Voices At Work airs every Friday at 8:00pm on KPFT, 90.1 FM Houston.
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June 10th (Friday), Jonathan Tasini
This week our guest will be Jonathan Tasini. He is the president of the Economic Future Group, a national strategy consulting group. From 1990 to April 2003, he served as president of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981); he remains the union's president emeritus. He was the lead plaintiff in Tasini vs. The New York Times, the landmark electronic rights case won by the plaintiffs in a historic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2001. He is also the president and executive director of the Creators Federation.
For the last twenty years, Mr. Tasini has written about labor and economics for a variety of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Business Week, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of two books: "The Edifice Complex: Rebuilding the American Labor Movement to Face the Global Economy," a critique and prescriptive analysis of the labor movement (1995); and "They Get Cake, We Eat Crumbs: The Real Story Behind Today's Unfair Economy," an average reader's guide to the economy (1997). He also writes a regular column on labor and the economy entitled "Working in America," which can be seen at www.tompaine.com .
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Posted by rich at June 17, 2005 04:33 PM