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Trumka on ‘Moyers’ Tonight, CNN Sunday
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is tonight’s featured guest on “Bill Moyers Journal” on PBS. In an in-depth 30-minute interview, Trumka will outline steps to restore the nation’s economy, create jobs and rebuild the middle class.
He will talk about the AFL-CIO’s role in creating a broad movement of Americans to demand jobs and an economy that works for families on Main Street and why bankers and brokers on Wall Street must be held accountable with strong new financial reform rules.
Trumka will discuss why health care reform must pass and what it must include. He will explain why it’s time to restore the freedom of workers to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Visit PBS to find the TV schedule for the time and channel in your area.
Trumka also will appear on CNN’s “State of the Union with John King” Sunday at 12:40 p.m. EST to discuss jobs, the economy, health care and deliver labor’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Bill Moyers is an excellent journalist. I for one will watch.
PBS is one of the few real objective journalism places and did excellent job of covering the healthcare issue.
I hope the Single Payer system gets brought up. This is the only solution for both employers and workers in terms of relieving the tremendously, bloated health care costs in our economy.
President Obama failed to mention passing the Employee Free Choice Act, relief for multi-employer pension funds, or the TRADE act, let alone getting single-payer health care or ending the exploitation of immigrant labor. The change we need is more than Wall Street’s spare change. Please, Brother Trumka, spell it out for them.
trumka is not that much more smarter than obama. obama has trumka in his pocket. obama is using trumka. trumka needs to listen to his members
I watched this all too brief segment (15 minutes?) on the Bill Moyers program. I was really disappointed. PBS is so totally dominated by corporate propaganda and pro-business spin on everything, I have stop watching PBS for current affairs.
Bill Moyers, who I understand is retiring soon from PBS, is the last moderately “progrssive” program on PBS on our local KCET in LA. But his “progressive” frame of staying within the safe questions of asking softball questions and didn’t seem to know much about the history or present powerless condition of the labor movement today.
Mr. Trumka presented his “five points” program, mentioned often in previous posts. These “five points” reveal the complete bankruptcy of Mr. Trumka and the AFL-CIO of developing a realistic political strategy that confronts the current economic and political crises working people and organized labor face today.
The “five points” program is a rather insipid “wish list” of wanting to return to the the good old days after WWII, that have disappeared thirty years ago.
Mr. Trumka wanted to return the capitalist economy by correcting the imbalance between the “financial” (hedge funds, computer trading, trading of securities, etc. as the source of profit) economy and the “real” economy (the labor-intensive manufacuring economy).
This imbalance has been created by capitalism and capitalist investors, who seek forever to maximize profit by maximizing exploitation of working people.
For the last 30 years, capitalist globalization has moved millions of jobs overseas, where “slave wages” in China allow maximum profit. Entire industries have basically disappeared (auto, steel), and the organized labor movement has cooperated with corporations in facilitating two-tier wages, massive job losses, loss of pensions, etc.
Jobs, that generate maximum profit, under this current capitalist economy will be created perhaps, but they will barely be “living wage” jobs, minimum wage jobs, and in which workers will be required to pay for exhorbitant medical care from private corporations, thanks again to Obama and Trumka’s supported “Health Care Reform”.
There should be a daily hourly program on PBS featuring the economic needs and perspectives of working people. This is essential to counter the corporatist propaganda that forever mis-informs and propagandizes working people. But if the representatives of organized labor have nothing critical to say and simply “frames” the demands of working people to be safely within the insatiable demands of gangster capitalism, then such a program is not needed.
I saw Richard Trumka on Bill Moyers. I had never seen or
heard of Mr. Trumka before seeing him on PBS last night.
First let me say I am
not a member of AFLCIO but I am a union member.
Jerry Wells is very critical of Richard Trumka therefore I would like to know what he is doing to remedy this situation or what
he thinks that workers should be doing if they are going to
change things in this regard. It seems to me like workers
both union and non-union have very little power these days.
I guess his explanation of how the financial sector was taking
too much money out of the economy was what I had been thinking. Personally my hours have been almost cut in half
and I have friends who are unemployed. I actually read the
job listings every day in hopes of finding a job that would
be suitable for my unemployed friends. My impression upon
reading the job listings is that for most jobs they want the
person to have a college degree and years of experience
and they want to pay the person minimum wage or just
above with little or nothing in the way of benefits. I don’t
have any ideas how this situation can be resolved myself.
Some people admire people who are supposedly self made
millionaires but in my mind they would not be that rich if they
had paid the people who do the work a fair wage and provided
reasonable benefits such as health insurance. Just another
example of how greed seems to trump any thought of the
common good and that seems to be the true disgrace in this
country.
pbs site that has bio of Trunka and video:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01292010/profile.html
I was hoping Trumka would talk about court rulings requiring unions to rebate pro-rata political expenses to some represented members who object. There are no similar requirements for corporations. See this op/ed for more information:
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/mailbag/article_ffbe2103-9731-52f9-90d6-a7f911cd57ab.html?mode=story
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/mailbag/article_ffbe2103-9731-52f9-90d6-a7f911cd57ab.html?mode=story
sorry if this is dupe. not seeing first post. check out the website. it’s an op/ed about how to treat corporations like unions