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- Added: Jan 13, 2008
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Short essay by Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:48
A commentary about the growing number of women going into law, medicine and other professional occupations -- and the blatant discrimination they f...
- Added: Oct 18, 2007
- Length: 03:39
A commentary noting that the two sometimes hostile factions of the labor movement are waging major campaigns to recruit new members and strengthen ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2007
- Length: 03:59
A commentary on the extraordinary campaign that Democratic presidential candidates are waging to win union endorsements.
- Added: Sep 27, 2007
- Length: 03:52
This commentary outlines the extraordinary career of Fred Ross, one of the most successful community organizers ever, the man who trained Cesar Ch...
- Added: Sep 04, 2007
- Length: 04:29
Thanks to their growing poliitical strength, American iunions will be celebrating Labor Day this year with much greater expectations for success th...
- Added: Aug 25, 2007
- Length: 04:00
A commentary noting that the new minimum wage should now be raised to at least $9.50 an hour.
- Added: Aug 09, 2007
- Length: 04:26
The Bush administration is abusing air traffic controllers and endangering the millions who rely on them for safe travel.
- Added: Jun 05, 2007
- Length: 04:59
The Bush administration is ignoring its legal obligation to lessen the workplace hazards that kill and seriously injure millions of Americans. i
- Added: May 31, 2007
- Length: 05:29
Some simple steps to heal the country
- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: 04:15
What does it mean to say that America is becoming a fascist state?
- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: 05:45
To a man -- and woman -- the Democratic presidential candidates say they're great friends of American workers. True or false? The answer could depe...
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- Added: May 25, 2007
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 1
Equal Pay Day is coming up on April 24 to remind us that working women's wages still trail far behind those of men.
- Added: Apr 19, 2007
- Length: 03:43
Congressman Pete Stark is a rare politician. He takes seriously the separation of church and state and actually has the political courage to say he...
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 03:44
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the major role unions played in the Democratic Party's midterm sweep.
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- Added: Nov 10, 2006
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Unions have launched one of labor's biggest political campaigns ever in behalf of their Democratic Party allies.
- Added: Sep 08, 2006
- Length: 02:39
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
Although increasingly used by the CIA, FBI and other agencies and private employers, so-called lie detector tests are highly unreliable and serious...
- Added: May 07, 2006
- Length: 02:57
Thanks to two California doctors, we may finally be able to abolish the barbaric practice of capital punishment.
- Added: Feb 25, 2006
- Length: 02:49
President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.
- Added: Feb 01, 2006
- Length: 03:07
Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.
- Added: Dec 21, 2005
- Length: 04:06
Although the Cold War is long over, red-baiting for political advantage continues.
- Added: Nov 26, 2005
- Length: 03:03
Although the pundits say the labor movement is near death, the future of American unions actually looks promising.
- Added: Aug 31, 2005
- Length: 04:47
