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Showing videos filed under: factory
Harry Hanbury: Triangle's Echoes
March 26, 2011They came to work, they didn't come to die. But 100 years ago this week, that's exactly what happened to 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women trapped in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Filmmaker and GRITtv contributor Harry Hanbury checked in on the status of workers safety today and found "Triangle's Echoes: An Unfinished Struggle for Worker Protection, Safety & Health."J. Hoberman, Triangle's Echoes, and Danny Schechter
March 25, 2011What does Invasion of the Body Snatchers have to do with the Cold War? Why do so many people know about Ayn Rand? These are just a few of the questions that Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman takes on in his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War.Diane Palmer & Sheila Cochran: Who Gets Hurt With Walker's Cuts
February 22, 2011If Scott Walker is allowed to gut public employees' right to collective bargaining, Sheila Cochran of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council points out, it will lower the floor for all Wisconsinites' wages and benefits. The unions in the state have long helped keep wages high and benefits, including health care, good for all of the state's workers, even as factories have closed and jobs gone overseas.GRITtv Special from Madison, Wisconsin
February 21, 2011Welcome to our first special one-hour episode from Madison, Wisconsin! Thanks to our friends at The Uptake, Free Speech TV, and WORT TV in Madison for making this collaboration happen. "Unions realize that this is a threat to their very existence," says Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, of Scott Walker's attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers. And some of the usual suspects are behind Walker's attack--from the Koch brothers to Republican ideologues. "These corporations want to get these people off the playing field," says John Nichols, of The Nation.Week in Review: Bissell Subcontracts Lousy Labor Practices
November 27, 2009Today is "Black Friday," where people wait in line to buy discounted electronics and other goods for holiday gifts. Will the recession have an impact on people's ability to buy? If you are heading out to buy holiday gifts, take a minute to think about the impact of your shopping.Bissell Subcontracts Lousy Labor Practices
November 25, 2009In Illinois, not far from where the Republic Windows & Doors employees staged their successful factory occupation, warehouse workers for a subcontractor of Bissell, the vacuum cleaner manufacturer, are being fired and threatened after voting to form a union. Monica Sanchez, an employee at the warehouse, joins us along with Abraham Mwaura of Warehouse Workers for Justice and Mark Brenner of Labor Notes to tell the workers' side of the story.Blowback, Jeremy Scahill, and Bissell Workers
November 24, 2009President Obama is expected to announce that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan next week. In the wake of that decision, discussion of the consequences of United States intervention around the world becomes even more important. It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world.
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