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PFSP Continues to Fight for a Living Wage & Adequate Training and Staffing

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we speak with PFSP members Amaru Moon and Haven Wetmore about their ongoing efforts to settle a fair contract with Portland Public Schools. Read more

Interview with Marianne Stupfel-Wallace, PT ESOL Instructor & Writing Center Tutor at Portland Community College

Airs at: Wed, 12/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
    ------ Guest: Marianne Stupfel-Wallace, facilitator at all levels of ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Portland Community College from beginning "survival English" to academic level reading, writing, and communication classes.   Host: Grace Growing... Read more

Salem-Keizer Education Workers Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Rank-and-file leaders of Salem-Keizer education union discuss their struggles for fair union contracts and how they're getting strike ready. Kimberly Reed Zauber and Geovanny Tolentino of the Salem-Keizer Education Association (SKEA, the certified teachers) plus Jeff Jabin ... Read more

Words and Pictures 20th Anniversary with Derek Ballard

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Author, cartoonist, and storyboard artist Derek Ballard has worked on the television shows Adventure Time and Midnight Gospel.  He's also put in his time as a construction worker, single dad, and all-around working-class hero. Derek's comic stories have been collected in... Read more

Portland Teachers on Strike

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Elementary and Middle School  teachers, Ron Morgan and Emily Golden-Fields, present an up close and personal view and analysis of the historic Portland Association of Teachers strike, now in its fourth week, shaking up the city. Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop: PPS On Strike! Special

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
This month the Portland Public Schools are closed while teachers strike for better working and learning conditions, so we'll hear from two Portland Association of Teachers organizers and a student labor leader. Tiffany Koyama Lane - Sunnyside Environmental School Jorge Sanc... Read more

Human Resources and Artificial Intelligence

Airs at: Thu, 12/07/2023 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  The Imaginary Possible
In this episode of The Imaginary Possible host Suzanne LaGrande speaks with Theresa Fesinstine,  founder of People-Power AI a company that helps businesses harness the power of artificial intelligence. With experience working in the field of human resources for over 25 year... Read more

Auto Workers On Strike in Beaverton

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Just prior to the October 28th settlement, Stellantis auto parts warehouse workers, Frank Vanek and Grant Wagner, speak to Labor Radio host Jamie Partridge, on the Beaverton picket line, six weeks into the national United Auto Workers strike against the Big 3 (GM, Ford, Ste... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop with Amirah Chatman

Airs at: Wed, 10/25/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
Art Talk Bus Stop Produced by Erica Meryl Thomas ericamerylthomas.com @ericameryl Amirah Chatman Amirah Chatman is a Black Queer Artist based in Portland, Oregon. She is an interdisciplinary artist focused on fabricating abstractions of natural elements and weather phenome... Read more

Class Struggle Unionism (repeat)

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Joe Burns, long time labor organizer and educator, author of three books: "Reviving the Strike", "Strike Back" and  "Class Struggle Unionism", talks with co-hosts Laura Wadlin and Jamie Partridge about his new book which describes three types of unionism in today's labor mo... Read more