David Dayen, California’s War on Unions

July 17, 2012

UPDATE:  Post Wisconsin the union busting effort focuses on California and Prop 32.  David Dayen (@ddayen) from Firedoglake discusses the nationwide movement to divest unions of their political voice, ousting them from the political process.  And in the better half, a fired up “Kathy Janeane Garofalo Harriss” surprises with a call.  Click thru for links and updates.  Use this post as today’s thread. 

Past Episodes

It's a casual Thursday on a Friday and the disastrous Senate bill passed somehow despite Chuck Schumer's renaming. Our favorite, Heather 'Digby' Parton joins us today for a recap of the week's news. In the Fun Half Matt Binder and Brandon Sutton join for further discussion of the ...
It's hump day and everything is fine because Chuck Schumer got the bill's name changed! That'll show 'em. Way to go Cuck (sic). Today we are joined by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. With 1.8 million members, the AFT is one the largest public employee ...
  The SENR Bill passed this morning, and we are still wading through the muck David Dayen joins us to help in the aforementioned muck wading. In the fun half we watch some more of Zohran's masterful answers to insane lines of questioning. Tim Pool calls out the Sam for being a ...