Labor Radio

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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 
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

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

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

Madison Voices

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2011 at 12:00am
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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
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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
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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

Blacks in the Trades 2

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 12:00am
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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

Hospital Union Victory

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 12:00am
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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

VAN JONES - our fight for good green jobs

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2011 at 12:00am
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Van Jones , environmental justice leader and former Obama advisor on the Green Economy, gives progressives advice on the fight for good jobs. Read more

On Wisconsin! Workers Rights Under Attack

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2011 at 12:00am
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The basic right to organize and bargain collectively is under attack in Wisconsin, with wider implications for labor and democracy in the United States.  Four activists spoke live by telephone from various parts of Wisconsin about the specifics of the attack and about ho... Read more

Organizing Strategy Special: The 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2011 at 12:00am
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Eyptian Portlander Ahmad Raslan lays out the crescendo of events that brought eight million people into the streets and toppled the Mubarak regime last week: "The working-class people in many many cities, for the last three days, they started going on strikes.  There wa... Read more

Black Working Families on MLK Day

Airs at: Mon, 01/24/2011 at 12:00am
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What is the state of Black Working Families? Co-host Jamie Partridge interviews Black community activists Art Alexander, Percy Hampton, Danny Bell, and Lakeitha Elliot at a Martin Luther King Day celebration in Portland Read more