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Tina Turner-Morfitt, Audrey Terrell, deborah.hall, Stephen Siegel, Rachel Hanes, Michael Cathcart, Laura Wadlin, Jamie Partridge
Produced by: 
KBOO
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Every Monday from 6:00pm to 6:30pm.

 

Of the working class, by the working class and for the working class.

Host schedule:

1st Mondays Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
2nd Mondays Stephen Siegel and Rachel Hanes
3rd Mondays Michael Cathcart
4th Mondays Laura Wadlin and Jamie Partridge
5th Mondays Jamie Partridge 
Topic tags: 
Activism, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Community Building, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
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Portland Rising: Fifteen Thousand Workers in Collective Bargaining This Summer

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Negotiating a collective bargaining agreement is tough.  Negotiating during hard economic times is even tougher. Despite the down economy, workers across the state -- including 15,000 Portland workers in bargaining right now -- are staying on the offense to fight for job... Read more

STOP WAGE THEFT in OREGON

Airs at: Thu, 04/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Michael Dale, director of the Northwest Worker Justice Project, speaks with Labor Radio's Jamie Partridge about legislation to combat wage theft currently before the Oregon legislature.  The Oregon Coalition to Stop Wage Theft held a Town Hall in Southeast Portland Thurs... Read more

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists' Donna Hammond at WE ARE ONE rally

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists' Donna Hammond inspires the crowd at the April 4th WE ARE ONE rally Read more

OR AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain @ WE ARE ONE Rally

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
OR AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain exhorts union members at the April 4th We Are One rally to follow the left road, the path of Martin Luther King Jr. Read more

Sindicato Colombiano Viene a EU Para Denunciar Sodexo y Kraft Food Por Abusos Laborales

Airs at: Sat, 04/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sindicalista Colombiano Denuncia Sodexo y Kraft Food Por Abusos Laborales Read more

Madison Voices

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
What some of the folks rallying at the Wisconsin state capitol March 19th had to say to us here in Oregon. Read more

Mt Hood Community College Faculty Fights for Fairness

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Jamie Partridge interviews Jack Schommer, president of the Mt Hood Community College faculty association, and Sarah Williams, president-elect and chair of the bargaining committee, who detail their struggle for a fair contract and possible strike in the face of a board w... Read more

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Waking Up the Slumbering Giant in Wisconsin

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Will 2011 be remembered the beginning of a great uprising, or labor's last gasp?  Governors in Wisconsin and across the country are pushing draconian measures to cut public services and the power of working people, but union workers and their allies are mobilizing resist... Read more

Hospital Union Victory

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
St. Charles Medical Center Workers voted to join SEIU 49 in the largest private sector union victory in Oregon for decades.  Union activist and pharmacy tech, Joanne Kennedy, tells host Jamie Partridge how the over 600 workers at the Bend hospital banded together to resi... Read more

Blacks in the Trades 2

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Equity for African Americans in local building and construction work, featuring Maurice Rahming, president of the National Association of Minority Contractors of Oregon and CEO of the union firm O’Neil Electric, and Donna Hammond, a journeyman electrician with IBEW 48. H... Read more