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The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
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
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
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.
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- 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
The January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona has ignited a fiery discussion about the shooter's cultural context. Some have claimed that Jared L...
- Added: Jan 15, 2011
- Length: 09:03
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:19
Raising the minimum wage provides essential help to the poorest Americans while boosting the entire sagging economy.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 04:34
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
New census figures show that women workers, despite lagging behind men in earnings generally, are doing much better than men among higher paid work...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 03:07
It's a perfect match: unions need new members if they are to grow, and young workers need to join unions if they are to improve what's been their s...
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 03:03
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
This June, thousands of grassroots activists converged on Detroit, Michigan to attend the 2010 United States Social Forum. We were there and on thi...
- Added: Jun 29, 2010
- Length: 29:59
Yumei Lay, whose parents immigrated to Chile from China, explores how Chinese and Japanese schools teach the Sino-Japanese wars differently.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 05:01
Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College, explores her relationship with her mixed ethnic roots.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 2
Yes, this is the 21st Century, but America's agricultural industry still relies heavily on child labor.
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 03:24
Former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24, was one of the greatest friends working people ever had.
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 05:10
Workers Memorial Day on April 28 will honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered and died because of workplace hazards.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 03:49
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
