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Omaha Steve

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Tue Apr 5, 2016, 10:47 AM Apr 2016

Labor Radio Host, Kentucky Labor Leaders Say ‘Thanks, Mitch!’



Charles Showalter

http://nhlabornews.com/2016/04/labor-radio-host-kentucky-labor-leaders-say-thanks-mitch/

By BERRY CRAIG
AFT Local 1360

The host of a nationally-syndicated labor radio talk show wants union members to “thank” Sen. Mitch McConnell for his “help” with the Friedrichs case.

“He refuses to even consider a Supreme Court nominee from President Obama,” said Charles Showalter, whose Pittsburgh-based “The Union Edge: Labor’s Talk Radio” program is broadcast from coast to coast. “The high court, by a 4-4 tie, upheld a lower court decision favoring unions.”

In Rebecca Friedrichs, et al., vs. California Teachers Association, et al., the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected a teacher’s claim that having to contribute a “fair share fee” to the CTA to help pay for collective bargaining abridged her right to free speech.

Showalter, a member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, got the idea to “thank” the unabashedly anti-union McConnell from Jeff Wiggins, a Kentucky labor leader.

FULL story at link.

About NH Labor News (run by DUer Matt Murray)

The New Hampshire Labor News is a group of NH Workers who believe that we need to protect ourselves against the attacks on workers. We are proud union members who are working to preserve the middle class. The NHLN talks mostly about news and politics from NH. We also talk about national issues that effect working men and women here in the Granite State.

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Labor Radio Host, Kentucky Labor Leaders Say ‘Thanks, Mitch!’ (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2016 OP
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