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Troy Walcott #Spectrumstrike Troy Walcott is an IBEW member on strike at Spectrum Cable in New York City For more information visit: UnplugSpectrum.com

Troy Walcott: My hope is local officials step up to support us, acknowledge we're still on strike, let people know that Spectrum is a bad apple in this city & is a bad mark in this city on unions.

@Troy57457172

#Spectrumstrike

@LaborNew

Today's Podcast

Aunna Dennis 

@CommonCauseGA 

 

 

Aunna Dennis is the Executive Director of Common Cause Georgia

 

For more information visit: www.commoncause.org/georgia

 

 

Judith A. Levine 

Associate Professor 

 

Judith A. Levine is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Policy Lab at Temple University and author of Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters

 

 

John Logan

Professor

 

 

 

John Logan is a Professor and the Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University

 

 

 

Bob Ney

@BobNey

Aunna Dennis @CommonCauseGA

Aunna Dennis: In GA, we're struggling with the moral issue of what does it mean to go to the ballot box & what that accessibility means.

@CommonCauseGA

#VotingRights #Democracy

Judith A. Levine Associate Professor

Judith A. Levine: Unions are certainly there to protect workers of every stripe. There are additional ways to help women in the workplace achieve equality in the workplace. A woman owns $0.82 for every dollar a man owns.

John Logan Professor John Logan is a Professor and the Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University

John Logan: The new administration is not afraid to come out in favor of unions & isn't afraid to call out the bullying efforts of Amazon. This will be a good thing for the Labor movement, no matter what.

Bob Ney @BobNey Bob Ney is a Former OH Congressman and Rick Smith Show political analyst

Bob Ney: It's important to have vaccine diplomacy, esp. so worldwide travel can happen once again.

@bobney

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Brandon Magner 

@BrandonMagner

Brandon Magner is a labor lawyer who writes about unions and the law at Labor Law Lite.

For more information visit: brandonmagner.substack.com

Helaine Olen

@helaineolen @PostOpinions

Helaine Olen is an Opinion Writer at the Washington Post.

Helaine is the author of the National Bestseller Pound Foolish and the co-author The Index Card.

Erin Simpson, Associate Director for Tech Policy at the Center for American Progress

@esmpsn @CAPactionFor more information visit: www.AmericanProgress.org

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman

Bob Ney is a Former Congressman from Ohio and Political Analyst

Brandon Magner @BrandonMagner Brandon Magner is a labor lawyer who writes about unions and the law at Labor Law Lite.

Brandon Magner: The PRO Act has a ton of radical issues in it, like repealing the secondary boycott ban. I think it's sneaking by the House b/c people have no idea what a secondary boycott ban is.

@BrandonMagner

Helaine Olen @helaineolen @PostOpinions Helaine Olen is an Opinion Writer at the Washington Post.

Helaine Olen: I don't think the regulations will pass but maybe we'll get some negotiated rates for Medicare, which isn't fair to private insurances.

@helaineolen

@PostOpinions

Erin Simpson, Associate Director for Tech Policy at the Center for American Progress @esmpsn @CAPaction For more information visit: www.AmericanProgress.org

Erin Simpson: This is a problem for all of us, but the three people in charge of social media were on the block today.

@esmpsn

@CAPaction

@amprog

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman @BobNey

Bob Ney: Why wouldn't it be ATF instead of the Secret Service?

@bobney

Today's Podcast

Hassan Ahmad 

@HMAesq 

 Hassan Ahmad is an Immigration Attorney and Advocate

Greg Regan

@TTDAFLCIO

Greg Regan is Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO

For more information visit: www.ttd.org

Cheryl Gibbs Binkley

@cheryldgb @BadassTeachersA

Cheryl Gibbs Binkley is an Education blogger at 3rdmillenniumteacher.com

Check out her article: “Gaslit School Nation” about the push to reopen schools

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman

@BobNey

Bob Ney is a Former Congressman from Ohio and Political Analyst

Hassan Ahmad @HMAesq Hassan Ahmad is an Immigration Attorney and Advocate

Hassan Ahmad: We need to manage the border, not by looking at it as a wall with a door to open & shut, but by allowing people & ideas & goods to cross both ways.

@HMAesq

#Immigration

Greg Regan @TTDAFLCIO Greg Regan is Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO For more information visit: www.ttd.org

Greg Regan: So often when we talk about Labor disputes, someone's high salary gets thrown out in the press. Instead of tearing that one person down, why don't we try to raise the salaries of everyone else?

@TTDAFLCIO

Cheryl Gibbs Binkley @cheryldgb @BadassTeachersA Cheryl Gibbs Binkley is an Education blogger at 3rdmillenniumteacher.com

Cheryl Gibbs Binkley: We'd be totally irresponsible to expose kids to this [long-term vascular damage] in any way.

@cheryldgb

@BadassTeachersA

#OnlyWhenItsSafe

Bob Ney, Political Analyst/Former OH Congressman @BobNey

Bob Ney: Russia has the election tampering. I've always counterargued that we deal with China & they haven't been nice to us or to their people, but we still attempt to deal with them. We have to get away from the admiration being directed to Putin.

@bobney

Today's Podcast

Dr. Michele Papakie 

@DrMis924 @APSCUF
Dr. Michele Papakie is a professor and department Chairwoman of the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is also statewide secretary of APSCUF.

For more information visit: www.APSCUF.org

Brian J. Lombardozzi

@youvebeendozed

Brian J. Lombardozzi is Vice President of State Governmental Affairs at the Alliance for American Manufacturing

For more information visit: www.americanmanufacturing.org

Joe Sanberg

@JosephNSanberg @cforhd

Joe Sanberg sits on the board of the Center for Health and Democracy

For more information visit: centerforhealthanddemocracy.org

Dr. Kelly Sennholz

@MtnMD #CoronavirusPandemic #CoronaVirusUpdate

 

Dr. Michele Papakie @DrMis924 @APSCUF Dr. Michele Papakie is a professor and department Chairwoman of the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Michele Papakie: The Chancellor of the PA state university system wants to merge three schools in the east & three in the west. If he doesn't get what he wants, he says he'll dissolve the entire state system.

@DrMis924

@APSCUF

Brian J. Lombardozzi @youvebeendozed Brian J. Lombardozzi is Vice President of State Governmental Affairs at the Alliance for American Manufacturing

Brian Lombardozzi: I think we'll get something done on infrastructure. Because of what's gone on during the pandemic, constituents will keep officials' feet to the fire. There's talk of bringing back earmarks.

@youvebeendozed

@KeepitMadeinUSA