Strikes.

  • Democracy Now! October 1, 2002

    400,000 Protesters demonstrate in Britain: Labor MP George Galloway, filmmaker John Pilger, Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, London mayor and others address crowd; Dockworkers locked out at thirty west coast ports from Seattle to San Diego; Is Venezuela on verge of another attempted coup? As a general strike looms, we speak with the first…

  • Democracy Now! September 2, 2002

    LABOR DAY SPECIAL: as dockworker s negotiations break down and a work slow-down looms, Bush threatens to bring in troops; LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 2, immigrant workers: 100 airport workers are arrested in Los Angeles; hundreds of thousands flee Malaysian crackdown; LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 3, Unjust Rewards : Washington rewards workplace safety violators with…

  • Democracy Now! December 12, 2002

    Should Trent Lott Resign? The Senate Republican leader s support for Strom Thurmond s 1948 Segregation Forever presidential campaign generates mass calls for him to step down, he refuses; Is the strike in Venezuela for the people, or for the businessmen? President Hugo Chavez sends troops to regain control of the oil industry as the…

  • Democracy Now! February 16, 1999

    American Airlines Sick-out; Violent Crime and Native Americans; Kurdish Rebel Leader Arrested |American Airlines Sick-out Most pilots with American Airlines have returned to work after a 10-day massive sick-out to protest the two-tiered pay scale imposed by the airline after it bought Reno Air, a smaller airline. After canceling 12% of its flights yesterday, American…

  • Fast Track Trade; The Criminalization of Immigration; Bart Strike

    (14 Minutes) Fast Track Trade President Clinton yesterday opened up a campaign to win special Congressional authority to negotiate new trade deals including the expansion of NAFTA. GUEST: Lori Wallach, dir. of Public Citizen’s Globla Trade Watch. (19 Minutes) The Criminalization of Immigration Discussion on the affects of anti-immigration legislation passed by Congress and signed…

  • Democracy Now! August 5, 1997

    UPS Strike; Scientology Debate; Music Legend Fela Kuti Dies |UPS Strike Discussion of UPS strike that began yesterday, which crippled the country’s largest package-delivery company. Also the media’s confusion. GUEST: Anne Marie O’Neill, part-time UPS worker Eastern Long Island, NY. GUEST: Dave Pratt, a former UPS loader and an organizer for Teamster’s for a Democratic…

  • The Presswomen / produced by Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective

    Del Dobbins interviews Ilona O’Sullivan[sp?], Alice Arvin[sp?], Mary Duggan, wives of Washington Post pressmen, about the pressman’s strike and the workers’ grievances.

  • KPFA strike statements : 1974 / read by Alan Snitow.

    Reading of strike statement and statement of particulars read by Sitow. Sitow and KPFK General Manager Will Lewis discuss the statements.