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Beyond Bargaining: How Unions Can Fight for All Workers (Troublemakers School plenary)

Airs at: Sat, 04/13/2013 at 12:00am
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Stephanie Luce, author of Fighting for a Living Wage, Joe Mizrahi, UFCW organizer in Seattle Paid Sick Days Campaign, Sarah Chambers, Chicago Teachers Union leader, Sindy Avila, HERE 8 organizer of immigrants, and Angela MacWhinnie of SEIU's We Are Oregon community organ... Read more

Labor Radio on 04/08/13

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2013 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Labor Radio on 03/25/13

Airs at: Mon, 03/25/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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In the first half of the show, Adam Sanchez of Portland's Social Equality Educators describes local resistance to the corporate education "reform" agenda of school closures, charter schools, high-stakes standardized testing, merit pay and union-busting.  In the second ha... Read more

Labor Radio on 03/18/13

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2013 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Opting Out of Standardized Testing

Airs at: Sat, 03/16/2013 at 12:00am
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A panel discussion and Q & A on the growing movement of resistance to standardized testing, featuring Jesse Hagopian, leader of the teachers boycott of the MAP test at Seattle's Garfield High School; Uvia Murillo, a Woodlawn Elementary parent who opted out of the OAKS te... Read more

Labor Radio on 03/11/13

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Tara Lee, retired letter carrier and a leader of the great U.S. postal strike, and  Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, of the African American Studies department at Northwestern University and editor of the International Socialist Review, discuss the 1970 wildcat strike and its im... Read more

Fasting for Injured Colombian GM Workers

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2013 at 12:00am
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John Walsh testifies about his one day fast, part of a series of rolling fasts across the country, in support of injured Colombian GM workers demanding justice from the American automaker. Read more

Rolling Solidarity Fasts with ASOTRECOL, Injured Colombian GM Workers

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2013 at 12:00am
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People in Portland, the rest of the US, and Colombia are engaging in a series of one-day fasts in solidarity with the injured Colombian autoworkers association, ASOTRECOL.  The workers got hurt on the job at General Motors and then kicked to the curb.  Listen to the peop... Read more

Labor Radio on 03/04/13

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

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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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. Read more