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Advocates of teaching labor in public schools have scored an important victory.
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 03:19
The AFL-CIO and a coalition of its allies have launched a major campaign aimed at creating many thousands of new jobs.
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 03:27
Airline and railroad workers voting on whether to unionize are greatly hampered by peculiar rules that count eligible voters who don't vote as voti...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 02:59
New studies show that the young Americans who will shape our future have been hit painfully hard by today's economic downturn.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
Despite the recession, women workers are close to outnumbering male workers.
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:36
Unions are marking Labor Day with high hopes that the Obama administration will move to finally lessen the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. wo...
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 04:20
It's time for us to celebrate a national Cesar Chavez Day.
- Added: Mar 23, 2009
- Length: 04:17
There's good news for unions in their attempts to attract the young members they must have if they are to grow.
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: 02:42
Ralph Nader is demanding repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, the chief obstacle to a revitalized labor movement.
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 03:47
More than one million Americans are facing loss of their badly needed Unemployment Insurance benefits.
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 02:33
Amid the speculation over Sarah Palin possibly becoming the first woman to serve as vice president, don't forget Frances Perkins, the first woman t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2008
- Length: 05:16
Thanks to their political allies, U.S. unions are celebrating Labor Day with unusually high expectations of success.
- Added: Aug 24, 2008
- Length: 04:48
The Bush administration continues its refusal to adopt safety regulations that would lessen the workplace hazards that endanger millions of workers.
- Added: Aug 08, 2008
- Length: 03:59
Organized labor is launching its biggest political campaign ever in hopes of playing a major role in electing Barack Obama and other labor-friendly...
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 03:56
Summer's heat is posing serious dangers for the farmworkers who harvest most of our fruits and vegetables.
- Added: Jul 17, 2008
- Length: 03:19
Working-class voters are demanding a lot from political candidates.
- Added: Jul 03, 2008
- Length: 03:34
Barack Obama supports key issues that would greatly improve the lives of American workers, John McCain opposes them.
- Added: Jun 06, 2008
- Length: 03:17
It's Equal It's Equal Pay Day again, time to remind us of the discrimination that keeps working women's pay far behind that of men.ps workiIt
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 02:37
A commentary noting Martin Luther King Jr.'s staunch support of union rights, which he died defending.
- Added: Apr 04, 2008
- Length: 02:58
There's finally a realistic chance for passage of a law to give U.S. workers the full union rights that have long been denied them.
- Added: Mar 13, 2008
- Length: 04:32
A commentary noting that union membership is finally growing -- and what must be done to keep it growing.
- Added: Feb 15, 2008
- Length: 04:34
Ed Paige had been homeless for twenty years. But now, thanks to an innovative housing facility in Portland Maine, Ed finally has a stable place to ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 2
Blunt reporter Zoe High takes to the streets to unravel some of the prevailing perceptions of the homeless, and spotlights one organization in Port...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMPG, and WXLV-FM
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
A commentary about the growing number of women going into law, medicine and other professional occupations -- and the blatant discrimination they f...
- Added: Oct 18, 2007
- Length: 03:39
