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Thanks to the Obama administration, powerful interests who are attempting to cripple the pro-union National Labor Relations Act are finally losing.
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 04:49
Action is finally being taken to try to win decent treatment for domestic workers worldwide.
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Farm workers have suffered a heavy blow in their drive to win union rights.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
Unions have mounted a drive against attempts by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to join Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in stripping public employees of their co...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 03:10
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 01:49:12
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 05:55
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 04:37
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 08:44
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More than 40 percent of privately employed workers do not have the paid sick days they need to recover from their often contagious illnesses or car...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 04:51
Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
President Bob King of the influential United Auto Workers union is calling for major reforms that would enable his union and others to strengthen u...
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 04:57
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack explores the local economics of the arts. With the Downtown St. Cloud Art Cra...
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 29:24
A new study finds that unionization is a sure way to lessen the heavy toll of deaths and serious injuries in the nation's coal mines.
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 03:23
This week, Stephen encounters both the natural and the supernatural during the making of Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning.
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- Length: 51:01
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Sixteen-year-old Yusi became an anarchist this year, and it changed more than just his fashion.
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- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
Although the minimum wage law was originally designed to guarantee workers decent pay, it now promises them no more than poverty-level wages.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 03:16
The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
The AFL-CIO is promising the launch a campaign to shrink the ever-widening pay gap between working people and major company CEOs, who averaged $11....
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 05:36
It's time to increase the pay of America's poorest workers, time to raise the pitifully inadequate minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 03:43
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The attempt by Wisconsin's governor to all but eliminate union rights of state employees is one of the most important labor developments in decades.
- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 05:02
Politicians and others who caused our economic troubles are attempting to shift the blame to public employees, whose vital work benefits us all.
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 05:45
The January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona has ignited a fiery discussion about the shooter's cultural context. Some have claimed that Jared L...
- Added: Jan 15, 2011
- Length: 09:03
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:19
