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The AFL-CIO and a coalition of its allies have launched a major campaign aimed at creating many thousands of new jobs.
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 03:27
Earthworm dumpster dives and subsists off of what so many of us unknowingly waste.
Bought by KSFR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WDBM, Vocalo.org, KUT and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 11:16
- Purchases: 8
Airline and railroad workers voting on whether to unionize are greatly hampered by peculiar rules that count eligible voters who don't vote as voti...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 02:59
The mainstream media are in effect censoring labor news that's important to all of us.
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 06:24
New studies show that the young Americans who will shape our future have been hit painfully hard by today's economic downturn.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
Despite the recession, women workers are close to outnumbering male workers.
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:36
Unions are marking Labor Day with high hopes that the Obama administration will move to finally lessen the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. wo...
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 04:20
Organized labor is throwing its great political strength into the drive for a reformed health care system.
- Added: Aug 21, 2009
- Length: 02:59
It's the 75th anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," the day in July of 1934 when open warfare between police and striking longshoremen raged on San Fra...
- Added: Jul 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
Organized labor has reached a landmark agreement promising unfettered union rights to the 600,000 employees of Catholic health care facilities acro...
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 04:21
Jack Henning, a remarkable labor leader, led a lifelong crusade in behalf of working people.
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 04:03
African-American workers have been hit especially hard by the alarming growth of unemployment.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Another professional baseball season is here, another season in which women are not allowed to play.
- Added: Mar 29, 2009
- Length: 03:49
It's time for us to celebrate a national Cesar Chavez Day.
- Added: Mar 23, 2009
- Length: 04:17
Many workers are being illegally fired for being pro-union.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:20
Commentary on the recent decision in Kansas to restrict library books.
- Added: Feb 22, 2009
- Length: 02:47
A new alliance is seeking to unionize nurses and greatly improve the health care system.
- Added: Feb 20, 2009
- Length: 02:29
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
February sixth will mark the 90th anniversary of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:53
It's time for society's believers to quit pushing their religious views on non-believers.
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 03:10
The long struggle of working people against George Bush has finally ended.
- Added: Jan 18, 2009
- Length: 03:51
An interview with one of the communications collective members for those who protested the Republican National Convention.
- Added: Jan 02, 2009
- Length: 13:22
Scientists are studying a new emotion: elevation. Ian heads straight for the basement.
- Added: Dec 29, 2008
- Length: 02:03
Psychiatric Survivor and Human Rights Activist, Mary Van Pelt, speaks about job discrimination, holes in the Americans with Disabilities Act, and t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:37
Few workers are more important or more exploited than the young doctors-in-training who provide so much of our hospital care.
- Added: Dec 12, 2008
- Length: 02:43
