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Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by Sarah Jones, Editor-in-Chief of PoliticusUSA. The pair analyzes pivotal swing vote Senator Joe Manchin coming out against President Biden's 'Build Back Better' bill during an interview yesterday.
Sarah is a 2 time Telly Award winner, and now hosts Politicus News and co-hosts Politicus Radio. The website for PoliticusUSA is www.PoliticusUSA.com and their Twitter handle is @PoliticusUSA. Sarah's handle is @PoliticusSarah.
Brad is then joined by Dr. Robert Shapiro, Chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm and a Senior Fellow of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
The two breakdown the economic implications if President Biden's 'Build Back Better' act does not become law. This includes a new economic forecast from Goldman Sachs that says, per CNN: ""A failure to pass BBB has negative growth implications," Goldman Sachs economists, led by Jan Hatzius, say in a new research report.
Citing the "apparent demise" of Build Back Better, Goldman Sachs now expects GDP to grow at an annualized pace of 2% in the first quarter, down from 3% previously.
The bank also trimmed its GDP forecasts for the second quarter to 3% (from 3.5% previously) and the third quarter to 2.75% (compared with 3% previously). It specifically pointed to the expiration of the child tax credit and the lack of the other new spending that had been anticipated"
Dr. Shapiro is an internationally-known economist who has advised, among others, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Jr., British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and then U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton Administration.
His website is Sonecon.com and his Twitter handle is @RobShapiro.
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Leslie is joined by Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union.
The two discuss:
1. Seven Highlights from AAM's 50-State '2021 Made in America Holiday Gift Guide'
2. AAM Statement on the 20th Anniversary of China’s WTO Ascension
3. AAM: "Senate Passes Legislation to Ban Imports from China’s Xinjiang Region" (by AAM's Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch)
The website for AAM is AmericanManufacturing.org and their Twitter handle is @KeepItMadeInUSA. Scott's handle is @ScottPaulAAM.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Brad is first joined by Colonel Cedric Leighton, Founder and President of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership consultancy serving global companies and organizations.
He founded the company in 2010, after serving in the US Air Force for 26 years as an Intelligence Officer and attaining the rank of Colonel.
He'll be joined by Edwith Theogene and Mark Grimaldi for the panel.
Edwith Theogene is the director of advocacy for Generation Progress, the youth engagement arm of American Progress. In this role, Theogene works to develop and lead efforts that translate the experiences of young adults into concrete actions that advance progressive policies and increase voter turnout. Edwith's Twitter handle is @WhoIsEdwith.
Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 13 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016), and President Joe Biden (2020). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Leslie is joined by Steve Sallman, Director of the United Steelworkers Health, Safety and Environment Department, where he’s worked for more than 17 years.
Today, Steve and Leslie discuss helping OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) save lives.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the agency that ensures Americans have safe workplaces, has been helping save lives since its foundation with the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act.
- One of its first standards set permissible exposure limits for more than 400 toxic substances, with more recent guidance covering concerns ranging from bloodborne pathogens to silica dust.
- OSHA performs tens of thousands of inspections every year.
- Between 1970 and 2019, workplace fatalities were reduced by 60 percent and injuries and illnesses fell by almost 75 percent.
Unfortunately, the previous administration starkly illustrated how much OSHA’s ability to perform this vital work can hinge on external factors.
- Under President Donald Trump, OSHA’s enforcement activities plummeted to new lows even as worker deaths soared to the highest level in more than a decade.
- It even rolled back a 2016 rule requiring most employers to electronically submit detailed reports on workplace injuries because powerful corporations didn’t like it.
Now, we have a new administration and new opportunities.
- Health care workers finally got an emergency temporary standard for occupational exposure to Covid-19.
- It’s also working to keep workers safe through vaccination and testing.
- Workers across industries need the protections from other hazards like heat stress—a growing danger because of climate change — and workplace violence
President Biden’s Build Back Better plan also presents an opportunity to enable OSHA to keep workers safe from a variety of hazards by expanding its budget and increasing penalties for workplace health and safety violations.
- The Build Back Better Act passed by the U.S. House last month would provide an additional $707 million to OSHA over the next five years to facilitate enforcement, standards development, whistleblower investigations, compliance assistance, funding for State plans, and related activities
- It also provides $133 million to the Mine Safety and Health Administration for similar work
- While it’s impossible to put a price tag on a safe work environment, it also makes important increases to the maximum penalties OSHA can levy:
-Penalties for serious violations would increase from $13,653 to $70,000
-Penalties willful violations and repeat violations would increase from $136,530 to $700,000
- Both enforcement and real penalties are important for incentivizing employers to address concerns and provide a safe work environment
OSHA has proven to be vital to protecting workers. With the help of this administration and hopefully this legislation, it will be able to do even more.
Steve has nearly 30 years of safety and health experience, investigating fatalities and life-altering accidents, providing assistance to local unions and working closely with employers’ safety and health professionals.
The website for the United Steelworkers is USW.org.
Their handle on both Twitter and Instagram is @steelworkers.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by Rachel Kleinfeld is a Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
There she focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in post-conflict countries, fragile states, and states in transition.
The two discuss:
- Why attempts to delegitimize bipartisan election institutions in Wisconsin matter, and what will happen next
- What role the politicization of law enforcement plays in these developments in Wisconsin, and why that is concerning in Wisconsin and nationally
- How the developments in Wisconsin and in other states increase the risk of election crises in 2022 and 2024
Rachel's Twitter handle is @RachelKleinfeld.
During the second half of the show, Tim Zenk and Mark Grimaldi join Brad for this week's 'provocative progressive political panel.'
The threE talk about environmental policy.
This includes:
- How 'big oil,' Saudi ARAMCO and Russia are affecting gas prices
- Environmental aspects of 'Build Back Better'
- Progress in the fight against climate change
Tim is a Principle at 'Molecule,' a business and public affairs company, a former Democratic staffer, and a well known renewable energy expert. His Twitter handle is @greencrude.
Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 12 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016), and President Joe Biden (2020). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi.
Brad writes a political column every Sunday for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles.
You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon.
Watch a video broadcast of this episode here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MYxNnvgXwRxw
Or here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gw3ZwtC2DrQ
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
During today's episode, Charlotte and Emily dive a little deeper into the role that labor unions can and do play in all of this, and why young people in particular are demonstrating an interest in organizing and joining unions.
To talk more with them about labor unions, organizing, and young people, they are joined by two expert guests.
They are David Madland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the strategic director at the American Worker Project, as well as Jeff Uehlinger, an organizer with SEIU Local 509.
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Today's guest hosts are Edwith Theogene and Charlotte Hancock, Organizing Director and Communications Director for Generation Progress.
They discuss the recent COP26 climate conference that just occurred. From October 31st to November 16th, world leaders, climate policy experts, and advocates gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference to confront the global threat that the climate crisis presents and continue to work to chart a path forward. With so many priorities and perspectives represented at one event, there were a lot of differing thoughts presented on the best way to confront this problem, and some activists—particularly young activists—were vocal in their belief that the conference’s approach to addressing the climate crisis is insufficient and does not match the scope and urgency of the issue.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., progress has been made on both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the 'Build Back Better Act', which each contain provisions to combat the climate crisis. The infrastructure bill was signed into law by President Biden on Monday, and Congress is slated to pass the 'Build Back Better Act' in the coming weeks.
To talk more with Edwith and Charlotte about COP26, and what comes next in the movement to end the climate crisis, they’re joined by two of their colleagues who spent the past few weeks in Scotland attending COP26.
They are Hannah Malus, the deputy director of energy and environment advocacy at the Center for American Progress, and Chris Chyung, the campaign manager of 'the State House to the White House' initiative at the Center for American Progress.
Generation Progress' website is GenProgress.org and their Twitter handle is @GenProgress. Edwith Theogene's Twitter handle is @WhoIsEdwith and Charlotte Hancock's handle is @CharlatAnne. The Twitter handle for energy and environment advocacy at the Center for American Progress is @CAPenergypolicy. Hannah Malus's Twitter handle is @hannahmalus and Chris Chyung's handle is @chrischyung.
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by Dr. Bob Bollinger, the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The two discuss Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine now being available for 5-11 year old children in the United States, why Dr. Bollinger recommends that parents vaccinate their children, booster shots, vaccine mandates, and more.
Dr. Bollinger is Founding Director of the Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE). Their website is main.ccghe.net and their Facebook page is Facebook.com/CCGHE.
During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Kim Scott and Mark Grimaldi. The roundtable discusses the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland that Kim attended last week. This includes which countries have pledged what as far as reducing emissions, switching to clean energy sources, stopping deforestation, and more.
Kim Scott is the Founder and Publisher of DemList, LLC. Demlist is a free national daily political column, calendar and resource site for Democrats and allies - a unique, central source that connects people to the who, what and where of Democratic events, issues and activism. You can find out more about them at DemList.com and follow them on Twitter @TheDemList.
Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 12 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016), and President Joe Biden (2020). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi.
Brad writes a political column every Sunday for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles.
You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon.
Watch a video broadcast of this episode here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYwpenllxX
Or here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mKhodJTvKPI
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Leslie is joined by Tom Conway, President of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union.
They’re 1.2 million members and retirees strong in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. They proudly represent men and women who work in nearly every industry there is.
The pandemic shined a light on our long-neglected supply chains, failure of our industrial policy, and the dangerous vulnerability that we created when we ceded much of our manufacturing to other nations.
There’s been a lot of hand wringing lately about the semi-conductor shortage and the ships off the coast of California and how to get them unloaded.
While these are real concerns, addressing them is just fixing the short-term problem.
What we really need is a solution that addresses the underlying issue: growth in domestic manufacturing.
The website for the USW is www.USW.org and their handle on both Twitter and Instagram is @steelworkers.
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.
Brad is first joined by Sarah Jones, Editor-in-Chief of PoliticusUSA. The pair previews tomorrow's gubernatorial election in Virginia, and discuss today's Supreme Court hearing on the legality of Texas' SB8, the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
Sarah is a 2 time Telly Award winner, and now hosts Politicus News and co-hosts Politicus Radio. The website for PoliticusUSA is www.PoliticusUSA.com and their Twitter handle is @PoliticusUSA. Sarah's handle is @PoliticusSarah.
Brad is then joined by Shawn Zeller, Editor of CQ Roll Call. The two analyze negotiations surrounding the framework of the Democrats' 'human infrastructure' bill that was released last week by President Biden, as well as what could end up being included in a final bill. Shawn's Twitter handle is @ShawnZeller.
Brad writes a political column every Sunday for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles.
You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon.
You can also watch this episode here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1PlJQawzMMVJE
Or here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeadlineDCWithBradBannon/videos/4770378009680169