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- Added: Nov 24, 2011
- Length: 04:27
Last week's Ohio election was a major victory for workers and unions everywhere.
- Added: Nov 17, 2011
- Length: 04:28
A partnership of labor and Occupy Wall Street could lead to far-reaching economic and political reforms.
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 04:04
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
I met Paul Encin on Christmas Morning at Shalom Manor, a 35-bed assisted living facility just west of Fort Lauderdale. Paul suffers from Paranoid S...
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- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 3
Unions can play an important role in trying to correct the serious economic problems raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- Added: Oct 20, 2011
- Length: 02:45
Radio Curious visits with law school friend and peace corps ally Sam Farr (D), Congressman for Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties to discuss the poli...
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 28:59
The budget impasse in Minnesota brought a state government shutdown at Fiscal Year's end – June 30. State workers were furloughed July 1, in the ab...
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 51:48
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.
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- Added: Sep 15, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
Was mainstream media in cahoots with government forces in the lead up to the Iraq War? In his film, “The War You Don’t See,” Australian journalis...
- Added: Sep 06, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The continuing heavy attacks on public employee unions could make this an unhappy Labor Day.
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- 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
This program is the first of a two part series with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, recorded on August 8, 2011 in the Radio Curious studios. S...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 29:00
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
Commentator Lee Cullum considers the role of evangelicals in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 02:56
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
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
