'WOBBLIES' LIVE ON AT TV STATION AT FREE SPEECH TELEVISION, WORKERS ORGANIZE UNION WITH A VIEW TO THE PAST.(City Desk/Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: February 18, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News

BOULDER -- Free Speech Television bills itself as the "antidote to Fox News," broadcasting anti-war rallies and documentaries about global labor struggles.

So when workers at the nonprofit, Boulder-based satellite station wanted a union, they rejected conventional labor organizations. Instead, they chose the Industrial Workers of the World, a group that offered a socialist alternative to men who toiled 12 hours a day in Colorado mines a century ago.

Mention of the union known as the "Wobblies" draws blank stares even in ...

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