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GRITtv: The F Word: Working Families Still Squeezed

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There were grumblings from all corners of the AFL-CIO at its winter meeting in Orlando recently. "Disappointment," "disillusionment," "unengaged"...these words and worse peppered press reports describing labor's view of President Obama and the Democrats.
Organized labor spent $200 million to help elect the president, and support of its 15 million members is considered absolutely critical for Democrats to hold the line this November.

GRITtv: Tea Parties, Unions and the Working Class

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Tea party protests and labor unions might not seem at first to have much in common, but both groups are angry about bailouts of massive banks and the struggles of working people to make ends meet while jobs disappear overseas. Is the dispute between the tea parties and the progressive left just one of the means to an end? To discuss their differences and talk about finding common ground, Michael Johns, Tea Party organizer and Ed Ott, former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council and Disinguished Lecturer at the Murphy Institute at CUNY, join us in studio.

GRITtv: Pennies for Standing Next to Multimillion-Dollar Art

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art security guards have been caught in a labor struggle for years, dating back to the subcontracting out of what were formerly union jobs. They finally held--and won--a union election earlier this fall, but AlliedBarton, the contractor the guards work for, has so far refused to negotiate a contract.

Stop Starbucks

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"Stop Starbucks" tells the story of the coffee corporation's aggressive anti-union policies from people who have worked there. Click here to sign the memo to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

GRITtv: F Word: When Will Healthcare Get its Norma Rae?

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Crystal Lee Sutton died last week. You might know her by her "other" name. It was Sutton's story that inspired the film Norma Rae, starring Sally Field, of a North Carolina union organizer in the early 1970s. She died at 68. It makes all the talk of death panels, a government takeover, and socialized medicine sound rather silly, doesn't it?

GRITtv: F Word: Bittersweet Victory for Stella D'Oro Workers

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Remember Stella D'Oro -- not the cookies -- but the workers' fight? Last year, members of Local 50 of the Bakery and Grain Millers Union refused demands for 20% wage cuts and slashes in health and pension benefits at the Stella D'Oro factory in New York. More than than 130 workers went on strike. We interviewed several in our studio. Well, 11 months on, the National Labor Relations Board has ordered the company to reinstate and pay back wages to strikers. They're back at work.

GRITtv: Brave New Films' War On Greed Series Takes on Burger King

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"Have it your way" as long as "your way" is non-union seems to be Burger King's real slogan. As part of their "War on Greed" series, Brave New Films has uncovered that the King's been trying to maintain feudal relations in its battle against the Employee Free Choice Act and its own employees.

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