and president obama will be able to get his agenda through that will help every american, not just the 1%. that s what 2012 is all about. period. joining me now is rod nelson. he is the president of the united steel workers local 207 in findlay, ohio. mr. nelson, good to have you with us tonight. i want to know thank you. i want to know what your workers are going through. what are cooper tire workers asking for? what do you want in this contract? what s being rejected? tell us about it. we just want a fair shake, ed. that s all we want. we ve been at the negotiating table since september. and the company has not bargained with us. they had a contract there waiting for us. they haven t moved off that contract very much. they want to ram it down our but i ve got to ask you, what are you asking for? what do you want your workers to have?
when we have an economy that is based essentially right now on the idea that a very few people at the top get everything, that ceo pay is now 300 times the fay of an average worker. it was only 30 times the pay of an average worker 30 years ago. when that s the case, we need stronger labor laws. we need an economy that s working for average working people. or otherwise this economy s not going to work for anybody. rod nelson, robbed reich, thanks for your time tonight. i m going to tell our audience i m going to be up in the red river valley in minnesota this weekend with a camera, and i m going to talk to the families that have been locked out of american crystal sugar and i m going to continue to do this story. and i m also going to continue to publicize to give publicity to those farmers who have gotten subsidies in the sugar industry. you tea partiers out there, you should be asking the question why in the hell are we subsidizing the sugar industry? we shouldn t have to do that
and president obama will be able to get his agenda through that will help every american, not just the 1%. that s what 2012 is all about. period. joining me now is rod nelson. he is the president of the united steel workers local 207 in findlay, ohio. mr. nelson, good to have you with us tonight. i want to know thank you. i want to know what your workers are going through. what are cooper tire workers asking for? what do you want in this contract? what s being rejected? tell us about it. we just want a fair shake, ed. that s all we want. we ve been at the negotiating table since çseptember. and the company has not bargained with us. they had a contract there waiting for us. they haven t moved off that contract very much. they want to ram it down our but i ve got to ask you, what are you asking for? what do you want your workers to have? we want to be rewarded for
of an average worker. it was only 30 times the pay of an average worker 30 years ago. when that s the case, we need stronger labor laws. we need an economy that s working for average working people. or otherwise this economy s not going to work for anybody. rod nelson, robbed reich, thanks for your time tonight. i m going to tell our audience i m going to be up in the red river valley in minnesota this weekend with a camera, and i m going to talk to the families that have been locked out of american crystal sugar and i m going to continue to do this story. and i m also going to continue to publicize to give publicity to those farmers who have gotten subsidies in the sugar industry. you tea partiers out there, you should be asking the question why in the hell are we subsidizing the sugar industry? we shouldn t have to do that. we ve got to cut federal spending, don t we? remember to answer tonight s question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter using
of an average worker. it was only 30 times the pay of an average worker 30 years ago. when that s the case, we need stronger labor laws. we need an economy that s working for average working people. or otherwise this economy s not going to work for anybody. rod nelson, robbed reich, thanks for your time tonight. i m going to tell our audience i m going to be up in the red river valley in minnesota this weekend with a camera, and i m going to talk to the families that have been locked out of american crystal sugar and i m going to continue to do this story. and i m also going to continue to publicize to give publicity to those farmers who have gotten subsidies in the sugar industry. you tea partiers out there, you should be asking the question why in the hell are we subsidizing the sugar industry? we shouldn t have to do that. we ve got to cut federal spending, don t we? remember to answer tonight s question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter using