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Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 03:44
Republican leaders in Congress want to cut Social Security payments in order to reduce the deficit that's been caused in part by tax breaks for the...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...
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- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 4
Labor and Democratic Party leaders worry that labor's rank and file may not provide Democratic candidates the support they'll need in November's el...
- Added: Aug 13, 2010
- Length: 03:05
As a new federal report shows,unionized workers not only earn more than non-union workers, but also have much better benefits.
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 04:19
Farm worker advocates have lost a major battle to grant the highly exploited workers the legal right to overtime pay that most other workers have.
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 04:50
The number of serious on-the-job accidents this year have made very clear the need for expanded and tightened government safety regulations.
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 05:09
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
Congress is only adding to our economic problems by refusing extra aid to the unemployed and to states faced with having to lay off many vital publ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 04:10
The wealth gap between African-American and white workers has been growing
steadily even as the wage gap has been shrinking.
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 03:12
A Catholic scholars group says opposing unions is a mortal sin.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 03:28
Yes, this is the 21st Century, but America's agricultural industry still relies heavily on child labor.
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 03:24
It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a...
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- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 29:59
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A new survey disputes the claim that small business owners are as anti-union as their big business counterparts.
- Added: May 28, 2010
- Length: 03:51
We're paying too little attention to he workers who were seriously injured or killed in the explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mex...
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 03:48
We'll also travel back in time and hear the story of a song. John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of ...
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- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 04:49
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A wooden bowl is also the tree, the saw and the sanding...everything we make is a story.
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 02:48
Former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24, was one of the greatest friends working people ever had.
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 05:10
John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...
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- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 04:50
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Workers Memorial Day on April 28 will honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered and died because of workplace hazards.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 03:49
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
Working women have been particularly hard hit by the global recession, in part because of long-standing discrimination.
- Added: Mar 12, 2010
- Length: 03:11
Youth Radio's Lauren Silverman reflects on changing her career plans and steering clear of Wall Street.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, YouthCast, and KUOW
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 4
President Obama's lengthy honeymoon with labor has finally ended.
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 05:18
