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Politicians and others who caused our economic troubles are attempting to shift the blame to public employees, whose vital work benefits us all.
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 05:45
U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:19
Republican members of Congress are trying to block President Obama's plan to modernize the country's crumbling infrastructure.
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 03:14
As a new federal report shows,unionized workers not only earn more than non-union workers, but also have much better benefits.
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 04:19
Farm worker advocates have lost a major battle to grant the highly exploited workers the legal right to overtime pay that most other workers have.
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 04:50
The number of serious on-the-job accidents this year have made very clear the need for expanded and tightened government safety regulations.
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 05:09
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
Yes, this is the 21st Century, but America's agricultural industry still relies heavily on child labor.
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 03:24
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
Senate Democrats loss of their filibuster proof 60 vote majority with the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown seems certain to doom at...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 03:55
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
New studies show that the young Americans who will shape our future have been hit painfully hard by today's economic downturn.
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- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 04:36
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Despite the recession, women workers are close to outnumbering male workers.
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:36
Jack Henning, a remarkable labor leader, led a lifelong crusade in behalf of working people.
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 04:03
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
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
Organized labor played a major role in Barack Obama's election and expects much in return.
- Added: Nov 06, 2008
- Length: 03:40
Ralph Nader is demanding repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, the chief obstacle to a revitalized labor movement.
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 03:47
More than one million Americans are facing loss of their badly needed Unemployment Insurance benefits.
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 02:33
Amid the speculation over Sarah Palin possibly becoming the first woman to serve as vice president, don't forget Frances Perkins, the first woman t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2008
- Length: 05:16
Thanks to their political allies, U.S. unions are celebrating Labor Day with unusually high expectations of success.
- Added: Aug 24, 2008
- Length: 04:48
Organized labor is close to winning its battle to guarantee firm union rights ti U.S. workers.
- Added: Aug 22, 2008
- Length: 04:40
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is running for Congress on an unusually worker-friendly platform.
- Added: Aug 14, 2008
- Length: 03:11
The Bush administration continues its refusal to adopt safety regulations that would lessen the workplace hazards that endanger millions of workers.
- Added: Aug 08, 2008
- Length: 03:59
Millions of Americans are being driven into the ranks of the nation's highly exploited part-time workers.
- Added: Aug 01, 2008
- Length: 03:12