Labor

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The Economic Policy Institute has a 5-point plan for making jobs part of the economic recovery, and a way to pay for it. The EPI's Josh Bivins explains what it requires in this interview with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Bivins is the author of Everybody Wins Except ... Read more

Million Worker March movement/ Colombia Human Rights

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Host Jamie Partridge talks with Clarence Thomas, co-chair of the Million Worker March movement, a leader of the African American Longshore Coalition, and former Secretary Treasurer of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Longshore and Warehouse Union – ILWU local 10 about taking... Read more

WTO - What It Really Costs

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The WTO works to protect large corporations from having to bear the real costs of their production -- forcing the rest of us to pay with our health and the quality of our lives. Magrete Strand of the Sierra Club and the Blue Green Alliance explains how it works in this... Read more

Round Table Discussion

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Toby Greene of Laborers #483, Harry Olsen of PHOENIX Rising Transitions, and Michael Richards, an ex-convict who worked under a DOC contract, discussed some of the work done by convicts. Read more

November 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Do higher taxes make for fewer jobs -- or more? Is Congress debating real healthcare reform -- or just another corporate bailout? Is PTSD a good way to think about how people are affected by violence? This show takes on these questions, with host Tom Becker, Old Mol... Read more

Taxes and Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Do higher taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals drive down investment and cost us jobs? Not at all, according to Karen Kraut of United for a Fair Economy in this wide-ranging discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. In fact, higher taxes keep surplus wealth ... Read more

Wake Up and Smell The Boot Polish

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Today, Joe is by himself, and he opens the show with a reading of an article from August of 1993 that was printed in a small independent rag called PDXS. The article was entitled "Wake Up And Smell The Boot Polish," and warned us of a... Read more

Kicking Us While We're Down: News & Views on Grocery Worker and Philly Transit Worker Struggles

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Tonight's show is about employers who seize the current economic crisis as an opportunity to pit working people against each other and undermine longstanding union rights. First, we speak with Karyl Feliciano, a Fred Meyer employee, and Jenny Reed, United Food and Comme... Read more

Union for 14 PSU Student Workers Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint

Airs at: Fri, 08/14/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

A union representing fourteen part-time recycling specialists at Portland State University has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Chancellor George Pernsteiner and the Oregon State Board of Higher Education.They say the University refused to include the rec... Read more