Thursday’s Democratic debate seemed at risk when all the qualified candidates pledged not to cross the picket line if Loyola Marymount University employees decided to demonstrate at the event.
I guess these are good optics…
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Not sure how many people will tune in to this debate, being so close to Christmas.
The next one, however, is scheduled for January 14th at Drake University and the stakes couldn’t be higher, since it will be the last debate before the Iowa caucus.
Because this one has fewer candidates, the back-and-forth should be lots more illuminating.
I’m pretty sure the audience will be sizable.
Unite Here Local 11 … deftly used the debate as leverage to expedite contract negotiations.
Good for them!
The debate is only at Loyola Marymount in the first place due to another labor dispute engulfing the University of California Los Angeles. There, the AFSCME union and university system are feuding over outsourcing on medical centers.
Our society is failing too many people so badly that it’s (rightly) interfering with normal business.
Strange how good Republicans are at removing barriers to business – when those barriers are just laws that forbid slavery, robbery, abuse. But when the barrier is the stupid, expensive, painful contortions we must all go through to perpetuate their business model, I guess nothing can be done, except maybe punish the “ringleaders.”
Solidarity forever!