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Interview by Rich Austin: Peter explains how and why our pension plans are in jeopardy.
For more information on pensions, go to http://www.pensi...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 28:30
Dean Shelton, 10th District Representative of the Washington State Council of Firefighters
Interviewed by Rich Austin: Dean explains what is going...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
“Labor and Civil Rights” was the theme of a discussion on November 4, 2015, with the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP and...
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 01:54:26
Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement?
Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 01:01:11
Interview: Jen and Kim summarize the successful Railroad Safety Conferences, which included workers, community & environmentalists, as well as exp...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Garrett gives solutions to creating safer workplaces.
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Interview: Garrett not only tells us that there are more resources in protecting the environment than there are workers but also that OSHA is unde...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 03, 2015
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Part 5 of a 6 part series called “War on the Workers” starts off with Rich explaining how US laws favor multinational corporations over...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
Steve Garey, Recently Retired President of the USW Local 12-591
Interview: Steve Garey, a veteran of the 2015 refinery workers’ strike, talks abou...
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 28:29
Joyce BenderJoyce Bender is the Chair of the Board of the American Association of People with Disabilities and the CEO of Bender Consulting Service...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 15:58
Alejandro Juarez, Communication Director of the Oregon Working Families Party
Interview: Alejandro explains the Oregon Working Families Party and ...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 28:22
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Gillian explains the current trade agreements and that the debate over “Fast Track” legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 23:33
Interview: Mark Dudzic passionately makes the case (the US now spends $8000 for every man, woman, and child on healthcare) that, if we had a singl...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 27:59
Singer/musician and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte's plenary speech (39:38) at the Left Forum 2014.
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 39:38
Interview: Peter reflects on the lousy trade agreements and what we need to do to fight back.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 28:01
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Bobby Righi, Tom Lux, and Kristen Biefus of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), Just Transition, Part 3
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:10
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Reactions to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Labor Day was created in the 19th century by the unions, to celebrate the economic achievements of American workers. But if we look at the 21st ce...
Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on who won, who lost on Tax Day.
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Commentary: More than 850,000 minimum wage workers in 10 states will be getting raises in the new year.
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 04:03
Commentary: It's time to enact a proposed law that would give workers the absolute right to unionization.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 04:13
