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Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 23:33
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The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
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For the sake of the country's future, teachers are one group of public employees we must all support.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
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Democrats and their allies, particularly organized labor, who lost big in the midterm elections, are facing major contests with Republicans in the ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
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Organized labor is facing a major election challenge in California that's certain to have a major impact on unions and anti-union forces everywhere.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
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It's Hispanic Heritage Month, an excellent time to honor three of the most important Hispanic labor leaders in US history - Cesar Chavez, Dolores H...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 08:04
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It's way past time that we updated the law that supposedly guarantees women workers pay equal to that of men.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
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An AFL-CIO report shows that many of those who rescued victims of the 9/11 attacks are still suffering from serious injuries and illnesses.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 04:13
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The AFL-CIO has begun a drive to recruit young workers to grow and strengthen the labor movement.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:10
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Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:44
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Republican leaders in Congress want to cut Social Security payments in order to reduce the deficit that's been caused in part by tax breaks for the...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
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Labor and Democratic Party leaders worry that labor's rank and file may not provide Democratic candidates the support they'll need in November's el...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:05
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Congress is only adding to our economic problems by refusing extra aid to the unemployed and to states faced with having to lay off many vital publ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 04:10
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Working women have been particularly hard hit by the global recession, in part because of long-standing discrimination.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
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President Obama's lengthy honeymoon with labor has finally ended.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:18
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MSD (musculoskeletal disorder) is the most common of the serious injuries suffered by U.S. workers, but corporate interests have blocked attempts t...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 04:17
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The number of unionized workers varies widely from state to state, but whatever the state, union members do much better than non-union workers.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:05
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President Obama's State of the Union promise to help women win pay equality has been largely overlooked.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:44
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Advocates of teaching labor in public schools have scored an important victory.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
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The AFL-CIO and a coalition of its allies have launched a major campaign aimed at creating many thousands of new jobs.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 03:27
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Organized labor has reached a landmark agreement promising unfettered union rights to the 600,000 employees of Catholic health care facilities acro...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 04:21
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Farm and domestic workers are seeking the vital union rights that were granted other U.S. workers way back in 1935.

  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:55