https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN10162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In a moment of youthful recklessness more than fifty years ago, I allowed myself to get into one of those dangerous political conversations with the father of a woman I was seeing. He was a good, decent guy and Republican to the core, even …
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Pandemic Changes Could be Permanent
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsChicago Understand me clearly. I was lucky. I had a dawn run from Columbus to Chicago and then onto Atlanta in the weirdness of travel during the pandemic. It made sense to stay as close to the airport as possible, and I ended up at a Hampton …
Labor Department Gets on its Knees for Gig and Other Companies
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09232020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville If the current administration remains in office in 2021, don’t be surprised if they float a proposal to move the Labor Department over to the Commerce Department as one of its smaller divisions. These days with every new proposed rule they seem to see their mission …