Labor

July 18 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier is our host today for this program about labor and politics. We hear about the continuing struggle of progressives in Wisconsin to resist attacks on labor by Republicans and to overcome the temerity of Democrats. We hear from Sandy Pope running against ... Read more

Working Class Missing on TV

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The working class is missing from popular TV shows, as this analysis by Josh Eidelson shows. Josh's funny and biting piece, published on the Dissent website and on his blog, is read here by the Old Mole's Joe Clement. It's called "Welcome to TV-Ville, Population: Ric... Read more

Sandy Pope and the Teamsters

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Sandy Pope, a long-time member and leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), is in a two-way race with James Hoffa for President of the Teamsters Union. Here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what she would do for the Teamsters and the Labor Mov... Read more

Latest News from Wisconsin

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Andrew Sernatinger, a baker, activist, and labor-organizer in Madison, Wisconsin about the class struggle there. What is left out of the mainstream conversations is progressive taxation, while Democrats appear on the side of unions mostly for the... Read more

July 11 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am

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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole which deals with food and world hunger, a book about a future after capitalism, labor and the left in the AT&T merger with T-Mobile, and the political horizons for cyborgs. For information about our theme music an... Read more

Labor and the ATT Merger

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

"What could a telecom merger mean for economic democracy?" asks Josh Eidelson in an article published in Dissent. AT&T is merging with T-Mobile. Is that a bad thing because it limits competition in a communications industry? Or a good thing because AT&T is a union s... Read more

Arthur Stamoulis talks about the Columbia Free Trade Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

Arthur Stamoulis of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign talks about the demonstration planned for Congressman Earl Blumenauer's Office on Monday, July 11 * 12:00 noon at 729 NE Oregon St (Near the 7th Avenue MAX Station) Fifty-one union leaders were assassinated in Colombia last ye... Read more

Delegación de Sinaltrainal en Estados Unidos

Airs at: Sun, 07/10/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

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

Portland Rising Boosts Solidarity to a New Level

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Portland Rising , a project of JOBS with JUSTICE, loaded 150 activists on three buses for a day of action in solidarity with seven different private & public sector unions whose contracts expired on that same day, June 30th . JwJ Director Margaret Butler talks with hos... Read more

Canadian Union of Postal Workers Forced Back to Work

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, after six weeks of rotating strikes, a lockout, and back-to-work legislation, continues to struggle for a fair contract. Denis Lemelin, national president of CUPW, is interviewed by Portland letter carrier, Jamie Partridge, about th... Read more