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It's time to acknowledge two of the most important and unlikely friends the United Farm Workers ever had - a state employment official and a major ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 04:11
A new report shows there is much more discrimination against women workers than generally acknowledged. Thousands of employers are charged yearly w...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 04:29
It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow against air traffic controllers that sent labor into a steep decline.
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:44
The number of home health care workers who provide essential aid to millions of elderly Americans is steeply declining because of poor pay and work...
- Added: Jul 28, 2011
- Length: 03:31
Thanks to the Obama administration, powerful interests who are attempting to cripple the pro-union National Labor Relations Act are finally losing.
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 04:49
Action is finally being taken to try to win decent treatment for domestic workers worldwide.
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Farm workers have suffered a heavy blow in their drive to win union rights.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
Unions have mounted a drive against attempts by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to join Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in stripping public employees of their co...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 03:10
More than 40 percent of privately employed workers do not have the paid sick days they need to recover from their often contagious illnesses or car...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 04:51
It may seem highly unlikely, but it's true: a woman may unseat Jimmy Hoffa Jr. as president of the huge, corruption-ridden Teamsters Union.
- Added: Jun 16, 2011
- Length: 03:34
President Bob King of the influential United Auto Workers union is calling for major reforms that would enable his union and others to strengthen u...
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 04:57
A new study finds that unionization is a sure way to lessen the heavy toll of deaths and serious injuries in the nation's coal mines.
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 03:23
Although the minimum wage law was originally designed to guarantee workers decent pay, it now promises them no more than poverty-level wages.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 03:16
The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
Sports gear maker Nike owes us money for acting billboards and wearing the Nike swoosh that's prominently displayed on Nike gear.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 03:25
The AFL-CIO is promising the launch a campaign to shrink the ever-widening pay gap between working people and major company CEOs, who averaged $11....
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 05:36
Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:40
It's time to increase the pay of America's poorest workers, time to raise the pitifully inadequate minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 03:43
United Auto Workers President Bob King has some important insights into the current attacks on working people and their unions.
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 04:14
An interview with Hal Donahue, a military expert and writer for the Huffington Post.
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge Gerard Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association Treasurer (PSEA.org) and later Doug Cunningham of Workers Indepen...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Buy American with Barbara Toncheff and her guest Michelle Nash-Hoff of savingusmanufacturing.com, later Labor History with Charlie McCollester
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 01:34
Prometheus Radio Project joins The Union Edge in Pittsburgh to celebrate Rep. Mike Doyle’s championship of the Local Community Radio Act. This law ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge, Bob Martinez, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinists, (GoIAM.org), Boeing Vs. Airbus, The S...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 40:51
Brian Frayer and Pete Kovac both DoD Law Enforcement officers
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 50:00
