Faced with unsafe staffing, low compensation and benefits, and declining
patient care, nurses in the Providence healthcare system are fed up and
fighting back. On the heels of a massive protest picket at Providence St.
Vincent's hospital, Richard Botterill and Kim Marti...
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Starbucks Workers United organizing has spread like a wildfire to over a
hundred shops across the country in just two months. Here in Portland,
three shops on the westside have filed for a union election. Quentin Kanta
from the Walker Road Starbucks and Abigail Darling...
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Portland City workers have overwhelmingly authorized a strike. Jacob
Brostoff, Alex Pierro and Chris Flanary, City workers in the Office of
Community and Civic Life, Bureau of Transportation, and Housing Bureau, share
their reasons and expectations about a strike of Ci...
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Joe Burns, long time labor organizer and educator, author of three books:
"Reviving the Strike", "Strike Back" and forthcoming "Class Struggle
Unionism", talks with co-hosts Laura Wadlin and Jamie Partridge about his new
book which describes three types of unionism in to...
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