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GRITtv: Pennies for Standing Next to Multimillion-Dollar Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art security guards have been caught in a labor struggle for years, dating back to the subcontracting out of what were formerly union jobs. They finally held--and won--a union election earlier this fall, but AlliedBarton, the contractor the guards work for, has so far refused to negotiate a contract. Fabricio Rodriguez, Executive Director of Jobs With Justice Philadelphia and Dynnita Bryant, shop steward with the Philadelphia Security Officers' Union, join Laura in the studio to tell the story of their struggle and how it fits into the larger picture of union organizing now.
Email this pageGRITtv: Dec. 21, 2009
The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Is this going to be the year of the woman in cinema, or is it just hype?; MC Tamarrod is a rapper living in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon who joins us to talk about his life and offer a rhyme; Alan Grayson calls for sanity in Congress; getting pennies for standing next to priceless works of art and the F Word with Laura Flanders on the Senate passage of the health-care bill.
