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Educators push OEA to join the call for humane PERS investments

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we speak with Laura Nitti, Phoenix Blickle, and Amanda Bowman-Mejia about their efforts to get OEA to join the coalition pushing for humane investing of their PERS and other Oregon treasury investments. Read more

Portland New Seasons workers strike after their coworker was fired

Airs at: Fri, 01/31/2025 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  By John Giacoppe Workers at the Seven Corners New Seasons store in Southeast Portland  on strike starting Friday, joining their coworkers and fellow union members at the Arbor Lodge location in Northeast Portland. The Arbor Lodge location began a strike on Tuesday follo... Read more

Notes Toward a Nuclear-Free Future

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Gil Scott-Heron, Karen Silkwood, and the 1979 No Nukes Album: For those who came of age in the 1970s and 80s, political awakening to the dangers of nuclear power came as much via pop culture as it did from watching the nightly news. The 1979 triple album No Nukes: The MU... Read more

Providence Caregivers on Strike

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Striking nurses and doctors at Providence St. Vincent's, Providence Portland, and Providence Seaside Hospitals talk about working conditions, worker solidarity and community connections on the picket line, on day one, two and three of the open-ended strike involving over 5,... Read more

Providence Caregivers Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Richard Botterill and Kim Martin, rank-and-file leaders in the Oregon Nurses Association, give us a blow-by-blow lead up to the biggest-yet, possible Providence Health strike, involving over 5,000 caregivers in eight hospitals and six clinics across Oregon. Read more

"We Are the Union" with Eric Blanc

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
"We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book.  In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by gi... Read more

Greater Albany Education Association and its Historic Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we speak with Greater Albany Education Association members Mariana Fisher and Sandi Washburn about their 3-week strike! Read more

Portland City Council Digest for December 4, 2024

Airs at: Wed, 12/04/2024 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Listen to this story below. Close to a hundred people, including staff and media, were in the temporary Council Chambers at the start of Wednesday morning’s 9:30 meeting. The City Council has been meeting at the city’s Development Services Center near the PSU campus whi... Read more

Socialist City Councilors-elect Talk Labor

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Socialist City Councilors-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane, known as Teacher Tiffany, and Mitch Green, a green energy economist, talk about their vision for building working-class power in Portland, Oregon Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 11, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    In recognition of Veterans Day, this Old Mole offers a rebroadcast of a 2022 episode of Against the Grain. Sasha Lilley talks with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early about their book, Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affai... Read more