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GRITtv: Bissell Subcontracts Lousy Labor Practices
We've been talking about blowback on GRITtv today, and we can see the same patterns emerging in economic policy. In Illinois, not far from where the Republic Windows & Doors employees staged their successful factory occupation, warehouse workers for a subcontractor of Bissell, the vacuum cleaner manufacturer, are being fired and threatened after voting to form a union. Warehouse employee Monica Sanchez joins us along with Abraham Mwaura of Warehouse Workers for Justice and Mark Brenner of Labor Notes to tell the workers' side of the story.
Email this pageGRITtv: Nov. 24, 2009
It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror," Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York.
