Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:12 — 25.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreYou’re listening to WFHB News. Up next, WFHB News Youth Radio Correspondent Jiin Hur reports on the South African labor industries. This is part 2 of her series, What’s Going On In The Labor Industries? The Evolution of Women’s Rights in South Africa Continued. Just 4 days …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:04 — 19.4MB)Subscribe: RSSBy Jiin Hur You’re listening to WFHB News. Up next, WFHB News Youth Radio Correspondent Jiin Hur reports on the South African labor industries. Just 4 days ago, BBC published an article titled “Suspect in South African student’s murder killed in police shootout” detailing a South African student’s death. …
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This is a rebroadcast of a program that aired on September 24, 2018: Over three million students graduate from U.S. high schools, every year. For the 65,000 students whose immigration status is under debate in Washington D.C., graduating from high school garners new adversity. Hosts Roberta Radovich and Producer Clarence Boone speak with Christine Popp, of Popp & Bullman Attorneys-At-Law, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe start off this week with a statement, released today, by Alabama Confined Citizens, speaking for people striking behind the walls of the Alabama prison system. We then speak with Elizabeth, who is one of many supporting the strike because they have an imprisoned loved one. In …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:54 — 12.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Monday, the Bloomington Faculty Council passed two resolutions calling on the IU Board of Trustees to provide a pathway to unionization for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers. The first resolution passed with nearly 84 percent of the faculty council vote, and it insists that …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:02 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World. That steel mill is the Gary Works of US Steel which was …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 76.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | More This week, we speak with a group of grassroots labor organizers formerly employed at No Evil Foods, a socialist-themed vegan foods company. They describe their efforts to organize a union at the company’s Asheville manufacturing plant, and No Evil’s subsequent efforts to bust the union – …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePart One of “The Automation Ruse” aired on February 9th and featured author Jason E. Smith whose new book, Smart Machines and Service Work, is subtitled “Automation in an Age of Stagnation,” and it’s that crisis of stagnation that propels us into today’s conversation with Aaron Benanav, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:05 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ll open with “Powerhouse” performed here by Don Byron off of Bug Music from 1996. Composed by Raymond Scott in 1937, “Powerhouse” was featured in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons and perhaps best known for its use in the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon “Baby Bottleneck” which stars …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:39 — 80.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a “repackaging” of a program from August 2015 about service sector workers and the future of unions with a focus on the question can there be a labor movement with any strength in the service sector? Perhaps that movement needs to find new forms …
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