'Wobblies' live on at TV station By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
At Free Speech Television, workers organize union with a view to the past
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.