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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
Hear old-timey prospectors, bathroom romance, and sanctified stroking in this week’s Final Edition Radio Hour.
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 49:39
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
Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Last week, two large manufacturing plants in Huntington and Indianapolis announced plans to move operations to Mexico. The announcement was a major...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 08:43
The official unemployment rate is a single number--but it doesn’t tell the full story, including how long individual workers have been unemployed. ...
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
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
While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Audio essay bringing the current summer-long Market Basket situation back to the basics.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 04:34
Comments:
> Spaniards have just said NO to privatizing healthcare.
> The big squeeze is on and the middle class is feeling it.
> Conservatives s...
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 28:15
Tragic incidents in Bangladesh brought the issue of labor rights to the global stage once again. What are some new approaches to keeping factory wo...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 21:14
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
When you fill out a job application, you expect to answer some basic questions. Things like your employment and education history, and relevant ski...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:14
