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Job Insecurity: Labor Rights and the U.S. War on Terrorism
29-minute radio program (64 kbps). Part of the Oakland-based National Radio Project's "Making Contact" series.
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Under the pretext of national security, the Bush Administration is undermining the rights of workers to organize collectively and removing vital worker protections, according to many advocates of labor rights. From airline strikes to dockworker lock-outs, the Bush Administration has cited national security interests, ordering workers to return to their jobs, effectively neutralizing the power of a strike. U.S. officials have also opposed the rights of workers to unionize in new wings of the federal government -- the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
Featuring: David Bacon, labor journalist; Jeimy Gebin, a baggage screener at Los Angeles International Airport; Pricilla Murolo, a professor at Sara Lawrence College in Bronxvill, NY; and International Longshore and Warehouse Union local 10 members Richard Meed (former President), Clarence Thomas (former Secretary Treasurer), Lawrence Thibeaux (International Executive Board member), Reesa Collier and Lee Lynch, ILWU workers.
Featuring: David Bacon, labor journalist; Jeimy Gebin, a baggage screener at Los Angeles International Airport; Pricilla Murolo, a professor at Sara Lawrence College in Bronxvill, NY; and International Longshore and Warehouse Union local 10 members Richard Meed (former President), Clarence Thomas (former Secretary Treasurer), Lawrence Thibeaux (International Executive Board member), Reesa Collier and Lee Lynch, ILWU workers.
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"Mr President! We're being attacked!" -"oh, never mind, the airline screeners and Homeland Security workers are on strike" Honest to fucking god.....
Yeah, these people are on the front lines. You'd think they could at least get health care and decent pay!!
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