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Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 04:35
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich says unions should go all-out to defeat presidential candidate John McCain.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 22, 2008
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
The Olympic Games are about a lot more than sports.
- Added: May 08, 2008
- Length: 05:38
Millions of jobless Americans badly need more of the unemployment benefits that have helped sustain them.
- Added: May 02, 2008
- Length: 03:24
Longshoremen plan to close West Coast ports on May 1 to lead widespread labor protests against the Iraq war.
- Added: Apr 25, 2008
- Length: 02:58
- Added: Apr 19, 2008
- Length: 03:09
It's Equal It's Equal Pay Day again, time to remind us of the discrimination that keeps working women's pay far behind that of men.ps workiIt
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 02:37
The Turner Broadcasting System has shamelessly abandoned the millions of baseball fans nationwide who for 30 years had watched TBS' almost daily br...
- Added: Apr 10, 2008
- Length: 02:52
A commentary noting Martin Luther King Jr.'s staunch support of union rights, which he died defending.
- Added: Apr 04, 2008
- Length: 02:58
It's been 15 years now since the death of farm union leader Cesar Chavez -- way past time to make his birthdate of March 31 a national holiday.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 03:22
There's finally a realistic chance for passage of a law to give U.S. workers the full union rights that have long been denied them.
- Added: Mar 13, 2008
- Length: 04:32
A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.
Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
A commentary noting that union membership is finally growing -- and what must be done to keep it growing.
- Added: Feb 15, 2008
- Length: 04:34
A commentary urging voters to combat the excesses of exit polls \by exercising their fundamental right to the secret ballot.
Bought by BallotVox
- Added: Feb 06, 2008
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 1
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played a major role in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WDBM, and WEZU
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
A commentary noting that Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the staunchest and most effective supporters working Americans have ever had.
Bought by Prairie Public, WEZU, RadioFreePalmer, KBRP Community Radio, KUT and more
- Added: Jan 13, 2008
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 7
A perfect piece for Valentine's Day! The true story of how Joe Bevilacqua met his wife because of Graham Nash's laptop
Bought by KUT and Public Interactive
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 10:07
- Purchases: 2
Few leaders have left a greater legacy than labor leader Jack Hall, a major figure in the transformation of feudalistic Hawaii into a democratic st...
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 04:43
Cheating has long been an important part of baseball. The illegal use of steroids is just the latest evidence of that.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Dec 18, 2007
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
The loss of air traffic controllers upset over their working conditions is a major reason airlines are consistently operating behind schedule and f...
- Added: Dec 13, 2007
- Length: 03:08
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
Christmas Shoppers Alert: Beware of those popular personal audio players that are turning people into near-zombies living in their own electronica...
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 02:46
- Added: Nov 03, 2007
- Length: 03:55
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
A commentary noting that author John Steinbeck was one of the best friends American workers ever had.
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:18
