Josh Eidelson
Josh Eidelson covers labor as a contributing writer at Salon and In These Times. He is a contributor at The Nation, The American Prospect, Alternet, and Dissent.
After receiving his MA in Political Science from Yale, he spent five years as a union organizer for UNITE HERE in Sacramento, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. He is based in New York and Philadelphia. He has spoken on labor and politics in venues including Columbia University, public radio, and MSNBC.
He joins us for a primer on what exactly collective bargaining means. Hard subject made easy.
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David Feldman is an American comedy writer and performer. He writes for Comedy Central's The Burn and Joy Behar's Say Anything on Current. He's also written on ABC's Roseanne, HBO's Dennis Miller Live, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Fox's Talk Show With Spike Feresten. Feldman has also written for The Academy Awards, The Emmys, Triumph The Insult Dog Comic and countless roasts on Comedy Central. Over the past few years he has written with and for Steve Martin, Martin Short, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Robert Smigel and Bette Midler. As a comedian Feldman has appeared frequently on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show and The Late Late Show as well as his own special for Comedy Central. Feldman has also done commentary for Salon magazine. Feldman began as a standup comic in San Francisco. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, children, three dogs, and three cats. In 2009, Feldman launched the popular listener supported 'David Feldman Comedy Podcast' which includes a diverse mixture of live and prerecorded content which can be downloaded from iTunes for free. For some reason Feldman spoke at Pitzer College's 2009 Commencement Ceremony. Feldman has won three Prime Time Emmys for comedy writing as well as three Writers Guild Awards. He is a Democrat who has written jokes pro bono for candidates he supports.
Awesome. This guy is great. You two made the subject bearable.
I am amazed at how Americans know so little about unions and yet claim to be spreading freedom around the world. How can you be free if you are a slave to wages?