Labor Beat
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Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: mail@laborbeat.org, www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit Google Video, YouTube, or blip.tv and search "Labor Beat". Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; St. Louis, MO; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY. For more detailed information, send us a request at mail@laborbeat.org
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# Episodes
63 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of Labor Beat
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Labor Beat: HWC Community Roundtable on Reinvent...
The controversy surrounding the city-wide so-called Reinvention plan for City Colleges of Chicago continues and grows. On Sept. 15, 2011 a meeting was planned to take place at Harold Washington College (part of the CCC system), sponsored by the AFT Local 1600 chapter at HWC. The administration at HWC blocked this by claiming that, since the student's families and community were invited, it was not a sanctioned CCC event, and demanded a $500 vendor fee. The meeting was moved to another location...
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Release date
Sep 29, 2011
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Runtime
26:39
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Labor Beat: Public Workers Unite MLK Day Demo
A coalition of public workers targeted several locations in Chicago's Loop to dramatize the areas of the public sector that are being dismantled by corporation-controlled government. To commemorate Martin Luther King day, on Jan. 18, 2010, Public Workers Unite began at Chicago Transit Authority headquarters, then marched to Boeing headquarters, then on to Chicago Public Schools headquarters, and ended up at the State of Illinois Building. Speaking are.: Earl Silbar, Public Workers Unite; Carlo...
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Release date
Aug 10, 2011
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Runtime
15:53
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Labor Beat: The CTA Strike of 1968
We can't find any documentary about this on the Internet, so this may be the only one in existence about the Chicago Transit Authority (wildcat) strike of 1968. There is no wonder that official Chicago history has somehow buried this story in a deep crypt, but we have brought it back into the daylight of 2011, along with rare archival stills and film footage, and exclusive interviews with now retired CTA drivers who played key roles. Here is the 60s Civil Rights movement intersecting with the ...
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Release date
Aug 9, 2011
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Runtime
28:22
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Labor Beat: Craft Against Corporate Welfare
For the June 14, 2011 march to protest a big meeting of corporate executives at Chicago's Hyatt Regency Hotel, a group of banner makers created Craft Against Corporate Welfare. As part of the general Stand Up! Chicago mobilization, this merry band of students, teachers and activists put together an impressive selection of giant puppets, signs, and huge banners to be used in the protest. We visit with them as they discuss their mission, spray paint and staple gun over three days, and pull off s...
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Release date
Aug 6, 2011
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Runtime
19:29
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Labor Beat: Haiti - The First Black Republic
Here is a brief history of Haiti (27:36) that gives the essential background to understanding its major contribution to the fight against slavery and oppression in the Western Hemisphere. Historic footage combined with extensive commentary by Aline Lauture (Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti) and Lionel Jean-Baptiste (Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti). Looks at the emergence of Haiti as a nation through the successful rebellion of African slaves there (the first of its kind in the West), estab...
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Release date
Jul 22, 2011
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Runtime
27:36
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Labor Beat: Give It Back!
The Executive Summit of CEOs and CFOs at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago on June 14, 2011 was the target of a broad coalition of community and labor organizations, put together by Stand Up! Chicago. Several thousand protesters successfully pulled off 3 coordinated feeder marches (housing, jobs, education) that transformed the hub of corporate Chicago at Michigan and Wacker into protest central. We begin with the small band of movement artists (teachers, students and activists) as they plan the vi...
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Release date
Jun 25, 2011
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Runtime
18:34
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Labor Beat: Wisconsin and After
A overview of the recent weeks in the battle for public sector workers in Wisconsin, and touching upon the national ramifications. Key issues are raised, through interviews and documentary footage: concessions have been pushed and agreed to by the Democrats and top union leaderships, setting workers up for the current Republican attacks. "On the national level, the Democrats have bought into the idea that workers should pay for the crisis," points out AFSCME 2858 Pres. Steve Edwards. But the m...
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Release date
Mar 31, 2011
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Runtime
25:30
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Labor Beat: Evanston / Skokie Communities Suppor...
On March 15, 2011, Evanston and Skokie communities held a rally in support of union rights to collectively bargain in good faith. Activists from these two suburbs on the northern boundary of Chicago took part in a national action called Defend the Dream, promoted by MoveOn.org to stop the cuts looming in Congress. The speakers present were also motivated by the historic fight in Wisconsin to defend bargaining rights there. Union and community activists speaking were: Rachel Rosner (MoveOn.org ...
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Release date
Mar 17, 2011
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Runtime
25:11
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Labor Beat: BATTLE FRONT WISCONSIN
The struggle that has captured the imagination of union members across the nation, the newest Labor Beat episode "Battle Front Wisconsin" covers the ongoing fightback in Madison. There, a right-wing state government is attempting to gut public sector unions by stripping them of collective bargaining rights, membership, dues collection, and a host of other attacks on what it means to be in a union. Teachers, municipal workers, students, and their supporters (even police and firefighters) have r...
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Release date
Feb 25, 2011
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Runtime
32:52
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Labor Beat: CTU Hosts Mayoral Candidate Forum
The Dec. 16, 2010 Mayor Candidates Forum sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union and several other unions is the subject of this show. We hear samplings of the questions for and answers by candidates present (Gery Chico, Carol Moseley Braun, Miguel Del Valle, William "Doc" Walls, James Meeks). Provided also is commentary by Sean Noonan, college teacher and member of AFT 1600. Noonan suggests that the time has come for labor to abandon the lesser of two evils strategy in looking to the future. ...
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Release date
Jan 19, 2011
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Runtime
25:23
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