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Interview: Peter talks about his co-authoring a series titled ‘Just a Whisper Now—A Look Back at the AFL-CIO’s New Voice After 20 Years’—an assess...
- Added: Aug 29, 2015
- Length: 28:40
Interview: Susan testifies that the almost 2 million farmworkers work hard, are skilled, and their work has dignity—it is work we all depend on.
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- Added: Aug 29, 2015
- Length: 27:53
- Purchases: 1
Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement?
Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 01:01:11
Interview: Jen and Kim summarize the successful Railroad Safety Conferences, which included workers, community & environmentalists, as well as exp...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Garrett gives solutions to creating safer workplaces.
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Interview: Garrett not only tells us that there are more resources in protecting the environment than there are workers but also that OSHA is unde...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 03, 2015
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 1
It’s 8:08am, the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work.
“We would be in our classroom...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 08:26
Interview: Jimmy gives us real and fun insights about the festival’s history, which includes artists, activists, organizers, educators, hell raise...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 28:13
Interview: Nina Fendel—singer and founder of the Labor Heritage Festival—gives more information about the festival, and Avotjca—singer, poet/playw...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Journalist and author Beth Macy recounts the Shakespearean rise and fall of Bassett Furniture during a time of rapid globalization, and how John Ba...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 30:30
Rich Austin, Retired ILWU and Member of ILWU 2014-15 Negotiating Team, Part 6
Interview: The final of a 6-part series called “War on the Workers” ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 27:59
Interview: Part 5 of a 6 part series called “War on the Workers” starts off with Rich explaining how US laws favor multinational corporations over...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Mark McDermott, a Union Activist, Community Organizer, and Historian, Part 2
Interview: Mark explains why Labor and Community are the same side of...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 28:09
- Purchases: 1
Steve Garey, Recently Retired President of the USW Local 12-591
Interview: Steve Garey, a veteran of the 2015 refinery workers’ strike, talks abou...
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 28:29
Joyce BenderJoyce Bender is the Chair of the Board of the American Association of People with Disabilities and the CEO of Bender Consulting Service...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 15:58
Mark McDermott, a Union Activist, Community Organizer, and Historian
Interview: Mark tells us how we can and must work together to protect victori...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 27:39
Alejandro Juarez, Communication Director of the Oregon Working Families Party
Interview: Alejandro explains the Oregon Working Families Party and ...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 28:22
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Paul Hope, friend of students and teachers, explains what is happening to Washington legislature’s education budget and why educators a...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 27:59
Interview: Part 3 of a 6 part series called ‘War on the Workers’ starts off with Rich being interviewed about how working class Americans are getti...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 28:21
Students and faculty rally for better pay in Greensboro NC
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 04:01
Over one million North Carolinians make the minimum wage at their job: Seven-twenty-five an hour. While many states and cities have recently raised...
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Rich Austin, Retired ILWU and Member of ILWU Negotiating Team, Part 2
Interview: Part 2 of a 6 part series called ‘War on the Workers’ with Rich t...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 28:08
- Purchases: 1
