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 Low Wage & Contingent Workers Struggle -- Part 2 of our interview with two Portland IWW organizers who were part of a delegation to Seattle to support the fast food worker "Strike on Poverty" last month. We'll also here from two Oregon Zoo employees who are part of an a... Read more

KBOO labor reporter Jamie Partridge on the scene at a protest of over a hundred longshore workers, pensioners, family members and community supporters assembled outside and inside Pacific Maritime Association headquarters Read more

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LABOR RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND BOTH HAVE BEEN UNDER ATTACK IN HONDURAS SINCE THE COUP 4 YEARS AGO JUNE 28TH. PADRE MELO, DIRECTOR OF RADIO PROGRESO AND OF THE JESUIT SOCIAL ACTION CENTER ERIC IN EL PROGRESO, HONDURAS, VISITED PORTLAND IN APRIL AND TALKED ABOUT THE RO... Read more

Lataya Dailey, organizer of Monday's community rally in solidarity with ILWU 8 & 4 against the lockout by Columbia Grain and United Grain, speaks with KBOO labor reporter, Jamie Partridge.  She also speaks to the crowd of a couple dozen supporters outside the office of C... Read more

A GROUP OF US SENATORS HAVE WRITTEN THE STATE DEPARTMENT A LETTER CHALLENGING POLICIES ABETTING VIOLENCE AND IMPUNITY IN HONDURAS. JESUIT PRIEST PADRE MELO OF RADIO PROGRESO, HONDURAS, VISITED PORTLAND IN APRIL AND SPOKE ABOUT THAT VERY SUBJECT. HIS REMARKS WERE TRANSLAT... Read more

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A 2-part show featuring YNPN in the first segment and 290 Organizing in the second. Read more

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Two members of the Portland IWW describe their experience as members of a Portland delegation to Seattle on May 30, 2013 to support fast food workers walking out in the latest of a string of "strike first" actions by fast food workers demanding a $15 minimum wage and the... Read more