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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
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week, we take a look at farming communities on opposite sides of the world: both struggling to adapt to climate change, and to better manage o...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This week's edition asks Bloomington residents what they think the minimum wage should be.
- Added: Jul 13, 2017
- Length: 04:50
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
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
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
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 someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
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
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
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
San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
Some are saying there is a skills gap in Indiana – that there are manufacturing jobs available but not enough skilled workers to fill them. Corresp...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 09:48
This week on Interchange, host Trish Kerle speaks with Carrol Krause, author of Showers Brothers Furniture Co: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a C...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 57:34
Reactions to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 02:59
McDonald’s workers nationwide are asking for an increased minimum wage, to fifteen dollars an hour.
- Added: Dec 05, 2013
- Length: 09:05
WFHB News Director Alycin Bektesh brings us a protest that happened this afternoon, starting at the Indiana University Sample Gates and concluding ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2013
- Length: 08:34
On Saturday August 3rd, The Bloomington City Council hosted a reunion of figures who were influential in the 70s Labor Movement of Bloomington.
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 56:33
Kelley Libby reports on a new study that shows bringing your furry friend to the office can have health benefits.
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 06:10
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
Plans for a new, seven-story Hyatt Place hotel in downtown Bloomington have drawn questions and criticism since they were announced this summer and...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 09:32