Striking Hollywood, more DC paid leave & boycotting the Merriweather Lakehouse

Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 23, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock

This week's show:
Hollywood could be facing the biggest strike since World War Two; IATSE Local 488’s CDavid Cottrill on why the folks who make the movies and shows we love are so fed up.
DC Jobs with Justice’s Melinda Fiedler provides details on the new benefits and expanded access in the updated DC Paid Family & Medical Leave Act, which goes into effect October 1.
The Sheraton in Columbia, Maryland is now the Merriweather Lakehouse hotel, but a lot more than the name has changed: UNITE HERE Local 7’s Tracy Lingo on how hotel workers are being left out in the cold.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella.
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