You. When i think about this book i see it as having three major parts, after you introduce a situation now, you do a really good job of talking about through stories how workers struggled, they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding more from policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which we are still in Work Companies and starting with the president of the United States really attacked workers a lot and their unions and then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing and unions and other forms and make policy recommendations and one thing i have to say, a lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendation but i hope we really get into that because you made quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done t
Earlier. He called them the turbulent years. The years that gave rise to the cio and all of the organizing and mieverything we saw then. They werent years of upheaval, organization and progress so much as a big turnabout. A way in which the american working class suddenly took a turn to a different stage in its existence where we could say that from the 30s to the 70s was an experience of almost unbroken progress and expanding rights for workers. But in the years between 1968 and 1988, a lot of that turned around. So turnabout years. I want to start with three stories that help locate whats going on in this period. Then talk a bit about whats happening to the economy. Talk about Public Sector workers in the period and the physical austerity they faced and conclude with barometers of whats happening to working class america by the end of this period. So to begin, let me start with three stories. Im going to locate these in 1977. So roughly about halfway into the period that were talking
I would say it is a very serious moment for everybody in the country and it is probably a new chapter in our history that is going to be rewritten. Or written this time. We have things that have never happened before on a scale that have never happened before to this country. And we are going to have to get back the way we did during the world wars where we all started pulling together to try to solve a common problem. That new chapter would begin with what . Employers do not know that they have to do or what they should do. We need to adopt that standard. The federal government has to to lead on that. The second thing we have to do, is get personal protective equipment in the hands of a number of our front line people because the shortage is there. People do not know how to get it. The strategic stockpile is not being opened up the way it should be. So we need to have one person in charge at the white house that is telling people, heres how you can get those supplies. Then we need to
How much of this is connected to travel stocks and the coronavirus were going to explain it plus the state of california has declared a state of emergency related to the crowbars well have a live report and coke in mongolia is about to get its own Competitive League weve got the details so much to get to on this very busy day so lets get started. And we begin with another manic day on wall street as thursday the dow dropped over 1000 points again essentially erasing almost all of the 1200 point gain from wednesday it has been nothing short of a wild week on wall street with the dow swinging a 1000 points or higher twice in just the past 3 days monday markets posted their largest single day gain wednesday the dow posted its 2nd biggest gain as the healthcare sector shot up thanks to that super tuesday win for joe biden investors almost seem to be cheering signs of a Global Response to the corona virus which includes more than 8000000000. 00 in emergency funding. Coming from congress but
Maybe that is something he wants to do to create well live this washington journal segment here to return to live coverage of the u. S. House. En in the following order. Motions to suspend the rules and 387 to House Resolution and pass h. R. 4508. First electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. To clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will e conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, he Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution which the nded, on yeas and nays are ordered. Title. Rk will report the the clerk House Resolution 387, continued condemning violence against civilians by armed groups in the Central African republic and supporting lasting o achieve a political solution to the conflict. The speaker pro tempore the uestion is will the house suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution 387, as amended. Members will record their votes by electron