The Union Edge

The Union Edge


Latest Episodes

Maggie Bush – League of Women Voters – National Voter Registration Day is September 26th!
September 19, 2017

Maggie Bush, the Program and Outreach Director from the League of Women Voters joins us to talk about National Voter Registration Day, which is coming up on September 26. This ...

Jim Chase & Bill Black – Canada Demands “Right To Work” Be Taken Off The Table
September 19, 2017

Jim Chase of Cut To The Chase Talk Radio and Bill Black the Legislative Director for the Teamsters in Michigan come on the program to discuss ways in which capitalism ...

Scott Bland – POLITICO – Political Campaigns Need To Look Out For Hackers Now
September 19, 2017

From POLITICO we have Scott Bland on the program to discuss how new political campaigns are having to consider the risk of hackers at a much earlier part of their ...

Julie Alderman – Media Matters – Republicans Claim Newest ACA Attack is A Compromise Which Is Not True At All
September 19, 2017

Julie Alderman from Media Matters joins us to talk about the new Republican healthcare bill and how they claim it is a compromise. It is far form a compromise. It ...

The District Sentinel – The Newest Attack On The ACA Is Yet Another Unsupportable Bill
September 19, 2017

Sam Knight and Sam Sacks of The District Sentinel join us to inform us about the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act. Republicans are looking to slash funding to ...

AFGE District Report – Episode 3
September 18, 2017

This week on the AFGE District Report we have Carl Biscontini and Gary Feathers of Local 1647 to discuss some of the hard work that repair technicians do for the ...

Eileen Appelbaum – CEPR – Unions Haven’t Lost Members, But Have Lost Density In The Healthcare Industry
September 18, 2017

Eileen Appelbaum from the Center For Economic & Policy Research joins us to talk about the boom of healthcare work and how unions have not lost members, but have lost ...

Justin Williams & Lena Solow – Storycorps – Management Wouldn’t Listen, So They Formed A Union
September 18, 2017

Justin Williams of Storycorps and Lena Solow of CWA Local 1180 come on the program to talk about the Storycorps organizing efforts and their success in getting a union. This ...

Bill Londrigan – KY ALF-CIO – Kentucky’s Governor Is Basically a Mini-Trump
September 18, 2017

President of the Kentucky AFL-CIO, Bill Londrigan comes on the program to talk about Kentucky’s governor and how he is a mini-Trump that is toting the agenda of the Koch ...

Alex Kaplan – Media Matters – Big Online Ad Companies Sell Fake News
September 18, 2017

Alex Kaplan of Media Matters talks with us about some online ad companies that are huge purveyors of fake news and don’t really want to claim responsibility.