unions

Charles Simpson hosts Dr. Felicia Kornbluh, President, United Academics at UVM, Lindsey McCarron, UVM Student Organizer, and Richard Aberle, Department of English, SUNY Plattsburgh and a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Genevieve Jacobs, Adjunct Professor, Psychology and Communications at CCV and Champlain College, is joined by Ron Jacobs, Library Staff at St. Michael's College, and April Howard, Adjunct Instructor, Spanish and Latin American History, Champlain College, SUNY Plattsburgh in a discussion of higher education and adjunct faculty unionization in Vermont.

U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and leaders of the IBEW and CWA (Mike Spillane, business manager, IBEW Local 2326, Don Trementozzi, president, CWA Local 1400, Mike O’Day, vice president, CWA District 6) hold a press conference on the FairPoint Communications strike. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communication Workers of America have called on Wall Street hedge fund managers, who hold major shares in the company, to force FairPoint to return to the bargaining table with the unions that represent some 1,700 workers in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The strike began October 17th after the North Carolina-based company slashed health benefits and froze workers’ pensions.

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Host Shelagh Cooley speaks with Chuck Norris-Brown, Retired CCTA Driver, on business management alternatives relative to the recent CCTA Bus Driver's strike.