We start with the workers who made your IKEA bookshelf at a factory in Danville, Virginia. Last month they formed a union with a sweeping 76% majority, after collecting twice as many signatures of support as there are people in the town of Danville! How'd they do it? We speak with organizer Bill Street of the Woodworkers' department of the Machinists' union.
Then, headlines over the last month have been dominated by theatrics in DC over the national budget. The debate supposedly centered around a massive national deficit, but nothing is quite as it seems. For more insight into this massively irritating manufactured crisis, and where we go from here, we spoke with Laurie King of Portland Jobs with Justice's Economic Crisis Committee.
Image credit: National Union of Public and General Employees, http://www.nupge.ca/content/4424/workers-unionize-us-ikea-manufcaturing-plant
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