Our weekly podcast from Politics Home discussing all the ups and downs in Westminster. Please subscribe and share - and keep up with all the latest news on PoliticsHome.com. Got a question for the team? news@politicshome.com.
…
continue reading
内容由#BossTalk提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 #BossTalk 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
Player FM -播客应用
使用Player FM应用程序离线!
使用Player FM应用程序离线!
Thurgood Marshall's Strategy of Losing - Alabama NAACP Fight for $15 Lawsuit - #OrganizeTheSouth
Manage episode 191375181 series 1745382
内容由#BossTalk提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 #BossTalk 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
This week on #BossTalk, the podcast that shows you how to use the law to fix your boss, University of Wyoming Labor Law Professor Mike Duff and Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk discuss Elk’s new article in The Guardian “Activists fight North Carolina law barring cities from raising minimum wage.” We get wonky as we talk about how pre-emption laws passed by white state legislators in the South are preventing majority-black cities from increasing the minimum wage at the municipal level. The Alabama NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries have a pending lawsuit against the State of Alabama that alleges the majority-white state legislature violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it passed a law overturning majority-black Birmingham’s raising of the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Professor Duff provides a sober analysis that, though most of these lawsuits likely won’t work, they may instead help build legal campaigns and precedents that will lead lawyers to shop for convenient courts. We discuss how Thurgood Marshall would drive into small towns in the South expecting to have his life threatened and lose civil rights challenges just to build case law. So tune in this week for #BossTalk, where each week we pick a unique case study of how workers are using labor law and organizing tactics to push back against the boss.
…
continue reading
6集单集
Manage episode 191375181 series 1745382
内容由#BossTalk提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 #BossTalk 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
This week on #BossTalk, the podcast that shows you how to use the law to fix your boss, University of Wyoming Labor Law Professor Mike Duff and Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk discuss Elk’s new article in The Guardian “Activists fight North Carolina law barring cities from raising minimum wage.” We get wonky as we talk about how pre-emption laws passed by white state legislators in the South are preventing majority-black cities from increasing the minimum wage at the municipal level. The Alabama NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries have a pending lawsuit against the State of Alabama that alleges the majority-white state legislature violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it passed a law overturning majority-black Birmingham’s raising of the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Professor Duff provides a sober analysis that, though most of these lawsuits likely won’t work, they may instead help build legal campaigns and precedents that will lead lawyers to shop for convenient courts. We discuss how Thurgood Marshall would drive into small towns in the South expecting to have his life threatened and lose civil rights challenges just to build case law. So tune in this week for #BossTalk, where each week we pick a unique case study of how workers are using labor law and organizing tactics to push back against the boss.
…
continue reading
6集单集
所有剧集
×欢迎使用Player FM
Player FM正在网上搜索高质量的播客,以便您现在享受。它是最好的播客应用程序,适用于安卓、iPhone和网络。注册以跨设备同步订阅。