![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | USLAW's Gene Bruskin at UNITE Hall Chicago 04 - Jerry Mead
Audio recording of speech by Gene Bruskin of US Labor Against War at UNITE Hall in Chicago, Summer of 2004.
Keywords: Iraq; war; labor; unions; USLAW; Bruskin; anti-war
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-16-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-8-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights
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| Joe Moore on Republic Windows Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Chicago Alderman Joe Moore announces that 15 members of the Chicago City Council are seeking to pass a resolution calling for the City to divest from Bank of America if the bank refuses to extend credit to the owners of Republic Windows & Doors. Republic management claims that it can not pay their workers the severance they are due under law, because the bank has refused them further credit. The workers are currently occupying the factory in protest.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| LE2-10-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-10-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. When UAW Local 3520 members at Freightliner, a truck manufacturer in Cleveland North Carolina, resisted company demands that they accept a concessionary contract, UAW International officials attacked their own members rather than support their efforts to combat concessions. The Freightliner 5 are Local 3520 leaders who have had to fight both the company and UAW officialdom in their effort to represent the membership of their lo...
Keywords: freightliner 5; cleveland 5; labor; unions; uaw; united auto workers; workers; concessions; north carolina; jerry mead-lucero; mead-lucero; labor express; Freightliner
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| StewartAcuff2-3 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Section 3 of Part 2 of Stewart Acuff Interview.
Keywords: Labor Express
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| JoeIsobaker&AdamWeisbergDebate - Jerry Mead-Lucero
JoeIsobaker&AdamWeisbergDebate
Keywords: SEIU; NNOC; CNA
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| LE10-7-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-7-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we talk with Stewart Acuff, National Organizing Director of the AFL-CIO, about the state of the AFL-CIO and of the labor movement in general, 2 years since the historic 50th Anniversary convention of the federation which resulted in the split that formed the competing Change To Win coalition of unions. This is part one of our two part interview with Acuff...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; AFL-CIO; Change to Win; Stewart Acuff; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero
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| Jerry Tucker on UAW Contracts 07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Jerry Tucker is a former director of Region 5 of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), former International Executive Board member, and was one of the leaders of the New Directions reform movement in the UAW. He is the co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. In this interview, Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio talks with Tucker about the 2007 contract negotiations between the UAW, GM, Chrysler & Ford...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; jerry tucker; jerry mead-lucero; center for labor renewal; new directions
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| LE4-27-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express from 4-27-08
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| LE5-18-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-18-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode focuses on the presentation at the 2008 Labor Notes Conference, by the New Orleans Worker’s Center for Racial Justice, featuring a number of the Indian migrant workers, employees of Signal International in Mississippi, who endured a form a form debt peonage to this major U.S. marine construction company. The situation of the Signal workers is one of the most powerful indictments of the H2B guest worker program ye...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; guest worker; immigrant; india; indian; Signal; Gulf Coast; New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice; Saket Soni; Labor Notes
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| LE12-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 2 of our focus on the Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters and the ICE Raid Rapid Response Network. In this episode, Tim Bell of the Chicago Workers Collaborative talks about the no-match crisis and efforts to make Chicago a no-match letter, ICE raid free zone. Also, Emmanuel Castro talks about his struggle against no-match firings at Utility Concrete Products in Morris IL., and the initial reluctance of his union, L...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters; rapid response network; immigrant; ICE; Chicago Workers Collaborative; Emmanuel Castro; Tim Bell; Laborers Local 25
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| LE9-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Tim Bell of The Chicago Worker’s Collaborative, about the proposed policies changes by the Dept. Homeland Security in-regards to the Social Security “no match letters”, which could result in massive firings of undocumented and documented immigrant workers. Socorro Leos of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA!), talks about the struggles of migrant workers on the Gulf Coast, post-Katrina.
Keywords: labor; labor express; union; worker; justice; rights; Mississippi; MIRA!; immigrant; Socorro Leos; Katrina; Pascagoula; no match; social security; Tim Bell; Homeland Security
Downloads: 31 |
| Carl Rosen City Hall Republic Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Carl Rosen, President of the Western Region of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE) talks at Chicago City Hall press conference on the ongoing occupation of Republic Windows and Doors by it's workers. He announces that the union is seeking a means to keep the factory in operation under new management.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| BaldemarVelasquezLaborNotes08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), delivers a powerful speech at the 2008 Labor Notes conference.
Keywords: FLOC; farm workers; labor; union; immigrants
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| Final Press Conference Republic Factory Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Final Press Conference Republic Factory Occupation
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| Labor Express For 10-19-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-19-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we take a look at the real ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The mainstream media has portrayed the organization as if it was created to carry out vote fraud on behalf of Democratic candidates. In reality, ACORN is the most successful community organizing network in U.S. history and has worked to empower poor and working class communities around the country...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| AnitaChan-LaborNotes08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Leading scholar on workers in contemporary China, Anita Chan, discusses recent developments in the Chinese labor movement at 2008 Labor Notes conference.
Keywords: China; Labor; rights; unions
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| Labor Express For 11-30-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-30-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Curly Cohen of Affordable Power to the People talks about the 100,000 households in Illinois whose home heating has been cut off because they canât afford their utility bills. Alan Benjamin, Executive Committee member of the San Francisco Labor Council, who supported Cynthia McKinney in the recently past Presidential election, discuss the meaning of Barack Obamaâs victory for working people in the United States...
Keywords: UAW; autoworkers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto industry; utilities; home heating; Curly Cohen; Affordable Power; Barack Obama; Cynthia McKinney; Elections; workers; union; labor; Chicago; Illinois
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| SocorroLeos1 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Interview with Socorro Leos of MIRA!(Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance) about the struggles of workers in Pascagoula, MS. post-Katrina, and the conditions faced by guest workers in the shipyards of the Gulf Coast.
Keywords: immigrant; workers; labor; justice; katrina; Pascagoula; Mississippi; mira; labor express; gulf coast; jerry; mead-lucero; socorro; leos
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| Gregg Shotwell UAW Contracts 07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Greg Shotwell is a GM worker, a member of Local 1753 of the UAW, and a leader in the Soldiers of Solidarity (SOS) organization within the UAW. SOS seeks to end the concessionary cooperation with management that typifies the UAW leadership in recent years and to stem the decline of wages, working conditions and benefits for auto workers by pushing for a militant fight back strategy against the boss...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; gregg shotwell; jerry mead-lucero; SOS; Soldiers of Solidarity
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| GreggShotwellUAWStrike - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Gregg Shotwell is an auto worker, a member of UAW Local 1753, and one of the founders of Soldiers of Solidarity, an activist group in the UAW which opposes the union leaderships lack of militancy and concessionary bargaining. We started our interview with Greg providing a little background on SOSâ¦
Keywords: Gregg Shotwell; UAW; GM; strike; Labor Express
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| Labor Express For 12-14-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-14-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Republic Windows & Doors workers WIN! Only 6 days after under taking the first factory occupation in the United States since the late 1930’s, the workers at Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago defeat both Republic management and Bank of America, winning the severance package they were due under federal law. The action of the workers at Republic was international news within days of the worker’s decision to occupy the facto...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Republic; Bank of America; bailout; occupation; direct action; Coalition of Immokalee Workers; CIW; Republic Windows and Doors
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| StewartAcuff2-2 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Section 2 of Part 2 of Stewart Acuff Interview.
Keywords: Labor Express
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| Imelda Martinez Congress Hotel Striker - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Imelda Martinez, employee of the Congress Hotel in Chicago talks about attending the picket line 5 days a week for the past 5 years, at the 5th strike anniversary rally outside the hotel.
Keywords: union; labor; strike; chicago; UNITE-HERE; Congress Hotel; worker; Labor Express
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| AFSCMEGradyHospitalAtlanta - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Nancy Lenk â Deputy Director AFSCME Local 1644, explains the attempt by Atlanta to turn Grady, a public hospital, into a privatized entity.
Keywords: privatization; public; labor; union; AFSCME; Atlanta; USSF
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| Labor Express For 4-26-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express For 4-26-09
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| Labor Express For 5-31-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-31-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Is the U.S. government helping bust the United Auto Workers Union (UAW)? What responsibility does the UAW have for the dire straits auto workers now find themselves in? What is the future for the U.S. auto industry and the UAW? All of this and more is discussed with Gregg Shotwell, retired GM/Delphi worker and founder of the Soldiers of Solidarity, a network of auto worker activist who have sought to fight the UAW’s concessio...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; gregg shotwell; jerry mead-lucero; SOS; Soldiers of Solidarity
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| Labor Express For 7-26-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 7-26-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we hear about a new book by Chicago journalist Kari Lyderson on the Republic Windows & Doors factory occupation which took place in Chicago last December. Also the workers at Quad Cities Die Casting in Moline, IL., members of UE Local 1174 are currently engaged in a fight to keep their plant from closing. Will hear from UE organizer Leah Fried about the state of that struggle...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Quad City diecasting; UE; United Electrical Workers; Moline; Honduras; Leah Fried; Alexy Lanza; Republic Windows and Doors; occupation; Kari Lyderson
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| Labor Express For 8-16-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-16-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. In this week’s program we take a look at the debate on health care reform in the United States. We talk to Dr. Anne Scheetz, a practicing physician and member of Physicians for a National Health Plan about why a single payer, non-profit, universal health care system is the only solution to our health care crisis. We also look back on the last 16 years of Labor Express Radio with the former show host Wayne Heimbach, as we move...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; union; Chicago
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-15-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-15-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) win their campaign against the McDonald’s corporation, when McDonald’s concedes to all the farm workers demands. I interview CIW member Gerardo Reyes about this victory. The program also includes live in-studio interviews with Jason Wallach who works with unions in El Salvador, and Benjamin Dangl, author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CIW; farm workers; McDonald’s; Immokalee; El Salvador; Central America; Bolivia; Venezuela; Jason Wallach; Benjamin Dangl; Gerardo Reyes
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| LE6-15-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full June 15th, 2008 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part I of my interview with Mark Brenner of Labor Notes on the 2008 SEIU convention in Puerto Rico. The convention gave a growing reform caucus within the union an opportunity to challenge the direction the union has taken in recent years under the leadership of Andy Stern. Reformers argue that business unionism has increasingly replaced the social movement orientation of the union...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; SEIU; Puerto Rico; FMPR; SAPAC; guest worker; Congress Hotel; reform
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| Plans_for_Pullman_LaborDay_08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Interview with Tom Shepherd of the Pullman Civic Organization about the historical importance of the Pullman neighborhood in Chicago and plans to celebrate Labor Day 2008 in Pullman. The celebration is sponsored by Pullman Civic Organization, Illinois Labor History Society, Bronzeville/Chicago Black History Society, Illinois AFL/CIO, Calumet Heritage Partnership, Historic Pullman Foundation, Chicago Metro History Project, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, The State of Illinois Histor...
Keywords: labor; pullman; worker; union; chicago; history; debs; randolph
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| Alexis DeSimone at USSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Alexis De Simone with Casa of Maryland, one of the organizations involved in organizing domestic workers, talks about their work and the decision at the USSF to form a national coalition of domestic worker organizations. The national gathering of domestic workers organizations at the USSF was one of the highlights of the forum, and perhaps the most important labor movement development at the forum.
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; domestic workers united; worker; rights; labor express, domestic, casa of maryland
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| Henry Tamarin at Congress Hotel Strike 5th Year Anniversary - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Henry Tamarin, President of UNITE-HERE Local 1, talks about the massive turn out of workers and their supporters at the 5th anniversary rally of the Congress hotel strike in Chicago. The strike in now officially the longest running active strike in the country.
Keywords: union; labor; strike; chicago; UNITE-HERE; Congress Hotel; worker; Labor Express
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| Labor Express For 10-26-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-26-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the deepening economic crisis and the $700 billon dollar bailout package passed by the congress earlier this month with Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). CEPR is one of the country’s leading progressive economic think tanks and Dean Baker has been one of the harshest critics of the bank bailout...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; CEPR; Center for Economic and Policy Research; Dean Baker; Financial Crisis; bailout; Wall Street; $700 billon dollar; economic crisis; bank bailout; David Moberg; Teamsters; Richard Berg; Politics; Bush
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| Labor Express For 10-5-08 Corrected - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-5-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the growing financial crisis and the $700 billon dollar bailout package passed by the congress on Friday with Ross Eisenbrey, Vice-President of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). EPI is one of the country’s leading progressive economic think tanks and I asked Eisenbrey to talk about what the bailout means for the nation’s working people...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; EPI; Economic Policy Institute; Ross Eisenbrey; Financial Crisis; bailout; Wall Street; $700 billon dollar; economic crisis; bank bailout; Jobs with Justice; JWJ; Fran Tobin; EFCA; Employee Free Choice Act
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| Labor Express For 7-12-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 7-12-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with former Honduran immigrant, Chicagoan and one of the founders of the Latin American cultural and political activist organization La Voz de los de Abajo about the military coup which took place in Honduras on June 28th 2009. Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, came into office as a conservative leaning politician drawn from the nation’s traditional land owning elite...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Honduras; coup; Zelaya; Alexy Lanza; Latin America; Central America; democracy; peasants; campesinos; La Voz de los Abajo
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| Labor Express For 8-31-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-31-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program will hear from a group of striking workers on Chicago Southside. In May workers at SK Hand Tools, members of Teamsters Local 743, found out that for a month, their company had cut off their health care benefits, without informing them. Now many of the workers find themselves saddled with massive health care bills for services they thought were covered...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| Labor Express For 9-7-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-7-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program will hear another installment in the saga of the Quad City Die Cast workers in Moline Illinois, members of UE Local 1174. After months of militant struggle, Wells Fargo refused to heed the demands of the workers, the state of Illinois and a number of prospective buyers for the plant. The workers last day on the job was last Friday, but the fight to claim hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages conti...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| LE11-4-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-4-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Coverage of this years Teamsterâs for a Democratic Union (TDU) convention, including interviews with TDU National Steering Committee memberâs Frank Halsted and Nichelle Fulmore, Labor Notes editor Chris Kutalik, and newly elected International Longshoremanâs Association (ILA) Local 1588 Sectetary Treasurer, Tony Perlstein.
Keywords: TDU; Teamsters; ILA; Labor Notes; labor; union; worker; rights; justice; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; reform
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| Labor Express Radio for 2-18-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-18-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode continued our coverage of the role of organized labor in this years elections for the Chicago city council. Features interviews with Dennis Gannon, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Cuahutémoc Morfin, AFSCME Council 31 member and candidate for alderman in the 25th ward. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; elections; CFL; Chicago Federation of Labor
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| Labor Express for 3-27-05 - Jerry Mead
This is the March 27th 2005 edition of Labor Express. In this episode: Interview with Gabe Gonzalez of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and Martin Manteca of SEIU on the current state of immigrant's rights. Part 1 of an interview with Katie Jordan of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) on the history of CLUW and the concerns of working women. And a special WIN feature on organizing by women in the global sex trade.
Keywords: labor; work; Chicago; union; movement; worker; rights; justice
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| LE5-4-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-4-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express we bring you audio from Chicago's third annual Mayday march for immigrant rights, which at around 20,000 strong, was an impressive showing. Also includes an interview with Jack Heyman, one of the organizers of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) West Coast Mayday strike against the war in Iraq...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; immigrant; mayday; ilwu; Jack Heyman; jorge mujica
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| LE8-26-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Interview with documentary film maker Jill Friedberg (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad, Granito de Arena & This is What Democracy Looks Like) about the history of the Teacherâs movement in Oaxaca, and the ongoing popular rebellion against the governor of the Southern Mexican state. Also, special presentation from Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash of Building Bridges on the Crandall Canyon mine disaster.
Keywords: labor; labor express; union; worker; justice; rights; teacher; oaxaca; APPO; Jill Friedberg; Mexico; Crandall Canyon; mine; miners; UMWA
Downloads: 34 |
| Sk Hand Tools Striker Victor Morano - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Sk Hand Tools Striker Victor Morano
Keywords: Strike, SK Hand Tools, Teamsters Local 743
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| Labor Express For 10-19-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express For 10-19-09
Keywords: labor; justice; workers; rights; Chicago; union |
| Labor Express For 10-26-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express For 10-26-09
Keywords: labor; justice; workers; rights; Chicago; unions |
| Conn-Selmer Workers in Elhart - Larry Duncan & Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Elkhart; union; indiana; UAW; Conn-Selmer; labor
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