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The wealth gap between African-American and white workers has been growing
steadily even as the wage gap has been shrinking.
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 03:12
A Catholic scholars group says opposing unions is a mortal sin.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 03:28
Yes, this is the 21st Century, but America's agricultural industry still relies heavily on child labor.
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 03:24
It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a...
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- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
A new survey disputes the claim that small business owners are as anti-union as their big business counterparts.
- Added: May 28, 2010
- Length: 03:51
It was 40 years ago this month that Walter Reuther died, yet the auto workers' leader remains an important inspirational figure.
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 04:33
We're paying too little attention to he workers who were seriously injured or killed in the explosion that spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mex...
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 03:48
Former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24, was one of the greatest friends working people ever had.
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 05:10
Workers Memorial Day on April 28 will honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered and died because of workplace hazards.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 03:49
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
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
Although almost two million Americans a year are victims of workplace violence, little is being done about it.
- Added: Feb 04, 2010
- Length: 04:23
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 poorly treated airport screeners who are essential to air passenger safety finally are winning the union rights essential to their well-being.
- Added: Dec 24, 2009
- Length: 02:56
Advocates of teaching labor in public schools have scored an important victory.
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 03:19
Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age, and it can be as harmful to its victims and society as racism or sexism.
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 03:43
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
The mainstream media are in effect censoring labor news that's important to all of us.
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 06:24
New studies show that the young Americans who will shape our future have been hit painfully hard by today's economic downturn.
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- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
President Obama appears to have finally ended the decades-long struggle of air traffic controllers for decent treatment.
- Added: Oct 01, 2009
- Length: 06:22
Despite the recession, women workers are close to outnumbering male workers.
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:36
