Show: Labor Express for 5-5-2020, Nurses protest COVID-19 safety at Stroger, transit worker Eric Basir battle with COVID-19, Moises Zavala UFCW organizing cannabis, Marianela D'Aprile growth of DSA

06/05/2020 57 min

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This is the full 5-5-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.
On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurses at Stroger hospital, members of NNU, protest hospital administrators refusal to follow CDC guidelines, putting employees and patients at risk.* Moises Zavala and Eric Basir are back. This time Moises is talking about organizing in the cannabis industry and Eric is discussing his own battle with COVID-19 and with his employer, the CTA, over testing and sick leave. And Marianela D'Aprile, member of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), discusses the “Bernie bump”. The Bernie Sanders for president campaign may be over but just like in 2016, that campaign has swelled the ranks of the DSA which is full steam ahead on its work for Medicare4All, a Green New Deal and now has launched new partnerships with several unions.
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*Thank you to Dale Lehman for providing the audio of the nurses at Stroger Hospital.

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