Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director and Executive Editor of Queer Voices at Huff Post as well as the co-host of the Love + Sex Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines over at Queer Voices. Be sure to follow Noah of Twitter!
Earlier today, in what
is all but certain to be a terrible blow to organized labor, the Supreme Court
announced that it will hear Janus v. AFSCME, a case seeking to defund public sector unions. The issue in Janus involves what are sometimes
referred to as “agency fees” or “fair share fees” which Unions charge
non-members who are covered by and benefit from the bargaining that they do
with employers to secure benefits and rights for workers. Unions are required
by law to bargain on behalf of every worker in a unionized shop, even if those
workers opt not to join the union and absent of these fees, individual workers
have little incentive to join the union if they know they will get all the
benefits of unionizing regardless of whether they reimburse the union for its
costs. Joining me today to talk all about
this case and how it could eventually cause the collapse of Unions and the end
of the benefits of collective bargaining is Ian Millhiser is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Now that Republicans
have once again failed in their quest to take healthcare away from millions of
Americans by repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with Trumpcare,
the Party is forced to once again acknowledge that they do not have a Senate
majority large enough to reshape the nation’s health-insurance system. However according to Russell Berman of The Atlantic, they are now betting that their majority will be big enough to
rewrite the tax code. Russell joins me
today to talk all about what we can expect from the GOP’s tax plan and what
their Trumpcare fail says about their ability to live up their campaign
promises.
So much happening in the world of politics this week, what with Republicans
once again proving that they are unable to live up their campaign promises by
failing yet again to repeal the ACA and replace it with Trumpcare and President
Trump showing that he lacks influence by failing to help Sen. Luther Strange
win the Republican primary runoff in Alabama. Helping us to make some
sense of it all is Michele Jawando, Vice President of legal
progress at the Center for American Progress, and don’t forget to check out
THINKING CAP, the podcast she does every Thursday with our friend Igor Volsky!
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
President Trump is
often mocked for spending so much time watching television, an addiction that
distinguishes him from all other presidents, and according to senior editor at The New Republic, Jeet Heer, Trump’s relationship with TV might explain not just his
path to the presidency, but his continued hold on his supporters. Jeet joins me today on the show to talk all
about how Trump is truly the first TV president, in ways that go far deeper
than his viewing habits and why he also things that he is a harbinger of the
decline in intelligence to come in U.S. politics.
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