Labor Lines

A united voice in the workforce is the last remaining bulwark against the influx of corporate dollars in our politics. In this week’s program we first focus on a recent report from the Fiscal Policy Institute that deals with the economics of prevailing wage laws. Our guests, Shirley Aldebol, Vice President of 32 BJ SEIU and Mathew Bogovich, a rank and file member who is detrimentally effected by the lack of prevailing wages in his job classification, graphically describe how workers are exploited when there is no prevailing wage law. Then, on a more macro-economic level William Spriggs, Professor of Economics and  Chief Economist for the AFL-CIO describes how the economy can be better structured to benefit working people, and what unions can do to further the economic interests of workers.  You can subscribe to Labor-Lines Newsletter here, listen on I-Tunes / Stitcher or follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@LaborLines) Labor-Lines can be heard Saturday at 1:00 pm in NYC on AM-970 “The Ans