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Labor Radio on 03/04/13

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Mon, 03/04/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Labor Radio on 02/25/13

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Building the Postal Fightback
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Jim Cook, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 82 (Portland Metro area), discusses the attacks on the postal service and the struggle to save it.

Labor Radio on 02/18/13

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Mon, 02/18/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Labor Radio on 02/11/13

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Mon, 02/11/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Labor Radio on 02/04/13

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Mon, 02/04/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Labor Radio on 01/28/13

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Mon, 01/28/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Global Corporations, Local Exploitation: Autoworkers Fight for Rights in Colombia & Mississippi
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Speaking worker truth to corporate power at the auto shows: Colombian and Mississippi autoworkers make their voices heard in Detroit.

Hear their message from the rallies and press conferences at the big Cobo Center show, plus a live update from rank and file UAW member and activist Martha Grevatt.

For more information on the Colombian GM workers' struggle, go to www.asotrecol.com

For the Mississippi Nissan workers, see www.beneaththeshine.org

 

Labor Radio on 01/14/13

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Mon, 01/14/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Labor Radio on 01/07/13

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Mon, 01/07/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Marxism and the Trade Union Struggle
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Marxism and the Trade Union Struggle, a talk by union activist Lucy Hershel, given at the June, 2012 Socialism conference in Chicago.

Labor Radio on 12/31/12

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Labor Radio on 12/24/12

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Scrooge of the Year
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SCROOGE OF THE YEAR --  Sound bites from Jobs with Justice Scrooge of the Year Award party.  Host Jamie Partridge brings this year's nominees -- Walmart, General Motors, Metro Council, Portland Business Alliance, Representative Darrell Issa, Sheriff Dan Staton, and Sherry Hall and the Clackamas County Elections Department.

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Bus Riders Unite

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Mon, 05/14/2012

Khahn Pham and Jared Franz from OPAL / Bus Riders Unite speak about the transit systems proposed cuts, OPALs alternatives that put riders first and unity with transit workers.

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  • Length: 22:26 minutes (15.4 MB)
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Postal Fightback Stirs

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Mon, 05/07/2012

The Postmaster General threatens to close half the sorting facilities, thousands of post offices, end Saturday and door-to-door delivery and eliminate hundreds of thousands of living wage union jobs. Letter carrier unionist, Jamie Partridge, reports on a growing rank-and-file and community network, Communities and Postal Workers United , launched at this weekend’s Labor Notes conference in Chicago.

  • Length: 19:31 minutes (26.81 MB)
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On the Picket Line with Gresham Teachers

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Wed, 04/25/2012

With Gresham teachers on Wednesday, April 25th, KBOO labor reporter Jamie Partridge interviews picket captains, rank & file union members, community and student supporters as well as capturing the announcement of a tentative agreement after only hours on strike.

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Strike! East County Teachers

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Mon, 04/23/2012

1,300 school teachers, represented by the Oregon Education Association (OEA) in the Parkrose, Gresham-Barlow and Reynolds school districts, may go on strike, some as early as this Wednesday, if their school boards continue down their current path -- the implementation of severe attacks on teachers’ benefits and working conditions. Host Jamie Partridge brings us an excerpt from a teachers March 20th rally at Gresham High Gym.

  • Length: 12:32 minutes (17.21 MB)
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Insecure Communities, May Day, !Ya Basta!

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Mon, 04/09/2012

http://causaoregon.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PoliceIceInsecurecommunities-243x300.jpgSuppose you had to quiz your children: "What's your plan if I don't come home today?" On tonight's show we talk with CAUSA organizer Aeryca Steinbauer about the local impact of ICE policy and how deportations are hurting families in Portland. Learn more and find out what you can do at Insecure Communities: A Community Forum on Ending Unjust Deportations, a free event at 7 pm this Friday, April 13th, at the First Unitarian Church downtown at 1011 SW 13th. CAUSA is part of a network called ACT for Justice and Dignity.

In the second half of the show we talk with Kari Koch of Portland Liberation Organizing Council about organizing for this year's May Day, including a planned building liberation.

The show also features the song !Ya Basta! by Evan Greer, who is doing three shows in town this weekend with Bonfire Madigan on the Tiny Fists Tour: Saturday 4/14 at 7:30 pm at PSU Food for Thought Cafe, Sunday 4/15 at 7 pm at Reed College's Student Union, and Monday 4/16 at 7 pm at the Red & Black Cafe. Full details here.

  • Length: 27:54 minutes (19.16 MB)
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Fighting Corporate Impunity in the Global Economy: Dan Kovalik of the USW

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Mon, 04/02/2012

Dan Kovalik of the United Steelworkers talks about holding corporations accountable in US courts for labor and human rights abuses in other countries.  Dan has been counsel to plaintiffs in cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond, and Occidental Petroleum for alleged abuses including torture and murder in Colombia.

  • Length: 26:36 minutes (24.35 MB)
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East County Teachers May Strike

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Mon, 03/26/2012

 

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 teachers’ benefits and working conditions. Host Jamie Partridge talks with some of the hundreds of teachers attending a March 20th rally at Gresham High Gym.

 

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East County Teachers May Strike (short version)

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Mon, 03/26/2012

   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 teachers’ benefits and working conditions. Host Jamie Partridge talks with some of the hundreds of teachers attending a March 20th rally at Gresham High Gym.
   At the end of the show, Partridge pays tribute to recently deceased labor songwriter and longshore (ILWU) union member, Harry Stamper of Coos Bay.

  • Length: 28:08 minutes (38.63 MB)
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WORKERS DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA

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Mon, 03/19/2012

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 midst of this “Bolivarian Revolution.” Leet covers a range of topics, from the Venezuelan labor movement, education system, the media, and housing law to the Latin American common market and neoliberal economics.

  • Length: 27:22 minutes (37.59 MB)
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The Mother of All Strikes: Botswana 2011

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Mon, 03/12/2012
 http://gabzfmnews.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/botswana-is-bracing-itself-for-the-biggest-public-service-strike-in-history/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 us in the studio to talk about it. She is working on a book on the Manual Workers Union and other public sector unions in Botswana, and she visited Portland to give a talk at Reed College entitled "The Mother of All Strikes: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011." She came into the KBOO studio to talk with host Al Bradbury about how the workers employed playful songs and other creative tactics to sustain their unity over the period, how they related their struggle to the anti-authoritarian and anti-austerity popular uprisings in many countries that year, and the political and social impacts of the strike.

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OFNHP local5017

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:20pm.

we would like the opportunity to tell our side of the AFT national trusteeship of our local on July 7. what has happened is a blatant violation of democracy. can we get some air time to tell our story?

AFT National Trusteeship..

Submitted by Timothy Flanagan (not verified) on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 7:09pm.

I would be very interested in contacting your local and providing airtime for this discussion. Please send me a contact person or a summary of your position. Lane and I will have an official from AFT Local 2277 on our show... and perhaps we could arrange for a represenatative of the national federation to call in.

Please e-mail me ASAP or call me at 5o3-697-1670

in solidarity it and with best regards, Tim

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