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President Obama has rightly honored activist Dolores Huerta.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:58
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Labor showed important political strength in its failed bid to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2012
  • Length: 03:04
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Organized labor is facing major election challenges this month in Wisconsin and Arizona.

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 04:49
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The right to unionization, a basic civil right, is under serious attack.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:04
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It's up to us to curtail the widespread use of child labor.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:49
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Despite what anti-union forces claim, public employees are not drawing fat pensions that threaten to bankrupt state and local governments.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
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Unions are preparing massive election campaigns in support of President Obama and other labor-friendly Democrats.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
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The working conditions of those who manufacture the products of technological innovator Apple are brutal.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
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Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
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It's time to honor Filipino labor leader Larry Itliong, who played a key role in formation of the United Farm Workers union.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
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Despite the anti-discrimination laws, many pregnant workers are being legally fired for being pregnant.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
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Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
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Although President Obama said nothing about organized labor in his State of the Union address, he won labor plaudits for the pro-worker programs he...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:43
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San Francisco labor leader Walter Johnson was a key supporter of gay rights.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:13
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The United Auto Workers is in danger of losing its standing as one of the country's most important institutions.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
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The minimum wage is increasing in eight states.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
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Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
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The AFL-CIO has a very promising plan to heal our very sick economy.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
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Newt Gingrich says the child labor laws are "truly stupid."

  • Added: Nov 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:27
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Hard to believe, but many employers are refusing to hire unemployed workers. They want only workers who already have jobs. Honestly.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:08
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Carwash workers at a major firm in California have won what could be the first of many union contracts for the highly exploited workers nationwide.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
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Labor leader Gene Debs died 85 years ago this month, but remains an important inspiration for those struggling against powerful anti-labor forces.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
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The National Labor Relations Board is under a heavy new anti-union attack.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:15
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It's past time we took effective action to ease the economic misery of the 46 million Americans who are forced to live in poverty.

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:54
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The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is a good time to recognize the importance of public employees.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:43