"Making Contact" Radio Show on Rite Aid and the Employee Free Choice Act

09/02/2009 - 5:30pm
09/02/2009 - 5:30pm

5:30pm, WMUA 91.1 FM. With only 12% of American workers in unions (down from a third in the 1950s), passing the Employee Free Choice Act is one of Labor's number top goals. Weak penalties and lax enforcement of labor laws have allowed employers to brazenly use illegal union-busting tactics to intimidate workers. And with legal tactics it is possible for employers to delay union elections long enough to stop workers from organizing altogether. In this special collaboration with Public Eye magazine's Abby Scher, the radio show "Making Contact" tracks the calculated misinformation of business groups trying to stop labor law reform and hears from workers like Angel Warner, a Rite Aid warehouse worker from California, who know about employers' illegal tactics against workers first hand. Info: http://www.radioproject.org/listen/usaschedule.html.

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