Work-Bites

Municipal retirees being stripped of the Medicare benefits they were promised after decades of service; home care attendants forced to work 24-hour shifts at half the pay; public sector nurses grappling with chronically low wages and increasingly untenable patient ratios — the list of economic injustices heaped on working people goes on and on. And why? A supposed lack of money. But there’s never any problem finding money for war, right? This is a country that spends more on militarism than public health, education and affordable housing combined.

On this episode of the Iron Bill Hohlfeld show, Bill talks with labor organizer Tom Gogan and UAW 2325/ALAA President Lisa Ohta about the Move the Money campaign and Resolution 423 — a measure in the NYC City Council urging the City of New York to finally take a stand against a the pro-war/anti-labor agenda that only benefits the oligarchs and endangers the rest of us.

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