Episode

3/12 Richard Kahlenberg on Unions as a Civil Right

March 12, 2012

Richard Kahlenberg, Century Foundation Senior Fellow, on the right to unionize, Taft Hartley and why labor movements haven’t seen same progress as civil rights movement.  Texas fails to get DOJ support for voter ID laws and massacre in Afghanistan fails to provoke real question: why are we there?  Plus, in better half, Florida’s anti-Sharia legislation impacts Jewish divorces, female legislators push back, Sydney Moon’s Friday call stirs up listeners and more.  Your calls and IMs.

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