Even Scabs Benefit From Unions

More hacked documents from within the Democratic Party were released by Guccifer 2.0. The latest batch includes a memo informing Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) staff how to handle the Black Lives Matter movement. Depressingly, it informs staff to not endorse any specific policy situations called for by the civil rights group.

And Americans view labor unions more positively. That’s good news for non-union workers who, according to a study, would see their pay increase if more Americans were unionized. We talk with one of the co-authors of that study, Washington University Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld.

Finally, the Fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 is around the corner. And — just in time for it — President Obama extended the State of Emergency declared by George W. Bush in September 2001. We discuss the extension in a Classified Session.