Labor

Movie Moles: "Sleep Dealer"

Airs at: Sun, 07/19/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

A world in which people are divided by walls but their labor and imaginations are globally linked -- that's the dark vision of Alex Rivera's film Sleep Dealer, opening on Friday, 7/24 at the Hollywood Theater in Portland. Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel tel... Read more

Knights of the road: lost history of the tramp printers and their union

Airs at: Sun, 07/05/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

You’ve heard of the cowboy poets and the lumberjacks, but why has history almost hushed up the tale of the tramp printers, who hopped trains and drank and set type and ran presses, and who by the mid-1800s had built a militant union with equal pay for women and a worker-run... Read more

Los Angeles teachers' hunger strike against layoffs; Mining communities in Colombia and Kentucky

Airs at: Sun, 07/12/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Sean Leys, Los Angeles public school teacher and AFT member, found the support of his dry cleaner and even the rival school's debate team when he participated in a 24-day hunger strike against 6,000 teacher layoffs he said would violate students' civil rights. Now he and f... Read more

Service Works Picket Legacy Hospital

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

The employment contract for service workers at Legacy Good Samaritan hospital expired Wednesday (June 30) without agreement after negotiations broke down between SEIU Local 49 and Legacy management. KBOO reporter David Rosenfeld filed this report. Read more

UNION ORGANIZING 101

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Host Jamie Partridge interviews local union organizers Lorene Scheer of SEIU 503 and Margaret Butler of JOBS with JUSTICE about how to organize a union at your workplace. Learn your rights and what to expect from your employer. Read more

A Radical Fix for the Economy

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Are "green shoots" sprouting in the rubble of our economy? Economist Gerald Friedman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the underlying problems with the US economy and the radical measures needed to fix it. Friedman teaches at the University of Massachussetts, ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 06/14/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge (pictured here) and featuring union songs sung by Pete Seeger, this show covers the battle to get single payer health insurance on the table, the history of the International Longshore Workers Union, the Iranian elections, the detective novels... Read more

A Society of Exclusion

What draws people into a politics of hatred – not just the killers who have made the news lately in Witchita and at the Holocaust Museum, but all those whose primary political motive is hostility against cultures and ethnicities different from their own? Let’s approach this... Read more

Labor History: The ILWU

Airs at: Sun, 06/14/2009 at 5:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Labor Historian Harvey Schwartz talks about his new book Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier. They trace the origins and growth of the International Longshoremen Workers Union on the West Coast, including the organizing of w... Read more

A "Juneteenth" rememberance: confronting racism in Oregon

June 19th marks the 144th anniversary of the landing of federal troops in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and finally bring slavery to an end throughout the United States. "Juneteenth" has not only become a day to commemorate the end of slavery but... Read more