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Sunday February 21, 2010 Rick’s show is broadcast as part of the H.O.R.N audio stream. Weekends 5:30PM Eastern, 2:30PM Pacific, 21:30GMT. Duration: 1.5 hours. Sunday on the Rick Smith Show. Rick will be talking to Dr. G. Terry Madonna, Director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs, and Director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll will [...]

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Saturday February 20, 2010 Rick’s show is broadcast as part of the H.O.R.N audio stream. Weekends 5:30PM Eastern, 2:30PM Pacific, 21:30GMT. Duration: 1.5 hours. Saturday on the Rick Smith Show. Rick will be talking to super attorney Irwin Aronson about the most recent Undercover Boss program where “Hooters” waitresses were coerced to eating beans off of paper plates [...]

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Sunday February 7, 2010 Rick’s show is broadcast as part of the H.O.R.N audio stream. Weekends 5:30PM Eastern, 2:30PM Pacific, 21:30GMT. Duration: 1.5 hours. Sunday on the Rick Smith Show. Rick will be talking about and playing recorded interviews from DEMFest 2010. Brandeis College Professor Lisa Dodson will be talking about her recently released book, “Moral Underground: [...]

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Saturday February 6, 2010 Rick’s show is broadcast as part of the H.O.R.N audio stream. Weekends 5:30PM Eastern, 2:30PM Pacific, 21:30GMT. Duration: 1.5 hours. Saturday on the Rick Smith Show. Rick will be covering DEMfest 2010 in Lancaster, PA as the Pennsylvania Democratic Party holds its annual state committee meeting and DEMinars to inform and educate members. Also [...]

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Sunday January 24, 2010 Rick’s show is broadcast as part of the H.O.R.N audio stream. Weekends 5:30PM Eastern, 2:30PM Pacific, 21:30GMT. Duration: 1.5 hours. Sunday on the Rick Smith Show. Rick talks about the “new” direction for America. What is that new direction you ask? President Obama, “use the force Barack.” Return to what is important. Making Americans [...]

Ignoring Her Own Anti-Union Record, Bachmann Claims ‘I Am Not Anti-Union’

Posted on 16 September 2009

Think Progress By Matt Corley at 10:01 am September 16, 2006 Yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on Fox Business with former Ambassador Alan Wolff and author Philip Dine to discuss the punitive duties that the United States recently levied on tire imports from China, which China has brought up with the World Trade Organization. During [...] Continue Reading

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Court rules that KBR employee’s gang rape wasn’t a personal injury ‘arising in the workplace.’

Posted on 16 September 2009

Think Progress By Amanda Terkel at 11:48 am September 16, 2009 In 2005, Jamie Lee Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. In an apparent attempt to cover up the incident, the company then put her in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or [...] Continue Reading

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Real ‘Norma Rae’ dead of cancer after battle with health insurer

Posted on 13 September 2009

Raw Story By Daniel Tencer Published: September 12, 2009 Insurers’ delays are ‘almost … like murder,’ Sutton said The woman whose life inspired the 1979 film Norma Rae has died of cancer after struggling with her health insurance company, which had delayed her treatment. Crystal Lee Sutton was 68. She had struggled for several years with meningioma, a form of [...] Continue Reading

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Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says

Posted on 01 September 2009

NY Times By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: September 1, 2009 Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The study, the most comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade, also found [...] Continue Reading

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$3.1B set aside for jobless unclaimed

Posted on 31 August 2009

By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY August 30, 2009 WASHINGTON — More than $3.1 billion in stimulus money for state unemployment insurance programs is sitting in a federal trust fund because 23 states haven’t expanded their jobless benefits, Labor Department records show. Nearly 350,000 out-of-work Americans could get benefits if all those states revamp their unemployment systems to qualify [...] Continue Reading

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Union Workers Hit Harder By High State Taxes, Study Finds

Posted on 25 August 2009

Real Time Economics/WSJ August 24, 2009, 2:49 PM ET By Martin Vaughan Union employees bear more of the burden of high state corporate taxes than non-union employees, according to a new study distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research. That suggests that in high-tax states like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, taxes take a bigger bite out of pay [...] Continue Reading