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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
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
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 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 noting that the new minimum wage should now be raised to at least $9.50 an hour.
- Added: Aug 09, 2007
- Length: 04:26
John Edwards speaks to loyalists from each of the "two Americas."
- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 54:00
The Bush administration is abusing air traffic controllers and endangering the millions who rely on them for safe travel.
- Added: Jun 05, 2007
- Length: 04:59
The Bush administration is ignoring its legal obligation to lessen the workplace hazards that kill and seriously injure millions of Americans. i
- Added: May 31, 2007
- Length: 05:29
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
Equal Pay Day is coming up on April 24 to remind us that working women's wages still trail far behind those of men.
- Added: Apr 19, 2007
- Length: 03:43
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: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 03:54
- 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
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
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
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
- Added: May 17, 2006
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
A commentary explaining how the immigration reform bills in Congress would seriously harm immigrant farmworkers
- Added: May 15, 2006
- Length: 03:47
A conversation with Sister Margaret Rose Smyth, advocate and activist on behalf of the immigrant worker
- Added: Apr 12, 2006
- Length: 33:04
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
Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.
- Added: Dec 21, 2005
- Length: 04:06
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 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most influential and colorful organizations in U.S. history.
Bought by BSR Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2005
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
