Ep 111: Amazon Attacks Workers; Patents & Copyrights=Corp Big Bucks; The GOP Racist Tax Cuts
Episode 111: I circle back on the bad deal made by politicians in New York and Virgina with Amazon, honing in specifically on the vicious anti-unionism Amazon pursues—and, despite the hallucinating by the NYC mayor that somehow bringing Amazon to NYC will magically turn it into a fuzzy pro union company, I talk with Dave Mertz of the RWDSU about the global path littered with Amazon’s attacks against unions and against workers. Dean Baker, frequent guest and senior economist of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks with me about the real profit centers for corporations—control over patents and copyrights, all of which adds up to one trillion dollars more in corporate profits, and hits on the average person’s wallet. Lastly, racism is a little talked-about aspect of the GOP tax cut robbery last year—Meg Wiehe, the deputy director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, talks with me about her recent excellent report called, “Race, Wealth and Taxes: How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Supercharges the Racial Wealth Divide”. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
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