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Charles Showalter talks with with Jack Shea, Allegheny County Central Labor Council President. Then we feature commentary on the week's news by Do...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:02
Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Jack Wade (JackWadeShow.com), Doug Cunningham (LaborRadio.org) and I will talk about national labor issues, then Barb Toncheff will talk about Buy ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:02
The Great Recession officially ended in Jun 2009 but the American workforce is still suffering from its traumatic effects.
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 02:00
A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.
- Added: Oct 13, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Arizona’s new immigration law has focused attention on immigration once again. Since debate on the controversial law began, there have been report...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 05:31
One East Oakland neighborhood decided to try a different economic model in their community. Time Banking.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2009
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
How people are finding the strength and situations
that get them through economic hard times.
Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 14
There may be a nationwide demand for nurses, but that doesn't mean that hospitals are hiring (the newbies, anyway).
- Added: Nov 29, 2009
- Length: 03:47
Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...
Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
The minimum wage went up by $.35 in Montana in July
- Added: Aug 20, 2009
- Length: 03:25
State Truck Driver Winners Listen To Public Radio
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 03:46
Truckers Are Tuning In to PubRadio Big Time!
- Added: May 17, 2009
- Length: 17:28
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:09
How the Presidential candidates are addressing problems in the manufacturing industry.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 10, 2008
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 1
George Parker, president of Washington DC's Teachers Union shares some astonishing confessions about the lack of accountability in the union and ho...
- Added: Sep 18, 2008
- Length: 13:13
A 21-year-old woman describes the difficulty of paying the bills while working at a deli and Wendy's. What do the candidates have to say about that?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
Workers at an Associated supermarket in Bushwick are pushing for the backpay they've been awarded after years of collecting illegally low wages. Th...
- Added: Jun 05, 2008
- Length: 04:45
audio postcard of the Writer's Guild East Strike
- Added: Nov 21, 2007
- Length: 01:53
One export from China that American businesses can?t get enough of are highly-skilled workers, especially those in the high tech industry. Workers ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: :03
Teachers led massive marches throughout Argentina today to demand justice for Carlos Fuentealba, a 42-year-old public educator who died last week a...
- Added: Apr 10, 2007
- Length: 01:41
Big dreams on a shoe-string budget: American optimism, or pure nonsense? WKNO producer Sarah Ledbetter takes a poke at our myths about the minimum ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUZ, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2007
- Length: 06:32
- Purchases: 3
Tyson Foods is accused of surpressing wages by hiring illegal immigants. The lawsuit points out problems in the government's handling of workplace ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRFC
- Added: Feb 12, 2007
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 01, 2006
- Length: 01:14
