From: Frank Emspak frank.emspak@uwex.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003

To: Union Leaders:

WINS is a broadcast news service that focuses on the issues and concerns of
America's work force.

On Tuesday, July 1, WINS produced a special feature on the U.S. Department
of Labor plan to revise the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and overtime
provisions for employees.  The feature aired on over 100 radio stations. We
believe this story is of interest to you and your locals.  We urge you to
contact WINS to find out how you can get labor news like this on commercial
radio in your area.

Go to http://www.laborradio.org/audio/features/mp3/winsfeat070103.mp3 to
listen to the story and to hear what real labor news is like.  Any union
member that has a computer with sound and internet access can listen to WINS
stories.

Your members can listen to the free three-minute daily WINS headline
newscast by going to our web site at http://www.laborradio.org/
WINS material is updated daily. If you are interested in getting this service
on a daily basis you need only put a link on your web site, or, if you do not
have a web site simply go to http://www.laborradio.org/

We would also like you to consider a subscription to WINS. Subscribers get
notification when WINS does a story of concern to you. These news stories
are formatted so that you can put them on your web site, or give them to
radio stations in your area for broadcast. Subscriptions are only $10/wk.
For more information, go to the WINS web site www.LaborRadio.org

As a WINS subscriber, you have access to all of the material WINS produces
including special features and our daily 30 second economics for working
people (Dow Bobs).

We also want to hear from you about what your local is doing. We have a
network of reporters and we can do interviews via telephone.

Give us a call or reply by e-mail - or go to our web site -
http://www.laborradio.org/ and take a look and listen. Call
608-262-0680 to give us news of your organization.

Frank Emspak
WINS Manager & Executive Producer
(608) 262-0680
Frank.Emspak@uwex.edu

WINS - Workers Independent News Service
School for Workers
Room 422 Lowell Center
610 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53703

WINS Feature - Unions Oppose Overtime Changes (7/1/03) [mp3]

In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards
Act, outlawing child labor, establishing a minimum wage, and enshrining into
law the forty-hour work week. Since then, generations of Americans have
qualified for time-and-a-half pay whenever their employers required them to
work overtime. But as John Hamilton reports, that could soon change for
millions of workers if the US Department of Labor proceeds with its plans to
revise the Act. (3:47)

Link to the audio here:
http://www.laborradio.org/audio/features/mp3/winsfeat070103.mp3