Democracy Now! September 1, 1997

Barbecues and Beef; Women, Unions and Work
|(14 Minutes) Barbecues and Beef Agricultrual Secretary Dan Glickman proposed legislation that would broadly strengthen his department’s powers over companies found to have produced tainted meat and poultry. GUEST: Mary Heersink, Author of BOOK: E. COLI 0157; THE TRUE STORY OF A MOTHER’S BATTLE WITH A KILLER MICROBE (36 Minutes) Women, Unions and Work Women comprise 40% of trade unions. AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney has recently created a new women’s department. GUEST: Karen Nussbaum, dir. of the Working Women’s Department of the AFL-CIO. GUEST: Maggie Coleman, one of the earliest equal opportunity hires into a traditional male domain.