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Thom's blog
More than 20 states take a stand for unions!
 New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman believes in the value of public employee unions. That’s why he is leading a coalition of more than 20 states and getting them to add their support for the “fair share” fees that keep those unions operating. Schneiderman and the other AGs have signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of Friedrichs vs. the California Teachers Association. That’s the latest anti-union case to be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, and it poses a serious threat to our public unions. As we’ve explained during previous legal challenges, those fair-share fees allow unions to collect partial dues from non-members who work in a union shop, to cover the cost of negotiations that the unions are legally required to do on their behalf. Attorney General Schneiderman said, “The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers. Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.” And, he’s exactly right. Hopefully, the Supreme Court Justices are listening. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The High Cost of Runaway Inequality (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
 Be sure to check out our newest video: RESTORATION - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners / Visit GreenWorldRising.org to check out all the videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
In for Thom tonight...please welcome America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Need to Know: Why "Circus Politics" is Dangerous for America
- Farron Cousins, Ring of Fire Radio/Trial Lawyer Magazine 
Screwed: What the Banksters Hope You Don't Know
- Richard Eskow, Bernie Sanders Campaign/The Zero Hour (Radio)
Best of the Rest: #ExxonKnew... Exposing the Global Warming Cover-Up
- Brendan Fischer, Center for Media and Democracy/ALEC Exposed
PLUS, The High Cost of Runaway Inequality
- Les Leopold, Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice
The Pope Says Greed Is Not Good
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might." -- Dr. Seuss.
Hour One: Clips from Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism
Hour Two: Anything Goes Friday!
Quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". attributed to Gandhi.
Hour Three: Your calls on any topic!
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Thom's Poll
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Full Show 11/19/15: Who Killed Kennedy?
After nearly 52 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Thom discusses whether we know who did it with historian Lamar Waldron, author of “The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination.”
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The Speech Bernie Sanders has Needed to Give...
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