Analysis of President Bush's Acceptance Speech at the RNC; Hotel Workers Negotiate for a New Contract; The State of the American Worker: 2004; FilmWeek
Analysis of President Bush's Acceptance Speech at the RNC
Larry Mantle discusses the Republican National Convention which ends Thursday evening with the acceptance speech given by George W. Bush. Joining him is Talk of the City Host, Kitty Felde, David Menafee-Libey, Professor of Politics at Pomona College, and Alfred Balitzer, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
Hotel Workers Negotiate for a New Contract
The current dispute between hotel workers and owners may be one of the most important labor battles in Los Angeles and possibly one of the defining labor fights for American service workers throughout the country. Three thousand hotel workers in LA have been without a contact for several months. Two weeks ago the Hotel Employers Council voted to lock out their workers but the action was averted by the intervention of a federal mediator. Larry Mantles talks with Vivian Rothstein, Deputy Director of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and co-founder of the LA Coalition to Support a Hotel Workers, and Kenneth Ballard, spokesman for the Los Angeles Hotel Employers Council and attorney with the firm of Ballard, Rosenberg, Golper and Savitt, about the dispute and the ongoing negotiations between Los Angeles hotel worker and owners.
The State of the American Worker: 2004
The American Enterprise Institute just released a report detailing the last quarter century of opinion polls about the job satisfaction and security of the American worker. The report’s findings say that the American worker is largely satisfied with their jobs. The report also says that Americans feel little stress and think their jobs are secure. The report’s author, Karlyn Bowman, and Harley Shaiken, a professor specializing in Labor issues at UC Berkeley, join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the report’s findings.
FilmWeek
Larry Mantle and critics Lael Loewenstein of Variety and Henry Sheehan of HenrySheehan.com discuss this week's new film releases, including Vanity Fair, Wicker Park, The Brown Bunny, Big Girls Don't Cry, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, Warriors of Heaven and Earth and Bush's Brain.
Larry and the critics also discussed the Sarajevo Film Festival and the DVD release of The Passion of the Christ.