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Labor Relations Radio, E168—So much is happening in DC regarding unions almost daily. WPI's Alex MacDonald helps break it down.
From effectively shuttering the FMCS to ending collective bargaining for certain agencies to the rehiring and refiring of NLRB Gwynne Wilcox, Alex MacDonald helps explain what"s going on. In the last week alone, the Trump administration has effectively shuttered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, ended col

Labor Relations Radio, E167 — An Update On The 'War On The Gig Economy' With FreelanceBusting.com's Kim Kavin
Kim Kavin rejoins the podcast to discuss all the latest in the unions" and Democrats" efforts to destroy independent contracting for millions of Americans. Kim Kavin, a freelance writer and editor, co-founder of Fight for Freelancers USA, and publisher of FreelanceBusting.com, returns to the podcast to discuss the late

Labor Relations Radio, E166—A New Bill Puts the Feds into the Position of Dictating Contract Terms On The Private Sector. Here's Why That's Bad...
WPI"s Alex MacDonald returns to the podcast to discuss a "bipartisan" bill to allow the federal government to mandate first-contracts on private-sector employers. ______________________________ If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial li

Labor Relations Radio, E165—UC Berkeley Professor James O'Brien on AI and the Urgency to Consider UBI
James F. O’Brien is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and has written about how the coming AI job apocalypse necessitates the need to look at alternative means of revenue, including taxing AI, to avoid mass societal disruption. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Professor

Labor Relations Radio, E164—What is Happening on the Labor Front in DC? Kristen Swearingen Fills Us In.
A lot is going on in Washington, DC these days. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Kristen Swearingen Vice President, Legislative & Political Affairs at the Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. and spokesperson for the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace joins host Peter List to discuss some of the issues, i

Labor Relations Radio, E163—NRTW's Mark Mix on Trump's Secretary of Labor Nominee & Sen. Josh Hawley's Anti-Worker Folly
If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915 _______________ Republican politicians" efforts to "realign" with unions may, in fact, actually hurt American workers and free choic