Category Union Busting

Corporate America: Death By Mergers – 1955 – Past Daily Reference Room

– NBC Radio – The American Forum – Mergers: Are they Helpful or Harmful? – January 2, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In this almost constant state of corporate mergers, leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers, it’s hard to…

Chicago Teachers picketing 1987

Picket Lines In Chicago – A Place Called Howard Beach – September 8, 1987

– September 8, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 8, 1987 – Summer vacation was over and the picket lines were forming in Chicago as negotiations between Teachers and the School District were…

Taft-Hartley

Taft-Hartley Bill Becomes Law – June 23, 1947

– ABC Headline News – June 23, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A lot of Labor news this June 23rd in 1947. Starting with the override of President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley bill, the Senate voted to…

Warsaw: Solidarity In The Balance – December 14, 1981

– News for December 14, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1981 had to do with the growing protest movement in Poland known as Solidarity. Begun as a Dock Workers strike in the Port…

Martin Dies – Ferreting Out Subversives -Communism In America – October 27, 1939

– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group…

Lunch

It’s April 14, 1961 – You’re A Teenager – You Moved To San Francisco – It’s Your First Day At School – You Are Radioactive.

April 14, 1961 – KYA – Jim Stagg Show – Rob Frankel Collection – Nothing like being the new kid and your first day in school. You didn’t want to leave L.A. – but your dad got this job and…