Labor Radio

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Hosted by: 
Tina Turner-Morfitt, Audrey Terrell, deborah.hall, Stephen Siegel, Rachel Hanes, Michael Cathcart, Laura Wadlin, Jamie Partridge
Produced by: 
KBOO
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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 
Topic tags: 
Activism, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Community Building, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

City's Seasonal Workers Struggle for Basic Union Rights

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Seasonal Maintenance Workers who work in the Portland Parks are struggling for basic union rights.  Laborers local 483 organizer Erica Askin is interviewed by host Jamie Partridge Read more

Anti-union campaign threatens Portland's French School closure

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Massene Mboup, Co-President of the Associated French School Employees, tells host Jamie Partridge how his administration is trying to bust their union by threatening to close their school.    Read more

Labor Radio on 05/09/11

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Local, national, and international guests share the perspective of working people, as three more free trade agreements head to Congress: Korea, the biggest volume deal since NAFTA Colombia, where more unionists are killed than in the rest of the world combined a... Read more

Fair Trade and a Producers Cooperative in Peru

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
An interview with Santiago Paz of a Peruvian cooperative producing coffee, cacao, sugar, and more for fair trade. Read more

Free Trade and the Political Economy of Illicit Drugs

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses free trade and the political economy of illicit drugs. Read more

Colombian Unionist Speaks Out Against the Free Trade Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Gerardo Cajamarca, of the Colombian union Sinaltrainal, talks about the proposed free trade agreement.  This is an edited translation of the interview in Spanish also posted here. Read more

Afrocolombians and the Free Trade Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Marino Córdoba, an Afrocolombian activist displaced from his hometown and now in exile in the U.S., talks about the situation of Afrocolombian and indigenous communities in the shadow of free trade. Read more

TLC Colombia-EU y derechos Laborales y Humanos

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Una entrevista con Gerardo Cajamarca, sindicalista colombiano, sobre la lucha contra el TLC neoliberal. Read more

UC grad students occupy union hall, train web cams on uncounted ballots -- SHORT BROADCAST VERSION

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
On Monday, May 2nd, a group of University of California graduate students began a sit-in at their own union hall, UAW Local 2865.  The students are demanding the completion of an interrupted vote count in a closely contested race between two slates for union leadership... Read more

UC grad students occupy union hall, train web cams on uncounted ballots -- EXTENDED ONLINE VERSION

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
On Monday, May 2nd, a group of University of California graduate students began a sit-in at their own union hall, UAW Local 2865.  The students are demanding the completion of an interrupted vote count in a closely contested race between two slates for union leadership. ... Read more