Max Fraser & Michael Whitney: The Convoluted Future of Labor

None of the laborers cleaning up the gulf coast are even under a union contract in the first place, and despite the enormous growth under Andy Stern's leadership, current president Mary Kay Henry says that the SEIU is still fighting for paid sick days. After the labor movement poured millions into a battle they ultimately lost in Arkansas, trying to remove Blanche Lincoln, one of the senators who helped kill the Employee Free Choice Act, is the long-term alliance with the Democratic party in trouble?
Max Fraser of The Nation and Michael Whitney of Firedoglake join Laura Flanders in studio to deconstruct these present and potential future dilemmas of the labor movement in both their political and practical forms.

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