{"article":{"id":117406,"heading":"Building Bridges Radio - Why Do We Need a Million Workers March?\r\n","author":"Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg","created":"2004-10-06 00:04:12","modified":"2004-10-08 06:53:58","last_modified":"Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:53:58","article":"

Building Bridges:

Your Community and Labor Report - National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash

presents:



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Why We Need the Million Workers March with



Brenda Stokley, Pres. DC 1707 AFSCME;



Clarence Thomas, Exec. Bd Member, Local 10, ILWU;



Roger Toussaint, Pres. Local 100, TWU



Santos Crespo, V.P. DC 37 AFSCME



& Margaret Prescott, Global Women's Strike





The Million Worker March with an agenda of jobs, a living wage, universal single payer health care, and in opposition to the invasion of & occupation of Iraq is scheduled for October 17th at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. and its gaining momentum. SoGet on Board!



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Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI, 99 .5 in the N.Y.C. Area on Mondays from 7-8 PM and streamed over: http:\/\/www.2600.com\/offthehook\/hot2.ram<\/a>

for more information email knash@igc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"knash@igc.org","link":"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/dl.php\/123-2-20041003-mwm32bj29.mp3?file_id=18699&protocol=http&","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Building Bridges Radio pressents this 26.5 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS LINK BELOW\r\n","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/10\/117406.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":117428,"heading":"Yoo hoo, clowns","article":"Start a business, get some employees, THEN see what side of this idiotic march you're on. Morons.","author":"SammyChavez","parent_id":117406,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-10-06 11:40:10","modified":"2004-10-06 11:40:10","fileurl":""},{"id":117467,"heading":"supply and demand","article":"If the demand exceeds supply, then the business can be started once the costs are less than the price at which the goods or services can be sold.\r\n\r\nIf you start a business that requires low wages and marginal working conditions, to remain profitable, a rise in the minimum wage can cause that business to cease operation. However, the increase in demand, due to more wages, will create new business opportunities elsewhere.\r\n\r\nAn increase in wages can also motivate businesses to spend money to automate, and get more productivity out of the existing workforce. Increases in productivity are a net gain to the owner. The risk is capital flight, when factories are moved offshore, where workers earn less; one solution to this is tariffs designed to protect jobs.\r\n\r\nThere are a wide class of businesses that benefit from increased wages. Generally, they are the businesses that sell goods and services to the working class, but don't hire many people. For example:\r\n\r\n* mom and pop stores\r\n* hair salons\r\n* rental property owners\r\n* grocery stores that pay well above minimum wage\r\n","author":"more rational","parent_id":117406,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-10-08 06:53:58","modified":"2004-10-08 06:53:58","fileurl":""}]}