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The attempt by Wisconsin's governor to all but eliminate union rights of state employees is one of the most important labor developments in decades.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
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
Formerly a chaplain at Maine State Prison, Reverend Stan Moody is on a crusade to change the way we treat our criminals. Some of his parishioners ...
Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 4
Tired of the usual pundits? This program provides a unique
"take" on The State of the Union events--the seating, the speech by the President and th...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 49:38
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
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
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
During the housing boom, low-income families were drawn to the suburbs by construction and service jobs, as well as the opportunity to have their o...
- Added: Oct 21, 2010
- Length: 15:04
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
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
Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 03:44
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...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
President Obama's lengthy honeymoon with labor has finally ended.
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 05:18
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
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
With all the talk about Big Government, two scholars reflect on how the Federal Government and taxes have evolved since the founding era.
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 28:59
A new multi-use trail has opened in Peterborough, New Hampshire, linking downtown to the top of Pack Monadnock Mountain. Establishing a path to the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
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
