Labor Heritage Power Hour

Keolis strike update; the “Holman Rule”


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Broadcast on January 19, 2022

Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith

ATU 689 President Raymond Jackson gives us an update on the Loudoun County transit strike against Keolis; American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson explains The Holman Rule, which would empower Congress to fire, demote, reassign, or cut the pay of individual federal employees.


Plus labor news headlines: Union membership grew by a quarter of a million workers in 2022; How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low; The Richest 1% of People Amassed Almost Two-Thirds of New Wealth Created in the Last Two Years, Oxfam Says; OSHA to fine Amazon after discovering warehouse workers have been exposed to unsafe working conditions; NLRB rules in favor of union victory at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, which may help move contract negotiations along.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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