Labor

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 26, 2009

Airs at: Sun, 01/25/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this is the first Old Mole show of the Obama administration, so the Mole talks about the progressive agenda the new team needs to hear. There is also music in the New Deal spirit of overcoming economic crisis by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.... Read more

Auto Workers to Restructure Industry

Airs at: Sun, 01/25/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Diane Feeley is a retired auto worker who writes about the labor and the industry for Against the Current. Here she talks with Clayton Morgareidge about how the industry could best be restructured to provide more and better jobs -- but fewer cars! Feeley is also part the ... Read more

Mandate for Change

Airs at: Sun, 01/25/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Getting the best progressive ideas in front of the Obama team: that's the purpose of the book Mandate for Change, edited by Chester Hartman. Hartman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about many of the book's proposals for changing and saving our nation. Read more

Wages in the Economic Crisis

Airs at: Sun, 01/11/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour in 2010! That's the proposal of well-known author and activist Holly Sklar and Let Justice Roll. Holly talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the gap between the minimum wage and a living wage, and why raising the minimum is goo... Read more

Education workers - PSU profs face their toughest bargaining ever, and tenement museum guides organize a union

Airs at: Sun, 01/11/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Gary Brodowicz, Past President, and Michele Gamburd, Vice President for Collective Bargaining, Portland State University Chapter, American Association of University Professors Hildegard Hoeller, part-time guide, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, organizing with UAW 2110 Read more

Index of leading asshattery indicators

I love Harper's Index. For those of you not familiar with it, Harper's Index appears near the front of every edition of Harper's magazine. It presents a sort of snapshot of current affairs by way of assembling a bunch of seemingly obscure, but ultimately telling, statistic... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 15, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 12/14/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this program with a focus on movement struggles for the rights of workers and for a sane US foreign policy. The show also features the music (abbreviated for the web) of Dead Prez. To hear the whole show, go right to the arrow above. The hear individu... Read more

Significance of Hip Hop

Airs at: Sun, 12/14/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Radical musicologist Brad Duncan explains the huge, world-wide significance of Hip Hop music and culture with special attention to Dead Prez in this conversation with Bill Resnick. Read more

Interview with Chicago Labor Activists

Airs at: Sun, 12/14/2008 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Two organizers of the Chicago sit-in talk with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about their victory, what it means, and how the union works. They are Leah Fried, a field reppresentative for the United Electrical Workers; and Rickie Macklin, union member and worker at the fac... Read more

History of Labor Sit-ins

Airs at: Tue, 12/16/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Workers at a door and window company in Chicago were recent victorious in a sit-down action. Old Mole Denise Morris reads from a piece by Christopher Phelps and Nelson Lichtenstein about the history of such actions. You can find the online version here. Read more