Madge is off Celebrating Martin Luther King Day with her black friend, Oprah Winnefield, so Richard Bluestein is covering for her today. Richard interviews Dorian Warren, A Political Science Professor who was instrumental in the Wal-Mart living wage controversy last year.It’s good so listen to it. Madge will be back TOmorrow.
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Madge is off Celebrating Martin Luther King Day with her black friend, Oprah Winnefield. Madge will be back tomorrow.
Special guest host Richard Bluestein interviews Dorian Warren, a Political Science Professor who was instrumental in the Wal-Mart living wage controversy last year.
Dorian’s academic background and how he got involved in the worker’s rights movement.
Trying to fight Walmart on a site-by-site basis.
Costco wages/benefits vs. Walmart’s.
Does the government subsidize Walmart’s healthcare benefits?
Other corporate offenders.
How healthcare became tied in with US jobs in the first place.
Dorian’s research interests.
What Dorian has observed about progressive federalism on the political left.
Political backlash?
Walmart as a political player.
How the Big Box movement made it to the Chicago political table.
The intentions behind the Big Box movement.
The future of the Big Box movement.
Living wages vs. no new jobs at all.
The appeal of Walmart.
Walmart’s new ad campaign.
Walmart’s computerized employee scheduling system.
Politicians that Dorian thinks are on the right track.
The new minimum wage.
San Fransisco’s minimum wage.
The middle class and salary.
Does trickle-down economics work?
Chinese worker abuse at Apple factories.
Politlcal bribery.
This site gives out campaign contribution information.
How to get politically involved.
More information on Walmart:
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5 replies on “YR522 MLK Madge Free Special – Worker’s Rights and Wal-Mart: INterview with Policial Science Prof. from Columbia Dorian Warren”
This was interesting as hell.
WalMart Watch is fantastic — and it is fun to read the rapid fire responses Wal-Mart gives out in response to them.
I agree – that was really interesting and I’m glad Madge can take the day off now and again for this sort of thing.
I’m really thinking trickle-up economics are the way to go. What’s needed for everyone is more than a safety net but a respectable standard of living. Pegging the minimum wage to inflation means nobody can argue. MLK lives on.
Richard shows are always very interesting, I love how shows with Richard are labeled as Clean on iTunes. Love these kinds of shows.
I wish people in the US would put down their Big Mac for a sec. and learn about the damage caused by corporate lobbies and quarterly profit pressure on publicly-traded companies.
Holy crap — I’ve been away from my normal podcasts for a couple of weeks and I came back to a Yeast Radio with a CLEAN tag.
Nonetheless, this was a great interview. In short, I believe what we are now seeing is not so much conservative, we-want-small-governemtn Republicans and liberal, we-want-big-government Democrats, rather, people on both sides who have figured out how to grease the skids and make money and power fall into THEIR OWN pockets. On a national Republican scale, you’ve got Dick Cheney and the Bush dynasty. I know that on a smaller, Democrat scale here in Akron, we have the Plusquellic / Akron City Council who are just a corrupt about getting their friends contracts. Neither serve the people — just the power brokers and the contractors who get the money. What you’re doing on this show is exposing that.
Thank you Richard and Dorian Warren. People need to know this stuff.
And I agree with the others — even though I love the Madge, Richard is a great break from the old yeast bag.