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8-4-20 Nicole Sandler Show – Tuesday with @GottaLaff & Back to School (or not) with Randi Weingarten
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8-4-20 Nicole Sandler Show – Tuesday with @GottaLaff & Back to School (or not) with Randi Weingarten

Download here or click below to play Every Tuesday afternoon, GottaLaff joins me for a romp through the day's news, as usually gleaned from Laffy's very busy Twitter feed. Today, we start the show with a visit from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. She helps us understand the plight of the teachers and nurses she represents as we all try to navigate this pandemic. They just published a guide to Reopening School Buildings Safely. (Just click the link for the report.) And yes, the AFT is also one of the largest nurses unions in [...]

By GottaLaff|August 4th, 2020|Tags: AFT, COVID, GottaLaff, MSNBC, nurses, Randi Weingarten, teachers|Comments Off

8-4-20 Nicole Sandler Show – Tuesday with GottaLaff & Back to School (or not) with Randi Weingarten
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8-4-20 Nicole Sandler Show – Tuesday with GottaLaff & Back to School (or not) with Randi Weingarten

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8-4-20 Nicole Sandler Show – Tuesday with GottaLaff & Back to School (or not) with Randi Weingarten

Download here or click below to play Every Tuesday afternoon, GottaLaff joins me for a romp through the day's news, as usually gleaned from Laffy's very busy Twitter feed. Today, we start the show with a visit from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. She helps us understand the plight of the teachers and nurses she represents as we all try to navigate this pandemic. They just published a guide to Reopening School Buildings Safely. (Just click the link for the report.) And yes, the AFT is also one of the largest nurses unions in [...]

By Nicole Sandler|August 4th, 2020|Tags: AFT, COVID, GottaLaff, MSNBC, nurses, Randi Weingarten, teachers|Comments Off

Fan-tastic FloriDUH

Nicole recaps last night's farce of a gubernatorial debate, including the fan-tastic idiocy of Rick Scott. Randi Weingarten, president of AFT (the 2nd largest teachers union) joins to tell about this morning's conference call on Ebola. And Amy Simon of She's History brings some fabulous female facts.

By nicolesandler|October 16th, 2014|Tags: AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Amy Simon, Charlie Crist, debate, ebola, fan, Fangate, Florida, FloriDUH, governor, Malala, nurses, Randi Weingarten, Rick Scott, She's HIstory, women|Comments Off

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Part 2)

I'm home after 10 days on the road to cover the American Federation of Teachers convention in Los Angeles and Netroots Nation '14 in Detroit. It was actually anything but a vacation, but I do thrive on the action, and there was plenty of that. To recap the trip, all you need do is listen to the shows from the past week or so. (Find them here, here, here, here and my interview with the amazing Rev. Dr. William Barber is posted as a standalone interview here) Now that I'm back home, I have the luxury of sitting back [...]

By nicolesandler|July 21st, 2014|Tags: activists, AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Detroit, Detroit Peoples Water Board, DetroitWater, John Nichols, Netroots Nation, progressive, Sandra Fluke, William Barber|Comments Off

Final Day at #AFT14

The 2014 AFT convention wraps up today, and I'm thrilled that I was able to be here to cover it. After all, our future depends on these people who, in many cases, spend more times with our children than their parents do. But it's not only teachers represented by the American Federation of Teachers. The AFT also represents nurses and other healthcare workers, school staff other than teachers, public defenders and other public sector employees. I overheard someone waiting in line the other day suggesting they change the name of the AFT to the AFP - American Federation of [...]

By nicolesandler|July 14th, 2014|Tags: AFT, AFT convention, AFT14, American Federation of Teachers, Arne Duncan, Common Core, due process, Randi Weingarten, secretary improvement plan, tenure, Vergara|2 Comments

Saturday Afternoon Live from #AFT14

***Late afternoon update What a day! We had a wonderful show, with lots of AFT members, delegates and activists. The podcast audio is now posted above; just click the player to listen. The show will also stream in a loop tomorrow on the Radio or Not audio stream until Monday morning, when we'll do one more live show from the convention.*** Yesterday was a busy day here at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Los Angeles. From an inspirational, fiery and fierce speech from Moral Mondays' founder Reverend Dr. William Barber, to the always amazing AFT President Randi Weingarten's [...]

By nicolesandler|July 12th, 2014|Tags: AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Moral Mondays, Randi Weingarten, Rev. Dr. William Barber|2 Comments

Good Morning from the West Coast

I awoke this morning in beautiful downtown Los Angeles. I'm here to cover the American Federation of Teachers convention before heading to Detroit for Netroots Nation. I'll find out all the details for the AFT convention later this morning, and will update this post with a working schedule. That said, there will be no live show this morning. However, since it's Friday, I thought we'd do a special double-header Flashback Friday edition. Each Friday, I dig into my radio archives and pull out an interview from my music radio days. Today, we go back to 1999 and 2000 to speak [...]

By nicolesandler|July 11th, 2014|Tags: AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Detroit, Los Angeles, Netroots Nation|Comments Off

Taking the “DUH” out of FloriDUH

Greetings from the land of hanging chads and stand your ground insanity. It's also a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 4,587,502 to 4,128,098, yet the GOP controls both chambers of the legislature and all cabinet positions. Maybe it's the heat combined with the humidity that make people vote against their own best interests time after time. Regardless of the reasons, Florida has a chance to rid ourselves of some of the DUH that's infected our land. But to do that, Floridians have to vote in the August 26 primary, and vote for the only progressive Democrat in the race. If [...]

By nicolesandler|July 7th, 2014|Tags: AFT, Charlie Crist, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrat, Florida, FloriDUH, Howie Klein, Nan Rich, Netroots Nation, progressive, Rick Scott, Steve Israel|Comments Off

Anyone Else Missing an Hour? Schools? Media Responsibility?

Damn Daylight Savings Time. Don't get me wrong. I like the fact that it stays light out later; I just hate losing an hour of valuable sleep time this time every year. We should really pick a time and stick with it. Unbelievably, Arizona does something right! Anyway, barring my tired status this morning, it was a busy show. I filled listeners in on our Saturday evening in the emergency room. Alison had a softball injury that turned out to be a sprained index finger. I erred on the side of caution, and will likely get some interesting programming out [...]

By nicolesandler|March 11th, 2013|Tags: AFT, charter, Fools on the Hill, Jeb Bush, Nicole Belle, Philadelphia, Randi Weingarten, rape, school, will bunch|Comments Off

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