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On today’s show I talk about Rev. Charles Ellis of Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple who had a service with three vehicles representing the Big Three automakers, asking for God’s help to turn the companies fortunes around. I also talk about the results of the sit-in strike by laid-off workers in the shuttered factory of Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors, which resulted in the loans by Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, allowing the workers sixty days of severance pay and give them their accrued vacations.
I play a rap song by Elohim Marino – “Money is God” from the album Truth.
Next I talk about the vote on the Big Three automakers’ request for a $14 billion short-term bailout and how the Republicans are admitting to using it as a way of devastating the United Auto Workers labor union. Breaking news that didn’t make it on the podcast–the bailout failed. It’s more important to bust a union than prevent a depression, apparently.
Next I play Josh Charles song “Love, Work and Money” from the album Josh Charles.
Music from this podcast came from Podshow Podsafe Music Network.
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I really enjoyed the music you picked for this show. Podsafe Music Network is a goldmine, in my opinion. I use stuff from there a lot.
I think that Adam Curry has forgotten what a great place that is. They haven’t updated it in forever and it still keeps chugging along.
I have mixed feelings about the unions. Yeah, they’ve done some good things for workers’ rights. But it seems like everyone I’ve known who’s been in a union never got any real benefit from it. But, what do I know? I’ve never been in a union.