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    The union movement, past and future

    With union membership at an all-time low, organized labor is facing an existential crisis. President Trump supports Republican efforts to reduce union power — at the same time he's promised to improve working conditions. We look at the union movement — past and future.

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    By Warren Olney • Feb 17, 2017 • 51m Listen

    Image courtesy International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

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    3 stories
    1. 1:21

      Climate change skeptic Pruitt confirmed to head EPA

      After a vote of 52 for and 46 against, the President of the US Senate today announced confirmation of Oklahoma's Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

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      7 min
    2. 7:55

      President Trump, organized labor and working Americans

      The President helped unveil Boeing's new Dreamliner today in South Carolina -- at a plant where workers just rejected unionization by a vote of three-to-one. In half of America's state capitals, Republicans are enacting so-called "right-to-work" laws crippling unions by allowing employees not to pay dues.

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      34 min
    3. 42:09

      Deportation under Donald Trump

      Barack Obama was known as the "Deporter in Chief." How much have things changed for undocumented immigrants since Donald Trump took over the White House?

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      9 min
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Tena Rubio

      Independent Producer

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      Sáša Woodruff

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Luke Vander Ploeg

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 1:217 min

      Climate change skeptic Pruitt confirmed to head EPA

    2. 7:5534 min

      President Trump, organized labor and working Americans

    3. 42:099 min

      Deportation under Donald Trump

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