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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Worker Power Hour explores how unions can connect with their communities and amplify their message. In labor history, troops expel jobless workers from D.C. Quote of the day: Jack London.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Exchange follows workers fighting to preserve jobs and working conditions at Colorado's historic Boulderado Hotel. In labor history, President Obama signed a jobs bill to prevent public-sector layoffs in 2010. Quote of the day: Barack Obama.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: ReWork explores why women workers in Uganda built their own organization instead of joining male-led groups. In labor history, Eugene Debs was arrested after the Pullman Strike in 1894. Quote of the day: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores Howard Zinn's belief that art and theater can inspire social change and transcend politics. In labor history, Verizon workers launched a nationwide strike in 2000. Quote of the day: Staughton Lynd.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Blue Collar News examines chronic unemployment in Montana's tribal communities and the barriers facing Native workers. In labor history, the FMLA took effect in 1993. Quote of the day: Bill Clinton.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Boiling Point explores how hospitality and service workers are expected to serve as social workers in downtown communities. In labor history, the 1997 UPS strike began; quote of the day: Ron Carey.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers Mic digs into the mechanics of tax fraud and wage theft with an expert who explains how the scam works and why workers should care. In labor history, Florence Reece died in 1986; quote of the day: Florence Reece.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor History in 2:00 recalls the 1866 Mechanics Institute Massacre in New Orleans, when white mobs attacked Black Republicans and their allies fighting for civil rights. In labor history, the NFL Players struck in 1970; quote of the day: Marvin Miller.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Mindy Murray talks music and resistance on the Labor Heritage Power Hour. In labor history, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975. Quote of the day: Jimmy Hoffa.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Actor Harrison Ford joins the SAG-AFTRA Podcast to reflect on overcoming self-doubt and finding his place in the industry. In labor history, United Farm Workers won their first grape contracts in Delano in 1970. Quote of the day: Cesar Chavez.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: My Labor Radio explores how ordinary people can change the course of history through everyday action. In labor history, women shoemakers formed the Daughters of St. Crispin in 1869 to fight for equal pay. Quote of the day: Harry Bridges.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Notes explores the solidarity forged on the picket line during a union strike. In labor history, National Labor Union founder William Sylvis dies in 1869. Quote of the day: William Sylvis.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Grocery Nerds examines Aldi’s low-cost business model and what it means for workers. In labor history, the UAW and Teamsters launched the Alliance for Labor Action. Quote of the day: Benjamin Todd Jealous.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how the Labor Radio Podcast Network connects listeners with labor voices from across the movement. In labor history, Michigan copper miners strike for union recognition in 1913. Quote of the day: Charles Moyer.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Blue Collar News visits locked-out workers on a Montana picket line fighting for their union jobs. In labor history, San Francisco brewery workers won a landmark 1886 strike. Quote of the day: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: WorkWeek Radio visits the first strike in 70 years by ILWU Local 6 workers at the C&H Sugar refinery. In labor history, Chicago labor-owned station WCFL began broadcasting in 1926. Quote of the day: Sigmund Freud.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red explores the harsh conditions faced by Southern textile workers. In labor history, the 1934 Minneapolis truckers' strike reached its deadly "Bloody Friday." Quote of the day: David Riehle.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers Mic examines labor conditions in the cannabis industry. In labor history, the 1944 Port Chicago disaster led to the court-martial of 50 Black sailors. Quote of the day: Thurgood Marshall.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how soccer’s history is inseparable from labor, class, and industrialization. In labor history, San Francisco’s 1934 longshore strike became a four-day general strike. Quote of the day: George Meany.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Force explores how workers across industries are organizing to shape the future of work. In labor history, Lovestruck game writers won raises after their 2020 strike. Quote of the day: Thomas Lee.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Roswell Hub shares lifesaving lessons on protecting workers from extreme heat. In labor history, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 erupted after wage cuts sparked a nationwide revolt. Quote of the day: Woody Guthrie.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Radio on KBOO hears why university workers say they don't want to strike—but will if they must. In labor history, Detroit newspaper workers launched their 19-month strike in 1995. Quote of the day: Booker T. Washington.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Grocery Nerds explores the “all one love” message behind a beloved grocery product and the man who created it. In labor history, federal troops crushed the Pullman Strike in 1894. Quote of the day: Mary McLeod Bethune.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour celebrates a night of music, spoken word and solidarity. In labor history, a 1935 subway cleaners’ strike won reinstatement for six fired workers. Quote of the day: Mary McLeod Bethune.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Reinventing Solidarity examines new strike data showing healthcare has surged to the second-most strike-active industry, behind accommodation and food services. In labor history, the founding convention of the IWW concluded in Chicago. Quote of the day: Big Bill Haywood.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage examines why requiring employers to reach a first contract faster could transform labor law. In labor history, the 1912 Grabow Massacre marked a turning point in the Louisiana-Texas Lumber War. Quote of the day: Mother Jones.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Jawn tells the story of Carl Mackley and the Aberle Hosiery strike, remembering a worker whose death became a symbol of labor solidarity. In labor history, Eugene V. Debs was arrested during the Pullman Strike. Quote of the day: Eugene V. Debs.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We Rise Fighting examines how Minnesota union members responded to federal immigration enforcement and defended their communities. In labor history, feminist and labor activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born. Quote of the day: Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how filmmaker Boots Riley uses satire to reveal the mechanics of racism in America. In labor history, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed workplace discrimination. Quote of the day: Barack Obama.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage explores how collective education helped build the Coalition of Rutgers Unions, which traces part of its roots to Labor Notes. In labor history, New Orleans streetcar workers' 1929 strike inspired the po' boy sandwich. Quote of the day: Bennie Martin.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People argues that stronger unions are the key to solving many of today’s biggest challenges—and that the real inspiration comes from the grassroots of the labor movement. In labor history, Alabama outlawed convict leasing in coal mines. Quote of the day: IWW.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: LaborForce exposes corporate profiteering and reminds us why workers win when they stand together. In labor history, FDR established the National Labor Relations Board in 1934. Quote of the day: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red examines retail worker safety, shoplifting, and why many grocery workers can't afford the food they sell. In labor history, Eugene V. Debs' American Railway Union boycotted Pullman cars in 1894. Quote of the day: Eugene V. Debs.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour reminds us that solidarity grows one worker at a time. In labor history, FDR banned discrimination in defense industries in 1941. Quote of the day: Charlie King.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Notes podcast explains how the worker actions we see are built through patient organizing, one conversation and one spreadsheet at a time. Today’s labor landmark: the Cannery Lady Monument. In labor history, Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons was born. Quote of the day: Albert Parsons.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Class Matters looks back at the Labor Party experiment and what it reveals about workers seeking an independent political voice. In labor history, Congress overrode Truman's veto to enact the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act. Quote of the day: Harry S. Truman.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Next Generation Carriers explores Pride, queer labor history, and why attacks on one group of workers threaten all workers. In labor history, the Herrin Massacre erupted during an Illinois coal strike. Quote of the day: John L. Lewis.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Economics for the People examines media consolidation, union organizing, and why newsroom workers are fighting back. In labor history, Youngstown's Women's Day Massacre exposed the violence of the Little Steel Strike. Quote of the day: a union organizer at the Women's Day Massacre.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how art and culture help workers build power for the long haul. In labor history, A. Philip Randolph pressed FDR to end discrimination in defense industries. Quote of the day: A. Philip Randolph.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Grocery Nerds explores worker organizing and union-building at Amazon. In labor history, Mother Jones launched her campaign against child labor in textile mills. Quote of the day: Mother Jones.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Solidarity Works explores the worker-owned cooperative model through Spain’s Mondragon Corporation. In labor history, Eugene V. Debs delivered the anti-war speech that led to his imprisonment. Quote of the day: Eugene V. Debs.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Manufacturing Report explores how Samuel Slater brought British textile mill knowledge to America. In labor history, the 1990 Battle of Century City helped spark annual Justice for Janitors Day. Quote of the day: John Sweeney.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working Voices investigates Teamsters' concerns about AI-powered cameras and surveillance technology in UPS trucks. In labor history, Seattle dock workers formed their first union in 1886. Quote of the day: Babe Ruth.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores labor history, worker culture and solidarity, from Sean Astin’s AFL-CIO speech to labor murals, union organizing and historic labor halls. In labor history, legendary UMWA and CIO leader John L. Lewis died in 1969. Quote of the day: Sean Astin.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Future of Work examines whether artificial intelligence will boost productivity and help workers—or deepen inequality and insecurity. In labor history, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963. Quote of the day: John F. Kennedy.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers’ Mic explores Pope Leo XIV’s call to protect workers and the dignity of work as artificial intelligence reshapes society. In labor history, labor organizer and Triangle Fire investigator Helen Marot was born. Quote of the day: Helen Marot.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: WorkWeek Radio examines how AI-driven automation is already eliminating jobs and warns of deeper impacts ahead. In labor history, New York City drawbridge tenders left bridges open in a 1971 pension dispute, creating a massive traffic jam. Quote of the day: H.G. Wells.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum examines organizing in right-to-work states and why unions there may be “hungrier” and more member-driven. In labor history, Teamsters for a Democratic Union was founded in 1976. Quote of the day: Elizabeth Warren.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour explores why racial equity and solidarity are inseparable in the fight for worker justice. In labor history, Congress approved Taft-Hartley in 1947. Quote of the day: John L. Lewis.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Solidarity Breakfast examines National Sorry Day and the ongoing struggle for justice and recognition for First Nations people in Australia. In labor history, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union was founded in 1900. Quote of the day: Look for the Union Label.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Riverside Rank and File talks with an Amazon worker about organizing for a voice in pay and workplace decisions. In labor history, Philadelphia printers launched America’s first recorded strike in 1786. Quote of the day: Louis Brandeis.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Radio on KBOO talks with workers organizing at Real You Electrolysis Workers United and the pushback they've faced from management. In labor history, Mexico abolished the siesta in 1944. Quote of the day: Ella Baker.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Radio on KBOO talks with workers organizing at a gender-affirming care clinic, Riverside Rank and File explores union organizing at Amazon, Solidarity Breakfast marks National Sorry Day with Indigenous activists in Australia, Heartland Labor Forum talks with retiring Texas AFL-CIO leader Rick Levy, El Cafecito del Día examines the history of mass deportations and mixed-status families, and Say Watt explores the core beliefs that shape our lives. Plus, a speed round of Shows You Should Know from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the I Am An Actor podcast features Kate Hudson on turning childhood “troublemaking” into a career. In labor history, Disney animators launched their landmark 1941 strike. Quote of the day: Kate Hudson.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how working people preserve their stories through People's 250, labor art, labor songs, and labor archives. In labor history, 30,000 Rochester workers joined a 1946 general strike. Quote of the day: Charlie Chaplin.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red Podcast explores France’s Yellow Vest Movement and how workers built community and resistance after local gathering places disappeared. In labor history, the Supreme Court struck down the NIRA in 1935. Quote of the day: Nelson Mandela.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Working People podcast looks at how attacks on labor rights are unfolding inside little-known federal agencies and commissions. In labor history, Actors’ Equity was founded in 1913. Quote of the day: George M. Cohan.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Worker Power Hour looks at organizing in the warehouse industry and what workers call one of labor’s biggest fights today. In labor history, the Remington Rand strike began in 1936. Quote of the day: James Baldwin.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Boiling Point podcast explores why labor organizing must connect workers’ jobs, communities, churches, and everyday lives. In labor history, Gene Debs was jailed for his role in the Pullman Strike. Quote of the day: Gene Debs.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores why culture shapes power, politics, and how working people see themselves. In labor history, Hawaii plantation workers won higher wages and a 40-hour week after a 79-day strike. Quote of the day: April Verrett.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers Mic talks with animal care specialists at Brookfield Zoo about respect, labor, and why “zookeeper” misses the point. In labor history, the Railway Labor Act took effect in 1926. Quote of the day: Charles Horton Cooley.
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Voting rights advocates warn Alabama redistricting fights could weaken Black voting power, on the Valley Labor Report. In labor history, the 1920 Matewan shootout erupts in West Virginia. Quote of the day: John Sayles.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Union Bug digs into the growing boycott of REI and workers’ claims that management is fundamentally opposed to unions. In labor history, Big Bill Haywood died in exile in 1928. Quote of the day: Big Bill Haywood.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Project Labor podcast explores workers caught between management and labor struggle, plus Harold Phillips previews this weekend’s labor arts events. In labor history, IWW songwriter T-Bone Slim died in 1942. Quote of the day: T-Bone Slim.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour spotlights worker culture, frontline care work, and why “labor is art.” In labor history, Milwaukee brewery workers launched a strike in 1953. Quote of the day: George Bancroft.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Solidarity Report says solidarity means standing together even when it’s hard to see what’s in it for you. In labor history, Canada created a Department of Labour in 1909. Quote of the day: Doug Fraser.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Work Stoppage podcast says May Day is workers’ real labor holiday, not the “bulls--t holiday” chosen to erase labor history. In labor history, ICE raided the Agriprocessors plant in Iowa in 2008. Quote of the day: George Escobar.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Maryland Labor History podcast tracks a project overtaken by a mill closure. In labor history, 1894 Pullman Strike begins. Quote of the day: Eugene V. Debs.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The International Labour Organization’s Future of Work podcast examines how job contracts and workplace policies shape safety and justice on the job. In labor history, 1863 Brotherhood of the Footboard constitution ratified. Quote of the day: Elizabeth Tang.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Heritage Power Hour features Amy Goodman on WPFW’s roots and Steal This Story, Please! Q&A clips. In labor history, 1867 Knights of St. Crispin formed. Quote of the day: Mary Harris "Mother Jones".
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Blue Collar News highlights how data centers drive construction jobs and local wealth on the Labor Radio Podcast Network. In labor history, 1937 Richmond tobacco stemmers strike. Quote of the day: Albert Einstein.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage channels a boycott and resistance message on the Labor Radio Podcast Network. In labor history, machinists met in 1888 and launched what became the International Association of Machinists. Quote of the day: John Sweeney.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People spotlights a worker-led vision for Philadelphia and a May Day push to ratify it. In labor history, the 1886 Haymarket massacre. Quote of the day: Albert Parsons.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Union Bug reflects on how past struggles can inspire today’s organizing. In labor history, millions joined the 2006 Day Without Immigrants protests. Quote of the day: The Internationale.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how unions are investing in arts and culture to build worker power. In labor history, the NLRB moved to speed union elections in 2012. Quote of the day: Barack Obama.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum explores how transit riders have long used organizing to demand freedom of mobility. In labor history, Coxey’s Army reaches Washington in 1894. Quote of the day: Jacob Coxey.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On Union Strong, Albany News Guild journalists describe life without a contract for 17 years—and what it means for local news. In labor history, Congress creates OSHA in 1970 and April 28 is Workers Memorial Day. Quote of the day: Mother Jones.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red podcast examines how the line between domestic and foreign surveillance is eroding. In labor history, “Bread and Roses” was published in the IWW’s Industrial Solidarity in 1946. Quote of the day: from the song “Bread and Roses.”
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stick Together explores how we misread landscapes—and labor—on the Labor Radio Podcast Network. In labor history, West Coast dockworkers shut down ports in 1999 for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Quote of the day: Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour previews the May Day re-release of American Dream at the DC Labor FilmFest. In labor history, pioneering coal miner Ida Mae Stull died in 1980. Quote of the day: Ida Mae Stull.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People exposes environmental disaster and worker danger. In labor history, enslaved Africans led the first recorded revolt in 1526. Quote of the day: Mother Jones.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: My Labor Radio spotlights efforts to make trades training accessible for women. In labor history, New York’s Taylor Law reshaped public sector unions in 1967. Quote of the day: John D. Rockefeller.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Rick Smith Show examines the environmental and economic impacts of AI data centers. In labor history, 10,000 celebrated a textile strike win in Lowell in 1912. Quote of the day: Eleanor Roosevelt.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: America’s Work Force Radio looks at the devastating impact of mass layoffs on workers and communities. In labor history, the Supreme Court strikes down limits on bakery workers’ hours in 1905. Quote of the day: Pope Francis.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour previews the DC Labor FilmFest and explores how “time-saving” tech often means more work. In labor history, 20,000 activists blockaded World Bank/IMF meetings in 2000. Quote of the day: Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Solidarity Works recounts a tense encounter with ICE as a parent is surrounded at gunpoint while trying to keep others safe. In labor history, A. Philip Randolph was born in 1889. Quote of the day: A. Philip Randolph.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: El Cafecito del Día highlights rapid-response solidarity, as workers mobilize to support immigrant families. In labor history, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939. Quote of the day: John Steinbeck.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio reports a shocking ICE raid where agents in black seized a terrified woman. In labor history, Eugene V. Debs was jailed in 1919 for opposing WWI. Quote of the day: Gene Debs.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum looks at a potential turning point in baseball history and what it could mean for workers in the game. In labor history, Frances Perkins was born in 1880. Quote of the day: Dolores Huerta.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Rude Mechanical Orchestra on the Labor Heritage Power Hour talks about showing up and amplifying the movement. In labor history, Paul Robeson was born in 1898. Quote of the day: Paul Robeson (Joe Hill).
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On PowerLine, a lineman recounts a harrowing moment on the job and the realities of working aloft. In labor history, the WPA was approved in 1935, putting millions to work. Quote of the day: Harry S. Truman.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On UnionTalk, school bus shortages force working parents to rely on rideshares to get kids to class. In labor history, 15,000 janitors struck in Los Angeles in 2000. Quote of the day: Justice for Janitors striker.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We delve into the readiness of the working class to confront challenges ahead on Labor Express Radio. In labor history, Rose Schneiderman, a key figure in the 1909 Shirtwaist strike, was born on this date. Quote of the day: Rose Schneiderman.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Re:Work Radio shares a striking story of women drivers challenging bias and skill on the road. In labor history, 1913 Paterson silk strikers rallied in Haledon. Quote of the day: John Reed.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour explores immersive theater workers organizing inside escape rooms. In labor history, the AFL chartered its Union Label Department in 1909. Quote of the day: ILGWU.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Workers’ Mic says real solidarity means no games when refs strike—put it in the contract. In labor history, MLB players struck in 1972 and won pensions and arbitration. Quote of the day: John L. Lewis.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People spotlights JBS workers organizing for fair pay, dignity, and safe conditions. In labor history, Cesar Chavez was born in 1927. Quote of the day: Cesar Chavez.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: CWA Hour of Power features UFW’s Dolores Huerta reflecting on painful early movement experiences. In labor history: Harry Bridges dies at 88. Quote of the day: Harry Bridges.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage exposes JBS workers forced to pay for their own safety gear. In labor history, 2002: Supreme Court limits rights of undocumented workers. Quote of the day: Mother Jones.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour features crane operator Sammy Cossairt on sisterhood – and singing -- in the trades. In labor history, San Francisco brewery workers’ 1868 strike forced bosses to back down. Quote of the day: Sammy Cossairt.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Exchange reports a 99% strike authorization by JBS meatpacking workers. In labor history, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers. Quote of the day: Frances Perkins.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Artist Eric Ruin talks with Tabitha Arnold about how punk, zines, and class rage fueled his radical art—and why he gets more from collaboration than competition. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange kicks off tomorrow, and a historic sit-down strike in Akron.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red captures the grassroots spirit rising in Los Angeles as communities resist ICE raids and repression—no organizing required when neighbors have each other’s backs. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange kicks off Friday in Silver Spring, A. Philip Randolph meets with FDR, and a powerful reminder that justice must be exacted, not given.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio sounds the alarm on rising attacks and calls for labor to act now. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange kicks off Friday, a deadly 1864 arsenal explosion, and Susan B. Anthony’s timeless words.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red podcast takes us deep into Andor, where political awakening comes not from power and privilege, but from the realization that systemic change requires more than following the rules. Plus: Eugene V. Debs speaks truth to power on this day in 1918.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Dig examines how English monarchs used clothing to project divine authority. Plus: worker-themed theater in NYC, WTO/99 at dcdoxfest, and the founding of the American Railway Union.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Francisco Herrera on music as empowerment, songs from Carsie Blanton and Colleen Kattau, Will Attig’s favorite labor anthem, and Seth Newton Patel on the 1883 Cowboy Strike.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Pandemic-era understaffing and overwork have become “the new norm” in workforce strategy, says Economics for the People. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange is next week, and we remember labor leader John L. Lewis, who died on this day in 1969.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Washington Post tech workers say their work is central to the company’s success—so why not have a union to match? That’s from the Power at Work podcast. Plus: unions legalized in Canada (1872), vigilantes attack a MI picket line (1937), and JFK signs the Equal Pay Act (1963). Labor quote by Rep. Jackie Speier on the long road to wage equality.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Why union meetings feel pointless to some members—and what that means for participation and power. Featuring a segment from the Labor Notes Podcast, plus labor history, today’s labor quote, and the latest from the labor arts calendar.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A wartime streetcar ride takes an unexpected turn on On The Line: Stories of BC Workers. Plus: Unite for Veterans hits the Mall with the Dropkick Murphys, and we remember Lansing’s 1937 “Labor Holiday.”
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily. “We started in ’96 and our message has not changed at all,” says Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey. On The Labor Heritage Power Hour, Casey talks about the band’s new single, their working-class roots, and why veterans are fighting back.
Plus: The Lockout of the 20,000 premieres online today, and in 1976, Teamsters for a Democratic Union was born.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A striking Bookmans worker on Words and Work explains why they took action. Plus: Give Light labor art event in NYC, and the House passes the Taft-Hartley Act on this day in 1947.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A student hunger striker on the Working People podcast reflects on Gaza, starvation, and cultural erasure. Plus, the Dropkick Murphys perform at Friday’s Unite for Veterans rally on the National Mall; on this day in 1956, 600,000 Steelworkers went on strike; and we remember the ILGWU, founded June 3, 1900, with “Look for the Union Label.”
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: When your job is relocated—whether it’s 50 miles away or suddenly just around the corner—it can mean a major life decision or a welcome change. We hear from the Roswell Hub podcast on how workers are impacted by shifting job sites. Plus: the labor arts calendar, the first printers’ strike in 1786, and a look back at the unratified 1924 amendment to end child labor.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Trump’s crackdown in Newark backfires, uniting protestors and sparking global anti-fascist solidarity. From What’s Going On Labor Mondays. On today’s labor arts calendar: the film Lilly — about equal pay trailblazer Lilly Ledbetter — screens online, and High Iron, an immersive rail labor experience, is on view in Laramie, Wyoming.
In today’s labor history: remembering the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Artist and movement strategist Ricardo Levins Morales explores the deep emotional roots of organizing, while comics artist and activist Michael DeForge reflects on the power of political art—and how one of his posters sparked a labor board hearing. Plus: closing night of the DC Labor FilmFest, solidarity at the Kennedy Center, and a strike at Walt Disney in today’s labor history.
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What does it mean to become American? On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily, 3rd & Fairfax explores identity, transformation, and the immigrant experience. Plus: The Last Pullman Car screens online tonight—free—with a live Q&A. And in labor history, dancing the Turkey Trot gets 15 women fired in 1912.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: From Utah’s Worker Power Hour, a call for more union-friendly candidates across the political spectrum as labor rights face mounting challenges. Plus, Eleanor Roosevelt on the meaning of human rights, and Good Night, and Good Luck screens at the DC Labor FilmFest.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Is a 4-day workweek the key to better health and productivity? We hear from Stick Together about new research backing shorter workweeks—workers rested, happier, and just as productive. Plus: this week’s labor arts calendar, a look back at the steel strike of 1937, and a chilling preview of the Memorial Day Massacre.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Heartland Labor Forum explores how frontline Social Security workers are grappling with understaffing and long lines. We also preview this quiet Memorial Day weekend's labor arts offerings and mark the deadly turning point of the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike. laborradionetwork.org
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: “People make their own history.” Labor historian Joe McCartin joins the Labor Heritage Power Hour to explore how workers shape the world—within the limits they inherit. We also mark the anniversary of the 1909 Georgia Railroad strike and remember labor leader Eugene Debs, imprisoned on this day in 1895. Plus, check out tonight’s DC Labor FilmFest screening of Bless Their Little Hearts.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: From outdated tech to billion-dollar budgets left unused, America’s Work Force Radio breaks down the challenges facing aviation safety systems—and the workers trying to keep them running. Plus: Don’t miss today’s Postal Workers Museum tour at noon, or tonight’s screening of The Churning at the DC Labor FilmFest. In labor history, nearly 100,000 SBC workers walked off the job in 2004. And today’s labor quote comes from anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who went on trial for his life on this day in 1921.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Valley Labor Report explores how Pope Leo XIII confronted the rise of industrial capitalism and the plight of the urban working class—laying the groundwork for labor-conscious Catholic social teaching. Plus: Good Night, and Good Luck screens at the DC Labor FilmFest, we mark the 1933 rubber workers’ strike in Akron, and hear from labor historian William Cahn on the enduring influence of worker activism.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A methane explosion at Mexico’s Pasta de Conchos mine in 2006 trapped 65 miners underground—sparking outrage, cross-border solidarity, and an enduring fight for justice. That’s from the Solidarity Works podcast, on the Labor Radio Podcast Network.Plus: Singing for Justice screens today at the DC Labor FilmFest, the deadly 1950 South Amboy dock explosion, and a powerful labor quote from Richard Trumka.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Manufacturing Report exposes how viral TikTok shopping hacks push ultra-cheap Chinese factory goods—and the hidden costs behind them. Plus: weekend labor films at the DC Labor FilmFest and Reel Work in California, the 1934 Minneapolis general strike, and a powerful quote from A. Philip Randolph.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: UAW President Shawn Fain accepts the 2025 Solidarity Forever Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation, reflecting on the revolutionary power of telling workers’ stories. Plus: the 1917 founding of the first public library workers’ union and a musical tribute to IWW songwriter T-Bone Slim.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily, we hear from the On The Line podcast, where the power of honest history takes center stage. Educators and organizers are pushing back on sanitized narratives, lifting up the essential struggles—of enslaved Africans, suffragettes, and the Chicano labor movement—that truly built America. Plus: labor film highlights from D.C. to California, a victorious 1953 brewery strike, and a classic labor quote from modern-day picket lines.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily, we hear from Working Voices on KPFK, where educators are taking a stand to protect immigrant students by distributing red rights cards and refusing to aid ICE without a warrant. Plus: labor arts calendar highlights and the 1913 IWW dockworkers strike in Philadelphia. Today’s labor quote comes from UAW President Doug Fraser, who broke barriers—and spoke hard truths—on this day in 1980.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: In 2025, over 580 Starbucks stores have unionized—an outcome few predicted just five years ago. Today’s Reinventing Solidarity podcast explores how this unexpected surge is reshaping the labor movement, especially among young workers. Plus: immigration raids echo a dark history, labor arts events from D.C. to California, and George Escobar of CASA calls out fear-based enforcement tactics.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Congress cracked down on undocumented workers—then made exceptions for low-wage white labor. Tales from the Reuther Library exposes the racial bias baked into U.S. labor policy. Plus: labor films this weekend, a 1934 strike, and Big Bill Haywood.
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Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, Tim Lawson spotlights the IBEW Photo Contest, Tabitha Arnold talks labor art with Australian cartoonist Sam Wallman, and Samantha Smith uncovers the hidden history of unionizing Las Vegas showgirls. Plus, music from the DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Inside the sugar production line with the Bakery Workers Union’s BCTGM Voices Project. In the labor arts world, Bargaining Shorts screen at California’s Reel Work Labor Film Festival. On this day in labor history: Philadelphia’s longest transit strike ends after 44 days. And today’s labor quote comes from Equity’s Andrea Hoeschen on the fight at The Second City in Chicago.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio defends freedom of speech as a core labor value, Calamity screens at the DC Labor FilmFest; the Clara Lemlich Awards honor women organizers in NYC; and NoVa Book Club tackles Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois. Plus, a wildcat strike by Black tobacco stemmers in 1937 Richmond and a quote by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, May 5: A chilling glimpse into campus shutdowns and community exclusion, from the Union Talk podcast. Plus, two powerful films — Calamity and Clockwatchers — screen at the DC Labor FilmFest, and we remember the Battle of Harlan County and labor leader John Sweeney.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, May 2: A fish sampler talks shop on the America Works podcast. Then we run down a packed May Day weekend labor arts calendar, with screenings at the DC Labor FilmFest and Reel Work, a Joe Hill musical, and more. Plus, today in labor history: Hitler abolishes German unions in 1933. And Joan Baez reminds us: It's there you find Joe Hill.
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It’s May Day on the Labor Radio Podcast Daily! We talk with Steven Schrum, co-author of Labor’s Martyr, a new musical about Joe Hill. Plus, tonight’s DC Labor FilmFest kicks off with Lilly, the story of equal pay trailblazer Lilly Ledbetter. All that, your labor arts calendar, a look back at the 1886 fight for the 8-hour day, and today’s labor quote—straight from the screen. Full details at laborheritage.org.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Union Strong on advancing labor issues across New York. Labor arts highlights from DC and Santa Cruz. In labor history: striking miners shot in 1906. Plus, Lilly Ledbetter’s call for justice as the DC Labor FilmFest kicks off. More at laborheritage.org.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Power is waiting—but should we act now? On Labor Radio from KBOO, we hear why this isn’t the time to sit still. Plus: the DC Labor FilmFest opens Thursday and the DC Labor Chorus performs Saturday—details at laborheritage.org. In labor history, Coxey’s Army reaches Washington in 1894, and Idaho miners take bold action in 1899. Today’s labor quote comes from Thomas Jefferson.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Filing a union petition or unfair labor charge? You can go to your local NLRB office—but the process may stall. On today’s show, America’s Workforce Radio explains how the lack of a quorum is crippling the board’s work. Plus: honoring Workers Memorial Day, the creation of OSHA, and a labor quote from the AFL-CIO’s Death on the Job report. Hosted by Chris Garlock. More at laborradionetwork.org and laborheritage.org.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: “We all work.” AFI’s Abbie Algar previews this year’s DC Labor FilmFest, launching May Day at the AFI Silver, highlighting the shared experiences at the heart of labor cinema. Plus: labor history from Charleston, SC, where Reverend Ralph David Abernathy was arrested in a 1969 hospital union protest. And today's labor quote is a fiery call to action from Abernathy himself. More at laborheritage.org and laborradionetwork.org.
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Chicago Jobs with Justice organizer Angie Moreno previews their upcoming Art Build, using creativity to process the struggles and joys of labor and immigration. Also on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: a DC Labor FilmFest preview, a labor scavenger hunt in Washington State, and the winner of the General Strike Song Contest. Plus: auditions for Love Songs from the Liberation Wars in North Carolina, American Agitators screens in California, and the ILWU’s 1999 port shutdown for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: When Cummins management asked for a six-month extension with no raises, workers stood their ground — hear the story on We Rise Fighting.
Plus: In the labor arts world, Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion in Chicago, From Ground Zero screens in Santa Cruz, and a virtual book talk on global labor history.
We also remember Cesar Chavez, who passed on this day in 1993.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Power at Work blogcast highlights the dangers of debris cleanup and how lack of training and equipment leaves workers vulnerable to exploitation.
Plus, on the labor arts calendar: The Last Human Job author talk in East Lansing and From Ground Zero screens at the Reel Work Labor Film Festival in California.
In labor history: a deadly 1938 mining disaster in Virginia.
And today’s labor quote comes from We Just Come To Work Here, sung by Anne Feeney.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: North America’s Building Trades Unions lay out the case for union careers on Work Stoppage. Plus: Vegas showgirls organize, the Taylor Law bans public sector strikes, and a labor quote from John D. Rockefeller. Full calendar and events at laborheritage.org.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Michelle breaks down America’s march toward fascism—and how labor is fighting back—on Boiling Point. Plus: striking West Virginia coal miners stand up to the National Guard, and a powerful quote from “Big Bill” Haywood.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Lilly opens Fest May 1; SCOTUS blows it; Lilly quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: 50/51 organizer talks with The Valley Labor Report; activists bloackade World Bank and IMF; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People talks with a National Park Service worker; American Federation of Teachers founded; A. Philip Randolph quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Worker’s Mic on last weekend’s protests; birth of Florence Reece; “Which Side Are You On?” quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Legendary actor and activist Jane Fonda, on The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; 25,000 march for farmworkers; Jackie Robinson quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour’s sneak peek at annual LaborFest; nationwide immigrant protest; Frances Perkins quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum on how Trump’s funding cuts crippled Haskell U; IWW unionizes crew of the world’s largest ship; Naomi Wolf quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Notes podcast on how TSA agents are organizing; Truman orders U.S. Army to seize steel mills; Teddy Roosevelt quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: United captains Becca Woods and Diana Klein, on Flight Deck; 300,000 strike AT&T Moe Lepore quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: New Network member Buwa Basebetsi Updates; The Labor Review published; MLK quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour's class analysis of the hit TV show; Kohler workers strike; Tabitha Arnold quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Dr. Blair LM Kelley talks about “Black Folk” on the Labor Jawn podcast; the Hershey Sit-down; "The Chocolate Bar-B" quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: AAUP Presents, the podcast from the American Association of University Professors; longest U.S. newspaper strike ends; Eisenhower quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Everything U$P$ breaks down the attack on the US Postal Service; Cesar Chavez born; Cesar Chavez quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage reports on nationwide fightback; MLK marches in Memphis; MLK quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Singer-songwriter Linda Allen, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour; Colorado boots Mother Jones; Rebel Voices quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio covers an anti-Waymo rally in SF; SF brewery workers launch 9-month strike; Louis H. Albert quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stewart Acuff reads his labor poems on The Heartland Labor Forum; the Triangle Shirtwaist fire; Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Union members reject anti-gay colleague, on Concrete Gang; breaking ground on the New York City subway; subway worker quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Update on the SAG-AFTRA video game strike, on 3rd & Fairfax; American Labor Union founded; ALU quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Playwright Alex Lin, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour; 40K UC employees Alex Lin quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stopping worker abuse, on Speaking of Work; NYC takes on Fifth Avenue Coach; Cornelius Vanderbilt quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: New Labor Notes Podcast lifts up workers’ voices; workers shut down Post Office; Thomas Geoghegan quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Capitalism’s death throes, on the Worker’s Beat; KMPX-FM staff strike; Joan Baez quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Historian Julie Greene, on The Heartland Labor Forum; Ford speeds the line; Albert Einstein quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: @cornellilr’s Patricia Campos-Medinaon today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour; the term “rat” coined; Eleanor Roosevelt quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The SAG AFTRA podcast reports on job safety; union-buster Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy; Andrew Carnegie quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Wisconsin teachers & allies rally, reports Madison Labor Radio; Luddites smash “labor saving” machines; Evan Esar quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Ski Patrol Union organizer Ryan Dineen, on the Labor Exchange; Cesar Chavez breaks fast; Cesar Chavez quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: How Slavery Shaped Australia, on Stick Together; musicians shut down Broadway; Lucy Parsons quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Previews of the Ford Hunger March commemoration in Detroit and Julie Greene’s “Box 25” book talk, plus Derry’s “Factory Girls”; “There Is Power In A Union” first published; Folk Hogan quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Organising for a Change takes a look at successful organizing campaigns like Deliveroo; American ropemakers resist British occupation; H.G. Wells quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram on America’s Workforce Radio; UAW workers win Flint sit-down strike; Thomas Jefferson quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Malmborg Report podcast on how musicians are targeted by fake licensing deals; founding of the Union Labor Hospital Association; William Green quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Liz Pelly talks DIY on the Art and Labor podcast; Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union launches 4-month strike; Dave Johnson quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Bloodsucking capitalists are more than a metaphor; SCOTUS bans sit-down strikes; John Steinbeck quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Celebrating the legendary Black labor leader on the Words and Work podcast; SoCal supermarket workers end strike; Charles Bukowski quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A Tesla worker tells Work Week Radio why he quit; death of a Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer; Edgar Daniel Nixon quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: NTEU Pres. Doreen Greenwald on the Power At Work podcast; cops beat women and children textile strikers; Frederick Douglass
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Celebrating Black history, on the Stuck Nation podcast; AFL-CIO grants UFW a charter; MLK quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Bakery workers BCTGM Voices Project reports; mine workers settle Pittston strike; Rich Trumka quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the struggle for Black Workers continues, on the Teamster View; SCOTUS on worker right to representation; Weingarten Rights quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: El Cafecito del Día on how Trump is rolling back workers' rights; Kickstarter workers unionize; Pete Seeger quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Why the push for feds to resign is a scam, on the Boiling Point podcast; sit-down strikers tear-gassed; Shawn Fain quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Hannah Srajer talks to The Dig about building tenant unions; TR creates Dept of Commerce and Labor; Jimmy Hoffa
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: 31-year-old worker culture series, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour; Hollywood writers win strike; John Beck quote.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Reducing moviemaking’s environmental impact, on the Apple Box Talks podcast; birth of UMWA’s John L. Lewis; Frederick Douglass quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: How a local-hire ordinance passed in Birmingham, on The Valley Labor Report; Seattle General Strike ends; Mother Jones quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The high cost of teaching, on NEA’s School Me podcast; death at a Canadian paper plant; Alexander the Great quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Last Showgirl screenwriter Kate Gersten, on 3rd & Fairfax; hockey players organize; DOL rally quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Revealing the Labor Grammy winners on the Labor Heritage Power Hour; Seattle General Strike begins; General Strike song
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The impact of generative AI on jobs in Latin America, on the Future of Work; first daily labor newspaper; Charlie Chaplin quote
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The implications for U.S. manufacturing of Trump’s “America First” trade memo, on The Manufacturing Report; Obama caps executive pay; Rosa Parks quote.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: NFFE firefighters on the LA fires, on Union or Bust; SCOTUS nixes boycotts; John L. Lewis
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The threats of AI, on Work Week Radio; Texas pecan shellers strike; Ida M. Fuller quote
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Why Trump’s tariffs may appeal to working-class voters; Workers take on Kaiser again; Rooted in racism; The lost labor artist; The Canadian Dream/Adidas Owns the Reality
Today’s labor quote: Plato
Today’s labor history: Strikers banned from singing
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Two labor films screen free this weekend; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers
Today’s labor history: Federation of Trades and Labor Unions founded
Today’s labor quote: Federation’s preamble
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Labor paintings of Joseph Tipperman, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, 1p on WPFW 89.3 FM
Today’s labor history: AFL precursor founded
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers
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The State of Working America podcast investigates the realities behind the Southern economic development model
Today’s labor history: CO militia crushes Western Federation of Miners strike
Today’s labor quote: Gil Scott Heron
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Working People reports on the strike in SoCal
Today’s labor history: Ellis Island closes
Today’s labor quote: Hilton M. Weiss
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Steven Greenhouse on the Payday Report
Today’s labor history: Haymarket martyrs hanged
Today’s labor quote: August Spies
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See Educators Run; From advocating to legislating; Organizing the Red Cross; Tabitha Arnold’s union textile art
Today’s labor quote: Philip Murray
Today’s labor history: CIO founded
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Step Up Louisiana’s voter turnout campaign, on the Working History podcast
Today’s labor history: General strike in New Orleans
Today’s labor quote: FDR
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Today’s labor history: Ike uses Taft-Hartley to break steel strike
Today’s labor quote: Bev Grant
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America's Workforce Union podcast reports
Today’s labor history: The Spangler coal mine explosion
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers
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Local politics, on the Working To Live In Southwest Washington podcast
Today’s labor history: The Everett, Washington massacre
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs
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School Me on how to run for office
Today’s labor history: Uber buys an election
Today’s labor quote: Saul Alinsky
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Perils of entertainment industry concentration, on 3rd and Fairfax
Today’s labor history: 20,000 Google workers walk out
Today’s labor quote: Ken Loach
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The life and music of Barbara Dane, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Workers complete Mt. Rushmore
Today’s labor quote: Barbara Dane
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Breaking Ground looks at elections’ impact on workers
Today’s labor history: Tennessee sends convict laborers to break strike
Today’s labor quote: Working Man’s Advocate
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Today’s labor history: "Black Tuesday"
Today’s labor quote: Don Marquis
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The NALC’s You Are the Current Resident podcast reports
Today’s labor history: Gateway Arch completed safely
Today’s labor quote: Socrates
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Today’s labor history: The Great Hawaiian Dock Strike
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney
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Today’s labor history: Black and white unite in New Orleans strike
Today’s labor quote: Jeffrey Skemp
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On the Roswell Hub podcast, from Teamsters at UPS
Today’s labor history: DC postal workers killed by anthrax attack
Today’s labor quote: Peter Drucker
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American Jewish labor history on the Labor Jawn podcast
Today’s labor history: FBI kills the "Sagebrush Robin Hood," Pretty Boy Floyd
Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie
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Today’s labor history: Dairy farmers strike
Today’s labor quote: Frank More Colby
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The State of Labor 2024: SF Amazon workers organize; “I like fast food”; Inside Amazon
Today’s labor quote: Bill Lucy
Today’s labor history: J.P. Stevens signs first union contract
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Why it matters and how we do it, on Solidarity Works
Today’s labor history: GM agrees to hire more women and minorities
Today’s labor quote: Bill Lucy
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“Union” filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing
Today’s labor history: “Salt of the Earth” strike begins
Today’s labor quote: Brett Story
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Why a Starbucks worker wants a union, on Building Bridges, A Labor Podcast.
Today’s labor history: Wilson signs "Labor’s Magna Carta"
Today’s labor quote: Lilly Ledbetter
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Work Week Radio reports on the push by San Francisco Amazon workers to unionize
Today’s labor history: Wilson signs "Labor’s Magna Carta"
Today’s labor quote: The Clayton Antitrust Act
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Labor Secretary Julie Su, on the Power at Work podcast
Today’s labor history: Seafarers International Union founded
Today’s labor quote: Julie Su
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Today’s labor history: Hawaii sugar plantation workers strike
Today’s labor quote: Marc Blitzstein
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Today’s labor history: CA cotton growers murder strikers
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
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WGAW’s 3rd & Fairfax podcast talks with Casting Department Teamsters.
Today’s labor history: Chicago sanitation workers clean up
Today’s labor quote: Morris Hillquit
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Emily Guendelsberger talks with the Heartland Labor Forum
Today’s labor history: the union Solidarity banned in Poland
Today’s labor quote: Lech Walesa
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Working to Live in Southwest Washington explains why you should care.
Today’s labor history: Hollywood’s "Battle of the Mirrors"
Today’s labor quote: Joe Hill
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The Work Stoppage podcast on the dockworker strike
Today’s labor history: Truman seizes striking refineries
Today’s labor quote: Hamilton Nolan
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Director Shanara Gabrielle, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour. Plus, Dana Frank on What Can We Learn From the Great Depression?
Today’s labor history: Umpires strike back
Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie
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Coordinating the work of 2,000 building trades workers, on the Labor and Energy Show
Today’s labor history: 200K rally for One Nation Working Together
Today’s labor quote: Leonard Riley
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Advice from The Million Dollar Organizer podcast
Today’s labor history: Dairy farmers strike
Today’s labor quote: Abe Lincoln
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Madison Labor Radio on why local Teamsters broke with their international union
Today’s labor history: Striking steelworkers charged with treason
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones
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Agricultural pilot Emily Daniels on America Works
Today’s labor history: The "Uprising of the 20,000"
Today’s labor quote: Steven Biko
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Folksingers Si Kahn and George Mann, on their new album
Today’s labor history: Temple grad students win union
Today’s labor quote: "Big Bill" Haywood
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On the NALC – National Association of Letter Carriers -- Branch 458 Podcast
Today’s labor history: Striking cotton-pickers shot down
Today’s labor quote: Lewis Hine
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Labor Radio reports on the Boeing strike
Today’s labor history: Canada bans Wobblies
Today’s labor quote: IWW songwriter T Bone Slim
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Work Stoppage reports on the massive strike by Boeing workers
Today’s labor history: United Labor party launched
Today’s labor quote: Gray Davis
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Don't cross the picket line; Voices from the hotel strike; Game Over?; Shift Happens; Green 4 Falasteen
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones
Today’s labor history: Mother Jones leads march of miner’s children
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The Labor Jawn podcast talks with AFSCME members and staffers organizing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and in solidarity with their fellow workers in Palestine
Today’s labor history: Hod Carriers get a new name
Today’s labor quote: Joe Jencks sings John Henry
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Children’s book author J. Albert Mann on the Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: 500K Solidarity Day rally in DC
Today’s labor quote: Benjamin Hooks
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Video game workers strike; On The Line reports
Today’s labor history: Kaiser lockout ends
Today’s labor quote: JFK
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The Power at Work podcast walks the line with UNITE HERE
Today’s labor history: Mine workers occupy Pittston
Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka
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Latest U.S. strike news on We Rise Fighting
Today’s labor history: Guest workers win a union
Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka
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Disabled athletes are also workers; A labor walk in Wheeling; Debbie Goldman’s “Disconnected”; We all need time to care
Today’s labor quote: Moe Lepore
Today’s labor history: Striking cranberry worker shot
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Liquor store workers strike in Ontario, Canada; CUPE CAST reports
Today’s labor history: P.O. orders clerks to shoot bandits
Today’s labor quote: Noam Chomsky
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Family Values @ Work’s night of storytelling about caregiving
Today’s labor history: Jobless workers march on grocery stores
Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs
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Call center workers fight for good jobs in the digital age, on the Heartland Labor Forum
Today’s labor history: 9/11 toll on NYC cops & firefighters
Today’s labor quote: Crystal Lee Sutton
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Labor History Today covers the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium
Today’s labor history: The Lattimer Massacre
Today’s labor quote: Ken Worthen
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Future of Work on the challenges facing athletes with disabilities
Today’s labor history: Boston cops strike
Today’s labor quote: Henry George Salter
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WPFW’s Labor Day Special; Project 2025 comes after labor; Our theme song contest!; What is a union?
Today’s labor quote: Tom Perez
Today’s labor history: Feds get Workers Comp
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The Wealthy Ironworker podcast explains
Today’s labor history: UMW’s Tony Boyle charged with murder
Today’s labor quote: Joseph “Jock” Yablonski
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Chris and Elise play songs submitted in our Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest; which will be the winner?
Today’s labor history: NYC’s first Labor Day parade
Today’s labor quote: Congressman William Clay, Sr.
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GOP plan to repeal labor law, on The Rick Smith Show
Today’s labor history: The longest strike
Today’s labor quote: Malcolm X
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The Green and Red podcast reports on the DNC
Today’s labor history: Black cotton pickers strike
Today’s labor quote: George Meany
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Work, Resistance and HipHop; 9a to midnight on WPFW 89.3 FM
Today’s labor history: WV mineowners bomb strikers by plane
Today’s labor quote: Muriel Rukeyser
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The SAG-AFTRA podcast explores the new contract with Narrativ AI
Today’s labor history: National Trades' Union formed
Today’s labor quote: National Trades' Union
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AFT’s Union Talk podcast looks at AI in our classrooms
Today’s labor history: Live nude girls unite!
Today’s labor quote: Lusty Lady dancers
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Public employee unions fight back in Florida, on the Power at Work podcast
Today’s labor history: The March for Jobs and Freedom
Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Motorcyle legend threatens to shift jobs overseas; Labor Radio reports
Today’s labor history: Memphis striker dies
Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King
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What's Going On Labor Mondays on the DNC
Today’s labor history: Murdered by coal company guards
Today’s labor quote: Fannie Sellins
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Delivering solidarity; Women canners in BC; The 1,000-day strike
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
Today’s labor history: Machine guns for strikes
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Stick Together talks with striking workers at RMIT University in Australia
Today’s labor history: Sacco and Vanzetti executed
Today’s labor quote: Emma Goldman
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On today’s WPFW Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Broom & Whisk Makers Union disbands
Today’s labor quote: Joyce Miller
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The role of women in BC‘s once-thriving fishing industry, from the On The Line: Stories of BC Workers podcast
Today’s labor history: Slaves revolt in VA
Today’s labor quote: The Confessions of Nat Turner
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Member communication, on the Classes of Mail podcast
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO elects first woman president
Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler
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Internationalism and left-wing politics on The Dig podcast
Today’s labor history: IWW’s "Little Red Song Book" published
Today’s labor quote: Hold the Fort
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“We are the agents of change”; The rise of the “Union Curious”; Macy's Unfair Labor Practice Strikes; Blood In The Streets; Where was that Ram truck really built?
Today’s labor quote: William Cahn
Today’s labor history: L.A. Times workers strike
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Find out, on the UAW 1700 podcast
Today’s labor history: Birth of the AFL-CIO founder
Today’s labor quote: George Meany
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Chuck Avery’s illustrated history of American labor struggles, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: NYNEX striker killed on picket line
Today’s labor quote: Chuck Avery
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The UFCW 3000 podcast reports
Today’s labor history: Solidarity union seizes Gdansk shipyard
Today’s labor quote: Lech Walesa
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Sophie Mariam, on the Labor Exchange radio show
Today’s labor history: Mills lock out 8,000
Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph
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Changing tech, on the Say Watt podcast
Today’s labor history: Chorus Equity Association founded
Today’s labor quote: Louis H. Albert
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AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965; Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’; KAMALAUTUMN; The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike; Organizing app-based drivers
Today’s labor quote: I.W. Abel
Today’s labor history: TWU members bail out president
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San Diego Drivers United, on the Union or Bust podcast
Today’s labor history: California School Employees Association founded
Today’s labor quote: William Novak & Moshe Waldoks
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How a local strike helped shape national labor law
Today’s labor history: St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly elects first African-American leader
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
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Art and Labor podcast’s frontline defense of the Women First movement
Today’s labor history: Actors Equity recognized
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs
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Tales from the Reuther Library podcast takes a look at Diego Rivera’s famed Detroit Industry murals
Today’s labor history: Verizon workers launch 18-day strike
Today’s labor quote: Samuel Gompers
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AAUP Presents looks back
Today’s labor history: FDR’s National Labor Board
Today’s labor quote: Saul Alinsky
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Not enough work and low pay: Organizing for a Change podcast looks at a shorter workweek and UBI (Universal Basic Income).
Today’s labor history: Hatch Act restricts fed worker rights
Today’s labor quote: William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood
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Raleigh-based organization is more than just a singing ensemble
Today’s labor history: Glass workers unite
Today’s labor quote: Angaza Laughinghouse
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The Power At Work podcast takes a look at Project 2025 and Labor
Today’s labor history: The ’81 baseball strike ends
Today’s labor quote: Jackie Robinson
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The On The Line podcast investigates
Today’s labor history: Jimmy Hoffa disappears
Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Hoffa
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A discussion with Nicole Schwartz on the Construction User 2.0 podcast
Today’s labor history: MoJo’s March of the Mill Children
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones
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The Wealthy Ironworker podcast thinks not.
Today’s labor history: Feds burn out WWI vets
Today’s labor quote: Harry Bridges
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The Sweet Honey In The Rock founder passed July 16.
Today’s labor history: Labor-owned WCFL goes on-air
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Weekend highlights at the San Francisco LaborFest
Today’s labor history: Women's Rights Convention opens
Today’s labor quote: Declaration of Women's Rights
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“How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together,” on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, 1p on WPFW 89.3 FM
Today’s labor history: Charleston hospital workers win strike
Today’s labor quote: Ossie Davis/Jeanne Noble
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Black sailors rebel after hundreds die in Port Chicago explosion
Today’s labor history: World War II’s worst home front disaster
Today’s labor quote: Joseph Small
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At the San Francisco LaborFest today
Today’s labor history: San Francisco General Strike begins
Today’s labor quote: Mike Quin
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Even if you’re not visiting San Francisco, some of the SF LaborFest events are available online
Today’s labor history: Lumberjacks and romance writers strike; Robert Gray murdered
Today’s labor quote: Abraham Lincoln
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James Benton on how trade policy & industrial decline transformed America, on the Heartland Labor Forum
Today’s labor history: Screen Actors Guild holds first meeting
Today’s labor quote: Aboriginal wise woman
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Worker’s Beat Extra host Gene Lantz’s amazing tale
Today’s labor history: Striking miners dynamite Pinkerton thugs
Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis
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Pushing back against bigoted legislation targeting LGBTQIA+ kids and teachers, on the Union Talk podcast
Today’s labor history: Troops put down Pullman strike
Today’s labor quote: Sidney Hillman
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Meet veteran stagehand Brandon Resenbeck on the Union or Bust podcast
Today’s labor history: 5,000 rally for the "Charleston Five"
Today’s labor quote: Helen Marot
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Labor and the LGBTQ+ community, on the Power At Work podcast
Today’s labor history: IWW founding convention wraps
Today’s labor quote: H.G. Wells
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Slacker Radio on standing up for tenants in Melbourne
Today’s labor history: The Battle of Rincon Hill
Today’s labor quote: Steve Earle
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Reinventing Solidarity on why unions are essential to LGBTQ liberation
Today’s labor history: Birth of feminist and labor activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Today’s labor quote: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Standardized tests, onOEA GROW
Today’s labor history: Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Today’s labor quote: Robert Green Ingersoll
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An update on Scott Walker’s legacy, on the We Rise Fighting podcast
Today’s labor history: The Homestead Strike
Today’s labor quote: Jay Gould
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Veteran UE Organizer Chris Townsend on Payday Report
Today’s labor history: Labor Day declared holiday
Today’s labor quote: Abraham Lincoln
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The late labor and non-violence apostle James Lawson, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: IWW founded
Today’s labor quote: Emma Goldman
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The State of Working America the historical economic performance of different administrations.
Today’s labor history: American Railway Union workers boycott Pullman
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs
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Radio Labour on why others must speak for muzzled Hong Kong workers
Today’s labor history: FDR bans discrimination in defense industries
Today’s labor quote: Rev. James Lawson
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Work Stoppage on how SCOTUS ruling guts labor law
Today’s labor history: Birth of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons
Today’s labor quote: Albert Parsons
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Sample Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest entries.
Today’s labor history: Henry Ford recognizes UAW
Today’s labor quote: Harry S Truman
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Tribunis Plebis podcast reports
Today’s labor history: Women’s Day Massacre
Today’s labor quote: James M. Lawson
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A Teamsters finds out, on the Roswell Hub podcast
Today’s labor history: A. Philip Randolph’s first March on Washington
Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph
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3rd & Fairfax-The WGAW Podcast talks with Hollywood Teamsters about ongoing negotiations
Today’s labor history: Susan B. Anthony on trial for voting
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones
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Restoring domestic shipbuilding, on the Solidarity Works podcast
Today’s labor history: First commercial computer
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs
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A visit to the home of Kate Mullany, who founded the Troy Collar Laundry Union
Today’s labor history: Birth of DC Labor FilmFest co-founder
Today’s labor quote: Tony Mazzocchi
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Southern workers unite and fight, On The Line
Today’s labor history: Major League Baseball strike begins
Today’s labor quote: Jackie Robinson
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Food service worker Dontaz Williams on Building Bridges, a Labor Podcast
Today’s labor history: police shoot striking maritime workers
Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis
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Canadian lineman Wayne Pickard, on the Powerline Podcast
Today’s labor history: JFK signs the Equal Pay Act
Today’s labor quote: John F. Kennedy
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The trend towards resegregation; New labor protections in NJ; Why did Mercedes workers vote down the UAW?; The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike
Today’s labor quote: Lois Weiner
Today’s labor history: Chinese immigrants strike
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Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI, on the SAG-AFTRA podcast
Today’s labor history: Pageant of the Paterson (NJ) Strike
Today’s labor quote: “Big Bill” Haywood
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The Labor Heritage Power Hour marks the 90th anniversary of the historic 1934 strike
Today’s labor history: Lansing’s “Labor Holiday”
Today’s labor quote: The Labor Party
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Post-mortem on the failed union vote at Mercedes, on the Green and Red podcast
Today’s labor history: Teamsters for a Democratic Union formed
Today’s labor quote: Elizabeth Warren
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A Third of Your Life podcast reports.
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO opens new HQ
Today’s labor quote: California Agricultural Labor Relations Act
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On the NEA’s School Me podcast
Today’s labor history: Mexico abolishes the siesta
Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland
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To live and die in a sacrifice zone; USPS’ hostile work environment; We’re playing your songs; Why trains derail
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
Today’s labor history: Longshoremen strick the Pacific coast
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It’s not because of the workers, says the Labor Exchange podcast
Today’s labor history: Death of Rosie the Riveter
Today’s labor quote: Rosie the Riveter
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Chris & Elise play labor songs on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago
Today’s labor quote: Republic Steel picketers
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The Fed Up podcast explores a “pandemic of toxicity”
Today’s labor history: Disney animators strike
Today’s labor quote: Harry S Truman
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Why European elections matter to labor, on the LabourStart podcast
Today’s labor history: General strike in Rochester
Today’s labor quote: Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Working People podcast investigates
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS nixes NIRA
Today’s labor quote: FDR
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Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Firefighters; A TikTok Star Embraces the Influencer Agreement; Why unions should support POC candidates; “The Black Wobbly” gets a mural; Advice for tired pilots
Today’s labor quote: NLRB
Today’s labor history: The “Mohawk Valley Formula”
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Don’t fly when fatigued, says Fly By Night podcast
Today’s labor history: Striking rubber workers return to work
Today’s labor quote: Martin Johns
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Audio postcard from the Ben Fletcher mural dedication, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: 10,000 Auto-Lite strikers repel police attack
Today’s labor quote: Jax
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Talkin’ unions and politics on Labor Radio on KBOO
Today’s labor history: Eugene V. Debs imprisoned for strike role
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs
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The SAG-AFTRA podcast talks with Sidney Raskind
Today’s labor history: Sacco and Vanzetti go on trial
Today’s labor quote: Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Work Stoppage catches up on strikes and organizing drives
Today’s labor history: Railway Labor Act takes effect
Today’s labor quote: Henry David Thoreau
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Honoring a historic worker victory in Crisfield, MD, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: The Minneapolis general strike
Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph
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The PFFA Pod visits with Audrey Tollefson
Today’s labor history: First union of public library workers
Today’s labor quote: T-Bone Slim
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Power At Work reports on Virginia stadium battles
Today’s labor history: Brewery workers strike
Today’s labor quote: Bread and Roses
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Escalations, attacks, and the billionaires behind it, on the AAUP Presents podcast
Today’s labor history: Western Federation of Miners formed
Today’s labor quote: Big Bill Haywood
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On the SAG-AFTRA Podcast: Inside the NO FAKES Act: What’s at Stake for Artists?
Today’s labor history: Western Labor Union formed
Today’s labor quote: Crisfield crab picker strike marker
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On today's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Live from the 2024 LHF Solidarity Forever Awards; a visit to the annual wreath-laying at the Mother Jones historical marker; photojournalist Earl Dotter reviews "Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey"
Today’s labor history: Farrah workers strike for a union
Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther
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The Valley Labor Report talks with Alabama auto workers
Today’s labor history: The Brotherhood of the Footboard
Today’s labor quote: Jerry Wurf
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Art & Labor reports on the student protests
Today’s labor history: “Bloody Tuesday” in SF
Today’s labor quote: Roger Baldwin
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The Resolved podcast profiles the radical political activist, labor organizer, and human rights lawyer
Today’s labor history: Black tobacco workers walk out
Today’s labor quote: Ethiopian proverb
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Marine Engineers express concerns, on America’s Workforce Radio
Today’s labor history: Chicago police attack strikers
Today’s labor quote: Pete Seeger
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May Day’s radical past and present, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Hitler bans unions
Today’s labor quote: Al Bradbury
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Kentucky food workers speak out, on the BCTGM Voices Project
Today’s labor history: May Day’s U.S. roots
Today’s labor quote: The Internationale
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Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga vote in UAW, on the Work Stoppage podcast
Today’s labor history: 109 die in Everettville mine explosion
Today’s labor quote: Curtis Dejarnette
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How Strike for Our Rights sustains strikes, on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly
Today’s labor history: Coxey’s Army arrives in DC
Today’s labor quote: Sarah Moe
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Van Deusen on "Insurgent Labor”; Live from Labor Notes; Building people power; Music from the Great Labor Arts Exchange; How Labor Notes changed things
Today’s labor quote: Bread and Roses
Today’s labor history: Executive Order 10450
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Nashville Food and Beverage United’s campaign was jump-started at Labor Notes, on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly
Today’s labor history: U.S. Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ for defying workers
Today’s labor quote: “Bread and Roses”
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Highlights from last weekend’s Great Labor Arts Exchange
Today’s labor history: Charleston clergy arrested for supporting union
Today’s labor quote: Gemini
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More voices from the recent Labor Notes conference, on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly
Today’s labor history: ILWU blocks shipping
Today’s labor quote: Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Voices from the Labor Notes conference, on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly
Today’s labor history: Death of the first woman coal miner
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
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The former VT AFL-CIO president discusses his new book on the We Rise Fighting podcast
Today’s labor history: 45 killed in Red Jacket mine blast
Today’s labor quote: Ruth McKenney
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Mandatory, my a--; Books for our community; Striking down a dictator; The Return of John Brown; “Capitalism is dead”
Today’s labor quote: Louis Tikas
Today’s labor history: UAW wins strike against International Harvester
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Yanis Varoufakis on the new Technofeudalists, on the Green and Red podcast
Today’s labor history: Oklahoma City bombing’s worker toll
Today’s labor quote: Yanis Varoufakis
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Abolitionist John Brown is mistaken for a Black Lives Matter activist in Gene Bruskin’s latest labor musical, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: WV coal miners strike
Today’s labor quote: Office Space
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How strikes helped bring down the Mubarak dictatorship, on the Labourstart podcast
Today’s labor history: Controversy at SCOTUS
Today’s labor quote: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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El Cafecito del Día joins the Fairfax County American Federation of Teachers (AFT) for its books distribution event.
Today’s labor history: 20,000 block World Bank & IMF in DC
Today’s labor quote: Andy Stern
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Labor Express on Colorado’s HB 1230
Today’s labor history: Founding the AFT
Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph
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Meet ALPA Canada; Standing together in Israel; Cops deploy explosives against picketers; DC Labor FilmFest preview; Suck by Suck West
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs
Today’s labor history: Laborers’ founded
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Art and Labor on how SXSW underpays artists
Today’s labor history: Union Label Department founded
Today’s labor quote: Florence Reece
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Sneak peek at the annual DC Labor FilmFest, plus the IBEW’s photo contest and Si Kahn on Coal Mining Woman.
Today’s labor history: Breaking the color barrier
Today’s labor quote: Jackie Robinson
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Solidarity Breakfast reports from the Web Dock picketline
Today’s labor history: Live nude dancers unite!
Today’s labor quote: Dolores Huerta
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Jews and Palestinians for peace, on AFT’s Union Talk podcast
Today’s labor history: IWW organizes the Leviathan
Today’s labor quote: The IWW
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ALPA Canada’s first podcast
Today’s labor history: Convict miners die in explosion
Today’s labor quote: Harry Truman
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Farewell to “Our Times”; East Palestine disaster reverberates; Investing in infrastructure; Making room for solidarity; “We wear many hats”
Today’s labor quote: Rose Schneiderman
Today’s labor history: First U.S. slave revolt
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Rural community colleges, on OEA Grow
Today’s labor history: Hawaiian teachers strike
Today’s labor quote: Rose Schneiderman
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Why the AFL-CIO changed the Gompers Room to the Solidarity Room, on today’sLabor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: UMWA beats back concessions at Pittston
Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka
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Breaking Ground, the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3
Today’s labor history: MLK returns to the Memphis strike
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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A year after the rail disaster, East Palestine residents & workers speak out, on Work Week Radio
Today’s labor history: The Great Hershey Sitdown
Today’s labor quote: Union Label Department
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Labour Radio reports on the shutdown of the Canadian labour publication
Today’s labor history: MLB players strike
Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis
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“A sort of graveyard of hopes and dreams”; “You don’t mess with Texas Teamsters”; Postal workers organize; Worker lives on stage; Keeping our stories alive
Today’s labor quote: Harry Bridges
Today’s labor history: Unemployed march in NYC
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Mammoth Cave Park Ranger Jerry Bransford on America Works
Today’s labor history: “The Battle of Wall Street”
Today’s labor quote: Sam Walton
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“Changing Lives, Changing LA” play, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: MLK leads strike march in Memphis
Today’s labor quote: Regla Soto
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The APWU reports, on Communicating With You, The Member
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS limits rights of undocumented workers
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones
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Workers Beat reports on the Coors-Molson strike
Today’s labor history: San Francisco brewery workers strike
Today’s labor quote: Fred Zuckerman
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On Writing on the pros and cons of writers’ rooms
Today’s labor history: The Triangle Factory Fire
Today’s labor quote: Bev Grant
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Paul Robeson lives!; 30 years of Labor Express Radio; Your Weingarten Rights; Behind the scenes at REI; Iran’s “turbulent” worker movement
Today’s labor quote: Joyce Miller
Today’s labor history: Nixon fails to break Post Office strike
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The LabourStart podcast reports
Today’s labor history: MLB lockout ends
Today’s labor quote: Mark Twain
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Laura Neill’s play about workers at the outdoor retailer
Today’s labor history: American Labor Union founded
Today’s labor quote: Laura Neill
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The Resolved podcast explains union worker rights
Today’s labor history: MI OK’s worker co-ops
Today’s labor quote: Molly Ivins
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Chicago’s Labor Express Radio celebrates anniversary
Today’s labor history: NYC seizes bus company
Today’s labor quote: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Banned from Canada, but not from the On The Line podcast
Today’s labor history: Kickstarter workers unionize
Today’s labor quote: Ethiopian proverb
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Behind the scenes; Chilling academic freedom; “An industry that looks like us”; Announcing the Labor Oscar winners!; Meet Ray Connor
Today’s labor quote: Eleanor Roosevelt
Today’s labor history: UFT formed in NYC
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Working to Live In Southwest Washington talks with the new president of the SWWACLC
Today’s labor history: Birth of Susan B. Anthony
Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony
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The Labor Heritage Power Hour talks with Power At Work
Today’s labor history: Department of Commerce and Labor created
Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Hoffa
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The SayWatt podcast, on creating a welcome jobsite
Today’s labor history: Hollywood writers end strike
Today’s labor quote: SAG-AFTRA
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AAUP Presents reports on Ohio’s Senate Bill 83
Today’s labor history: Birth on UMWA’s John L. Lewis
Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass
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What stagehands do, on the Union or Bust podcast
Today’s labor history: Seattle General Strike ends
Today’s labor quote: Memphis sanitation workers
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Did the Mob control the Teamsters? Panamanian construction workers mobilize; A dangerous mixture; We Were There; Labor board under fire
Today’s labor quote: JFK
Today’s labor history: Boeing engineers strike
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The corporate attack on the NLRB, on Labor Radio on KBOO
Today’s labor history: Labor origins of International Women’s Day
Today’s labor quote: Mary Heaton Vorse
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The origins of Bev Grant’s song, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Musicians shut down Broadway
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons
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Booze and the workplace, on the Union Days podcast
Today’s labor history: Wildcat strike in Lordstown
Today’s labor quote: Frank Moore Colby
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The brand-new LabourStart podcast reports
Today’s labor history: First casualty in the American Revolution: A Black worker
Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs
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Roswell Hub talks to TDU founders
Today’s labor history: UAW wins recognition at GM
Today’s labor quote: Thomas Jefferson
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Mickey Mouse joins a union; “Union” is not a bad word; Harassment Down Under; SAG Awards’ “laborific” shows; The Teamsters’ fight for democracy
Today’s labor quote: Workers United and Starbucks
Today’s labor history: Postal workers get 8-hour day
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Battling Teamster corruption, on the Labor Jawn podcast
Today’s labor history: Minimum wage increases to $1/hr
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers
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The Labor Heritage Power Hour’s annual review, plus “Who was Ben Fletcher?”
Today’s labor history: SC raises minimum age
Today’s labor quote: Italian proverb
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Australia’s “Stick Together” podcast on the Perfection Fresh case
Today’s labor history:
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Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su talks with El Cafecito del Dia
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS rules sitdowns illegal
Today’s labor quote: John Steinbeck
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The Labor Force podcast reports
Today’s labor history: SoCal supermarket worker strike ends
Today’s labor quote: Teamsters Local 997
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Liberia Firestone workers’ 2006 strike; Forward for justice; Organized labor and the Civil Rights Movement; American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson; “Our union is us”
Today’s labor quote: Joe Glazer
Today’s labor history: Cops beat textile strikers
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It’s Time, the podcast of SkyWest Flight Attendants
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO charters Association of Flight Attendants
Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie
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Writer/director Cord Jefferson and musician Joe Uehlein, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Planning the People’s Party
Today’s labor quote: Al Shanker
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The Heartland Labor Forum explores the role unions played in supporting civil rights
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO charters the UFW
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
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AFT’s Fedrick Ingram on America’s Work Force Radio
Today’s labor history: Unemployed rally in Philadelphia
Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka
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From the On This Day In Working Class History podcast
Today’s labor history: 7-year Campbell’s boycott ends
Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Latino workers and unions; The myth of “highly paid” Alabama auto workers; Auto workers upset Alabama’s ruling class; The Detroit Diva & Union Funk; “Union Town”
Today’s labor quote: Jeremy Brecher
Today’s labor history: Sit-down strikers gassed
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Why USC faculty are unionizing, on the 3rd & Fairfax podcast
Today’s labor history: New York furriers strike
Today’s labor quote: Leonora O’Reilly
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Singer Lynn Marie Smith on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Birth of Susan B. Anthony
Today’s labor quote: Union Funk
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Mercedes-Benz workers in Tuscaloosa organize, on the Work Stoppage podcast
Today’s labor history: Detroit newspaper workers call off strike
Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Hoffa
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The Valley Labor Report reports.
Today’s labor history: Striking Hollywood writers return to work.
Today’s labor quote: Bill Fletcher Jr.
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“A strategic partnership for America's success,” on El Cafecito del Día
Today’s labor history: Birth of UMWA president John L. Lewis
Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass
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AI: Fear and hope; Teamster rank-and-file slam Trump; Delta workers speak; JFK's last words to labor; Helping kids do better
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones
Today’s labor history: Canadian union carpenters shot
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Teachers and parents working together, on the OEA podcast
Today’s labor history: McCarthy launches “Red Scare”
Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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JFK's last words to labor, saving the UE Chicago mural, and Discovering Maxo Vanka.
the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: Vigilantes beat IWW organizers
Today’s labor quote: John F. Kennedy
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Frontline reports, on the IAM Delta podcast
Today’s labor history: Hockey players organize
Today’s labor quote: Karl Marx
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Teamster members react to leadership meeting with Trump, on Work Week Radio
Today’s labor history: Seattle General Strike begins
Today’s labor quote: “Big Bill” Haywood
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UNI General Secretary Christy Hoffman on Radio Labour
Today’s labor history: First daily labor newspaper
Today’s labor quote: Bill Clinton
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Lessons from a fire fighter, on the PFFA Pod
Today’s labor history: Secretary fired for refusing to make coffee
Today’s labor quote: How to operate a coffee maker
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How VT’s Socialist Labor Party Hall survived the 2024 flood, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour
Today’s labor history: The Paterson Silk Strike
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney
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The Black Work Talk podcast takes a look at labor’s wins in 2023 and fights coming up in 2024
Today’s labor history: Harvard forced to raise wages
Today’s labor quote: Emma Tenayuca
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Making sure A.I. is used fairly and responsibly at work, on the Union Strong podcast
Today’s labor history: Founding the ILO
Today’s labor quote: ILO mission
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How strong unions help all workers, on the State of Working America podcast
Today’s labor history: Obama signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Today’s labor quote: Dolly Parton
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Rick Smith remembers MLK; How to preserve democracy in 2024; Will labor support a Gaza ceasefire?; Labor Heritage Power Hour preview; COP28 Recap
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers
Today’s labor history: Wildcat strike in Detroit
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The Checkout checks in with Lauren Baker of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.
Today’s labor history: Sitdown in Brooklyn
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers
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Elise shares some of her favorite labor songs
Today’s labor history: Passaic textile workers strike
Today’s labor quote: Sojourner Truth
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Bill Fletcher Jr., on the Union Or Bust podcast
Today’s labor history: Minimum wage increases
Today’s labor quote: MLK
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Radio host and author Zerlina Maxwell joins AFT President Randi Weingarten for a riveting discussion about the state of American democracy on Union Talk, the AFT’s podcast
Today’s labor history: 10,000 Rochester clothing workers strike
Today’s labor quote: Rebecca Gordon
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“It's not about red hat or blue hat; it's about green.” The Rick Smith Show
Today’s labor history: Knights of Labor head born
Today’s labor quote: Terence V. Powderly
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Flight attendants raise the bar; Empire of Words; Marquette baristas organize; Hilary Peach’s Thick Skin; Year of the Fascist?
Today’s labor quote: Bruce Springsteen
Today’s labor history: Biden fires union-buster
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RadioLabour reports that Fascism is on the rise in the U.S.
Today’s labor history: Trump’s union investigates him for inciting violence
Today’s labor quote: Bruce Springsteen
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Former welder Hilary Peach on her new memoir and folksinger Joe Jencks on “Rise As One”.
Today’s labor history: “Take This Job and Shove It” hits #1 in the U.S.
Today’s labor quote: Johnny Paycheck
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Labor Radio on WORT reports
Today’s labor history: Hunger march in Chicago
Today’s labor quote: "Solidarity Forever"
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Marc McGurl on Amazon and the fate of literature on The Workers' Speculative Society podcast
Today’s labor history: Death of former UAW president Leonard Woodcock
Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther
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Latest on airline contract talks, on It’s Time! Live!
Today’s labor history: Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Something radical happened here!; The altar of the testing god; “Go big or go home”; David Bacon’s “Working Coachella”; Innovation and ConTech
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor history: Tompkins Square Riot
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A conversation with Brianne Stewart and Matt Hedke on the Construction User 2.0 podcast
Today’s labor history: Seattle police raid mass union meeting
Today’s labor quote: Jack London
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Photojournalist David Bacon on his new photo exhibit on farmworkers, which opens today in Riverside, CA
Today’s labor history: Sex worker organizer Margo St. James dies
Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie
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The Bipartisan Buzz podcast welcomes NALC president Brian Renfroe
Today’s labor history: Death of longtime AFL-CIO President George Meany
Today’s labor quote: George Meany
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The toll of stress on educators, on the School Me podcast
Today’s labor history: The Missouri Highway sit-down
Today’s labor quote: WWI Mediation Commission
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Philadelphia's radical Jewish labor history, on the Labor Jawn podcast
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO calls for Trump’s resignation after attack on U.S. Capitol
Today’s labor quote: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
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Police violence and racial justice in the civil rights era, on Tales from the Reuther Library
Today’s labor history: Golden Gate Bridge construction begins
Today’s labor quote: Leo Tolstoy
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Folksinger Si Kahn on the origins of “La Libertad”
Today’s labor history: NYC social workers strike
Today’s labor quote: Si Kahn
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The Power At Work podcast looks ahead to 2024 labor stories
Today’s labor history: Alphabet Workers Union forms at Google
Today’s labor quote: Kim Kelly
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Australia-based Stick Together podcast reports
Today’s labor history: IWW formed in Chicago
Today’s labor quote: T-Bone Slim
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Unions, Israel and Palestine, on KBOO’s Labor Radio
Today’s labor history: Hank Williams’ final union meeting
Today’s labor quote: Hank Williams
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Actors struck for us all; Holiday wishes from your postal workers; Protecting our letter carriers; Bayard Rustin, leader and lover; Madison labor joins Palestine solidarity march
Today’s labor quote: “Big Bill” Haywood
Today’s labor history: Anti-union Idaho governor assassinated
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The new Solidarity Center podcast. Today’s labor quote: Attica prisoners Today’s labor history: The Attica Uprising
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And why do unions have them? From The Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast. Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs Today’s labor history: Union Square landmarked
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Wabtec and Leinenkugel workers win contracts; the Work Stoppage podcast reports.
Today’s labor quote: Merle Travis
Today’s labor history: Coal miners end 10-week strike
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Alberta Worker Podcast talks with firefighter Jordan Wilkie, who’s also the leader of the Green Party of Alberta.
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez
Today’s labor history: UFW launches grape boycott
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Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the CA AFL-CIO, on theUnion or Bust podcast. Today’s labor quote: Jim Hightower Today’s labor history: Feds get Workers Comp
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The history of striking in Florida; PCTA FYRE Podcast
Today’s labor quote: Jock Yablonski
Today’s labor history: Former UMW president charged with murder
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Roswell Hub podcast: UPS drivers need to enforce new contract.
Today’s labor quote: Doug Larson.
Today’s labor history: 1st Labor Day Parade.
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“AI & Workers” discussion launches Hot Union Summer Labor Day Show on WPFW.
Today’s labor quote: Steve Zeltzer.
Today’s labor history: Longest U.S. strike begins.
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The Checkout podcast on how food workers and consumers pay the price while profiteers reap the benefits.
Today’s labor quote: Boot Shoe Workers' Union.
Today’s labor history: Shop workers shut down the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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The Workers Beat Extra goes live at a Dallas Fort Worth Airport rally. Today’s labor quote: Communist Labor Party. Today’s labor history: Battle of Blair Mountain.
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On Labor Express Radio, how the threat of a strike helped UPS workers win at work. Today’s labor quote: FDR Today’s labor history: National Trades' Union formed
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On the SAG-AFTRA podcast. Today’s labor quote: Dancers at the Lusty Lady. Today’s labor history: Lusty Lady dancers unionize.
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MLK’s dream of economic reparations for Black Americans. Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: 1963 March on Washington.
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Come on, Amazon; WTF is “Loper Bright”?; Whose country?; “I’m an abolitionist”; Origins of the Starbucks campaign Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: Death of Baxter Leach, who helped organize the Memphis sanitation strike
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The Western NY roots of the Starbucks organizing campaign, on the Union Strong podcast. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph. Today’s labor history: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded.
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Dr. Cornell West on the Union or Bust podcast. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Cornell West. Today’s labor history: UFW launches lettuce boycott.
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A Rick Smith Show caller on the politics of country music. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: Farm Workers Organizing Committee chartered.
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How the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo could weaken National Labor Relations Board rulings and hurt organized labor; America’s Work Force Radio reports. Today’s labor quote: Sara Nelson. Today’s labor history: Air Line Stewardesses Association formed.
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Labor news headlines, on Labor Week Today’s labor quote: Joyce Miller Today’s labor history: Broom & Whisk Makers Union disbands
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Union Talk; Inside the UPS contract; A worker’s a worker; “Baltimore doesn’t happen without Charleston” Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler Today’s labor history: Liz Shuler elected AFL-CIO president
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Radical Songbook host Michael Funke on how rock music helped drive the civil rights movement, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour. Today’s labor quote: Eugene Victor Debs Today’s labor history: WEVD founded in NYC.
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Longtime union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp on how a failed 1969 strike in Charleston led to an organizing win for Baltimore-area hospital and nursing home workers. Today’s labor quote: The Wobblies. Today’s labor history: IWW members tried for opposing war.
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The Workers’ Mic reports on strike solidarity in Chicago. Today’s labor quote: George Meany. Today’s labor history: Homer Martin born.
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An update on the deal struck between UPS and the Teamsters, on Working Voices. Today’s labor quote: Will Rogers. Today’s labor history: NYNEX striker killed.
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How education is bridging the divides between Jews and Arabs, on the AFT’s Union Talk podcast. Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland. Today’s labor history: Solidarity union seizes the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk.
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What the Teamsters won at UPS; AC at Big Brown; Why “The Nanny” is striking; Alberta Worker; Women on the line. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph. Today’s labor history: Bay Area mills lock out workers.
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Female lineman Cain Utek on the Powerline podcast. Today’s labor quote: Big Bill Haywood. Today’s labor history: Streetcar men walk off in San Francisco.
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Alberta Worker Podcast returns for its second season with a fascinating conversation with Juan Estevez, about his journey from Bogota, Colombia, emigrating to Canada as a child, trying to unionize his workplace, and then running for political office. Today’s labor quote: I.W. Abel. Today’s labor history: Air Line Pilots Association founded.
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Actor Fran Drescher on the SAG-AFTRA podcast. Today’s labor quote: Ethiopian proverb. Today’s labor history: 9 firefighters die in Boston fire.
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More on the UPS contract, from the Heartland Labor Forum. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: First African-American labor leader.
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The We Rise Fighting podcast reports. Today’s labor quote: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Today’s labor history: Actors Equity recognized.
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Scrappy summer; UPS workers hold the line; “We are the workers”; Does AI threaten decent work?; Alberta Worker Today’s labor quote: Indira Gandhi. Today’s labor history: Verizon workers strike.
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Host Kim Siever talks with Juan Estevez on the Alberta Worker podcast about trying to unionize his workplace and what it was like running as an NDP candidate in the 2021 federal election. Today’s labor quote: Albert Einstein. Today’s labor history: Teamsters strike UPS.
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The ILO Future of Work podcast reports. Today’s labor quote: Florence Reese. Today’s labor history: Air traffic controllers strike.
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TV writers standing strong two months into strike Today’s labor quote: Frances Fisher Today’s labor history: Hatch Act passed
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UPS workers in San Francisco talk to WorkWeek Radio about their contract issues. Today’s labor quote: Frank Little Today’s labor history: Who killed Frank Little?
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“It’s too damn hot and the bosses are ripping us off!” says the Green & Red podcast Today’s labor quote: Marvin Miller Today’s labor history: ’81 baseball strike ends
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Writers & actors fight back against AI; Class struggle in Hollywood; Heartland strike; Inside the room; A Knight at the game Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Hoffa Today’s labor history: UA ok’s domestic partner benefits
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The Radical Songbook podcast host confronts Nike’s founder Today’s labor quote: Harry Bridges Today’s labor history: Feds burn out homeless vets
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A striking actor takes The Labor Heritage Power Hour behind the scenes at contract talks between SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studio bosses. Today’s labor quote: Rafael Augustin Today’s labor history: National Labor Union founder dies
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The Heartland Labor Forum talks with Shelley Waggener, President of the SAG-AFTRA Local in Missouri Today’s labor quote: Executive Order 9981 Today’s labor history: The Battle of the Viaduct
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The Work Stoppage podcast reports on the SAG-AFTRA strike Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers Today’s labor history: First U.S. general strike
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Journalist Hamilton Nolan on Building Bridges Radio. Today’s labor quote: Fran Drescher. Today’s labor history: Alliance for Labor Action formed.
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Striking with Pride; UPS solidarity; Connecting with students in the foster system; Striking actor speaks out; Working in the Magic City Today’s labor quote: Alexander Berkman Today’s labor history: Northern Michigan copper miners strike
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Author Thomas Castillo on the Working History podcast. Today’s labor quote: SAG-AFTRA. Today’s labor history: Launch of the first labor-owned radio station in the U.S.
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Rank-and-file SAG-AFTRA member Elliott Bales tells The Labor Heritage Power Hour why 160,000 actors are striking. Today’s labor quote: John McCutcheon. Today’s labor history: The "Bloody Friday" Minneapolis truckers' strike.
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What are the unique challenges of children in the foster system and how can we support these students in our schools? A deep dive by the OEA Grow podcast, from the Oregon Education Association. Today’s labor quote: Declaration of Women's Rights. Today’s labor history: Hatch Act expanded. @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod @oregoneducation
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Teamsters area ready to strike UPS at the end of the month; the Roswell Hub podcast reports Today’s labor quote: Mary Moultrie Today’s labor history: Chicago stockyard workers strike
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Iowa City Starbucks workers strike to support LGBTQ rights; Speaking of Work reports. Today’s labor quote: Fran Drescher Today’s labor history: the Port Chicago Mutiny
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Toxic Debt; The Logistics Revolution; Killer Robo-Taxis; Bakers strike in Memphis; Art Works Today’s labor quote: Kate Shindle Today’s labor history: SF General Strike
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Ken Grossinger on his new book Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie Today’s labor history: The Great Uprising rail strike
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The BCTGM Voices Project reports on the IFF strike Today’s labor quote: Isaac Shaw Today’s labor history: Detroit news strike
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Work Week Radio reports the threat of robot taxis in San Francisco. Today’s labor quote: Boris Karloff. Today’s labor history: Bisbee deports Wobblies.
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On The Upsurge podcast, where UPS fits into the Logistics Revolution in global capitalism and what it might mean for building worker power. Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs. Today’s labor history: UAW’s longest strike.
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An environmental justice history of Detroit, on the Tales From the Reuther Library podcast Today’s labor quote: Mary McLeod Bethune Today’s labor history: Troops finally quell Pullman strike
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Honoring Zelda D'Aprano, who fought for women's equality Today’s labor quote: Sean O’Brien Today’s labor history: 2-day general strike in Puerto Rico
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The Union Dues podcast on sexual harassment awareness, prevention, reporting, monitoring and representation. Today’s labor quote: The New York Times. Today’s labor history: NYC transit workers strike.
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The lasting impact of the ’68 Memphis sanitation strike, on the I AM STORY podcast Today’s labor quote: Maurice Spivey Today’s labor history: The Battle of Rincon Hill
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PFLAG’s Brian Bond, on AFT’s Union Talk podcast Today’s labor quote: Albert Parsons Today’s labor history: Baltimore Evening Sun newsboys die
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Bill Fletcher Jr. on Resisting Tyranny Through a 21st Century Labor Movement, on theLabor History Today podcast. Today’s labor quote: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Today’s labor history: Children strike the silk mills in Paterson, NJ.
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UPS workers ready to strike; 25 years of supporting Mexican workers; Life of a Lineman; Walking the line with ”Billions” writer; Who’ll Pay Reparations On My Soul? Today’s labor quote: Ethiopian proverb Today’s labor history: Civil Rights Act Title VII bans discrimination
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Historian Gerald Horne and People's Organization for Progress Chair Lawrence Hamm on the Building Bridges Juneteenth special. Today’s labor quote: Gerald Horne. Today’s labor history: Alabama outlaws convict leasing.
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Striking Hollywood writer – and picketline captain -- Theo Travers (Billions, Power, The Brave, Sleepy Hollow) reports on 9-week WGA strike on the Your Rights At Work radio show. Today’s labor quote: Theo Travers. Today’s labor history: Boilermaker and Blacksmith unions merge.
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Union Journeyman Lineman Bryce Hubbard on Powerline Podcast. Today’s labor quote: Nikola Tesla. Today’s labor history: Labor Day declared holiday.
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The Solidarity Center podcast reports. Today’s labor quote: Paolo Marinaro. Today’s labor history: IWW founded.
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Working People talks with Teamster Sean Orr Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs Today’s labor history: Rail workers support Pullman strike
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March of the Mill Children; Striking writers hold the line; Fighting workplace harassment; We Will Not Be Turned Around; The babyface and the heel Today’s labor quote: FDR Today’s labor history: Haymarket Martyrs Monument dedicated
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Pro wrestler Ray Idol on the America Works podcast Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones Today’s labor history: SCOTUS screws farmworkers
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Episode 3 of the I AM STORY podcast, about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King. Today’s labor history: 36 dead in Herrin coal mine strike.
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The Roswell Hub podcast on harassment in the workplace at UPS. Today’s labor quote: Saul Alinsky. Today’s labor history: 100K solidarity march at Detroit newspaper strike.
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Writers Guild members are still out on strike; WorkWeek Radio reports from their big June 5 rally at Apple's World Headquarters in Cupertino, California. Today’s labor quote: Richard Cordiner. Today’s labor history: Ford recognizes UAW, signs contract.
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The Philadelphia-based Labor Jawn podcast remembers Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children on President Roosevelt's summer home in a protest against child labor Today’s labor quote: Republic Steel organizer Today’s labor history: The Women’s Day Massacre
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Rocky reads poetry; The caring economy is on life support; ”Rules to Win By”; Voices of the unhoused; Joe Hill lives! Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph Today’s labor history: Protesting discrimination in war industries
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Elise Bryant talks with Susan Eisenberg and Dave Elsila, this year’s Joe Hill awardees at the 2023 Great Labor Art Exchange, on Your Rights At Work Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs Today’s labor history: Drag queens strike for better pay
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The Voice of the People podcast talks with Serena, evicted from the Russell Street Bridge encampment in Missoula, Montana Today’s labor quote: Serena Today’s labor history: The Battle of Century City
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Abby Lawlor talks about her book, "Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations" on the PCTA FYRE podcast Today’s labor quote: Albert Einstein Today’s labor history: First commercial computer installed
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Stuck Nation Radio reports. Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs. Today’s labor history: Birth of Tony Mazzocchi, Labor Party founder and OSHA prime mover.
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The Great Labor Arts Exchange; A white-collar strike; Aussie labor supports the environment; Belafonte, race and labor; Crack-Up Capitalism. Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis. Today’s labor history: Labor unity conference in St. Louis.
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Poet Rocky Delaplaine reads “Wages” on Your Rights At Work. Today’s labor quote: Ricardo Levins Morales. Today’s labor history: Baseball players strike.
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On The Dig, Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Today’s labor quote: Helen Marot. Today’s labor history: Winnipeg police fired for striking.
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Work Week Radio explores Harry Belafonte’s work on labor and race and how it connects to today. Today’s labor quote: William Shepherd. Today’s labor history: Organizer Helen Marot born.
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Today we head to Australia, for the Solidarity Breakfast podcast’s report on Saving the McIvor Reserve. Today’s labor quote: Pageant of the Paterson Strike. Today’s labor history: Militia sent to Cripple Creek, CO to suppress a strike by the Western Federation of Miners.
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The Worker’s Mic talks with Writers Guild supporters at a Chicago rally. Today’s labor quote: The Labor Party. Today’s labor history: Autoworkers stage general strike in Lansing.
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Singers Colleen Kattau and Ben Grosscup and organizer David Heller talk about why they’re attending the June 15-18 Great Labor Arts Exchange.
Today’s labor quote: Colleen Kattau.
Today’s labor history: Teamsters for a Democratic Union founded.
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Striking for quality TV and movies; Teamsters ready to strike; Lights, Camera, Action!; How WestJet pilots got their deal; Forgotten Populists Today’s labor quote: Rose Elizabeth Bird. Today’s labor history: House OKs Taft-Hartley Act.
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Steve Babson, author of “Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy”, on the We Rise Fighting podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Chicago secretaries.
Today’s labor history: Secretary Iris Rivera fired for refusing to make coffee.
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An inside look at recent contract negotiations for WestJet pilots on the WestJet MEC PIREP Podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Chris Smalls.
Today’s labor history: Mexican government abolishes siestas.
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The Million Dollar Organizer podcast explores the impact of short-form video for union organizing.
Today’s labor quote: The Four Vagabonds.
Today’s labor history: Rosie the Riveter dies.
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Teamsters 175 president Ken Hall previews strike issues on America’s Workforce radio.
Today’s labor quote: The film Blue Jean, which screens free tonight at AFI, closing out the 2023 DC Labor FilmFest.
Today’s labor history: Police kill 10 strikers in Memorial Day Massacre.
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What the Writers Guild strike means for TV and movie fans, from Labor Radio on KBOO-FM.
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.
Today’s labor history: UFW agreement ends 17-year lettuce boycott.
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“Something is broken”; Talking tone; “Abbott Elementary” star loves teachers; Los Angeles, 1992; The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Today’s labor quote: The Turkey Trot.
Today’s labor history: The Rochester (NY) general strike.
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A musical about English workers deported to Australia in 1834 for unionizing; from The Valley Labor Report.
Today’s labor quote: Francis Wilson.
Today’s labor history: 100,000 steel workers and miners strike.
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Working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992, on the Belabored podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Toby Higbie.
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO campaigns for a 35-hour workweek.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph on Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers.
Today’s labor quote: Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Today’s labor history: Striking Rubber Workers return to work without a contract.
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Movie directors on what is “probably the strongest element” in a film; from The Director’s Cut, the podcast from the Directors Guild of America.
Today’s labor quote: Ted Selander.
Today’s labor history: The Battle of Toledo.
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Television industry reaping billions in profits while writer’s pay plummets; Writer's Guild of America, East Executive Director Lowell Peterson on the Union Strong podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Lowell Peterson.
Today’s labor history: Racism in Georgia Railroad strike.
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“We are going to win”; Actors and AI; Philly’s left turn; Fighting for “the best job in the world”; The Forrest Gump of activism.
Today’s labor quote: Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Today’s labor history: 100,000 unionized SBC Communications workers strike.
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The Labor Jawn podcast takes a look at the life of gay rights, HIV/AIDS, anti-war, and civil rights activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
Today’s labor quote: Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
Today’s labor history: Shootout in Matewan, West Virginia, between striking union miners and coal company agents.
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A picketline visit with striking TV writer Joe Webb.
Today’s labor quote: Joe Webb.
Today’s labor history: Atlanta transit workers strike.
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The Dig podcast talks with Helen Gym and Nikil Saval.
Today’s labor quote: Helen Gym.
Today’s labor history: First women’s anti-slavery conference.
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How SAG-AFTRA is tackling the challenges of Generative AI.
Today’s labor quote: Ray Rodriguez.
Today’s labor history: Death of A. Philip Randolph.
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TV writer Sasha Stewart on why she and her fellow Writers Guild members are striking. (Working People podcast)
Today’s labor quote: Sasha Stewart.
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS supports boycotts in the Buck Stove and Range decision.
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Hong Kong activist wins labor’s Nobel prize; Death on the Job: the Toll of Neglect; LIVE from the Writers Guild picket line; Will AI destroy jobs?
Today’s labor quote: Katie Porter.
Today’s labor history: IWW dock workers strike in Philadelphia.
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Deep Lab Research Group co-director Antonio Casilli is skeptical. Radio Labour reports.
Today’s labor quote: Albert Einstein.
Today’s labor history: 150,000 anthracite coal miners strike.
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Television writer/producer Theo Travers on the “existential threat” that’s got Hollywood writers walking picket lines.
Today’s labor quote: Theo Travers.
Today’s labor history: Pullman Strike begins.
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The National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the largest one day food drive in the country; leave a bag of non-perishable food next to your mailbox on Saturday, May 13th, and your letter carrier will handle the rest.
Today’s labor quote: Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.
Today’s labor history: Western Labor Union formed.
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AFL-CIO’s latest report on workplace deaths and injuries.
Labor quote: Ken Loach’s “Spirit of ‘45”.
Today’s labor history: 4,000 Farah garment workers strike.
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2023 Arthur Svensson prize awarded to Elizabeth Tang, who leads International Domestic Workers' Federation (Radio Labour)
Today’s labor quote: Elizabeth Tang.
Today’s labor history: 12,000 Steelworkers at Goodyear win 18-day strike.
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GWU residents unionize; Hollywood writers strike; “Joy is an act of spiritual and political resistance”; Union agreement at Brookings Institution.
Today’s labor quote: Knights of St. Crispin.
Today’s labor history: “Bloody Tuesday”.
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Brookings United reaches an initial one-year agreement, the first time in Brookings’ 107-year history.
Today’s labor quote: Amy Liu.
Today’s labor history: Battle of Harlan County.
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AFT president Randi Weingarten, receiving the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Solidarity Forever Award on Tuesday.
Today’s labor quote: DC Labor Chorus.
Today’s labor history: Haymarket Massacre.
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Nearly 12,000 movie and television writers walked out Tuesday over pay and working conditions.
Today’s labor quote: Writers Guild of America.
Today’s labor history: Birth of Pete Seeger.
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Vote to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, which also represents the residents and interns at Children’s National Hospital and Howard University Hospital.
Today’s labor quote: Maryssa Miller.
Today’s labor history: Hitler abolishes labor unions.
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WPFW (89.3 FM) celebrates International Workers Day, Wobblies rally and march, DC Labor FilmFest opens tonight.
Today’s labor quote: Billy Bragg sings The Internationale.
Today’s labor history: 8-hour day demonstrations launch May Day tradition.
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Fast, but not fair; Georgetown Labor Spring; “Blackberry” opens DC Labor FilmFest; Labor Radio Podcast Weekly; Workers Memorial Day
Today’s labor quote: Barack Obama.
Today’s labor history: Obama Administration’s National Labor Relations Board implements new rules to speed up unionization elections.
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Remembering those killed and injured on the job, and continuing the fight for health and safety at work.
Today’s labor quote: Blackberry (Opening Night film at the 2023 DC Labor FilmFest).
Today’s labor history: Congress creates OSHA; two West VA mine disasters.
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Clips from shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Today’s labor quote: Harry Belafonte.
Today’s labor history: Boston carpenters strike for a 10-hour day.
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"Blackberry" is "a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive tech landscape at the turn of the 21st century." This year’s DC Labor FilmFest opens on May Day at the AFI Silver Theatre; click here for details.
Today’s labor quote: “Blackberry” film.
Today’s labor history: U.S. Army seizes Montgomery Ward department store after management defies NLRB.
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The Labor Spring at Kalmanovitz panel of workers and organizers runs 3 to 5:30 pm today at Georgetown University.
Today’s labor quote: Alexis Harper.
Today’s labor history: 100 arrested while picketing a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina for union recognition.
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New Georgetown report reveals how D.C’s instant delivery workplace is failing workers.
Today’s labor quote: Katie Wells.
Today’s labor history: Longshoremen shut down West Coast in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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MD labor celebrates win on union dues; NY hotel workers score historic pay raise; Bernie’s power lessons; Confirm Julie Su!; VA labor stands up for history.Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph.
Today’s labor history: First women-led American union launches six-day strike across New England.
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Virginia workers and labor union leaders call on the State Board of Education not to erase labor history from Virginia schools.
Today’s labor quote: Doris Crouse-Mays.
Today’s labor history: Rockefeller signs Taylor Law in NYS, permitting union organization and bargaining by public employees, but outlawing the right to strike.
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Well-heeled lobbyists and corporate special interests are spending big to block worker advocate Julie Su’s confirmation as Labor Secretary.
Today’s labor quote: Julie Su.
Today’s labor history: 10,000 demonstrators celebrate Lowell textile workers’ win.
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Bernie Sanders speech to the Oxford Union on how power in the U.S. is used against unions.
Today’s labor quote: Bernie Sanders.
Today’s labor history: 168 killed by American domestic terrorist’s bomb.
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Agreement -- which boosts some wages to more than $31 an hour -- covers 7,000 Hotel and Gaming Trades Council members.
Today’s labor quote: Fre Bryant.
Today’s labor history: West Virginia coal miners strike.
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One of labor’s biggest wins in the just-ended Maryland General Assembly session was House Bill 2 (Union Dues Subtraction), reports Maryland State & DC AFL-CIO President Donna Edwards.
Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph.
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS’ most controversial ruling: Lochner v. New York.
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Two from AFGE; Solid State Books workers unionize; LexisNexis employees unionize; Compass contract fight comes to World Bank. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph.
Today’s labor history: First women-led American union launches six-day strike across New England.
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UNITE HERE members demand a $20 per hour minimum for Compass workers who serve elite clients in DC.
Today’s labor quote: Marlene Patrick Cooper.
Today’s labor history: Mexican and Filipino farm workers arrested for union activities in Imperial Valley, CA.
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MLex Guild covers more than 20 workers at MLex and FTCWatch in Washington, San Francisco and New York.
Today’s labor quote: Eugene Debs.
Today’s labor history: International Hod Carriers & Building Laborers’ Union
founded.
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Store owners voluntarily recognize UFCW 400 as their workers’ union.
Today’s labor quote: Florence Reece.
Today’s labor history: The Iron City Forge of the Sons of Vulcan – forerunners of United Steel Workers – forms.
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According to survey results released last Thursday by UNITE HERE Local 23.
Today’s labor quote: D. Taylor.
Today’s labor history: Jackie Robinson plays his first major league game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Federal workers union sees largest membership increase in almost seven years; TA at VA.
Today’s labor quote: Frances Perkins.
Today’s labor history: Immigrants rally across U.S. for rights.
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Hands Off DC scores a win; AFGE’s new local for European feds; I AM Story: the strike that rocked Memphis; “Kroger, Safeway, don’t merge in our neighborhood!”; Emergency action for fired Union Kitchen worker.Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor history: IWW organizies the Leviathan.
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Supporters gathering at 2p today at Union Kitchen, 1251 9th St NW to demand immediate reinstatement of Carlos Hernandez, fired for supporting the union.
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney.
Today’s labor history: 300,000 members of the National Federation of Telephone Workers strike AT&T and the Bell System.
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Supermarket workers turned out yesterday to warn that the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger will devastate local communities.
Today’s labor quote: I Am Story podcast.
Today’s labor history: First U.S. slave revolt.
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AFSCME’s new I AM Story podcast explores the events that transpired in Memphis 55 years ago as sanitation workers struck and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched with them, in a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history.
Today’s labor quote: UFCW 400.
Today’s labor history: Explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia kills 29 miners; worst U.S. mine disaster in 40 years.
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More than 10,000 federal employees working for U.S. agencies in Europe now have a union local to represent them: AFGE Local 14.
Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor history: Mine Workers beat back concessions at Pittston.
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Biden pledges veto of GOP meddling; audio postcard from last week’s march and rally.
Today’s labor quote: Hands Off DC.
Today’s labor history: MLK returns to Memphis to support strikers.
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“You are a nurse, not a slave”; “Call ‘em up and call ‘em out”; Solidarity at Solid State Books; Workers love Starbucks; Howard Schultz, not so much.Today’s labor quote: Lou Brock.
Today’s labor history: The Great Hershey Sit-down.
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Reactions to Wednesday’s Senate hearing on unionbusting at Starbucks.
Today’s labor quote: Becky Hess.
Today’s labor history: Cowboys strike.
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Workers announce plans to unionize with UFCW 400.
Today’s labor quote: Solid State Books workers.
Today’s labor history: Battle in Seattle shuts down WTO.
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Hundreds of union members and their allies packed Lawyers Mall in front of Maryland’s State Capitol Monday night; we’ve got an audio postcard.
Today’s labor quote: Courtney Jenkins.
Today’s labor history: The Battle of Wall Street.
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Director Vincent Mondillo on his new film, which screens free Wednesday, March 29 7p at the E Street Theatre; click here for free tickets.
Today’s labor quote: Vincent Mondillo.
Today’s labor history: Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
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A GW University Hospital RN speaks out about why nurses are unionizing.
Today’s labor quote: Angelo Estrellas
Today’s labor history: Colorado bans Mother Jones.
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“Banking on our Future” Day of Action; Protect unionizing nurses!; Nurses file charges against GW University Hospital; CPD Staff Union standing strong; National Airport security officers authorize strike.Today’s labor quote: Emma Goldman.
Today’s labor history: San Francisco brewery workers strike.
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Wages and health care are at issue; officers could walk off the job as soon as next week.
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.
Today’s labor history: Groundbreaking on the New York City subway system.
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Center for Popular Democracy Staff Union says they’re united in demands for open bargaining, and for the contract and workplace they deserve.
Today’s labor quote: Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Today’s labor history: Nixon sends troops to break Post Office strike.
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DCNA says hospital is violating their workers’ legal rights to organize.
Today’s labor quote: Dolores Huerta.
Today’s labor history: Mark Twain extolls Knights of Labor.
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George Washington University Hospital suspends nurses for organizing; Loudoun County bus drivers return to work.
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.
Today’s labor history: American Labor Union founded.
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March 21 DC actions demanding that the country's biggest banks stop funding fossil fuels.
Today’s labor quote: David Mott.
Today’s labor history: Michigan authorizes workers’ cooperatives.
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Remembering Myrtle Witbooi; ”Keolis is a serial violator”; “Terrible impact” of Glen Allen Tyson Foods closing; Saket Soni’s “Great Escape.”Today’s labor quote: Saul Alinsky.
Today’s labor history: NYC seizes Fifth Avenue Coach to end strike.
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Organizer’s book tells “True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America.”
Today’s labor quote: Saket Soni.
Today’s labor history: Chinese laborers blocked from U.S.
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“Tyson Foods will continue to reap the lavish benefits of taxpayer dollars while Virginia will have 300 fewer jobs,” says UFCW 400.
Today’s labor quote: Mark Federici.
Today’s labor history: United Federation of Teachers formed.
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WPFW is where you'll always hear the voices of the people; If you’ve already made your contribution to our winter pledge drive, Thank You! If not, please take a moment now to do so: call 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739, pledge online and you can also easily give on CashApp: $WPFW. Today’s labor quote: Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America. Today’s labor history: Supreme Court approves the 8-Hour Act. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @GoIUPAT @iupat_dc51
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Keolis Transit settles Unfair Labor Practices charges as ATU strike enters 8th week. Today’s labor quote: Esperanza Quintero. Today’s labor history: Ford de-skills auto manufacturing. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @ATUComm @ATULocal689
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The General secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union and the first president of the International Domestic Workers Federation died earlier this year. Today’s labor quote: Myrtle Witbooi. Today’s labor history: GM workers win four-month UAW strike.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Labor Spring sweeps nation; HMS Host workers ratify 1st contract; Why the Fair Wage Act is necessary; STEM women of the world, unite!; “Hands off DC!”Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland. Today’s labor history: "Bread and Roses" textile strike ends with victory.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborSpring @unitehere23 @32BJSEIU @1199SEIU_MDDC @IndustriALL_GU @radiolabour #51stState #DCRiseUp #DouglasCommonwealth #HandsOffDC @DCVote @HarrietsDreams
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Audio from Wednesday’s spirited rally protesting this week's move by Congress to block the implementation of new criminal justice reforms in DC.Today’s labor quote: DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. Today’s labor history: Cesar Chavez ends 24-day fast for non-violence. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u #51stState #DCRiseUp #DouglasCommonwealth #HandsOffDC @DCVote @HarrietsDreams
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Unionists focusing on increasing women working in STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Today’s labor quote: Armelle Seby. Today’s labor history: 16-month "Slovak strike" begins. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @IndustriALL_GU @radiolabour
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$17 [in 2030] is going to be like $13 today," says 1199SEIU MD/DC political director Ricarra Jones. Today’s labor quote: Frances Perkins. Today’s labor history: César Chávez leads march of 5,000 striking farmworkers in Salinas, California. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @1199SEIU_MDDC
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Plus: AFSCME higher education bargaining team at Bowie State University bargains for their first unified contract. Today’s labor quote: SEIU 32BJ. Today’s labor history: IWW founder Lucy Parsons dies. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @unitehere23 @32BJSEIU
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Largest series of labor-focused teach-ins in recent memory, launched by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University in collaboration with multiple organizations and campuses. Today’s labor quote: Dr. James Benton.Today’s labor history: Unemployed demonstrate across U.S. during the Great Depression.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborSpring
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Political action at work; “Fine Keolis” says ATU; “Organize or die”; Labor hails Julie Su nomination as labor secretary; Black women workers connecting globally.Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney. Today’s labor history: 12,000 television and movie writers launch three-month strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UHLocal25 @unitehere @ATULocal689 @Teamsters 639 @ATUComm @AFLCIO @va_labor @IATSELocal22 #IASolidarity @IATSE @SolidarityCntrProud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Members of the Black Women’s Roundtable shared strategies for advancing racial and gender justice through labor movements worldwide at a recent Solidarity Center event. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones.Today’s labor history: AFL leader William Green born. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @SolidarityCntr
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AFL-CIO says “there’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people.”Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony. Today’s labor history: 6,000 drivers strike Greyhound. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u
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IATSE 22’s Chuck Clay on how joining a union improves workers lives; Clay is one of the 2022 Metro Washington Council’s Evening with Labor award-winners.Today’s labor quote: Chuck Clay. Today’s labor history: Hattie McDaniel first African-American to win an Academy Award. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @IATSELocal22 #IASolidarity @IATSE
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Transit union calls on Loudoun County to fine Keolis for missed bus service during strike. Today’s labor quote: Eugene Debs. Today’s labor history: South African workers walk out in support of NJ workers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @ATULocal689 @Teamsters 639 @ATUComm @AFLCIO @va_labor
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UNITE HERE Local 25 Political Director Sam Epps on connecting worker’s lives with political action; Epps is one of the 2022 Metro Washington Council’s Evening with Labor award-winners.Today’s labor quote: Sam Epps. Today’s labor history: Sit-in at Detroit Woolworth’s. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @UHLocal25 @unitehere
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“We will strike and strike”; Labor’s next generation; Cannabis’ social equity; Major strike activity up nearly 50% in 2022; Union Vets delegation’s solidarity with Ukraine.Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: 20-week strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers ends.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @Teamsters 639 @ATUComm @AFLCIO @va_labor @CLUWNational @LaborHeritage1 @UFCW400 @MDDCStateFed @EconomicPolicy @mpoydock @unionveterans @OMarkarova #Ukraine
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Urges support for rally this Saturday at 2 pm at the Lincoln Memorial supporting Ukraine and its workers.Today’s labor quote: AFL-CIO’s Union Veterans Council. Today’s labor history: Lawrence, MA cops beat women and children textile strikers.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @unionveterans @OMarkarova #Ukraine
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According to an analysis of BLS data by the Economic Policy Institute. Today’s labor quote: Margaret Poydock.Today’s labor history: Woody Guthrie pens a classic. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @EconomicPolicy @mpoydock
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Labor hails social equity in proposed MD legalized cannabis bill.Today’s labor quote: Donna Edwards. Today’s labor history: Knights of Labor and others plan People’s Party. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @UFCW400 @MDDCStateFed
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Elise Bryant on a new generation’s plans at the Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Labor Heritage Foundation. Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant. Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO grants United Farm Workers a charter. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @CLUWNational @LaborHeritage1
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A striking Prince William County driver reports from the Teamsters 639 picket line at Keolis Transit. Today’s labor quote: Mustafa. Today’s labor history: UMWA ends Pittston strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @ATULocal689 @Teamsters 639 @ATUComm @AFLCIO @va_labor
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Farmers market workers organize; Keolis strike spreads to Prince William County; The trouble with Keolis; “Make me wanna holler”; Prince George’s County “is a union town”!Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s labor history: Farm Labor Organizing Committee signs agreement with Campbell Soup.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @FRESHFARMunion @UFCW400 @ATULocal689 #ATUStrong @LoudounCoGovt @Teamsters @LoudounCoGovt @ATUComm @va_labor @pgcd8_burroughs @KrystalOriadha @WalaBlegay @Progressive_MD @NABTU @Plumbers_5_DC Carpenters @smartunionworks
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Dozens of area building trades workers and their community and political allies rallied in Greenbelt on Wednesday night. Today’s labor quote: Wala BlegayToday’s labor history: Fight for $15 rallies across U.S. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @pgcd8_burroughs @KrystalOriadha @WalaBlegay @Progressive_MD @NABTU @Plumbers_5_DC Carpenters @smartunionworksProud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Marvin Gaye, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King at Tuesday night’s Leesburg rally by striking Keolis transit workers. Today’s labor quote: Julius. Today’s labor history: NYC furriers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @ATULocal689 @Teamsters 639 @ATUComm @AFLCIO @va_labor
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The French transit company – whose workers are striking in Loudoun and Prince William County – also has problems in Reno, Las Vegas and Raleigh. Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony.Today’s labor history: Civil Works Emergency Relief Act relieves Depression-era poverty and unemployment@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @ATULocal689 #ATUStrong @LoudounCoGovt @Teamsters
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Teamsters 639 members strike Keolis in Prince William County; ATU 689 members have been striking the company in Loudoun County for last four weeks. Today’s labor quote: ATU 689.Today’s labor history: Western Federation of Miners strikes for the 8-hour day. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @ATULocal689 #ATUStrong @LoudounCoGovt @Teamsters
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Freshfarm Workers Union unionizes workers at DC-area farmers markets.Today’s labor quote: Pasha Fesenko.Today’s labor history: Hollywood writers end 3-month strike.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @FRESHFARMunion @UFCW400
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Defenders of Wildlife not so great with people; Defenders of Wildlife settles; workers demand contract; Rejecting a “culture of fear”; Two organizing wins; Freshfarm workers unionize.Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass.Today’s labor history: Birth of John L. Lewis, president of the Mine Workers and founder of the CIO.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @thericandback @defenders_staff @Defenders #WeAreDefenders #UnionStrong @OPEIU @OPEIULocal2 @AFT_Maryland @aftunion @TRUhopkins @ueunion #JHUGradsRising #TRUisYOU @FRESHFARMunion @UFCW400 Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
25 employees responsible for staffing and operating 28 local farmers markets in DC, Maryland and Virginia join UFCW 400. Today’s labor quote: Freshfarm workers organizing committee.Today’s labor history: Forty workers killed in Staten Island explosion.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @FRESHFARMunion @UFCW400
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Johns Hopkins grad students join Teachers and Researchers United; education professionals at the Maryland School for the Deaf join the AFT. Today’s labor quote: Nicole Goldberg.Today’s labor history: Boeing engineers and technical workers strike.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u @AFT_Maryland @aftunion @TRUhopkins @ueunion #JHUGradsRising #TRUisYOU
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Fired Defenders of Wildlife worker says “Enough is enough; we're sick of losing people, we're sick of being seen as the enemy.”Today’s labor quote: Eleanor Roosevelt.Today’s labor history: Vigilantes beat IWW organizers in San Diego. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u #WeAreDefenders #UnionStrong @OPEIU @defenders_staff @thericandback OPEIULocal2
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The non-profit agreed to pay $87K for firing a union organizer, but Defenders United/OPEIU 2 workers rallied Monday to demand a contract. Today’s labor quote: Kerry Skiff. Today’s labor history: Hockey players organize. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #1u #WeAreDefenders #UnionStrong @OPEIU @defenders_staff @thericandback OPEIULocal2
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Workers to rally today against union-busting at non-profit. Today’s labor quote: Erica Prather. Today’s labor history: Seattle General Strike begins. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @thericandback @defenders_staff @Defenders
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DC Instacart workers owed $1.5m; Democratic Party of Virginia staff ratify new union contract; Teamsters at Keolis vote to strike; ATU condemns fatal shooting of hero Metro worker.Today’s labor quote: Charlie Chaplin. Today’s labor history: First daily labor newspaper.
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Transit union says WMATA is failing to provide better protection and safety measures for transit workers and riders. Today’s labor quote: ATU 689. Today’s labor history: Supreme Court says boycott violates Antitrust Act.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATUComm @ATULocal689 @wmata
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Union says Keolis Transit “is dragging its feet during negotiations.” Today’s labor quote: Bill Davis. Today’s labor history: Chicago secretary fired for refusing to make coffee. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Teamsters @KeolisNAProud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Provides for significant pay increases, an additional holiday, and continued comprehensive benefits and leave policies for UFCW 400 members. Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney.Today’s labor history: Collar Laundry Union wins raises for female laundry workers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @vademocrats
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Striking Keolis bus drivers to rally at French Embassy at 1p today: 4101 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC.Today’s labor quote: Ida May Fuller. Today’s labor history: 12,000 pecan shellers strike in San Antonio, Texas. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm #1u #ATUStrongerTogether
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The D.C. Attorney General sued Instacart for collecting misleading consumers to believe that the “service fees” on orders were tips that went directly to delivery workers (the company pocketed the fees); click here for details on how to file a claim. Deadline: March 25. Today’s labor quote: Emily Barth. Today’s labor history: International Labour Organization founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @DCAttorneyGen
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Loudon County transit strikers hold the line; Loudoun transit strikers byding their time; Fire Fighters speak out on cancer threat; Keolis strikers defiant; “We are having a nightmare right now”Today’s labor quote: Dolly Parton. Today’s labor history: Jackson ordersfirst use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATUComm @ATULocal689 @TheProspect @HaroldMeyerson @KeolisNA @IAFF36 #ATUStrongerTogether
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Striking Loudoun County bus driver Sandra Vigil on how Keolis Transit has turned immigrant dreams into a living nightmare. Today’s labor quote: Sandra Vigil. Today’s labor history: NYC maids organize. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm #ATUStrongerTogether
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Voices from the ATU 689 picket line in Loudoun County. Today’s labor quote: John Costa. Today’s labor history: Workers win sitdown strike at Brooklyn electric plant. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm #ATUStrongerTogether
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Plus: Insulators 24 welcomes Hot & Cold; CWA 2108 pays respects to Maurice Moore. Today’s labor quote: Sojourner Truth. Today’s labor history: Supreme Court upholds “Yellow Dog” contracts. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @IAFF36Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Loudoun County transit workers speak out on why they’re striking Keolis Transit. Note: Loudoun County’s “I Byde My Time” motto is from the county’s coat of arms, modeled after that of John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun, the Scottish nobleman after whom the county was named. Today’s labor quote: Striking Loudoun County transit worker.Today’s labor history: Federal minimum wage increases. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm @KeolisNA
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Strike by ATU 689 members against Keolis Transit now in second week. Today’s labor quote: Harold Meyerson. Today’s labor history: Rochester clothing workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATUComm @ATULocal689 @TheProspect @HaroldMeyerson
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MLK, building tradesman; Feds show up for work every day; Loudoun transit strike update; Rockville cannabis workers unionize.Today’s labor quote: Terence V. Powderly. Today’s labor history: United Mine Workers of America founded.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFGENational @ATUComm @ATULocal689 @UFCW400 @sagaftra
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The longtime labor leader on how labor has changed the course of history. Today’s labor quote: The U-Liners. Today’s labor history: Biden fires anti-labor NLRB counsel. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @THEULINERS @AFSCME #MLK
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Cannabis workers at Potomac Holistics Dispensary vote to join UFCW 400.Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Today’s labor history: SAG-AFTRA investigates Trump for endangering members. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @sagaftra
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Loudoun County Supervisors walk ATU 689 picket line. Plus: Portia Wu nominated Maryland Secretary of Labor. Today’s labor quote: Johnny Paycheck. Today’s labor history: “Take This Job and Shove It” is #1 song.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm
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GOP’s “SHOW UP” Act is deliberately misleading, says federal workers’ union. Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons. Today’s labor history: JFK signs EO guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFGENational
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Dr. King on a human blueprint based on dignity, worth, and “somebodyness”. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: Palmer Raids detainees win rights. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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UK worker strike wave; UMD grad student union launches petition for rights and wages; Carrying on MLK’s work; “Heroes, not zeros”Today’s labor quote: Ralph Chaplin. Today’s labor history: CIO miners' union strike busted. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @FSE_UMD @STRedmond @ATULocal689 @ATUComm #ATUStrongerTogether @KeolisNA
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Angry voices from the picket line by striking Loudoun County transit workers who work for Keolis. Today’s labor quote: Raymond Jackson. Today’s labor history: Chicano citrus workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm #ATUStrongerTogether @KeolisNA
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AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Fred Redmond on strengthening the bonds between the labor and civil rights movement at this weekend’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference. Today’s labor quote: Fred Redmond. Today’s labor history: Seattle police raid fails to prevent a general strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @STRedmond
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Fearless Student Employees, the union for grad students at the University of Maryland, College Park, has launched a petition for collective bargaining rights and living wages for all Maryland higher-ed workers.Today’s labor quote: Margo St. James. Today’s labor history: The “Battle of the Running Bulls”. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @FSE_UMD
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That’s the theme of this year’s AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference this weekend in Washington, DC. Starts Friday!Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Today’s labor history: Former AFL-CIO President George Meany dies. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Hundreds of thousands of nurses, postal workers and rail workers in the UK have struck, and more may follow. Today’s labor quote: Patrick Dixon. Today’s labor history: 80,000 Chicago construction workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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2022’s top labor stories; More top labor stories from 2022; Union leaders make Power 100; Congressional Workers Union warns of GOP rights grab; “Hire local,” urge trades.Today’s labor quote: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan. Today’s labor history: “Great Steel Strike” ends.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @inthesetimesmag @TheProspect @HaroldMeyerson @AFSCMEMaryland @MSEAeducators @Congress_Union
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Area trades unions urge the Prince George’s County Council to hire union on construction projects. Watch the NBC4 report here.Today’s labor quote: Ed Burroughs. Today’s labor history: DC and Capitol police injured by pro-Trump rioters. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Last year's House Resolution enshrining collective bargaining rights for House staffers is in the GOP’s crosshairs.Today’s labor quote: Saul Levin. Today’s labor history: Ford raises pay to keep unions out. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Congress_Union
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AFSCME Maryland President Patrick Moran and Maryland State Education Association President Cheryl Bost have made the Daily Record’s 2022-23 Power 100 list. Today’s labor quote: Patrick Moran. Today’s labor history: NYC social workers and transit workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFSCMEMaryland @MSEAeducators
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Harold Meyerson’s top 2022 picks from The American Prospect.Today’s labor quote: Harold Meyerson and Steven Greenhouse.Today’s labor history: Alphabet Workers Union organizes at Google. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @TheProspect @HaroldMeyerson Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Sluggish institutions, corporate mergers, billionaires behaving badly: 2022 was a watershed year for the labor beat, reports In These Times magazine.Today’s labor quote: Olga Miranda. Today’s labor history: IWW founded in Chicago. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @inthesetimesmag
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New work-related words; Double win at MOM’s & La Colombe; Inequality continues to rise; Solidarity Forever, remixed.Today’s labor quote: Hank Williams. Today’s labor history: United Transportation Union founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @MerriamWebster @UFCW400 @lcworkersunited @EconomicPolicy @radiolabour
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The original Solidarity Forever was written in 1915; here’s a new millennium version.Today’s labor quote: “Jock” Yablonski. Today’s labor history: GM sit-down strike spreads. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @radiolabour
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Special broadcast of hour-long version of the Dec. 11 DC Labor Chorus Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs concert, today at 1p on WPFW’s Your Rights At Work show. Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant. Today’s labor history: Steel Workers end 86-day strike at Goodyear. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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EPI report says the top 1% now hold a record share of total earnings while the bottom 90% lose ground.Today’s labor quote: Elise Gould. Today’s labor history: Auto workers strike GM’s Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @EconomicPolicyProud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Workers at MOM’s Organic Market in College Park and the Chinatown La Colombe vote to unionize with UFCW Local 400.Today’s labor quote: Chinatown La Colombe workers. Today’s labor history: Roosevelt seizes railroads to block strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @lcworkersunited
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Some of this year’s new work-related words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Today’s labor quote: Merriam-Webster. Today’s labor history: Knights of Labor founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @MerriamWebster
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Budtenders organize, teachers settle, drivers picket; DC-area Starbucks workers join national strike; IUOE 99’s JAC recognized for “Notable Contribution”; Union leaders on Moore-Miller Transition Committee; La Colombe baristas’ union vote today.Today’s labor quote: Gene DebsToday’s labor history: Debs released from prison.Read by Rick Smith, from Labor History in 2:00.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WTUTeacher @UFCW400 @ATUComm @WorkersUnited @SBWorkersUnited #DoubleDownStrike #WUNoMatterWhat @iamwesmoore @arunamiller @SFTroupers @lcworkersunion @UFCW400 #lacolombe
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Urge supporters to stop by Chinatown location – 900 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 – to show their solidarity. Today’s labor quote: La Colombe baristas. Today’s labor history: AFL found in contempt of court for urging a boycott. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @lcworkersunion @UFCW400 #lacolombe
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The Metro Washington Labor Council AFL-CIO on Tuesday applauded the efforts of the Moore-Miller transition team to include representatives of working families in Maryland.Today’s labor quote: San Francisco Mime Troupe. Today’s labor history: Deportation of “labor agitators” marks the beginning of the so-called “Red Scare”. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @iamwesmoore @arunamiller @SFTroupers
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Operating Engineers Local 99’s apprenticeship program has produced more apprentices than all other programs in the state of Maryland combined in the last 44 years.Today’s labor quote: Samuel Gompers.Today’s labor history: Supreme Court rules picketing unconstitutional. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Nationwide 3-day ‘Double Down Strike’ of 100 Starbucks includes stores in Olney and Baltimore. Today’s labor quote: Michelle Eisen. Today’s labor history: AFL endorses constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WorkersUnited @SBWorkersUnited #DoubleDownStrike #WUNoMatterWhat
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Potomac Holistics budtenders protested union-busting Friday, DC teachers approved their contract, and Roanoke transit workers picketed. Today’s labor quote: J.J. Richards. Today’s labor history: 47-day Greyhound Bus strike ends. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WTUTeacher @UFCW400 @ATUComm
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Starbucks workers: “We wanted to be heard”; Starbucks rally audio postcard; “Elon Musk is a terrible boss”; Rail workers rally for sick days; Workers at Maryland’s OPD win union election.Today’s labor quote: Deborah Samson. Today’s labor history: GM closes 21 North American plants, slashes tens of thousands of jobs. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #SBWU1YearStrong #SBWU #sbworkersunited #tobeapartner #WUNoMatterWhat #wumarjb #UnionStrong #1U @SBWorkersUnited @va_labor @labourstart @AFSCME @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren @RashidaTlaib @RepAndyLevin @NALC_National @GoIUPAT @smartunionworks @TTDAFLCIO @Teamsters #1u #SupportRailWorkers @AFSCMEMaryland
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New unit covers over 600 workers statewide at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. Today’s labor quote: Patrick Moran. Today’s labor history: The Willmar 8: female bank tellers in Willmar, MN stage first-ever bank strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFSCMEMaryland
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Union and congressional allies join rally at U.S. Capitol, demand sick days for rail workers. Today’s labor quote: Andy Levin. Today’s labor history: AFL invests in organizing women. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren @RashidaTlaib @RepAndyLevin @NALC_National @GoIUPAT @smartunionworks @TTDAFLCIO @Teamsters #1u #SupportRailWorkers
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Labourstart’s Eric Lee on why Musk’s takeover of Twitter “set off alarm bells ringing for trade unionists.”Today’s labor quote: Eric Lee. Today’s labor history: AFSCME’s Lillian Roberts arrested for organizing an illegal strike in New York. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @labourstart @AFSCME
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Voices from the December 9 Starbucks rally in Arlington, Virginia. Today’s labor quote: DeMaurice Smith.Today’s labor history: AFL founder Sam Gompers dies. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SBWorkersUnited @va_labor
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The voices of local Starbucks baristas Jillian O'Hare and Aleah Bacetti.Today’s labor quote: Jillian O'Hare. Today’s labor history: Immigration sweep at U.S. meat plants. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #SBWU1YearStrong #SBWU #sbworkersunited #tobeapartner #WUNoMatterWhat #wumarjb #UnionStrong #1U
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Workers and the World Cup; Shoppers workers OK new union contract; Transit workers win Labor Organizing Award; Why Starbucks workers are organizing; Starbucks workers rally todayToday’s labor quote: Arthur Balfour. Today’s labor history: General strike in London, Ontario.@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @EdgeofSports @workerscup @UFCW400 @UFCW27 @shoppers @MineWorkers @ATULocal689 @DCJWJ @SBWorkersUnited #WUNoMatterWhat #wumarjb #sbwu #sbworkersunited #1U #workersrights #tobeapartner #corporatebullying
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Local barista Tyler Hofmann on why Starbucks workers, labor, political and community allies are rallying at 5 pm today in Arlington (2200 Clarendon Boulevard). Today’s labor quote: Tyler Hofmann. Today’s labor history: Longest strike in the history of the U.S. tire industry ends. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SBWorkersUnited #WUNoMatterWhat #wumarjb #sbwu #sbworkersunited #1U #workersrights #tobeapartner #corporatebullying
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Local barista Tyler Hofmann tells Your Rights At Work why his Richmond store unionized. Today’s labor quote: Tyler Hofmann. Today’s labor history: American Federation of Labor Founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SBWorkersUnited #WUNoMatterWhat #wumarjb #sbwu #sbworkersunited #1U #workersrights #tobeapartner #corporatebullying
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DC Jobs with Justice gives ATU 689 the 2022 Labor Organizing Award for their successful Hubbard Road strike.Today’s labor quote: Elizabeth Falcon.Today’s labor history: National hunger march on DC demands unemployment insurance. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @DCJWJ
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Agreement maintains existing health care and retirement benefits and provides raises & retro pay for the members of UFCW Locals 400 and 27.Today’s labor quote: Isaac Myers. Today’s labor history: Mine Workers launch 110-day national coal strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @UFCW27 @shoppers @MineWorkers
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“The Workers Cup” director Adam Sobel discusses worker rights in Qatar.Today’s labor quote: Adam Sobel. Today’s labor history: AFL and CIO merge. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @EdgeofSports @workerscup
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Another La Colombe organizes; DC teachers reach tentative contract agreement; Meet The People: Tambra Jackson; Think food prices are high now?; Protect pregnant workers!Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther. Today’s labor history: Works Progress Administration ends. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #redfored @WTUTeacher @DCPSChancellor @MurielBowser @AFGENational @UFCW400 @UFCW770 @ufcw324 @UFCW_3000 @UFCW5 @UFCW_7 @RealBankReform #solidarity #1u @WorkersAct
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Supporters urge passage of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Today’s labor quote: Daniel Kindlon. Today’s labor history: Wal-Mart agrees to pay $40 million for wage theft. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WorkersAct
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Supermarket workers warn Kroger-Albertsons merger would raise costs and cost jobs.Today’s labor quote: Jane St. Louis. Today’s labor history: “Bread and Roses” first published. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW770 @ufcw324 @UFCW_3000 @UFCW5 @UFCW_7 @RealBankReform #solidarity #1u
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National Gallery of Art union’s president on the best part of her job. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones. Today’s labor history: Unionists and activists shut down WTO in Seattle. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFGENational
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Deal recognizes “tireless efforts and sacrifice our teachers have made over the past three years.” Today’s labor quote: WTU President Jacqueline Pogue Lyons, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and DCPS Chancellor Lewis Ferebee. Today’s labor history: NLRB rules that medical interns can unionize.
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Workers at the La Colombe Coffee Roasters Farragut location organize with UFCW 400; the Chinatown location organized the week before. Today’s labor quote: William Sylvis. Today’s labor history: Strike by 20,000 shuts down NYC papers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Labor already prepping for 2024; Kroger/Albertsons mega-merger “a travesty”; Sick days and holiday pay spark worker revolt; Thanks, American workers Today’s labor quote: “Pins and Needles”. Today’s labor history: 1,200 workers sit down at Midland Steel in Detroit.
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DC joins global protest against one of the most exploitative companies on the planet. Today’s labor quote: Our Revolution. Today’s labor history: 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, participate in a solidarity parade. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Appreciating those who showed up, and those who walked out. Today’s labor quote: The Busboys. Today’s labor history: Gompers’ Cigarmakers local chartered.
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Railroad workers threaten strike over sick days; casino workers picket over holiday pay. Today’s labor quote: Dennis Pierce. Today’s labor history: History’s first recorded strike.
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New video explains how proposed merger could jack up consumer prices and corporate profits while cutting worker wages. Today’s labor quote: Benjamin Lorr. Today’s labor history: 20,000 female garment workers strike in New York City. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @MorePerfectUS @kroger @Albertsons
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AFL-CIO plans to maintain and build on existing infrastructure to coordinate upcoming electoral and organizing campaigns. Today’s labor quote: Mia Dell. Today’s labor history: UAW strikes 92 GM plans in 50 cities. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UAW
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Vets, racism and the vote; MOM’s says yes to union; Make Amazon Pay! DC baristas organize, doctors rally; Brewing a Red Cup Rebellion Today’s labor quote: William Faulkner. Today’s labor history: Time clock invented.
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DMV Starbucks baristas join national strike. Today’s labor quote: Paul Robeson, from “Joe Hill” Today’s labor history: Joe Hill executed in Utah.
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Workers at La Colombe Coffee Roasters organize with UFCW 400; SEIU’s resident doctors at Children’s National rally. Today’s labor quote: La Colombe Coffee Roasters workers. Today’s labor history: 33 die in Lake Michigan ship sinking.
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Global day of action planned for November 25, “Black Friday.” Hear more at RadioLabour. Today’s labor quote: Nick Rudikoff. Today’s labor history: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York founded.
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Global day of action planned for November 25, “Black Friday.” Hear more at RadioLabour. Today’s labor quote: Nick Rudikoff. Today’s labor history: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York founded.
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Workers at Timonium MOM’s Organic Market vote in union, College Park MOM’s workers announce plans to unionize. Today’s labor quote: College Park MOM’s workers. Today’s labor history: National Football League Players Association ends 57-day strike.
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Workers at Timonium MOM’s Organic Market vote in union, College Park MOM’s workers announce plans to unionize. Today’s labor quote: College Park MOM’s workers. Today’s labor history: National Football League Players Association ends 57-day strike.
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Union Veteran’s Council fights right-wing attempt to block counting military ballots. Today’s labor quote: Will Attig. Today’s labor history: Federation of Trades and Labor Unions (AFL precursor) founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @unionveterans #VeteransDay2022 #Veterans
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Union Veteran’s Council fights right-wing attempt to block counting military ballots. Today’s labor quote: Will Attig. Today’s labor history: Federation of Trades and Labor Unions (AFL precursor) founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @unionveterans #VeteransDay2022 #Veterans
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Baby economics; Supermarket workers union deplores gun violence after fatal shootings; The people speak; Arlington Starbucks workers win union; “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies” Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis. Today’s labor history: National Federation of Telephone Workers founded.
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New book about privatization of veterans’ healthcare “tells a working-class story, a labor story, and a political story.” Today’s labor quote: Chris Lombardi. Today’s labor history: The Centralia Massacre.
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Do Veterans Need a New Agenda in Washington? Join the authors of Our Veterans—Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven—for a post-mid-term discussion of veterans healthcare and related issues and why progressives should pay more attention to veterans affairs. Mon, November 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST, The American Prospect 1225 I Street Northwest #600 Washington, DC 20005 CLICK HERE to RSVP (Free)
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New book about privatization of veterans’ healthcare “tells a working-class story, a labor story, and a political story.” Today’s labor quote: Chris Lombardi. Today’s labor history: The Centralia Massacre.
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Do Veterans Need a New Agenda in Washington? Join the authors of Our Veterans—Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven—for a post-mid-term discussion of veterans healthcare and related issues and why progressives should pay more attention to veterans affairs. Mon, November 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST, The American Prospect 1225 I Street Northwest #600 Washington, DC 20005 CLICK HERE to RSVP (Free)
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“14 union stores in Virginia — and counting!” Today’s labor quote: Wes Moore. Today’s labor history: Sit-down strike at Austin, MN Hormel plant.
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“14 union stores in Virginia — and counting!” Today’s labor quote: Wes Moore. Today’s labor history: Sit-down strike at Austin, MN Hormel plant.
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Voices of local union volunteers at Tuesday’s elections. Today’s labor quote: Regina Welch. Today’s labor history: Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) founded.
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Voices of local union volunteers at Tuesday’s elections. Today’s labor quote: Regina Welch. Today’s labor history: Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) founded.
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A security guard and a suspected shoplifter were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a Giant grocery store in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Today’s labor quote: UFCW 400. Today’s labor history: 20,000 workers, black and white, stage general strike in New Orleans.
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A security guard and a suspected shoplifter were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a Giant grocery store in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Today’s labor quote: UFCW 400. Today’s labor history: 20,000 workers, black and white, stage general strike in New Orleans.
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Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant on why pregnancy is an economic and political issue. Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant. Today’s labor history: Eisenhower breaks steel strike.
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Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant on why pregnancy is an economic and political issue. Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant. Today’s labor history: Eisenhower breaks steel strike.
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Report: DC restaurants mum on pay; MTA workers OK contract; Jackson opposes Kroger/Albertsons merger; Meet the people: Charron Carter; “It’s About Our Choice” Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka. Today’s labor history: Coal mine explosion in Spangler, PA kills 79.
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Coalition of Labor Union Women’s new song about choice and voting, sung by powerhouse Lynn Marie Smith. Today’s labor quote: “It’s About Our Choice” Today’s labor history: Striking dairy farmers demonstrate.
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President-elect of AFGE Local 727, Charron Carter has been providing administrative support at the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) for almost 13 years. Part of AFGE’s Meet the People Who Keep Our Federal and D.C. Governments Running series. Today’s labor quote: Thomas Donahue. Today’s labor history: Gig worker firms’ $200 million-dollar proposition.
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Merger will raises costs and “must be stopped,” says Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Today’s labor quote: Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Today’s labor history: Long-serving Princeton cabbie retires.
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OPEIU 2 workers at MTA last week approved a historic deal. Today’s labor quote: Jennifer Abruzzo. Today’s labor history: Google employees walkout to protest sexual harassment. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @OPEIULocal2 @NLRBGC
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Most DC-area restaurants haven’t reported wages and tips, according to Still in the Dark: Tipped Wages in DC, a new report released by DC Jobs with Justice, ROC-DC and the D.C. Just Pay Coalition. Today’s labor quote: Elizabeth Falcon. Today’s labor history: The Coal Creek War. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @DCJWJ #Tipped #WageTheft @DOES_DC
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Work-Bites.com; Sharing their love and solidarity; Pittsburgh news strike comes to DC; Vote early; democracy at work; Wes Moore’s union roots Today’s labor quote: Ernest "Big Train" Thompson. Today’s labor history: Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese urges employers to spy on workers.
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Maryland gubernatorial candidate meets with electrical workers – members of IBEW 26 – on a jobsite at UMD College Park. Today’s labor quote: Wes Moore. Today’s labor history: "Black Tuesday" Wall Street crash.
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Why, when and where in the DMV. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Gateway Arch completed.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike supporters rally at U.S. Capitol. Today’s labor quote: Ashley Murray. Today’s labor history: National Negro Labor Council founded.
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Couple lists non-profits – including CSA -- in their wedding registry. Today’s labor quote: Kevin McCarron. Today’s labor history: Erie Canal’s human cost.
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Longtime labor journalist Joe Maniscalco on the proposal to abolish 24-hour shifts for home health-care workers in New York City. Today’s labor quote: Joe Maniscalco. Today’s labor history: Tribune locks out workers at the New York Daily News. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WorkBitesNews
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Who’s really an employee?; The real inflation problem; Graduate workers team up with Painters; Trades: “Art without an audience”; Grocery union: Kroger/Albertsons merger “disastrous”. Today’s labor quote: Arthur Balfour. Today’s labor history: Black and White unite in New Orleans General Strike.
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UFCW 400 says proposed merger would “eliminate meaningful competition and drive up the price of groceries.” Today’s labor quote: Senators Amy Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal and Cory Booker. Today’s labor history: Death of the "Sagebrush Robin Hood".
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Plumbers Local 5 training facility in Lanham, Maryland featured on last Sunday’s CBS Sunday Morning. Today’s labor quote: Zach Tanner. Today’s labor history: Wisconsin dairy farmers strike.
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UMD Fearless Student Employees hand-bill with Painters District Council 51 at construction sites around the University of Maryland College Park. Today’s labor quote: Merle Travis. Today’s labor history: Death of Eugene V. Debs. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @iupat_dc51 @FSE_UMD
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Over-inflated pay for CEOs, which last year soared to an eye-popping average of $15.6 million a year. Today’s labor quote: Pope John XXIII. Today’s labor history: J.P. Stevens signs first union contract. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @EconomicPolicy
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New DOL rule would make it harder for employers to intentionally misclassify their employees as independent contractors. Today’s labor quote: U.S. Department of Labor Today’s labor history: Salt of the Earth strike begins.
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“Three years is too long”; Hotel workers mourn; DC teachers demand contract; The million-dollar union member; Workplace violence hits home. Today’s labor quote: John Brown. Today’s labor history: French workers’ revenge.
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AFSCME Local 557 steward speaks out at OSHA’s first-ever Workers’ Voice Summit. Today’s labor quote: Miriam Doyle. Today’s labor history: International Working People's Association founded.
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New paper in Cornell University's ILR Review says union members make $1.3 million more than non-union workers over the course of their careers. Today’s labor quote: Tom VanHeuvelen. Today’s labor history: San Jose Mercury News newspaper carriers win 4-day walkout. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @cornellilr @TVanheuvelen
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Educators in nation’s capitol have gone three years without a contract. Today’s labor quote: Washington Teachers Union. Today’s labor history: Dress workers shut down manufacturing in LA.
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Local 25 member killed when she was struck by car on her way to work. Today’s labor quote: Fire Fighters 36. Today’s labor history: Plantation workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UHLocal25 @IAFF36
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Shoppers workers are tired of waiting for their raises. Today’s labor quote: Mark Federici. Today’s labor history: Four strikers killed and six wounded in Pixley strike.
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International Lawyers Assisting Workers Network holds second global conference this week. Today’s labor quote: Jeffrey Vogt. Today’s labor history: Birth of Joe Hill.
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EPI report says CEO pay rose more than 11% in 2021 and CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021—an all-time record. Today’s labor quote: Josh Bivens. Today’s labor history: Female flight attendants win $37 million dollar suit against United Airlines.
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The Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Maryland tours Metro’s Greenbelt Rail Yard and talks with ATU 689 members. Today’s labor quote: Lech Walesa. Today’s labor history: "The Battle of Burbank".
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Plus, more congressional staff vote union. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Workers begin carving Mt. Rushmore.
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Elizabeth was a truck mechanic and driver before she ascended to the throne. Really. Today’s labor quote: Queen Elizabeth. Today’s labor history: Death of Woody Guthrie.
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The Maryland gubernatorial candidate talked with rank and file hospitality workers about their concerns. Today’s labor quote: Wes Moore. Today’s labor history: Progressive Farmers and Householders Union attacked.
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Vote unanimously to form first-ever union. 1-line desc. Today’s labor quote: Congressional Workers Union. Today’s labor history: The Battle of Estevan.
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Olney Starbucks urged to bargain with workers. Today’s labor quote: UFCW 400. Today’s labor history: Wobblies indicted for protesting World War 1.
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Click here to tell Congress to support a continuing resolution and pass a full-year budget. Today’s labor quote: Daniel Horowitz. Today’s labor history: ILGWU strikes Triangle Shirtwaist Company. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFGENational
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WMATA Board recognizes bus operators Allen Whitaker and Rail Operator Fonda Moore “for their work to keep the riding public safe!” Today’s labor quote: Dan Krauss. Today’s labor history: Rio de Janeiro teachers take over City Council.
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Meyerson on the rail deal; One door at a time; Operatic high notes; The Anthrax Attacks; “One job should be enough!” Today’s labor quote: Lewis Hine. Today’s labor history: Striking cotton-pickers killed.
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Airport workers and their supporters rallied for paid sick leave and health care at National Airport on Wednesday. Today’s labor quote: Paul Blair. Today’s labor history: California becomes first state to offer workers paid family leave.
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New Netflix doc tells story of the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five people, including two DC postal workers; catch director Dan Krauss and local APWU president Dena Briscoe on Your Rights At Work today at 1p on WPFW 89.3 FM. Today’s labor history: Pensacola Domino's drivers organize. Today’s labor quote: Anthrax Attacks trailer. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @netflix @krauss_dan @APWUnational
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Artists at the Washington National Opera ink a new 3-year deal. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones. Today’s labor history: Militia sent to break miner’s strike.
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At the door with a union canvasser at the 2022 DC Labor to Labor effort to turn out the union vote. Today’s labor quote: Carl Page. Today’s labor history: Birth of Upton Sinclair. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @iupat_dc51 @MDDCStateFed @tweetelissa
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American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson says the tentative rail agreement shows president Biden's pro-worker, pro-union stance. Today’s labor quote: Joe Biden. Today’s labor history: Half a million march on DC Solidarity Day.
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Zirin: Where’s the “Free Brittney Griner” campaign?; Where’s the beef?; Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich; Railroad workers fed up; “Who feeds this city? We feed this city!” Today’s labor quote: Ken Paff. Today’s labor history: Teamsters for a Democratic Union founded.
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Sodexo workers, members of UNITE HERE 23, rallied Tuesday at the House of Representatives. Today’s labor quote: Sodexo workers. Today’s labor history: Guest workers win contract with Mount Olive Pickle Co. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @unitehere23 @chendricks1891 @sodexoUSA
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Why thousands of frustrated railroad workers may strike on Friday. Today’s labor quote: Herb Harris Today’s labor history: Auto Workers launch 69-day strike against GM.
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The author of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" -- died on September 1. Today’s labor quote: Barbara Ehrenreich. Today’s labor history: Landrum-Griffin Act passed. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Workers at Metropolitan Meat, Seafood & Poultry ratify new contract. Today’s labor quote: Sodexo workers. Today’s labor history: Attica uprising raises prison issues.
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Sportwriter Dave Zirin urges all U.S. sports federations to team up to free imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner. Today’s labor quote: Dave Zirin. Today’s labor history: Jobless workers march, seize food. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @EdgeofSports @WNBA @MLBPA @NFLPA @USWNT
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Politics and Prose bookstore workers ratify historic first contract. Today’s labor quote: Ellen Cassedy. Today’s labor history: Farm workers launch historic grape boycott.
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Liz Shuler’s message to Amazon, Starbucks and all unionbusters. (Workers; reach the NLRB at 1-844-762-NLRB) Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Feds win right to Workers' Comp.
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh on inducting Essential Workers of the Pandemic into the Department of Labor Hall of Honor. Today’s labor quote: Marty Walsh. Today’s labor history: Avondale Mine disaster.
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“Reclaiming Our Power: Celebrating the American Worker” starts at 9a on WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers. Today’s labor history: The first Labor Day parade. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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“Reclaiming Our Power: Celebrating the American Worker” starts at 9a on WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers. Today’s labor history: The first Labor Day parade. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Plenty of ways in the metro area to celebrate American workers this Labor Day weekend, as the labor movement enjoys record approval ratings. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Operating railway employees win the 8-hour day. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @LizShuler @Gallup #UnionProud
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Local labor movement welcomes members and supporters at the annual parade; CLICK HERE to RSVP; dwilliams@dclabor.org or FLASHMANBISSELL@aol.com. Today’s labor quote: Saru Jayaraman. Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO creates Working America.
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Local labor movement welcomes members and supporters at the annual parade; CLICK HERE to RSVP; dwilliams@dclabor.org or FLASHMANBISSELL@aol.com. Today’s labor quote: Saru Jayaraman. Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO creates Working America.
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ATU Local 1777 reaches another strong tentative agreement. Today’s labor quote: Sandy Feldman. Today’s labor history: Battle of Blair Mountain.
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Five-day strike wins first contract at American University. Today’s labor quote: AU Staff Union. Today’s labor history: FDR’s Wealth Tax Act.
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Five-day strike wins first contract at American University. Today’s labor quote: AU Staff Union. Today’s labor history: FDR’s Wealth Tax Act.
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Dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Club organize a union in 1996. Today’s labor quote: Lusty Lady dancers.
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Dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Club organize a union in 1996. Today’s labor quote: Lusty Lady dancers.
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Fannie Sellins and Joseph Starzeleski murdered by coal company guards on a picket line in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania in 1919. Today’s labor quote: Fannie Sellins.
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Strikebreaking origins of the word. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph. Today’s labor history: Birth of strikebreaker Allan Pinkerton.
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Strikebreaking origins of the word. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph. Today’s labor history: Birth of strikebreaker Allan Pinkerton.
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1827 strike loss sparks labor journalism. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: Mechanics Gazette published. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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1827 strike loss sparks labor journalism. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: Mechanics Gazette published. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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First Montgomery County Starbucks to organize hosts a Workers’ Strike Weekend. Today’s labor quote: Olney Starbucks workers. Today’s labor history: Sacco and Vanzetti executed. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @sbworkersunited @WorkersUnitedMA #WUNoMatterWhat #SBWorkersUnited #ToBeAPartner #strike #picketline #UnionStrong
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Joyce Miller becomes AFL-CIO Executive Council’s first female member. Today’s labor quote: Joyce Miller. Today’s labor history: Air Line Stewardesses Association formed.
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Joyce Miller becomes AFL-CIO Executive Council’s first female member. Today’s labor quote: Joyce Miller. Today’s labor history: Air Line Stewardesses Association formed.
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Workers at the National Domestic Workers Alliance are members of CWA Local 1180. Today’s labor quote: Hold The Fort. Today’s labor history: IWW’s "Little Red Song Book" published.
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Airport workers call out Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority. Today’s labor quote: Paul Blair. Today’s labor history: WEVD – named after Gene Debs – goes on the air.
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Airport workers call out Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority. Today’s labor quote: Paul Blair. Today’s labor history: WEVD – named after Gene Debs – goes on the air.
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Participation welcome in union contingent in annual parade. Today’s labor quote: Doug Larson. Today’s labor history: LA Times workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Funeral for the longtime local labor leader will be held today. Today’s labor quote: George Meany. Today’s labor history: Birth of George Meany. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Funeral for the longtime local labor leader will be held today. Today’s labor quote: George Meany. Today’s labor history: Birth of George Meany. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Workers are frustrated after pushing American University for more than 18 months to get their first contract settled. Today’s labor quote: Will Rogers. Today’s labor history: NYNEX striker killed on picket line.
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Workers are frustrated after pushing American University for more than 18 months to get their first contract settled. Today’s labor quote: Will Rogers. Today’s labor history: NYNEX striker killed on picket line.
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”A Four-Day Week at Five Days’ Pay”; Another one bites the dust; MetroAccess workers win 9-day strike Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland. Today’s labor history: Polish union Solidarity seizes the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk.
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”A Four-Day Week at Five Days’ Pay”; Another one bites the dust; MetroAccess workers win 9-day strike Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland. Today’s labor history: Polish union Solidarity seizes the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk.
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ATU Local 689 MetroAccess workers reach tentative agreement with Transdev, ending nine-day strike Today’s labor quote: Raymond Jackson. Today’s labor history: MLB players strike over salary caps.
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Court strikes down Trump-era FLRA policy allowing agency heads to unilaterally rewrite union contracts. Today’s labor quote: Thomas Geoghegan. Today’s labor history: Feds drive jobless out of D.C.
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Court strikes down Trump-era FLRA policy allowing agency heads to unilaterally rewrite union contracts. Today’s labor quote: Thomas Geoghegan. Today’s labor history: Feds drive jobless out of D.C.
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Striking MetroAccess workers – members of ATU 689 – and their supporters rallied Tuesday before contract negotiations with Transdev resumed. Today’s labor quote: MetroAccess strikers’ song. Today’s labor history: Transport Workers Union support arrested leaders. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @Transdev @ATUComm @joleneivey
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Striking MetroAccess workers – members of ATU 689 – and their supporters rallied Tuesday before contract negotiations with Transdev resumed. Today’s labor quote: MetroAccess strikers’ song. Today’s labor history: Transport Workers Union support arrested leaders. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @Transdev @ATUComm @joleneivey
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Rally set for 8:30a this morning prior to contract negotiations with Transdev. Today’s labor quote: Valerie Thomas. Today’s labor history: Bell Atlantic workers win strike.
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Read Sara Jaffe in the August 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: MA marijuana retailer hit with $300K in fines for wage theft.
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Join International Chemical Workers Union Council/United Food and Commercial Workers Local 566C. Today’s labor quote: Bill Clinton. Today’s labor history: FDR’s National Labor Board.
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“This election was the workers’ chance to stand up to the agency, and they did.” Today’s labor quote: Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Today’s labor history: Paterson silk workers strike.
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AFL-CIO’s new Center for Transformational Organizing “will convert the energy of this moment into real union growth.” Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: "Which Side Are You On?" author Florence Reece dies.
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Organizing drive at Medieval Times gains momentum. Today’s labor quote: Erin Zapcic. Today’s labor history: Hatch Act passed.
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United Auto Workers prepare for possible battle in next year’s contracts with major auto companies; Labor Notes’ Jonah Furman reports on Your Rights At Work radio show. Today’s labor quote: Sid Hatfield. Today’s labor history: Union supporter Sid Hatfield murdered.
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Taking it to the aisles; Unionizing The Hill; What do you care most about?; Shakespeare doth organize; VCU Aramark workers win first contract Today’s labor quote: William "Big Bill" Haywood. Today’s labor history: The Great Shipyard Strike of 1999.
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UNITE HERE 23 members win raises, health insurance, a pension and more. Plus: LSR Refinishing workers want a union. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: Five-year grape boycott bears fruit.
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UNITE HERE 23 members win raises, health insurance, a pension and more. Plus: LSR Refinishing workers want a union. Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: Five-year grape boycott bears fruit.
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Production staff at the Shakespeare Theatre Company vote overwhelmingly to join IATSE Local 22. Plus: Richmond City workers win historic collective bargaining rights. Today’s labor quote: Ben Himmelfarb. Today’s labor history: Federal troops burn out unemployed World War One veterans.
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The economy? Retirement security? Clean energy? Health care? Civil and voting rights? Click here for the AFL-CIO’s brief Union Member Issue Survey. Today’s labor quote: Keshia Brown. Today’s labor history: National Labor Union founder William Sylvis dies. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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The economy? Retirement security? Clean energy? Health care? Civil and voting rights? Click here for the AFL-CIO’s brief Union Member Issue Survey. Today’s labor quote: Keshia Brown. Today’s labor history: National Labor Union founder William Sylvis dies. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Workers at the political news site join The Hill Guild. Today’s labor quote: Colin Powell. Today’s labor history: Americans With Disabilities Act takes effect. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @hillguild @newsguild @CWAUnion
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Grocery workers march through Largo Shoppers to demand contract. Today’s labor quote: Mark Federici. Today’s labor history: First U.S. general strike.
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Tech drives labor vote turnout in MD primary; Labor steps up political ground game; Maryland primary audio postcard; “It takes all of us”; Sitting down for justice. Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther. Today’s labor history: Formation of the Alliance for Labor Action.
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Senate cafeteria workers stage civil disobedience action in demand for union contract. Today’s labor quote: Andy Levin. Today’s labor history: SF brewery workers win.
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A local bus driver on why she volunteered at the Maryland polls on Tuesday. Today’s labor quote: Carmen Price Edwards. Today’s labor history: The first and only labor-owned radio station in the U.S.
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Voices of union members working the polls Tuesday for labor-endorsed candidates. Today’s labor quote: Patricia Haney. Today’s labor history: "Bloody Friday" in Minneapolis.
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Statewide effort to turn out union vote statewide in Maryland primary today. Details here. Today’s labor quote: Donna Edwards Today’s labor history: Women's Rights Convention opens.
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Metro Washington Labor Council’s Get Out The Vote efforts demonstrate the modern technology labor’s using to turn out union voters for tomorrow’s Maryland primary. Today’s labor quote: Edward Mayo. Today’s labor history: Hospital workers win 113-day strike in Charleston, South Carolina. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @MDDCStateFed
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Trumka awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom; Jerry McEntee, longtime AFSCME leader, dies at 87; Kim Mitchell is “The Future We Need”; “We should never forget”; Justice delayed, but finally delivered Today’s labor history: 322 killed in Port Chicago explosion. Labor Quote: Joseph Small.
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An American patriot, a veteran who was unjustly deported six years ago, was welcomed home last week. Today’s labor quote: Will Attig. Today’s labor history: Share Croppers Union leader murdered. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @unionveterans #veterans #1u #RepatriateOurPatriots #DeportedVets
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UFCW 400 president Mark Federici on supermarket workers’ dedication, professionalism and courage during the pandemic. Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie. Today’s labor history: The Great Uprising nationwide railway strike.
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Macy’s worker’s story is featured in new book from Jobs with Justice leaders. Today’s labor quote: Kim Mitchell. Today’s labor history: Southern Tenant Farmers' Union organized.
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McEntee led his union to historic growth, positioning it as a voice for working people and a force to be reckoned with in the nation’s civil rights movement. Today’s labor quote: Jerry McEntee. Today’s labor history: Bisbee deports Wobblies.
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President Biden posthumously awards former AFL-CIO president the nation’s highest civilian honor. Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka. Today’s labor history: UAW local launches nine-year strike.
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Turning out the Maryland labor vote; Local updates: honors, elections & retirements; FairHotel relaunched; Massive staff shortages threaten state. Today’s labor quote: Sidney Hillman. Today’s labor history: 14,000 federal and state troops put down Pullman strike.
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AFSCME 31 says state needs to fill more than 7,000 vacant positions in Maryland. Today’s labor quote: Denise Henderson Johnson. Today’s labor history: First U.S. anthracite coal strike; IWW wraps up founding convention.
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FairHotel.org helps travelers pick hotels that support working people. Today’s labor quote: FairHotel.org Tipping Guide. Today’s labor history: NYC cloakmakers strike.
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DCHA honors MWC president Forester and AFGE 70 member Franselene St. Jean-Clarke; LaBille reelected at SMART Local 100; Hogan retires from IBEW Local 26. Today’s labor quote: Richie LaBille. Today’s labor history: Debs arrested during the Pullman strike.
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OPEIU Local 2’s LGBTQIA+ themed trivia game celebrates the just-concluded Pride Month. Today’s labor quote: Tammy Baldwin. Today’s labor history: National Labor Relations Act signed into law.
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Metro Washington Labor Council and state AFL-CIO coordinate phonebanks and door-to-door canvasses to turn out union vote in Maryland on July 19. Today’s labor quote: Margaret Poydock. Today’s labor history: Baltimore Evening Sun newsboys die in blaze. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @MDDCStateFed
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“A devastating blow to working women”; “We will mobilize millions of women across the country”; DC teachers rally for contract; Belarus union leaders under attack. Today’s labor quote: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Today’s labor history: Children strike Paterson silk mills.
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Rudy Porter, Solidarity Center Regional Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, reports. The BKDP has put out a call for international solidarity and supporters are signing this LabourStart petition. Today’s labor quote: Rudy Porter. Today’s labor history: Arizona copper miners strike.
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Pledge building-wide solidarity in struggle for fair contract. Today’s labor quote: Jacqueline Pogue-Lyons. Today’s labor history: Alabama outlaws leasing convicts to mine coal.
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Coalition of House Democrats calls for members of NABET-CWA Local 52031 employed at Maslow Media Group to receive equal pay for equal work. Today’s labor quote: Bob Williams. Today’s labor history: FDR signs EO establishing NLRB.
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The Coalition of Labor Union Women’s defiant response to Friday’s overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant. Today’s labor history: Labor Day declared U.S. holiday.
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Labor responds to Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Wobblies founded in Chicago.
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MetroAccess workers hit streets; Union Kitchen workers win union recognition; Towson Apple store workers make history; MWC candidates sweep DC primary. Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs. Today’s labor history: American Railway Union members refuse to handle Pullman cars during strike.
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Plus labor wins in Virginia. Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester. Today’s labor history: Birth of Agnes Nestor. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Vote to join AppleCore union with IAM. Today’s labor quote: AppleCORE. Today’s labor history: Circus workers killed in train accident.
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Majority of employees at five Union Kitchen locations in DC vote to join UFCW Local 400. Today’s labor quote: UFCW 400. Today’s labor history: Thirty-six killed in coal strike violence.
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Local labor movement turns out union vote in DC primaries. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: 100,000 march with striking Detroit newspaper workers.
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ATU 689 members “tired after years of being overworked and underpaid.” Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs. Today’s labor history: Striking African American auto workers attacked by the KKK.
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UFCW 400 welcomes agreement to open new Giant at Capitol Gateway Marketplace in N.E. DC. Today’s labor quote: Mark Federici. Today’s labor history: Susan B. Anthony tried for voting.
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President Joe Biden spoke at the AFL-CIO convention on Tuesday. Today’s labor quote: Joe Biden. Today’s labor history: Drag queens strike.
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AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the new Center for Transformational Organizing. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Battle of Century City. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @LizShuler @SEIU
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The labor movement pays tribute to former president Rich Trumka at this week’s AFL-CIO convention. Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka. Today’s labor history: First commercial computer installed. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Contract covering workers in DC and NYC expired at 12:01am this morning; check our Twitter feed for the latest updates. Today’s labor quote: Writers Guild of America East Today’s labor history: Tony Mazzocchi born.
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June 18 March on Washington; Unions Helping Refugees; AFGE notches membership boost. Today’s labor quote: Babe Ruth. Today’s labor history: Owners spark baseball strike that cancels 713 games.
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More than 4,000 Federal, D.C. government employees joined AFGE in May. Today’s labor quote: Dave Cann. Today’s labor history: JFK signs Equal Pay Act. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFGENational
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March for Our Lives to fight for an end to gun violence in our schools and communities this Saturday, June 11, from 10a to 2p at the Washington Monument. Today’s labor quote: Helen Marot. Today’s labor history: Former UAW President Gary Jones jailed for stealing from his union.
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Lively and informative “A New Day” panel discussion tonight; CLICK HERE for details and to register. Today’s labor quote: Kooper Caraway. Today’s labor history: Machinists launch 43-day strike.
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Polish Federation safeguards Ukrainian migrant worker rights. Today’s labor quote: Piotr Ostrowski. Today’s labor history: Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
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Continuing the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. via the Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. Today’s labor quote: David Mott. Today’s labor history: Labor Party founding convention.
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Putting the bite back in NLRB’s bark; Take action to support DCPS staff; Poor People’s march on Washington; “Eyepopping” unionbusting at Starbucks. Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers. Today’s labor history: Teamsters for a Democratic Union founded.
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Undeterred, baristas organize across U.S. and DMV region. Today’s labor quote: John Logan. Today’s labor history: International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SBWorkersUnited #PROAct @va_labor
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June 18 march and rally “will be a generationally-transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies to say that this system is killing ALL of us.” Today’s labor quote: Poor People’s Campaign. Today’s labor history: Philadelphia printers stage trade’s first strike.
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Sign DC Jobs with Justice’s petition to Chancellor Ferebee. Today’s labor quote: DC Jobs with Justice. Today’s labor history: Mexican government abolishes siestas.
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American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson on labor board’s moves to enforce labor laws quickly. Today’s labor quote: Harold Meyerson. Today’s labor history: Death of Rosie The Riveter.
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On Memorial Day, resources from the Union Veteran’s Council. Today’s labor quote: Will Attig. Today’s labor history: The 1937 Memorial Day Massacre.
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Is the GOP really the Flat Earth Society?; Nine-month battle yields contract for Howard healthcare workers; “A very, very scary time”; Labor TweetWatch; “Respect Us! Pay Us!” Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez. Today’s labor history: UFCW wins 17-year struggle for lettuce workers.
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Concessions workers at Oriole Park fight for better pay. Today’s labor quote: Tracy Lingo. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS says NIRA unconstitutional.
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Senate cafeteria workers on the move…Nurses sound alarm on staffing crisis…Daily Kos workers vote in union. Keep up with all the latest labor tweets by following us @dclabor on Twitter. Today’s labor quote: Donna S. Edwards. Today’s labor history: 100,000 steel workers and miners strike in seven states.
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Buffalo shootings increase supermarket workers’ safety worries. Today’s labor quote: Mike Wilson. Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO campaigns for 35-hour week.
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DCNA says deal advances patient care and alleviates staffing crisis. Today’s labor quote: Ed Smith. Today’s labor history: Striking Rubber workers return to work without a contract. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @NursesHealDC @NationalNurses @huhospital @HowardU
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Bill Fletcher debunks the bogus “replacement theory” that motivated the May 14 racist attack in Buffalo. Today’s labor quote: Bill Fletcher. Today’s labor history: 100,000 strike in Philadelphia.
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Organizing Starbucks joyfully; Workers demand good jobs at Potomac Power Plant site; Buffalo attack underlines urgency of June 18 D.C. rally; Shakespeare Theatre workers organize; UFCW 1994 mourns Sidney Kramer’s passing. Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs. Today’s labor history: Racism at Georgia Railroad strike.
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Montgomery County Executive negotiated the first-ever collective bargaining agreement with county workers. Today’s labor quote: Gino Renne. Today’s labor history: Akron, Ohio rubber workers strike.
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Production workers want to join IATSE Local 22. Today’s labor quote: Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Today’s labor history: Matewan shootout between strikers and coal company gunmen.
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The AFL-CIO and Metro Washington Labor Council, which are supporting the Assembly and March, are urging the local labor movement to turn out in support; click here now to RSVP. Today’s labor quote: Naomi Klein. Today’s labor history: Atlanta transit workers strike.
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Testify at Alexandria City Council. Today’s labor quote: Ismail Ahmed. Today’s labor history: NYC Starbucks baristas organize.
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Longtime organizer Richard Bensinger learns from young workers organizing at Starbucks. Today’s labor quote: Buffalo barista Lexie. Today’s labor history: A. Philip Randolph dies.
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Reproductive rights are workers rights; White House hosts union organizers; Honoring Saunders and Sweeney; Service sector workers rally to thank DC Mayor. Today’s labor quote: Lily Tomlin. Today’s labor history: Library Employees’ Union founded.
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Letter carriers will pick up food at your door to help feed millions of hungry Americans. Today’s labor quote: Fredric Rolando. Today’s labor history: 10,000 dock workers strike.
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent regulations help keep hotels safe and sanitary as D.C.’s hospitality industry picks up and tourism approaches pre-pandemic levels. Today’s labor quote: Airport Workers United. Today’s labor history: Immigrant workers targeted by ICE raid.
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Labor Heritage Foundation honors AFSCME President Lee Saunders. at its Solidarity Forever Reception and Awards Ceremony; labor movement celebrates life and legacy for former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney. Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney. Today’s labor history: 1894 Pullman Strike begins. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFSCME @LaborHeritage1
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Baltimore County Public Library union organizer among those at gathering. Today’s labor quote: Jaimie Caldwell. Today’s labor history: Western Labor Union formed.
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Unions respond to the leaked Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade. Today’s labor quote: Hayley Brown. Today’s labor history: Longshoremen’s strike sparks general work stoppage in San Francisco.
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Remembering the “labor priest”; Kaiser Permanente therapists unionize with UFCW; Public Service Recognition Week; MWC releases endorsements; Partnership Award honors Claimant Advocacy Program. Today’s labor quote: 1863 Brotherhood of the Footboard Constitution. Today’s labor history: Brotherhood of the Footboard ratifies constitution.
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CAP director Tonya Love is this year's Partnership Award winner from the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones. Today’s labor history: Spontaneous revolt by VA tobacco stemmers.
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More than two dozen get labor nod in DC, Montgomery County and Prince George’s County. Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester Today’s labor history: Battle of Harlan County. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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“America’s dedicated public servants are the lifeblood of our democracy.” Today’s labor quote: Joe Biden. Today’s labor history: Haymarket Massacre.
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The occupational, physical and speech therapists will be represented by UFCW Local 400 in the DMV area and UFCW Local 27 in the Baltimore region. Today’s labor quote: Pete Seeger. Today’s labor history: Chicago police kill 4, injure 200 at striker rally.
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AFL-CIO and the Catholic Labor Network host “The Labor Movement and the Catholic Church, Then and Now” discussion of Monsignor George Higgins. Today’s labor quote: Monsignor George Higgins. Today’s labor history: General strike by the Chicago Trades Assembly. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Labor movement’s Nobel Prize awarded; Study: UMD boosts management, cuts teachers; Striking for the Earth?; Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones. Today’s labor history: May Day originates in Chicago.
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“The Wobblies” opens 2022 DC Labor FilmFest Sunday at AFI Silver. Email cgarlock@dclabor.org to enter a raffle for free passes. Today’s labor quote: Deborah Shaffer. Today’s labor history: Coxey’s Army reaches DC. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFISilver @DC_IWW
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Grim statistics from the AFL-CIO’s annual report on worker safety and health. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Two coal mine disasters; creation of OSHA. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #WorkersMemorialDay
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Climate scientists urge colleagues to stage a mass walkout. Today’s labor quote: Timothy F. Smith. Today’s labor history: First strike for the 10 hour day. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BGAlliance
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Reveals a “systematic trend toward hiring poorly paid precariously employed contingent faculty with expanded teaching loads.” Today’s labor quote: Nate Beard. Today’s labor history: Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ after management defied the NLRB.
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Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights awarded to National Health Workers Union of Liberia and its exiled leader George Poe Williams. Today’s labor quote: SEIU Local 500. Today’s labor history: Rev. Abernathy arrested while picketing Charleston hospital in a demand for union recognition. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Earning while you learn; Two wins for UNITE HERE 23; Ukraine workers’ Wartime Diaries; Pay gap persists at The Post. Today’s labor quote: Mumia Abu-Jamal. Today’s labor history: ILWU shuts down West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Major rally on climate action planned for tomorrow in DC. Today’s labor quote: Bernie Sanders. Today’s labor history: One of the worst disasters in Virginia mining history. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @GoIUPAT @AFTunion @SBuxUnionFrstHl @SBWorkersUnited @BernieSanders
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Women and people of color are still paid less, compared with their male and White colleagues, according to Washington Post Guild study. Today’s labor quote: Washington Post Guild. Today’s labor history: Rockefeller signs Taylor Law. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Labour Initiatives, a local non-governmental organization in Ukraine, has launched a video series, dubbed Wartime Labor Diary, featuring interviews with workers documenting their often heroic efforts in Kyiv during wartime. Today’s labor quote: “Comrade Gromov”. Today’s labor history: The Ludlow Massacre. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SolidarityCntr
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Levy Nationals Ballpark workers win contract; Guckenheimer Google workers join union. Today’s labor quote: Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Today’s labor history: NYC bus boycott succeeds.
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Washington DC Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee Training Director Chris Biondi on why apprenticeships make sense. Today’s labor quote: Chris Biondi. Today’s labor history: Striking WV coal miners defend themselves. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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Nurses strike Howard University Hospital; Striking Howard University Hospital workers gain wide support; Restoring worker rights; Timesland contract; Movement certified. Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS screws up.
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Dealing with crises arising from conflicts and disasters; International Labour Organization (ILO) releases training manual for workers’ organizations. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph. Today’s labor history: First women-led American union strikes, and wins.
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Timesland News Guild gets new contract; NLRB to certify union at Movement of Crystal City. Today’s labor quote: Sylvain La. Today’s labor history: Mexican and Filipino farm workers arrested for union activities. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @TimeslandGuild @WBNG32035 @Mvmt4EqlFooting
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American Prospect editor Harold Meyerson on NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s push to restore eroded worker rights. Today’s labor quote: Harold Meyerson. Today’s labor history: Debs imprisoned for opposing war. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @TheProspect @NLRB @HaroldMeyerson
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“Justice is justice and right is right, and wrong is always wrong.” Today’s labor quote: Nurse Jane Today’s labor history: Birth of Florence Reece.
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DCNA members walk out over patient safety, pay issues. Today’s labor quote: Ed Smith. Today’s labor history: Jackie Robinson takes the field.
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Amazon Bessemer vote hinges on 416 ballots; Amazon workers make history; Hope for DC housekeepers. Today’s labor quote: Chris Smalls. Today’s labor history: Immigrants march across U.S.
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The Washington Teachers Union and friends will be distributing 40,000 free books on Saturday to Ward 7 & 8 residents. Today’s labor quote: Joe Biden. Today’s labor history: Truman orders U.S. Army to illegally seize steel mills to avert a strike.
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D.C. City Council okays bill regulating hotels and returning housekeepers to work. Today’s labor quote: Charles Allen. Today’s labor history: 15,000 janitors strike in Los Angeles.
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They’re fighting for a contract with fair wages, affordable health care, a pension, and job security. Today’s labor quote: Unite Here Local 23. Today’s labor history: First U.S. slave revolt.
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“The people have spoken and the people wanted a union.” Today’s labor quote: Chris Smalls. Today’s labor history: Teachers strike Hawaii schools and colleges.
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Challenged ballots will determine outcome in historic Amazon union vote. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Mine workers defeat Pittston concession demands.
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2022 another big strike year? Starbucks union campaign perking along in VA; Airport worker’s Day of Action; DC housekeepers protest; Conde Nast workers organize. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: Support rally for 20,000 textile mill strikers.
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500 workers at magazines like Vanity Fair, Vogue and Bon Appétit demand a union; sign their petition here. Today’s labor quote: Jaime Archer. Today’s labor history: Longest U.S. newspaper strike ends. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @condeunion
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Washington Hilton automatic daily housekeeping cuts are “devastating for workers.” Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony Today’s labor history: Texas cowboys strike.
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Tired of airlines driving a race to the bottom, workers demand an end to poverty jobs. Today’s labor quote: D. Taylor. Today’s labor history: Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act enacted.
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There are now a dozen petitions for union elections at Virginia Starbucks. Today’s labor quote: Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta. Today’s labor history: The “Battle of Wall Street”.
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The Cornell's Labor Tracker Project’s Johnnie Kallas reports. Today’s labor quote: Johnnie Kallas. Today’s labor history: MLK leads striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
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Golden Triangle Ambassadors ratify new contract; Confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson now!; Howard faculty win contract; nurses may strike. Today’s labor quote: Si Kahn. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS denies rights to undocumented workers.
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Hosted by the Labor Heritage Foundation. Performers include Bev Grant, Lynn Marie Smith, Colleen Kattau, Jendog Lonewolf, Luci Murphy, Rebel Voices, Jillian Matundan, Crys Matthews, Emma's Revolution, Lilliana Herrera, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Al Bradbury. CLICK HERE for tickets. Today’s labor quote: Lya Sorano. Today’s labor history: 146 workers – mostly women -- killed in fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
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Teaching Faculty Union at Howard University (SEIU Local 500) wins contract; HU Hospital nurses (DCNA) taking strike vote. Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester. Today’s labor history: NYC subway breaks ground. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SEIULocal500 @NursesHealDC @NationalNurses
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The American labor movement fully supports Judge Jackson’s historic nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court; CLICK HERE to add your name. Today’s labor quote: Jim Clyburn. Today’s labor history: Coalition of Labor Union Women founded.
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Urges supporters to turn out today to support their organizing drive. Today’s labor quote: Derek Mangus. Today’s labor history: Mark Twain on the Knights of Labor.
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Workers win wage increases, improved benefits. Today’s labor quote: Gwyn Dixon. Today’s labor history: American Labor Union founded.
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The 5 Biggest Lies About Unions. Today’s labor quote: Robert Reich. Today’s labor history: 40,000 UC employees strike for 24 hours.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks corporate America’s biggest lies about unions. Today’s labor history: Police evict retail clerks occupying a NYC Woolworth’s. Today’s labor quote: Barack Obama.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks corporate America’s biggest lies about unions. Today’s labor history: Staffers at SF progressive rock station KMPX-FM strike. Today’s labor quote: Joan Baez.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks corporate America’s biggest lies about unions. Today’s labor quote: Upton Sinclair. Today’s labor history: Packinghouse workers shut down 140 plants.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks corporate America’s biggest lies about unions. Today’s labor quote: The U.S. Supreme Court. Today’s labor history: Supreme Court approves the 8-Hour Act.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks corporate America’s biggest lies about unions. Today’s labor quote: Al Ekblad. Today’s labor history: Ford replaces craftsmanship with drudgery.
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A Ukrainian worker’s voice; Times Tech Guild wins big; Unions hail postal reform bill; Latest DC labor news. Today’s labor quote: Bev Grant and the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus. Today’s labor history: Origins of the “rat”.
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Howard University Hospital nurses may walk out; DC government employees get new 4-year deal; 10,000 Steel Workers ratify 5-year contract with Newport News Shipbuilding; Richmond first school district in Virginia to reinstate collective bargaining rights. Today’s labor quote: Bev Grant’s “We Were There”. Today’s labor history: Luddites smash “labor saving” textile machines.
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Senate passage “marks a turning point in the fight to protect and strengthen the people’s public Postal Service.” Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Chávez breaks 24-day fast.
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“We are united in this fight; we'll continue to fight for our country.” Today’s labor quote: Ukrainian state worker. Today’s labor history: The "Slovak strike." @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SolidarityCntr
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New York Times tech workers vote overwhelmingly to join The NewsGuild-CWA; largest group in decades. Today’s labor quote: Times Tech Guild. Today’s labor history: NYC Fur and Leather Workers Union members strike.
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Laid-off housekeepers and other service workers fear their hotels are using the pandemic to permanently cut costs — and good union jobs. (see HuffPost story here) Today’s labor quote: Linda Butler. Today’s labor history: Ford gasses and shoots unemployed workers.
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Peace starts at home; Workers say “Nyet!” to Russian liquor; DC nurses deserve a fair contract; VA nurses, PAs win $145m in OT pay; DC’s big moves on Paid Family Leave Today’s labor quote: Joe Hill. Today’s labor history: 9,000 Knights of Labor strike.
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City Council boosts Paid Family Leave for private sector, considers expanding for public sector workers. Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester. Today’s labor history: FDR names Frances Perkins to head DOL; first female cabinet member.
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Win AFGE lawsuit seeking unpaid overtime pay. Today’s labor quote: Steven Greenhouse. Today’s labor history: Davis-Bacon Act takes effect.
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Union says DC mayor refusing to bargain in good faith with nurses who worked tirelessly during the pandemic. Today’s labor quote: Hershey’s worker in Stuarts Draft, VA. Today’s labor history: Greyhound drivers strike.
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MontCo pulls Russian-made liquors from shelves after workers’ call. Plus: NewsGuild Local 32035 members at Bloomberg Industry Group hit the street for a new contract. Today’s labor quote: Gino Renne. Today’s labor history: SAG member Hattie McDaniel is first African-American to win an Academy Award. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW1994 @sagaftra
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Labor and peace activist Gene Bruskin on the Ukraine crisis. Today’s labor quote: Sean Blackmon. Today’s labor history: South Africa workers strike in support of U.S. 3M workers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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War: Who is it good for?; Starbucks organizing comes to NoVA; One Fair Wage back in DC. Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS rules sit-down strikes illegal.
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Absolutely no-one, says a labor statement on the crisis in Ukraine. Today’s labor quote: Edwin Starr. Today’s labor history: Labor organizer and civil rights activist Edgar Daniel Nixon dies. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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UNITE HERE 7 says don’t patronize Merriweather until its union workers are back on the job with their union rights and contract intact. Today’s labor quote: Will Rogers. Today’s labor history: Cops beat women and children textile strikers in Lawrence, MA.
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Three more Virginia stores file for union elections, including the Huntsman Square Starbucks in Springfield, VA. Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie. Today’s labor history: Woody Guthrie writes “This Land Is Your Land.” @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SBWorkersUnited @va_labor
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Unions in Ukraine are hailing the reinstatement of Independent Trade Union of Aviation Workers leader Olena Bebeshko. Today’s labor quote: Albert Shanker. Today’s labor history: Planning the founding convention of the People’s Party.
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Initiative 82 – which would raise the minimum wage of tipped workers to full parity with minimum wage in D.C. -- returns to the ballot with DC City Council support. Today’s labor quote: Saru Jayaraman. Today’s labor history: CA passes 8-hour day.
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A Starbucks worker speaks; Turning up the heat on UMD; Expanding access to DC’s Paid Family Leave; Starbucks solidarity brews up hot and strong. Today’s labor quote: Bradley McKenzie. Today’s labor history: Working-class women march on New York’s City Hall.
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Education International warns of risks of AI in schools. Today’s labor quote: Chana Luria*. Today’s labor history: International Association of Fire Fighters forms.
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Campaign spreads to 87 stores in 25 states, including six in Richmond VA. Today’s labor quote: Wendell Phillips. Today’s labor history: Yale unions strike in solidarity with TAs.
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DC Paid Leave Campaign announces strong support for “Universal Paid Leave Portability Amendment Act.” Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester. Today’s labor history: Rubber Workers strike Goodyear Tire. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @jufj @DCJWJ
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AFSCME Maryland members call out university leadership. Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony. Today’s labor history: Birth of FLOC’s Baldemar Velasquez.
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“We are the working class and we are the people who make money for billion dollar corporations; we deserve better.” Hear the whole interview on Your Rights At Work. Today’s labor quote: Kat Wiggers. Today’s labor history: Detroit newspaper workers end strike.
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Why your groceries cost so much; Union Kitchen workers stage 2-day strike; 70 ways to boost unions; Congressional workers organize. Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis. Today’s labor history: Hollywood writers win 3-month strike.
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Resolution Recognizing Congressional Workers’ Right to Organize supported by 130 in Congress. Today’s labor quote: Andy Levin (D., MI). Today’s labor history: WI governor threatens to sic National Guard on state workers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Congress_Union @RepAndyLevin @Labor_Caucus
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Congressional Workers Union is unionizing the personal offices and committees of Congress. Today’s labor quote: Congressional Workers Union. Today’s labor history: Workers killed in explosion on Staten Island, NY. . @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Congress_Union
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White House releases report outlining steps it intends to take to promote union membership and collective bargaining among both public and private sector employees. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Boeing workers strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @POTUS @VP
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Say management retaliated against them for trying to organize a union, United Kitchen Workers. Today’s labor quote: Union Kitchen rally. Today’s labor history: Vigilantes attacks IWW organizers.
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Errol Schweizer, host of The Checkout Podcast, explains the cost of corporate consolidation and profiteering. Today’s labor quote: Errol Schweizer. Today’s labor history: Hockey players organize.
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Union Kitchen workers seek to unionize; GMU janitors protest; The mysterious decline in union membership; DC teacher a “Never Quit” winner; CAP Union authorizes strike. Today’s labor quote: Iron Workers. Today’s labor history: Seattle General Strike begins.
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Says salaries lag while members are asked to go “above and beyond” during pandemic. Today’s labor quote: Katie Barrows. Today’s labor history: Rosa Parks born.
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“She’s one of the first ones here and one of the last ones to leave.” Today’s labor quote: Alice Paul. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS bans child labor, establishes 40-hour work week. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFSCME
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Despite major union momentum last year, membership fell; EPI explains why. Today’s labor quote: Heidi Shierholz. Today’s labor history: Iris Rivera refuses to make coffee. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @EconomicPolicy
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Problems with contractors and subcontractors include staffing shortage, bounced and late paychecks.. Today’s labor quote: John J. Sweeney. Today’s labor history: Collar Laundry Union forms.
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Concerns include understaffing, retention, pay discrepancies and COVID leave policies. Today’s labor quote: Rob Ballock. Today’s labor history: Texas pecan shellers strike.
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Confessions of a Union Buster; AFGE cheers Biden EO $15/hr fed wage; “Quitting in droves.” Today’s labor quote: Erna Solberg. Today’s labor history: Commission on International Labour Legislation established.
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Property service workers union supporting tipped workers. Today’s labor quote: Dolly Parton. Today’s labor history: “9 to 5” tops the charts.
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Classic 1979 Oscar-nominated documentary tells the story of the women of the General Motors sit-down strikes in 1936 and 1937. Labor Goes to the Movies podcast co-host Elise Bryant will host a Q&A afterwards with filmmaker Lyn Goldfarb. RSVP here. Today’s labor quote: Bobbie McGee. Today’s labor history: NYC maids organize.
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Low-wage nursing home workers face untenable levels of pressure. Today’s labor quote: Yvonne Slosarski. Today’s labor history: Pirate pioneers workers comp. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @1199SEIU_MDDC
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Will raise the pay of nearly 70,000 American workers. Today’s labor quote: Sojourner Truth. Today’s labor history: Supreme Court upholds “Yellow Dog” contracts.
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Union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp on the new “activist edition” of Marty Levitt’s 1993 book. Today’s labor quote: Marty Levitt. Today’s labor history: First canned beer goes on sale.
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MLK at the AFL-CIO; Howard County hospitality workers seek right to return to work; As Metro GM exits, transit workers urge WMATA to listen; Norton introduces pay equity bill. Today’s labor quote: William “Big Bill” Haywood. Today’s labor history: 10,000 clothing workers strike in Rochester, NY.
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“Salary transparency is an important tool to combat the gender and race wage gap.” Today’s labor quote: Eleanor Holmes Norton. Today’s labor history: Police attack picketing longshoremen in Charleston, S.C.
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ATU 689 responds to WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld’s retirement. Today’s labor quote: Bob Muehlenkamp. Today’s labor history: Springsteen's "My Hometown," tops charts. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @wmata @UnionBustingMap
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Bill would require employers to rehire previously laid off workers for open positions. Today’s labor quote: Bruce Springsteen and Willie Nelson. Today’s labor history: Bruce Springsteen appears at benefit for laid-off 3M workers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UHLocal7 @UHLocal25 @unitehere @springsteen @WillieNelson
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In a historic speech to the 1961 AFL-CIO convention, Dr. King connected the civil rights movement and the labor movement. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: “Take This Job and Shove It” tops Billboard list. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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“Our freedom is on the line.”AFL-CIO’s Liz Shuler on making our voices heard. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: JFK signs Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions.
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Unions sue OSHA; DC firefighter meets twins he delivered; Voting Rights Week of Action; National Center for Transgender Equality workers unionize Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor history: United States Civil Service Commission established.
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Join NPEU after card-check, in “historic moment.” Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s labor history: Pennsylvania Superior Court says bosses can fire workers for being gay.
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“Nurses are also being pushed by supervisors to come to work even when they are sick.” Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s labor history: Chicano citrus workers strike.
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Take action now to demand that our Senators exercise their majority and pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s labor history: FDR creates all-male National War Labor Board.
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Fire Fighters Local 36 member Dan Lottes won the department’s 2021 paramedic of the year award. Today’s labor quote: "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Today’s labor history: “Bread & Roses” textile strike begins. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #DCsBravest @IAFF36
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Demand permanent COVID-19 safety standard. Today’s labor quote: George Meany. Today’s labor history: Pemberton Mill collapse traps 900. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @NationalNurses @NNUBonnie @OSHA_DOL @AFTunion, @AFSCME, @nynurses @PennaNurses
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Politics and Prose recognizes union; DNC staff votes to unionize; Sideline the filibuster! Today’s labor quote: 1918 Mediation Commission Today’s labor history: 80,000 Chicago construction workers strike.
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On January 6 anniversary, with “American democracy under threat,” AFL-CIO head says “we need democracy in the U.S. Senate.” Click here to add your name to protect voting rights. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Unions push for reunification.
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One of the largest organizing campaigns yet to take place within Democratic politics. Today’s labor quote: Gus Papathanasiou, Chairman of the United States Capitol Police Labor Committee. Today’s labor history: Toronto Labour Council endorses equal pay for equal work. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SEIULocal500 @32BJ_SEIU
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Becomes first unionized bookstore in DC. Today’s labor quote: Politics & Prose Workers Union. Today’s labor history: Ford raises wages to undercut union.
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That’s the theme of the AFL-CIO’s 2022 MLK Civil and Human Rights Conference, set for Jan. 16-17. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s labor history: TWU’s Mike Quill jailed.
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AFL-CIO Now blog compiles their top posts of the year. Today’s labor quote: Bishop Desmond Tutu. Today’s labor history: Chinese field workers arrive in Hawaii.
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Change of heart at DC bookstore; Top labor stories of 2021; Who might strike in 2022?; Year of the Worker; “We Won’t Back Down” Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones Today’s labor history: Formation of the IWW.
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Jerry Levinsky’s version of the Tom Petty classic is a fitting anthem for 2021…and the New Year. Today’s labor quote: “We Won’t Back Down”. Today’s labor history: 60,000 unemployed rally in Pittsburgh. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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40 million workers quit. 100,000+ on strike. 550+ new unions. 2021 was the year of the worker. Check out the video from More Perfect Union. Today’s labor quote: More Perfect Union video. Today’s labor history: GM sit-down strike spreads to Flint, Michigan.
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Hundreds of big contracts will be up, reports Labor Notes. Today’s labor quote: Louis Brandeis. Today’s labor history: Steel Workers end Goodyear strike. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @labornotes @danieldamage
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Inspiring and hopeful stories from the In These Times labor beat. Today’s labor quote: In These Times. Today’s labor history: GM’s Fisher Body workers stage sit-in.
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Politics and Prose owners now say they’re open to recognizing union there. Today’s labor quote: Adam Wescott. Today’s labor history: FDR seizes railroads to avert strike.
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How the bosses stole Christmas; Union saves jobs for Shoppers workers; Wins for Kellogg’s and Takoma Park workers; 21st Century comes to Colonial Williamsburg. Today’s labor quote: Kathy Newman. Today’s labor history: Knights of Labor founded.
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UNITE HERE Local 25 hotel and restaurant workers win better working conditions at historic site. Today’s labor quote: John Boardman. Today’s labor history: Jailed AFSCME leader released on Christmas Eve.
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Union members at both Kellogg’s and the City of Takoma Park held out for better contracts. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: AFL boycott sparks “contempt” ruling. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BCTGM @AFSCME 3399
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Safeway takes over Shoppers store slated for closing; union ensures members keep their jobs, pay, benefits, seniority. Today’s labor quote: Jose Mercado. Today’s labor history: “Red Scare” begins with deportation of workers. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400
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UMD ignores workers, Politics and Prose hires unionbusters. Today’s labor quote: David Borer. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS rules picketing unconstitutional. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AFSCMEMaryland @PolProseUnion @daborer @PoliticsProse @ESMiller59
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EPI: High unionization levels are associated with greater economic, personal, and democratic well-being. Today’s labor quote: Margaret Poydock. Today’s labor history: AFL endorses women’s right to vote.
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Fighting for decent work; Wage inequality continued to increase in 2020; Politics & Prose workers organize. Today’s labor quote: Dave Saint/DC Labor Chorus. Today’s labor history: ATU’s Greyhound Bus strike ends.
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Would be first unionized independent bookstore in D.C. Today’s labor quote: Politics & Prose Workers Union. Today’s labor history: Birth of Deborah Samson.
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Their annual holiday Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs will be featured on today’s Your Rights At Work radio show, 1p on WPFW 89.3FM. Today’s labor quote: DC Labor Chorus. Today’s labor history: Female tellers stage first bank strike in U.S. history. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @LaborHeritage1
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EPI: Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 179% since 1979 while share of wages for bottom 90% hits new low. Today’s labor quote: Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra. Today’s labor history: AFL votes funding to organize women.
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ITUC: “We need to stand up and use our collective voice, the power of working people, to fight for a just future.” Today’s labor quote: Sharon Burrow. Today’s labor history: Machinists win 69-day strike against Boeing.
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Buffalo workers vote in first-ever Starbucks union Today’s labor quote: Bernie Sanders. Today’s labor history: AFL founder Sam Gompers dies.
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‘Tis the season to strike; MD House OKs USM collective bargaining; Fighting colonialism in Williamsburg. Today’s labor quote: Stuart Applebaum. Today’s labor history: Undocumented workers targeted.
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“Teaching history shouldn’t have to mean re-living it on the job,” says UNITE HERE Local 25. Today’s labor quote: John Boardman. Today’s labor history: First sit-down strike in the U.S.
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Strike by Bakery workers continues into second month. Today’s labor quote: Trevor Bidelman. Today’s labor history: Longest U.S. tires trike ends. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @BCTGM @KelloggsUS
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Unions have been fighting for a consolidated bargaining process for years. Today’s labor history: AFL founded. Today’s labor quote: AFL preamble.
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Incidents of harassment, violence and hate on the rise in stores as holiday shopping season gets underway. Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis. Today’s labor history: National hunger march on DC for unemployment insurance. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @RWDSU
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AFL-CIO's real time strike map and how to show your solidarity. Today’s labor quote: David Story. Today’s labor history: Colored National Labor Union formed. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #StrikeMás @RadiclUnionist
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John Oliver on union-busting; “Wage shortage” fuels area driver shortage; “I feel strong when I see other women with us.” Today’s labor quote: Henry George. Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO formed after 20-year split.
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Calls possible shutdown “a lump of coal in the stocking of every hardworking American.” Today’s labor quote: Everett Kelley. Today’s labor history: Textile strikers win a 10-hour day; SF employees win 8-hour day.
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Union women in Nigeria battle gender-based violence and harassment. Today’s labor quote: Rita Goyit. Today’s labor history: Wal-Mart pays $40 million for violating worker rights. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @SolidarityCntr
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Transit union says pay and benefits too low. Today’s labor quote: Raymond Jackson. Today’s labor history: Kellogg adopts 6-hour day. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ATULocal689 @ATUComm
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For their work improving workers lives, supporting local labor, and strengthening communities year-round; find out more at communityservicesagency.org. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones. Today’s labor history: Mother Jones dies.
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The Last Week Tonight host discusses the mechanics of union busting and why the companies who do it face so few consequences. Click here to watch the full segment. Today’s labor quote: John Oliver. Today’s labor history: Boston Stores workers’ Christmas strike.
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Tudors Biscuits workers demand union; AFGE members’ fight for dignity on the job changed TSA; Women hardest hit during pandemic; The “Mother of Thanksgiving” Today’s labor quote: John Oliver. Today’s labor history: NYC photoengraver strike shuts down papers. . @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @UFCW400 @TudorsBiscuits @AFGENational @radiolabour @ilo @GuyRyder
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Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant remembers s’hero Sarah Josepha Hale. Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant. Today’s labor history: 10,000 workers, black and white, march in New Orleans. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
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ILO calls for care economy work on RadioLabour podcast. Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers. Today’s labor history: Cigarmakers International Union Local 144 chartered. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @radiolabour @ilo @GuyRyder
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On 20th anniversary of Transportation Security Administration, AFGE publishes series on battle for rights on the job. Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis. Today’s labor history: The first recorded strike.
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Management calls cops but UFCW 400 vows to keep fighting. Today’s labor quote: Adam Smith. Today’s labor history: 20,000 female garment workers strike in NYC.
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America is on strike; Infrastructure bill: What it means for you; Airline turkeys gobble up worker benefits; “No Contract, No Coal!” Today’s labor quote: Donald Robert Perry Marquis. Today’s labor history: 200,000 GM auto workers strike in 50 cities.
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Voices from Thursday’s DC protest by striking Warrior Met Coal miners and their allies. Today’s labor quote: UMWA protest chant. Today’s labor history: Joe Hill executed. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @MineWorkers #UMWADayofAction @WarriorMetCoal @Fidelity
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Airport Workers United demands paid sick leave and affordable health care. Today’s labor quote: Paul Blair. Today’s labor history: Seattle printers nix anti-labor ad.
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AFL-CIO calls it “a tremendous victory for working people in America.” Today’s labor quote: Brian Murray. Today’s labor history: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York founded.
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Perhaps the most moving moments came when solemn tribute was paid “to all of those we have lost” during the pandemic.
Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester. Today’s labor history: Strikers forbidden to sing hymns. @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO
Robert Reich on the lessons for today from the 1946 strike wave. Today’s labor quote: Robert Reich. Today’s labor history: Federation of Trades and Labor Unions founded.
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MWC Affiliate TweetWatch; Warrior Met strikers sit in at BlackRock; Operation Union Veterans Day; Tentative agreement for Strathmore ticketsellers. Today’s labor quote: Luke Roderick. Today’s labor history: Union activist Karen Silkwood's suspicious death.
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After two very long years and a 10-hour mediation session on Tuesday. Today’s labor quote: Debora Hayes. Today’s labor history: Ellis Island closes.
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New campaign amplifies the role veterans and military families play in the American labor movement. Today’s labor quote: Will Attig. Today’s labor history: Haymarket martyrs hanged.
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Mine Worker strike now in eight month. Plus: workers at Garlock Sealing Technologies win 3-day strike. Today’s labor quote: Cecil Roberts. Today’s labor history: First sit-down strike of the 1930s.
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New feature tracking breaking labor news on Twitter. Today’s labor quote: Benjamin Todd Jealous. Today’s labor history: Committee for Industrial Organization founded.
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Rapper Luke Roderick’s one-minute union message, from RadioLabour. Today’s labor quote: African proverb. Today’s labor history: Black and white unite in New Orleans general strike.
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Elected officials join Shoppers worker protests; Election Day in VA; Rich Trumka: Made in America; Labor voices from VA’s election; Garlock workers strike. Today’s labor quote: Bayard Rustin. Today’s labor history: SCOTUS upholds Taft-Hartley Act.
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Three hundred IAM workers strike Garlock Sealing Technologies in upstate New York. Today’s labor quote: Vicki Synyard. Today’s labor history: Eugene Victor Debs born.
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Rank-and-file union members speak out. Today’s labor quote: Bert Bayou. Today’s labor history: Populist humorist Will Rogers born.
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Andy Levin (D, MI) remembers the late AFL-CIO leader. Today’s labor quote: And Levin. Today’s labor history: Striking drivers dump milk in NYC.
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“Every vote counts and we can't do it without you.” Today’s labor quote: Virginia AFL-CIO. Today’s labor history: Debs receives a million votes for President.
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“We work, we sweat, we want more in our check!” Today’s labor quote: UFCW Local 400 members who work at Shoppers. Today’s labor history: First general strike for the 10-hour day.
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Union-made Halloween; Labor looks to provide winning edge in VA races; Lipton workers ratify strong new contract; Anthrax then, COVID-19 now. Today’s labor quote: Charles Evans Hughes. Today’s labor history: Tennessee coal miners rout leased convict laborers.
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Labor works to turn out union vote for VA Democrats. Today’s labor quote: Muhammad Khan. Today’s labor history: "Black Tuesday" on Wall Street.
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Deal provides wage increases, increased time off, and no hikes in health and welfare costs. Today’s labor quote: Terrell Owens. Today’s labor history: Gateway Arch completed safely.
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“We are going to win as long as we get our people to go vote.” Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: National Negro Labor Council formed.
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Hershey’s Kisses, Tootsie Rolls, Butterfinger and more; click here for the complete list of union-made chocolates and candies. Today’s labor quote: Father John Raho. Today’s labor history: Erie Canal opens; 1,000 died building it.
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Honoring America’s postal workers for their dedicated service despite life-threatening risks. Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney. Today’s labor history: The Great Hawaiian Dock Strike.
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Striketober continues; ”Hollywood ending”: IATSE workers win!; Shuler: “We need more people on the ground in Virginia.” Today’s labor quote: Ron Carey. Today’s labor history: General strike in New Orleans.
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American Federation of Musicians marks its’ 125th anniversary. Today’s labor quote: Lawrence Katz. Today’s labor history: Death of the "Sagebrush Robin Hood."
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Latina workers had to work an extra 10 months this year just to match white men’s 2020 pay. Today’s labor quote: Merle Travis. Today’s labor history: Wisconsin dairy farmers strike.
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AFL-CIO chief says stakes in the upcoming Virginia election – now just 15 days away -- could not be higher. Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler. Today’s labor history: Debs dies.
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“Our members stood firm. We are tough and united.” Today’s labor quote: IATSE Today’s labor history: J.P. Stevens forced to sign first union contract.
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10,000 UAW John Deere workers walk out. Today’s labor quote: Ray Curry Today’s labor history: Chrysler workers strike.
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How unions are confronting digitalization; Strike averted at KC; COVID’s deadly toll on teachers; Stage Employees set strike date; BSO relocates another show, citing Strathmore labor dispute. Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass. Today’s labor history: Salt of the Earth strike begins.
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Union says Strathmore is using the pandemic to eliminate full-time jobs and cut hours. Today’s labor quote: John T. Dunlop. Today’s labor history: Wilson signs "Labor’s Magna Carta".
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