What We Are?

WIN producers gather news from labor unions and activists from across the country. WIN then packages the material for distribution to radio stations and for print publication.

Our producers and reporters come from a diverse background encompassing all fields of media journalism, from print to radio, video to the Web. We share one common goal: to create media that puts people over profits and empowers citizens to become journalists in their own right.

Media Outreach

WIN combines a traditional placement strategy with a grassroots mobilization program.

Placement starts through a direct "business to business" relationship between producers and radio stations. WIN also works with labor councils, local unions and community organizations to encourage placement in their respective localities.

In addition, WIN is well-connected with existing labor media projects, progressive grassroots radio programs and Independent Media Centers.

Why WIN?

Radio is a Powerful Force. More than 12,000 AM and FM stations broadcast to millions of listeners every day.

But too often conservative viewpoints dominate the airwaves while workers' interests are ignored.

If you listen to what's considered "business news" on the radio today, you'll hear lots about stock prices, corporate earnings, and profit/loss ratios - but nothing about the people that make commerce possible.
Workers Independent News (WIN) gathers news by and about working people and creates programs and feature stories for commercial, public, community and college radio stations throughout the United States.

WIN's mission is to bring balance to radio news coverage by providing stations with news and features focusing on:

• Organizing and bargaining for workplace democracy
• Workplace issues: safety, privacy, discrimination
• Coalition campaigns for a living wage and other goals
• Unions in communities and the political arena
• Workforce issues: undocumented workers, contingent and part time workers, immigrant workers


Assistance to Local Activists

WIN also offers training and assistance to unions and community-based organizations in the technical aspects of reporting, radio production and media relations.

Part of our mission is to help build the capacity of local organizations to speak in their own voices about matters of concern to them.

WIN is in partnership with a software supplier to provide inexpensive audio editing software to cooperating organizations. Training, both in English and Spanish, is also included.

We encourage local activists and organizations to contact WIN about your issues and campaigns. WIN can produce a news story for airing on your local stations, and in turn, local unions and activists can help achieve placement by contacting those stations.