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East County Teachers May Strike (short version)

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
   1,300 school teachers, represented by the Oregon Education Association (OEA) in the Parkrose, Gresham-Barlow and Reynolds school districts, may strike in the next month if their school boards continue down their current path toward implementation of severe attacks on tea... Read more

Worker-owned co-operatives: building a more humane economy

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, Congress may be considering the National Cooperative Development Act, and worker-owned co-operatives could play a role in creating an economy that treats people as human beings.  One inspiring exam... Read more

Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Ellen Schultz about her book, "Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers." It's no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by... Read more

East County Teachers May Strike

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
  1,300 school teachers, represented by the Oregon Education Association (OEA) in the Parkrose, Gresham-Barlow and Reynolds school districts, may strike in the next month if their school boards continue down their current path toward implementation of severe attacks on teac... Read more

WORKERS DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Since 1999 and the election of Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan workers have been creating a participatory democracy which they call “Socialism for the 21st Century”. Host Jamie Partridge interviews former Portland organizer Patrick Leet, who has spent the past five years in the mid... Read more

Labor Organizer Fired at NEW SEASONS

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
This weekend a rally was held outside the New Seasons seven corners store in response to last month’s firing of former employee Ryan Gaughan. An empoyee for almost ten years, Gaughan was fired on February seventh for allegded theft.  He contends that his termination was in r... Read more

The Mother of All Strikes: Botswana 2011

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
 You probably didn't read about it in the paper, but last spring, more than 90,000 public employees in Botswana walked out on a record-breaking two month strike. Pnina Werbner, professor emerita of social anthropology at Keele University in the UK, was there, and she joined... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 5th

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Joe talk with Josh Eidelson about the pitfalls of organizing and running unions like service-providing businesses Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Multnomah County D... Read more

Left and the Law: Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker, as part of an on-going series we call The Left and The Law, discussion Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Multnomah County. Specifically, a resolution was passed recently that calls on the ICE to exercise prosecutorial discretion in... Read more

Josh Eidelson: Business Unionism vs. Organized Labor

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Josh Eidelson talk about the pitfalls of organizing workers (into unions) on the model of a business. The practice is widely known as "service-unionism" or "business-unionism" and  in many ways boils down union membership to a customer relation to a service ... Read more