This week's guests: Terry Richardson, president, CWA 2336, reports on the Verizon strike, live from the picketline; Marilyn Park, Legislative Representative at the American Federation of Government Employees, talks about a sham commission that’s intent on privatizing veterans’ health care, and a forthcoming bill that would abolish the merit system and turn all VA workers into at-will employees who could be fired at any time for any reason; attorney Hal Levi, who handles worker’s comp cases for employees in DC and is active fighting legislative changes to public sector employee’s rights, reports on legislation coming up would change current law in ways that could be bad for injured DC gov’t employees.
Labor song of the week: 1999 (Party Like It's 1999) in memory of Prince (1958-2016). Labor Quiz: The annual DC labor FilmFest is coming up in May; which of these films is NOT being screened at the FilmFest? Concussion, Horrible Bosses, or Suffragette? Answer: Horrible Bosses. Previous Quiz: More firefighters die from cancer and other work-related illnesses than in fires: True, but they don’t always get the same benefits. Check out our website for a report on how dying firefighter Lawrence DiPietro is using what time he has to fight back).
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