#BossTalk

#BossTalk

Co-hosts Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk and University of Wyoming Labor Law Professor Mike Duff discuss issues relating to labor law in the South.

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September 4, 2017 • 16 mins
In an exclusive podcast interview with Payday Report, Danny Glover lays out his plans for leading a global campaign to put consumer and governmental pressure on Nissan.
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West Virginia ACLU Executive Director Joseph Cohen, former general counsel for United Electrical Workers (UE), talks about the case of a Weirton, West Virginia police officer, who was fired for not shooting an armed black man.
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According to one study, only 31% of Google's employees are women. The Department of Labor has opened an investigation into whether or not the company discriminates against women. Now the Department of Labor is suing Google to get them to release more internal data on diversity. However, Google is not cooperating with the investigation. University of Wyoming Labor Law Professor Mike Duff tells Payday's Mike Elk that it is likely ...
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This week on #BossTalk, the podcast that shows you how to use the law to fix your boss, University of Wyoming Labor Law Professor Mike Duff and Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk discuss Elk’s new article in The Guardian “Activists fight North Carolina law barring cities from raising minimum wage.” We get wonky as we talk about how pre-emption laws passed by white state legislators in the South are preventing majority-black cit...
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Our first episode focuses the deaths of temp autoworkers in Alabama and how temporary workers are hurting labor in the South. We talk about Bloomberg Businessweek’s expose “Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs”. The episode also explores Trump’s attempts to silence OSHA from publicly announcing enforcement action. Former National Labor Relations Board attorney Mike Duff talks about the fea...
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University of Wyoming Labor Law Professor and Payday Senior Labor Reporter discuss why some left labor lawyers types like Trump's new replacement pick to be Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta. They also discuss how US labor law discourages strikes.
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