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January 22nd, 2019 || News and Public Affairs, Working Conditions.

Federal workers speak of security concerns and financial hardships

The partial government shutdown has dragged on for more than a month; and this week, affected federal workers will miss their second paycheck. In a press conference at Tampa International Airport Tuesday, several of those workers spoke out about safety concerns of the government shutdown & hardships on their families Deborah Hannah is a transportation… Read more »

Dolores Huerta reacts to judge's rebuke of Trump's DACA cancellation

April 25th, 2018 || Immigration

Sex worker solidarity group opposes "bathhouse ordinance" in Hillsborough

April 11th, 2018 || Labor

In the Wake of the GOP Tax Bill Workers Face Layoffs and Smaller Bonuses

March 15th, 2018 || Class

USF Adjunct Faculty Members: Low Pay, No Benefits Say They Need a Union

November 28th, 2017 || Class

A look at school bus driver working conditions

August 15th, 2017 || Education

Unions fight for living wage for Disney workers

July 28th, 2017 || Labor

Greg Palast Has the Scoop on the President's Election Integrity Commission

July 8th, 2017 || Business Ethics

Is Uber's Business Model Heading for Collapse?

June 30th, 2017 || Economy

Mari-Lynn Evans, Director of "Blood on the Mountain" on Radioactivity Thursday

April 4th, 2017 || Economy

Immokalee farmworkers will march from Tampa Publix to Wendy's

March 27th, 2017 || Agriculture

Successful business people say new labor secretary wrong for the country

December 12th, 2016 || Economy

November 29th, 2016

Radioactivity Monday:Workers plan a nationwide protest against low wages

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_161128_110617_radioactivityM1_348.MP3 By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Monday we spent the hour talking with two local activists who are pushing for a 15-an-hour minimum wage and a union for low-wage workers. Bleu Rainer is a fast-food worker and Liang Flakes is a day care teacher who will be taking part in several protests tomorrow to demand an increase… Read more »

October 13th, 2016

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO; Consumers for Smart Solar PAC defends utilities-backed Amendment 1.

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_161012_110617_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 BY Rob Lorei Our first guest on Radioactivity Wednesday was Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. It’s the largest union federation in the US, representing more than 12 million active and retired workers. Trumka is a former coal miner and an attorney who was elected president of the AFL-CIO in 2009. He gave his take on Trump’s stance… Read more »

August 18th, 2016

Peace Activist Medea Benjamin Gives her thoughts about President Obama, Drone warfare, and US military spending

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160818_110618_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday, our guest was Peace Activist Medea Benjamin. You may have seen her as she’s disrupted hearings and speeches, trying to unfurl banners carry a message of peace. She unfurled a banner that read “Build Bridges Not Walls” last month during Donald trump’s closing speech at the Republican Convention in… Read more »

August 16th, 2016

Florida Solar Amendment Up for a Vote Right Now and the Fight for a $15 an Hour minimum Wage

By Rob Lorei Today on Radioactivity Tuesday we looked at the work that local activists are doing to promote solar energy and a livable, $15-an-hour minimum wage. http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160816_110618_radioactivityT1_187.MP3 First, we spoke with Deirdre Macnab and Julie Kessel from Florida’s League of Women Voters, and local Sierra Club Member Emily Gorman about Amendment 4 on the August 30th ballot that would… Read more »

May 28th, 2016

Deficit expert says Pentagon hides true extent of Military Spending; Human Rights violations found at farms of two Publix tomato suppliers

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160526_110617_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 By Rob Lorei There is a lot of concern about government spending and the federal deficit, with many people pointing the finger at social programs like SNAP.And while there has been many attempts to curtail access and use of SNAP benefits, which is mostly used by the elderly, disabled and for children, there has been… Read more »

May 26th, 2016

The looming teacher shortage in Florida; low-wage workers demand a living wage at McDonald’s HQ in Chicago

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160525_110617_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday we first looked at the local fight for a livable, $15 an hour wage that took two fast food workers to McDonalds’ headquarters to protest at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Our Guests Bleu Rainer and Gail Rogers, who respectively work for Checkers and McDonalds’ in Tampa, joined home care, child… Read more »

May 17th, 2016

Communist Party USA leader John Bachtell on Radioactivity Friday

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160513_110618_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Friday’s Radioactivity, our guest was John Bachtell, national chair of the Communist Party USA. Previously he was Illinois organizer for the party, and is active in labor, peace and justice struggles. He gave his thoughts on accusations of communism thrown at Bernie Sanders, the difference between communism and socialism, and… Read more »

Roger Butterfield with the Tampa May Day

April 29th, 2016

Preview of Tampa May Day celebration

Sunday is May Day – a celebration of workers and labor rights; there is a pot-luck picnic planned for the university area in Tampa. WMNF News interviewed Roger Butterfield with the Tampa May Day organizing committee. Listen to the interview here: The May Day Celebration is at 4:00 p.m. at 1708 East 127th Avenue in the… Read more »

February 26th, 2016

Farmworker groups march to pressure Wendy’s on Fair Food Program

Florida migrant farmworkers and their allies will march from New York to Florida next month to call attention to working conditions in the fields; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Alliance for Fair Food are calling on the fast-food chain Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program. WMNF News interviewed Patricia Cipollitti, who works with… Read more »

February 16th, 2016

Florida This Week; USF graduate assistants demand higher wages

First on Radioactivity, we listen back to the latest episode of Florida This Week, a political talk show on local PBS station WEDU that is hosted by Rob Lorei. This week’s panel of political insiders and experts discuss the Rubio/Bush feud, lead in the water at Sawgrass Lake Park, the highs and lows of the legislative… Read more »

February 15th, 2016

How much would a Bernie Sanders healthcare system cost?

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160212_110618_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 by Rob Lorei During last night’s Democratic debate, one of the argument that Hillary Clinton levied against Sen. Bernie Sanders is that his plan for single payer healthcare system is unfeasibly expensive; both she and the wall street journal quote a $18 trillion price tag for a single payer model. That number is based… Read more »

February 4th, 2016

New study says low wage jobs cost Floridians over $11 Billion a year

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160204_110617_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei Today we are joined by FSU economic professor Patrick Mason, author of a new Study on the high cost of low wage jobs in Florida. The report found that near the nearly 39 percent of Florida’s workforce, about 3 million people, are working in low-wage jobs that cost taxpayers over $11 Billion… Read more »

January 30th, 2016

Life in a Democratic Socialist country; Looming water crises threatening Florida.

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160129_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 By Rob Lorei During last nights GOP debate, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said democratic candidate Bernie Sanders ” is a good candidate — for president of Sweden. We don’t want to be Sweden, we want to be the United States of America.”, reiterating a common attack of Sanders’ socialist leanings as un-American. Our guest for the… Read more »

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