On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, about the Trump Labor Department's new tipped-work guidance that lets employers pay $2.13 an hour while servers clean, stock and prep. Then Liz McElroy, General Vice President for Government Affairs at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, talks Tradeswomen Build Nations in Houston and the union's big get-out-the-vote push to turn every member out for the November midterms.

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On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with labor attorney David Borer, former general counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees, about the Trump administration's assault on federal workers' union rights and a Labor Department move that lets employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour for more side work. Then LIUNA Senior Policy Analyst Rebecca Rougier joins Rick to talk about Tradeswomen Build Nations in Houston and building power for women in the trades.

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On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Andrew Miller, Senior Fellow for National Security at the Center for American Progress, to break down Trump's war with Iran and his diesel deal with Vladimir Putin, and what both mean for working families paying at the pump. Then SMART journeyperson Samara Sampson of the SMART International Women's Committee discusses the recent Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in Houston, where nearly 6,000 union tradeswomen gathered to build sisterhood and power.

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