the fight for better wages and the campaign to get a progressive

Ep 216: Wealth Tax On The Table; Two Trillion for The Global Poor; Joe Biden and Union Organizing

Mar 3rd, 2021 56m 9s

Episode 216:Subscribe to Working Life today!Support us @ https://www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastor @ actblue.com/donate/working-life-1The number that sticks in my mind today, and has since I heard it, is 40 percent. While over half a m

Ep 215: Big Pharma Wants Poor People To Die; Unions Fighting Myanmar Coup—Redux

Feb 24th, 2021 45m 54s

Episode 215:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1You aren’t going to be surprised by this news: Big Pharma is killing people. All over the world. And the

Ep 214: YOUR Four Talking Points For $15/Hour Minimum Wage; Alabama Is Amazon Unionizing Ground Zero

Feb 17th, 2021 38m 51s

Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1Right before our eyes, in these very days and at this time of crisis, you can see so clearly this bankrupt system, defe

Ep213: Bi-Partisanship Kills; Amazon Workers Organize!; Unions Confronting Myanmar Coup

Feb 10th, 2021 52m 5s

Episode 213:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1“Bi-partisanship” is an idea that should make everyone sick to their stomach. When someone is out to kill

Ep 212: Unemployment Money Chaos Redux?; Clawing Back Dough From The Rich

Feb 3rd, 2021 54m 38s

Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1How many of you dealt with that chaos when it came to wrestling with the unemployment insurance system last year? Some

Ep 211: What Corp. Interests Are Infiltrating The Biden World; Global Inequality At Record Levels

Jan 27th, 2021 1h 11m

Episode 211: “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowled

Ep 210: Is Europe Taking Climate Change “Just Transition” More Seriously?

Dec 16th, 2020 39m 10s

Episode 210:I am guessing everyone who listens to this show considers himself or herself an environmentalist and cares about the planet. You believe in science—a shocking notion—so you get the climate change emergency. We know we have to do s

Ep. 209: It’s Not A Game—World Cup Workers’ Rights Fight; Europeans Leap To Protect Gig Workers

Dec 9th, 2020 48m 46s

Episode 209:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1Soccer, football, whatever you call it—it’s not my thing at all. Give me baseball every day, 365 days a w

Episode 208: Goldman Sachs/AFL-CIO On Same Page—Pigs Fly!; Taxing The Rich—The Fight Looms

Dec 2nd, 2020 48m 26s

Episode 208: Back in the spring, I had a good chuckle when I found a topic of agreement between the AFL-CIO and Goldman Sachs, as well as agreement from lots of heads of states, many labor folks and business titans—creating trillions of dolla

Episode 207: Ending the Pandemic in 30 Days; Speeding Up Poultry Processing Lines—Insane!

Nov 20th, 2020 47m 29s

Episode 207:Ideology is in the way of a simple plan to end the pandemic in 30 days. Yes, 30 days: Lock down the country and pay everyone up to an annual wage of $90,000 to stay home. I’m resurrecting the argument I made months ago because the

Ep 206: Perez Still Has A Job?; Georgia, Georgia, Georgia; Arizona Hikes Taxes To Fund Schools

Nov 11th, 2020 30m 16s

Episode 206:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1Three questions post-election are on the menu this week. First, how does Tom Perez, the chair of the DNC,

Episode 205: Stiffing Corporate Lobbyists; Short-Time Work Salvation; Nurses On The Line

Oct 28th, 2020 59m 53s

Episode 205:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1It’s the permanent government—the corporate lobbyists who have friends in both parties. It is at the hear

Ep 204: COVID and Inequality—A Love Story; Landslide Coming!

Oct 21st, 2020 50m 16s

Episode 204:The catastrophic failure to shrink global inequality has given COVID-19 the perfect breeding ground: tens of millions of people are at risk of hunger, extreme poverty, sickness and death because, overwhelmingly, most countries do

Ep 203: Biden Tax Ideas Are Weak Sauce; Give More Power For The Post Office

Oct 14th, 2020 48m 39s

Episode 203:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1When Donald Trump and his minions are eviscerated in less than three weeks so the country can survive, I

Ep 202: Trump Is A Tax Cheat—But Lots Of Rich People Dodge And Cheat Thanks To Both Parties

Oct 7th, 2020 42m 15s

Episode 202:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcastActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1For a sliver of time, the political world was talking about how Donald Trump cheats on his taxes. Virtual

Ep 201: Firefighters Face The Infernos—And The Devastating Long-Term Health Consequences

Sep 30th, 2020 32m 36s

Episode 201:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1I’ve been thinking a lot about firefighters these days, what with the jaw-dropping video we see virtuall

Episode 200: Racism at Tesla; China Is Rocking Green Technologies

Sep 23rd, 2020 38m 53s

Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1Episode 200:CEOs like to play a three-card monte shell game. They want everyone to focus on their rhetoric abo

Ep 199: We Have A Price For A Worker’s Life: A Few Thousand $; COVID-19 Dangers For Building Workers

Sep 16th, 2020 47m 26s

Episode 199:Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1What’s a worker’s life worth? To you and me, it’s priceless. Capitalism, though, doesn’t see it th

Ep 198: Pigs Fly—The Fed Says Jobs Are THE Priority; Hotel Workers in The Abyss

Sep 9th, 2020 44m 53s

Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1Episode 198:The most important political figure in your economic life—to be sure, the boss of a company has go

#197: Staunch Conservative Reveals She’s Voting For Biden; Workers Fear Speaking Up On COVID Safety

Sep 2nd, 2020 53m 12s

Episode 197:The last name “Hoover” is, if I can use this term, a brand name in conservative circles. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the U.S. who served during the Great Depression, taking office in 1929 the year the stock market cra

Ep 196: Poultry Plant Killing Fields; Desperate People Jam The Bank Lines; Bidding To Win In Florida

Aug 26th, 2020 50m 57s

Episode 196:It’s never enough to remind people every single day how many workers are out there on the frontlines risking their lives in the pandemic. I’ve talked about those folks regularly on the show: the transit workers, retail workers, an