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Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress

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Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress

01/07/15 - Wednesday’s Topical Currents is a visit by journalist, labor activist and attorney Steve Early.

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He’s chronicled the continuing discord between the growing numbers of conservative lawmakers and corporate influence upon the American labor movement. Early addresses the weakening of collective bargaining, the unraveling of healthcare reform, and reduced employee benefits in his book, SAVE OUR UNIONS: Dispatches From a Movement in Distress.That’s Topical Currents Wednesday at 1pm. 

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