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Hard to believe, but many employers are refusing to hire unemployed workers. They want only workers who already have jobs. Honestly.
- Added: Nov 03, 2011
- Length: 03:08
Carwash workers at a major firm in California have won what could be the first of many union contracts for the highly exploited workers nationwide.
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 04:10
Corrie showed up at the original meeting to plan Occupy Boston with a sign that read "I am a nurse without healthcare. I am the 99 percent."
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 3
The National Labor Relations Board is under a heavy new anti-union attack.
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 04:15
It's past time we took effective action to ease the economic misery of the 46 million Americans who are forced to live in poverty.
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Sep 15, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
The continuing heavy attacks on public employee unions could make this an unhappy Labor Day.
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Aug 30, 2011
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
It's time to acknowledge two of the most important and unlikely friends the United Farm Workers ever had - a state employment official and a major ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 04:11
A new report shows there is much more discrimination against women workers than generally acknowledged. Thousands of employers are charged yearly w...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 04:29
It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow against air traffic controllers that sent labor into a steep decline.
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:44
The number of home health care workers who provide essential aid to millions of elderly Americans is steeply declining because of poor pay and work...
- Added: Jul 28, 2011
- Length: 03:31
Thanks to the Obama administration, powerful interests who are attempting to cripple the pro-union National Labor Relations Act are finally losing.
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 04:49
Action is finally being taken to try to win decent treatment for domestic workers worldwide.
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Unions have mounted a drive against attempts by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to join Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in stripping public employees of their co...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 03:10
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 01:49:12
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 05:55
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 04:37
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 08:44
- Purchases: 1
More than 40 percent of privately employed workers do not have the paid sick days they need to recover from their often contagious illnesses or car...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 04:51
President Bob King of the influential United Auto Workers union is calling for major reforms that would enable his union and others to strengthen u...
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 04:57
A new study finds that unionization is a sure way to lessen the heavy toll of deaths and serious injuries in the nation's coal mines.
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 03:23
Although the minimum wage law was originally designed to guarantee workers decent pay, it now promises them no more than poverty-level wages.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 03:16
The AFL-CIO is promising the launch a campaign to shrink the ever-widening pay gap between working people and major company CEOs, who averaged $11....
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 05:36
It's time to increase the pay of America's poorest workers, time to raise the pitifully inadequate minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 03:43
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
