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On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...
Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...
Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse.
Could ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:23
After COVID-19 - a Palmdale couple grapple with completely different receptions upon returning to work.
- Added: Feb 05, 2021
- Length: 06:44
Undocumented hotel housekeepers are among some of the most vulnerable workers in the pandemic. In this episode, we hear one of their stories.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 15, 2020
- Length: 22:18
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we start with updates from Operation PUSH. After that, we continue hearing from Craig, who spent significant time in the Monroe Co...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:08
This week, we feature two snapshots from fast-developing situations inside the prison system. First, we share an anonymized statement from a prison...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 28:48
First off, we include an update from outside supporters of Operation PUSH, the strike in Florida prisons that is now in its fifth day. We will cont...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:28
Yesterday evening in Bloomington about 70 people attended a march and rally in solidarity with an international migrant strike. The event was held ...
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 07:27
This week's edition asks Bloomington residents whether employers should ask job applicants about their criminal histories.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 04:51
Earlier this year, a majority of hourly employees at Bloomingfoods Cooperative Grocery signed up as members of Local 700 of the United Food and Com...
- Added: Aug 10, 2015
- Length: 07:55
The unemployment rate in Indiana reached five percent this month, but the statistics don’t tell the whole story. Correspondent Jerrod Dill brings u...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 09:41
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
In downtown Los Angeles, activists have gone without food for two weeks. The women are campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage. Today L-A Mayor...
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 04:56
If you want to hire a worker in Oakland, you’re going to have to pay a little bit more these days. At the beginning of the month, Measure FF, overw...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 06:30
The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
WFHB Correspondent David Murphy attended Bloomingfood’s annual meeting last week and an accompanying rally by those who support a recent effort by ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2014
- Length: 08:21
Supporters of the unionization of employees of Bloomingfoods rallied in front of the West 6th outlet last Thursday. Around fifty people gathered la...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 09:10
A report from the National Employment Law Project found that the increasing number of jobs in Indiana offer wages under the federal median annual s...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 07:22
Some are saying there is a skills gap in Indiana – that there are manufacturing jobs available but not enough skilled workers to fill them. Corresp...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 09:48
This week on Interchange, host Trish Kerle speaks with Carrol Krause, author of Showers Brothers Furniture Co: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a C...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 57:34
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
News from Detroit, Connecticut, and DC.
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 02:59
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:59
