Labor Radio

PORTLAND’S CITY WORKERS– Laborers and Police Unions – are struggling to negotiate labor agreements.   Wesley Bucholz of Laborers 483 challenges city management’s drive for give-backs.  Then, Jo Ann Bowman of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police R... Read more

First, we talk about free trade, in particular, the Korea Free Trade Agreement. On the campaign trail in 2008 Barack Obama called the trade agreement “bad for America workers”, but now he’s announced that he’s moving forward on the deal. What’s with the change of heart? And... Read more

An interview with Michael Dale of the Northwest Workers' Justice Project Read more

 “We are in the middle of a whirlwind of struggle and opportunities for fundamental change abound; it’s just a question of how we use them.” ...Or so say the members of Team Colors, a self-described “militant research” collective, who have just released a provocative new boo... Read more

“We are in the middle of a whirlwind of struggle and opportunities for fundamental change abound; it’s just a question of how we use them.”  Or so say the members of Team Colors, a self-described “militant research” collective, who have just released a provocative new book... Read more

Massene Mboup, teacher and union activist at the Portland French School is interviewed by host Jamie Partridge.  Mboup, with a background of union leadership in his native Senegal, details management intimidation tactics, including deportation threats to this largely immigr... Read more

Labor Radio host Jamie Partridge questions Loretta Smith and Karol Collymore, candidates for Multnomah County Commissioner, District 2. Read more

This month brought exciting news for New York State's 200,000 domestic workers: After years of struggle, they have passed a Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights through both houses of the state legislature.  For the first time ever in the United States, domestic workers will ha... Read more

Why is the World Trade Organization so interested in how people get their mail? Peter Shapiro interviews Jim Sauber, Chief of Staff and Research Director for the National Association of Letter Carriers, about WTO threats to JapanPost and what they mean to for the continued ... Read more

Gina Caro and Loli Urquia worked at Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex, two plants in Honduras that made sportswear for Nike. Then workers in the plants decided to unionize, and the plants abruptly shut down, robbing the workers of severance pay they were legally entitled to... Read more