Labor Radio

What's the class consciousness of middle management?  Who really has the power to subvert our unfair economy?   In the first half of the show we talk with local union member activist and campaign superstar David Delk, member of AFSCME Local 3135, about what Oregon ballot... Read more

How should workers respond to the disappointing Senate debate over health care? Three of organized labor's leading single payer advocates---Cindy Young of the California School Employees Association, Matt Schlobohm of the Maine State AFL-CIO, and Tom Leedham of Teamsters... Read more

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

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

An interview with Anggie Tamayo at the Galería de la Memoria in Cali, November 7th, 2009 Read more

Thirty years ago, labor historian Bob Bussel worked on the organizing drive at J.P. Stevens, a violently anti-union Southern textile manufacturer--a campaign the inspired the movie Norma Rae. Besides giving actress Sally Field a career-defining role, the J.P Stevens driv... Read more

October 19th Labor Radio Show, hosted by Lane Poncy and Tim Flanagan Read more

As layoffs and downsizing continue at many newspapers, more people turn to the Internet to get their news. What is the future of the labor movement in the online news industry, where many journalists work from home and have never met their co-workers in person?  On Augus... Read more

Mark Dudzik, national coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, talks with Peter Shapiro about the unanimous vote of the AFL-CIO National Convention on September 15 to endorse single payer, and the implications for the struggle for real health care ... Read more

Tonight’s show features two stories close to home that affect the livelihoods of many Portlanders."How could you cut a Bureau in half?" Massive job cuts at the City of PortlandMaybe you or someone you know works for the City of Portland, or works in an industry like cons... Read more