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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One final day of contract negotiations remains between Mitchel, Indiana factory C&M Conveyor and the newly formed United Steel Workers Union at the...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 09:15
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Dr. William Hanson, author of Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care.
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 25:03
- Purchases: 1
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:15
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
