Labor
Displaying 19 programs
1.
The Reagan Administration's Proposals For Immigration Reform
Description:
Linda Fregoso speaks with Leonel Castillo, former director of the Immigration and Naturalization Services, and Jorge Bustamante, special counsel to the Mexican President on Immigration, about the Reagan Administration’s proposed immigration program. The conversation includes the temporary worker program and the possibility of amnesty for undocumented workers living in the U.S.
2.
Interviews With Farm Workers In The Rio Grande Valley Of Texas
Description:
Linda Fregoso interviews farm workers in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Josefina Castillo and John Gonzales discuss lack of toilet facilities, pesticikdes and water in the fields. Also interview with union organizer Alfredo De Avila about wages and other worker's demands, including child laborers.
3.
Labor Organizing In Texas, 1848 To The Present
Description:
Linda Fregoso discusses the history of Latino working-class activism in the United States with Victor Nelson Cisneros and Devon Pena.
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Collective Bargaining, The Texas Legislature And The Texas Farm Workers Union
Description:
Linda Fregoso speaks with Antonio Orendain of the Texas Farm Workers Union, Legislator Forest Whaley, and Professors Rudy de la Garza and I.B. Helburn about an upcoming collective bargaining bill for agricultural workers.
5.
The Role Of Women In Chicano Labor History
- Themes:
- Politics, Society
- Series:
- Labor, Women's Issues
- Host:
- Linda Fregoso
- Interviewee:
- Devon Peña
- Broadcast date:
- Oct 22, 1980
Description:
Devon Peña, an instructor at UT-Austin, discusses his research on the maquiladoras, assembly plants where Mexican women have organized independent unions in order to better their working conditions.
6.
Organizing The Undocumented Worker
Description:
Antonio Orendain, director of the Texas Farm Workers Union and Union organizer, Estella Salinas. Interview is in Spanish and concerns the position of the TFW in organizing the undocumented worker, efforts to abolish the right to work law and establish collective bargaining in Texas
7.
Corridos Del Valle
Description:
Three Chicano filmmakers, David Sandoval, Luis Tórres, and Javier Silva, about the making of their feature length documentary, "Corridos del Valle", which depicts the struggles of the migrant farm workers in Raymondsville, South Texas
8.
The Politics Of Agricultural Labor: Braceros And Farmworkers In The 1950s
Description:
In this episode combining two previous programs (1977-06 and 1977-07), host Richard Goodman explores the Bracero Program and its effects on Mexican Americans. He then discusses the first major attempt by Mexican American farm workers to unionize at the DiGiorgio Corporation in California.
9.
More On The Plight Of The Texas Farm Workers: The Raymondsville Strike
Description:
Marcial Silva, organizer for Texas Farm Workers Union, brings an update on the legal developments in the Raymondsville strike, and outlines the legislative and political strategies the TFWU undertook to thwart Charles Wetegrove’s control of Willacy County’s political and legal structure.
10.
Hispanic Youth Unemployment
- Theme:
- Society
- Series:
- Labor, Social Issues
- Host:
- Armando Gutiérrez
- Interviewee:
- Richard Santos
- Broadcast date:
- Apr 26, 1979
Description:
Economist Richard Santos discusses the way that Chicano and other minority youths bear the brunt of high unemployment in the United States. The crisis there means that minority youths unable to find jobs will grow disillusioned with the labor market, drop out of school, and continue to face discrimination for the rest of their lives.
11.
The Texas Farm Worker's Strike
Description:
James and José Garza, who are members of the Texas Farm Workers League, and were participants in the massive Farmworkers strike near Raymondville, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley
12.
Migrant Workers And The Situation In The Upper Midwest
Description:
Carolina Mata, former chairperson and present member of the Board of Directors of the North Dakota Migrant Counsel, discusses the challenges facing migrant workers, their families and their migrant advocacy organizations in Texas and the Midwest.
13.
Chicanas In The Labor Market
- Theme:
- Society
- Series:
- Labor, Women's Issues
- Host:
- Armando Gutiérrez
- Interviewee:
- Gloria Gutiérrez
- Broadcast date:
- Sep 14, 1978
Description:
Gloria Gutierrez, Special Assistant to the Director of the Women’s Bureau within the Department of Labor, discusses the current state of women and minorities in the workforce.
14.
Texas Farm Workers—The Right To Organize
Description:
Jesus Moya, Texas Farm Workers Union Organizer discusses the fight to repeal the right to work law provision of the 1945 Taft-Hartley Act
15.
Chicano Farm Worker's Struggle
Description:
Dr. Gilberto Cardenas discusses the organizing efforts of the United Farm Workers, including their challenges and successes.
16.
The Plight Of The Migrant Farm Worker
Description:
In 1977, Antonio Orendain led the Texas Farmworkers Human Rights March from San Juan, Texas to Washington D.C. to draw attention to the situation of Texas farm workers and the right to work laws that hindered their organizing. In here, he discusses the TFWU’s strategies for organizing undocumented workers, migrant farm-workers and specific growers in a right-to-work border state like Texas.
17.
The Bracero Program
Description:
Richard Goodman discusses the impact of the Bracero program on farmworker politics in the United States.
18.
The Road To Unionization
Description:
Host Richard Goodman discusses the first major attempt to unionize the DiGiorgio Corporation in California.
19.
Farm Workers And Unionization
Description:
Esteban Flores discusses the current state of farm worker organizing and their efforts to enact labor legislation.