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Tipping culture is changing in America. What’s driving tipflation and tipcreep – and what’s expected of consumers?
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 3
The US is seeing an unusual spike in union activity and public support for unions. What does this moment mean for the future of labor in America?
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
A conversation with Americonned Director Sean Claffey. Despite an increase in productivity in recent decades, compensation for the American worker ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 07:19
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Canadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right...
- Added: Jan 19, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which Justin Angle, marketing professor at the University of Montana College of Busine...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 28:31
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
New York City bus operators Tyrone Hampton and Frank de Jesus talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their calling.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 1
Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Coronavirus Health and Economic Crisis Exacerbates U.S. Inequality;
Seeki...
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Interview by Gary Kanter: David describes the Website/email news, The Stand, and various other worker issues.
- Added: Feb 07, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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
This week on the show: The Florida Keys were devastated by Hurricane Irma over one year ago — we check in to see how residents are coping with de...
- Added: Nov 28, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Spectrum: The dogged, interminable struggle with diabetes -
This week on the show, DW reports from a special conference in Bochum, where experts ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2018
- Length: 30:00
This week's edition asks Bloomington residents whether employers should ask job applicants about their criminal histories.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 04:51
5-05-15 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature
April 4th was the 6th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch disaster, when 29 coal miners were kil...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 15:54
Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 01:01
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
Interview: David tells us what the Washington State Labor Council newsletter, The Stand, is all about.
Are you tired of seeing corporate news tha...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 1