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Showing videos filed under: burger king
What EFCA is Up Against, Angel Warner on Rite Aid Workers' Fight for Unionization, and Greg Grandin's Fordlandia
June 29, 2009On tonight's show, how hard is it to form a union in the United States? Kate Bronfenbrenner and others on the intensification of employer opposition to organizing and the Employee Free Choice Act. Greg Grandin on US imperial ambitions in Latin America and his new book Fordlandia. Brave New Films on Burger King's effort to crush unions and EFCA.The Anti-EFCA Lobby
June 29, 2009Brave New Films explores the many violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act committed by Burger King as well as their long history of anti-union tactics. Now that Goldman Sachs, which purchased the fast food chain several years ago, is receiving billions in bailout funds and fighting the Employee Free Choice Act, Brave New Films is calling for accountability.
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