'BradCast' 9/14/2022 (Guest: Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect on new CA labor law)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Noteworthy results from the final primaries of the 2022 midterm elections in Delaware, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. GOP voters in New Hampshire selected another far-right conspiracy theorist and election-denying loon, retired Army Brigadier General Don Bolduc, as their U.S. Senate nominee to face incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in November. Hard-right Trumpers also won the GOP nominations for the state's two U.S. House Seats, including former Trump White House aide Karoline Leavitt, whose extraordinarily ugly primary battle is likely to make her a new GOP star whether she wins or loses. In the fight for workers' rights, railroad workers are ready to go on strike over horrific working conditions they've endured for years; a railroad strike would be an expensive work stoppage and wildly disruptive to the economy in advance of the midterm elections. The American Prospect's Editor-at-Large, HAROLD MEYERSON, explains significantly more positive labor news - - a 'groundbreaking' new labor law in California that improves wages and working conditions for fast-food workers, signed last week by the state's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law establishes a $22/hour minimum wage for the state's more than half-million fast-food workers and mandates a new council to set working conditions for the sector. Meyerson also offers a helpful dose of American Labor history, and details the immediate backlash from fast-food corporate interests and their latest efforts to block the new labor law in any way they can.