Labor

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Well-read Red: PPS/PAT contracts talks, what they are and aren't about

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reports on Portland Public School and Portland Association of Teachers contract talks. Teachers are not fighting for wages, so much as work and ultimately learning conditions -- including class size, standardized testing, and prep-time during the day. She share... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 4, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
  Joe Clement hosts this show which deals with the global US national security state; the successful outcomes of the California prison system hunger strike, labor struggles in a Star Trek ("Deep Space Nine") episode; and the recent movie Hope Springs. To hear the whole sho... Read more

"Deep Space Nine": The Labor Episode

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the Star Trek series "Deep Space Nine" one episode is unique for dealing with the attempt to form a union.  It's called "Bar Association" (Season 4, Episode 16), in which workers at Quark's Bar on the space station go on strike to form a union.  You can watch it through ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts   Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures".   Well-re... Read more

Monopoly, Neoliberalism and the Economic Game

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red Clayton Morgaredige contrasts the boardgame monopoly and the game of really existing American capitalism. There are a couple of ways Monopology is not like capitalism: everyone starts out with the same resources and success is largely determined by strategy. M... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts   Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures".   Well-re... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 21 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this two-hour membership-drive special that focuses on the environment and various social struggles that link up with it (note that pitch-breaks accounts for about 40 minutes of the programming otherwise excised).  Mark Hertsgaard talks about his new book "... Read more

Labor Environmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part 4 of the Old Mole's special two-hour program on climate change, host Iven Hale talks with labor historian and long-time Portland writer, activist, and Old Mole contributor Norm Diamond about work that Norm did to develop the field of labor environmentalism at a time... Read more

KBOO Workers win first-ever union contract!

Employees of KBOO-FM ratified their first-ever union contract Oct. 8, locking in compensation and workplace rules for one year. The agreement was reached four months after workers voted 8-0 to join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7901 — and several days before... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 30 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole that, in addition to a discussion about the Syrian civil war and other mid-east conflicts, converges on a theme of social democracy under attack and the political stakes in its being defunded. Bill Resnick talks with Chris Toensing a... Read more