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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
Yes, this is the 21st Century, but America's agricultural industry still relies heavily on child labor.
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 03:24
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
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
President Obama's lengthy honeymoon with labor has finally ended.
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 05:18
MSD (musculoskeletal disorder) is the most common of the serious injuries suffered by U.S. workers, but corporate interests have blocked attempts t...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 04:17
The number of unionized workers varies widely from state to state, but whatever the state, union members do much better than non-union workers.
- Added: Feb 18, 2010
- Length: 03:05
President Obama's State of the Union promise to help women win pay equality has been largely overlooked.
- Added: Jan 29, 2010
- Length: 03:44
Senate Democrats loss of their filibuster proof 60 vote majority with the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown seems certain to doom at...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 03:55
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
Organized labor is throwing its great political strength into the drive for a reformed health care system.
- Added: Aug 21, 2009
- Length: 02:59
Organized labor has reached a landmark agreement promising unfettered union rights to the 600,000 employees of Catholic health care facilities acro...
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 04:21
A clown commercial reeks havoc on an advertising executive.
Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, and Remix Radio
- Added: Jun 21, 2009
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Jack Henning, a remarkable labor leader, led a lifelong crusade in behalf of working people.
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 04:03
Farm and domestic workers are seeking the vital union rights that were granted other U.S. workers way back in 1935.
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 03:55
It's time for us to celebrate a national Cesar Chavez Day.
- Added: Mar 23, 2009
- Length: 04:17
A major political battle to give workers full union rights has begun.
- Added: Mar 13, 2009
- Length: 05:11
Many workers are being illegally fired for being pro-union.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:20
