Levels of harmful airborne pollutants in nail salons are similar to that of an oil refinery or an auto garage, putting employees at increased risk of developing cancers, respiratory difficulties and skin irritation, a study warns.
massive complicated new trade deal to benefit pharmaceutical companies and hollywood movie studios. so globalization sent our good jobs overseas and union busting and government rigging rendered us powerless in our workplaces and our government to do anything about it. like i said, it s the perfect storm. this is the backdrop as we head into 2016. we may not be faced with the sort of immediate calamity that we were dealing with in 2008 but it is a crisis no less. we need leaders prepared to apply the bandaids where needed as governor cuomo is doing here with nail salon workers, and at the same time, they have to commit to fundamentally restructuring and rebalancing our economy. in 2008 we bailed out the banks. this time around, let s try bailing out the american people. that does it for the cycle. now with alex wagner starts right now. are biker gangs gearing up for a larger fight following the deadly shooting in texas? congress is debating an nsa program that one federal court r
established in some of these places. you have other immigrants exploiting other immigrants, right? which is not the sort of dichotomy that we re used to seeing. and the sort of very open transparent stereotyping and exploitive behavior from certain ethnic groups upon other ethnic groups. i guess i wonder how unusual is that and how do you begin to unwind that? i would actually push back against this. the fact of the matter is a lot of the owners of nail salons are people who work in those nail salons 20 30 years ago, and gradually made their way up. i think the fact is that now koreans are the owners. but to be able to characterize this in sort of this racial division frame, i think it s a little bit difficult. do you think that was a fault of the new york times piece? it certainly does suggest that. i think that it is a fault. and i would say that as an attorney who has represented nail salon workers i represented a korean a chinese,
checking other top stories at 55 minutes past. new york s governor pledging to protect nail salon workers who earn low wages and are exposed to deadly chemicals on a deadly basis. the governor is implementing a task force to conduct salon by salon investigations. his goal is to protect employees from those chemicals and combat wage theft using a language education program. salons that do not comply or who are unlicensed will be shut down. a terrifying stage collapse in china. looked almost unreal. 80 people were performing when that stage dropped. only eight singers were injured. the cause of the collapse under investigation. wow. the arraignment at 4:00 p.m. today eastern time for the four