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Ring of Fire: Inside The Secret Campaign To Destroy Workers' Rights
Nearly every company in America with more than a handful of employees has a poster hanging somewhere in the building extolling the virtues of their workers compensation policy. But these policies aren’t necessarily the result of companies trying to do right by their employees – they are mandated by law in most instances. And just like every law out there, corporations are using their money and influence to weaken these worker protections.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins and attorney Michael Burg discuss what’s happening.
