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A commentary noting that the two sometimes hostile factions of the labor movement are waging major campaigns to recruit new members and strengthen ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2007
- Length: 03:59
A commentary on the extraordinary campaign that Democratic presidential candidates are waging to win union endorsements.
- Added: Sep 27, 2007
- Length: 03:52
This commentary notes that although now largely forgotten, labor leader Lou Goldblatt was one of America's most influential leaders of any kind.
- Added: Sep 20, 2007
- Length: 04:13
This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 2
This commentary outlines the extraordinary career of Fred Ross, one of the most successful community organizers ever, the man who trained Cesar Ch...
- Added: Sep 04, 2007
- Length: 04:29
Thanks to their growing poliitical strength, American iunions will be celebrating Labor Day this year with much greater expectations for success th...
- Added: Aug 25, 2007
- Length: 04:00
A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 11, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Exploring the American dream through a homless shelter in Charleston and a lawyer in Baton Rouge
- Added: Jun 04, 2007
- Length: 24:59
To a man -- and woman -- the Democratic presidential candidates say they're great friends of American workers. True or false? The answer could depe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 25, 2007
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 1
Despite the great importance of teachers, they are by far the most poorly paid of all professionals.
- Added: Apr 11, 2007
- Length: 03:36
Despite their importance to our security, airport screeners aren't allowed to exercise their full civil rights.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Mar 08, 2007
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Dec 08, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the major role unions played in the Democratic Party's midterm sweep.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 10, 2006
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Jose Luiz speaks from a dirty and weed filled lot, begging the City of Chicago to let him keep the broken and abandoned land...
- Added: Oct 26, 2006
- Length: 12:09
A commentary on Gene Debs, who died 80 years ago this month, but whose economic and political ideas remain vital, valid and essential.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Oct 10, 2006
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
Although most people work for a living, the mainstream media generally ignore their working lives.
- Added: Sep 15, 2006
- Length: 03:25
Unions have launched one of labor's biggest political campaigns ever in behalf of their Democratic Party allies.
- Added: Sep 08, 2006
- Length: 02:39
Although well in the minority, unionized workers do much better financially and otherwise than their non-union counterparts
- Added: Mar 15, 2006
- Length: 02:25
President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.
- Added: Feb 01, 2006
- Length: 03:07
Growing up in a coal community, mining is a part of your everyday life. In light of the recent SAGO mine disaster Natasha Watts reflects on what i...
Bought by WGXC, WGBH Radio Boston, WXLV-FM, The Nature Podcast, and PRX
- Added: Jan 19, 2006
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 5
Celebrations are being held this year to mark the anniversary of the grape strike led by Cesar Chavez that won worldwide support for California's l...
- Added: Oct 22, 2005
- Length: 03:42
Although the pundits say the labor movement is near death, the future of American unions actually looks promising.
- Added: Aug 31, 2005
- Length: 04:47
A commentary on the working and living conditions of sheepherders that are right out of the 19th century.
- Added: Jun 02, 2005
- Length: 03:13
