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The globalization of capital finally has brought about serious moves for the globalization of labor.
- Added: Jul 11, 2008
- Length: 04:41
An international union confederation has issued a new report detailing the truly rotten treatment suffered by many U.S. workers.
Bought by KGOU
- Added: Jun 20, 2008
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 04:35
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich says unions should go all-out to defeat presidential candidate John McCain.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 22, 2008
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Millions of jobless Americans badly need more of the unemployment benefits that have helped sustain them.
- Added: May 02, 2008
- Length: 03:24
Longshoremen plan to close West Coast ports on May 1 to lead widespread labor protests against the Iraq war.
- Added: Apr 25, 2008
- Length: 02:58
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
Although he became a staunch conservative in his later years, actor Charlton Heston had earlier been a union leader and one of Hollywood's most out...
- Added: Apr 09, 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
It's been 15 years now since the death of farm union leader Cesar Chavez -- way past time to make his birthdate of March 31 a national holiday.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 03:22
A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.
Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
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
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played a major role in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights.
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- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:46
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Few leaders have left a greater legacy than labor leader Jack Hall, a major figure in the transformation of feudalistic Hawaii into a democratic st...
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 04:43
The loss of air traffic controllers upset over their working conditions is a major reason airlines are consistently operating behind schedule and f...
- Added: Dec 13, 2007
- Length: 03:08
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
A commentary noting that author John Steinbeck was one of the best friends American workers ever had.
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:18
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 notes that although now largely forgotten, labor leader Lou Goldblatt was one of America's most influential leaders of any kind.
- Added: Sep 20, 2007
- Length: 04:13
This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 2
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
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
