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Interview by Rich Austin: Jerry talks about how working class issues are not covered by our main stream media.
For more information, go to https:...
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 27:51
Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 01:01
Last week, two large manufacturing plants in Huntington and Indianapolis announced plans to move operations to Mexico. The announcement was a major...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 08:43
Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
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
Michael Honey discusses non-violent theorist and organizer James Lawson, and John Handcox, the Great Depression-era tenant farmer and union advocate.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 25:20
- Purchases: 1
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The following is Veterans Day interview with John Savona, Director of Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company, and a U.S. Army Veteran.
Mr. Savona discu...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 13:35
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Former Israeli & Palestinian Combatants Tour U.S. Promoting Peaceful Settl...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Moroccan markets sell goods imported from Spain at a discount for buyers. But that discount comes at a price -- for the Moroccan women who bring th...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2015
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 1
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...
Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Do you know who Dorothy Day is? This week in speaking to the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis heralded Dorothy Day alongside other better known American...
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 14:16
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Union-Backed 'Fight For $15' Campaign Marginalizes Larger Struggle for Wor...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...
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- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 08:59
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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
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll hear from a panel of labor reporters, professors, and policy analysts as they discuss post-recession labor ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Interview: Jen and Kim summarize the successful Railroad Safety Conferences, which included workers, community & environmentalists, as well as exp...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
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
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...
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- 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...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
