Barack Obama has said that Chicago workers who have occupied a factory are "absolutely right" to demand "benefits and payments that they’ve earned." Today GRITtv talks to New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, Mark Meinster, an organizer for the United Electrical Workers Union (UE), and Melvin Maclin, Vice President of UE Local 1110 on the Republic Windows sit in and why they’re not buying the bailout. Followed by an interview with HOWARD ZINN.
GRITtv Live at 1:30: Chicago Workers Occupy Factory, Question Bailout
| By: GRITtv Monday December 8, 2008 1:15 pm |
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We have an early panel beginning at 11:45 with Paul Street, the author of Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, and Dan Gerstein on Obama’s economic plan. And at 1:30 we stream live with an update on the factory takeover in Chicago.
You can see the full show at 8 pm on our website or Free Speech TV.
Strange, they are calling this 1930s style. I think that last interview is right on. If there’s no pressure from the workers, than Obama only feels it from the right or the corps. This seems really brave, I wish the workers the best.
I can’t believe Dan Gerstein, shill for Lieberman is now shilling for Obama in the segment after this.
Dan Gerstein: Obama is going to be *The Decider*?!?