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"I absolutely love bus organizing.  Bus riders are my people." As Tri-Met raises fares and decreases service, a bus ticket costs more than ever and may not get you as far.  A growing network of working-class transit riders are reaching out to each other on the bus and orga... Read more

Sindicalistas de Colombia hablan sobre el TLC y derechos laborales. Read more

Portland Rising , a project of JOBS with JUSTICE, is calling worker rights activists to Get on the Bus for a Day of Action.  On June 30th several busloads of demonstrators will travel to job sites in support of multiple unions whose contracts expire on that same day.  UN... Read more

Pride At Work Oregon organizes for LGBT and labor rights.  Labor Radio features an interview with Oregon chapter president Shellea Allen and board member John Eder. Read more

RN and longtime health care and labor activist Betsy Zucker brings us some major good news in the campaign for single payer, including a groundbreaking victory in Vermont and a change of direction from labor's top organizational leadership.  For more info on the upcoming... Read more

Seasonal Maintenance Workers who work in the Portland Parks are struggling for basic union rights.  Laborers local 483 organizer Erica Askin is interviewed by host Jamie Partridge Read more

Massene Mboup, Co-President of the Associated French School Employees, tells host Jamie Partridge how his administration is trying to bust their union by threatening to close their school.    Read more

Local, national, and international guests share the perspective of working people, as three more free trade agreements head to Congress: Korea, the biggest volume deal since NAFTA Colombia, where more unionists are killed than in the rest of the world combined a... Read more

Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses free trade and the political economy of illicit drugs. Read more

Gerardo Cajamarca, of the Colombian union Sinaltrainal, talks about the proposed free trade agreement.  This is an edited translation of the interview in Spanish also posted here. Read more