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Your Rights at Work Talk Show Your Rights at Work - Thursday, October 3, 2019
October 03, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBChris Garlock, with Ed Smith
Union City Radio Janitors demand justice on DC streets
October 03, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.39 MBVow to strike if they don't win a contract with fair wages by October 15. Today’s labor history: United Auto Workers call strike against Ford. Today’s labor quote by Woody Guthrie.
Union City Radio Pension plans in the balance
October 02, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBHundreds of pension plans are poised to fail unless Congress acts. Today’s labor history: AFL endorses 6-hour day, 5-day workweek. Today’s labor quote by Benjamin Jealous.
Union City Radio Auto workers are striking for us all
October 01, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.18 MB“A strike is not just about immediate demands--it is about working people demanding a better world.” Today’s labor history: Midwest dairy farmers strike for higher prices. Today’s labor quote by Jack McCallum.
Union City Radio House panel passes labor law rewrite
September 30, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.44 MBMost-comprehensive pro-worker rewrite of U.S. labor law in decades. Today’s labor history: Carnegie strikers charged with treason. Today’s labor quote by Mother Jones.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (9/29/19): Mapping American social movements
September 29, 2019 12:45 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBLabor History Today (9/29/19): Mapping American social movements On this week’s show: Professor Jim Gregory on his innovative project to map American social movements online. Georgetown labor history professor Joe McCartin joins hosts Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant on a show originally broadcast on Labor Day 2019 on WPFW 89.3FM. The project, Gregory says, “allows us to see where social movements were active and where not, helping us better understand patterns of influence and endurance.” Qu...
Union City Radio Workers take to the streets
September 27, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.53 MBSix different events, but they’re all linked by one thing...Today’s labor history: 10,000 port workers locked out. Today’s labor quote by Clara Lemlich.
Your Rights at Work Talk Show Your Rights at Work - Thursday, September 26, 2019
September 26, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBChris Garlock, with Ed Smith
Union City Radio Strike averted at Kaiser
September 26, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.2 MBA agreement affects 83,000 workers in seven states – including Virginia and Maryland -- as well as the District of Columbia. Today’s labor history: teachers strike in Rio de Janeiro. Today’s labor quote by Jimmy Hoffa.
Union City Radio Fresh momentum
September 25, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.3 MB“The past year has seen more strikes than we have since the 1980s.” Today’s labor history: cotton-pickers strike in Lee County, Arkansas. Today’s labor quote by Lewis Hine.
Union City Radio BSO musicians reach tentative contract agreement
September 24, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.06 MBLockout to end after 96 days. Today’s labor history: Canada rules IWW illegal. Today’s labor quote from the IWW constitution.
Union City Radio DC Labor supports DC statehood
September 23, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.98 MB“The struggles for voting rights and workers’ rights in our nation’s capital are one and the same.” Today’s labor history: launch of the United Labor party. Today’s labor quote by Gray Davis.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (9/22/19): Trumka on the future of American labor
September 22, 2019 12:00 - 40 minutes - 40.7 MBOn this week’s show: “Teachers strikes, the Me Too movement, the Black Lives Matters movement, all of those are collective actions that for years you never saw; people didn’t believe in themselves. Now they know that if they’re gonna make progress, they can’t look to anyone but themselves.” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka talks with Labor History Today’s Joe McCartin about the current state – and the future -- of the American labor movement. Plus, Mark Potashnick on Jim Pohle, the founder o...
Union City Radio A Huge Deal: Workers Win Big in California
September 20, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBLatest State of the Unions podcast. Today’s labor history: Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Union strikes. Today’s labor quote by Israelmore Ayivor.
Union City Radio Classical sounds of solidarity
September 19, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.99 MBLaborFest Bread and Roses supports locked-out BSO musicians. Today’s labor history: Chinese coal miners forced out. Today’s labor quote by Lane Kirkland.
Union City Radio DMV support for UAW strike
September 18, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.06 MBUAW 239 picketing picketing in White Marsh, MD. Today’s labor history: arbitrator end illegal lockout of Steelworkers at Kaiser Aluminum. Today’s labor quote by Terry Dittes.
Union City Radio SAG-AFTRA on the role of unions in #MeToo
September 17, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.62 MBCarteris: “We don’t have jurisdiction outside of the workplace, but a lot of our members are being assaulted in the process of getting work.” Today’s labor history: 100,000 Pennsylvania anthracite coal miner strike. Today’s labor quote by Susan B. Anthony.
Union City Radio Area supermarket workers and allies rally and march for contract
September 16, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.49 MB“It speaks for itself that we’re out here today with such big numbers and such enthusiasm before there’s even a crisis.” Today’s labor history: Trumka elected president of the AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote by Richard Trumka.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (9/15/19): Trumka on the Pittston strike
September 15, 2019 19:42 - 49 minutes - 55.1 MBOn this week’s show: “You can't know where you are going if you don't understand where you came from.” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka sits down with Labor History Today’s Joe McCartin to discuss the historic Pittston strike, which began on September 17, 1989, when ninety-eight members of the United Mine Workers of America and a minister occupied the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Virginia. Plus Cool Things from the Meany Labor Archives: the AFL-CIO’s attempts t...
Union City Radio AFL-CIO’s Trumka on the historic Pittston strike
September 13, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.5 MB“You can't know where you are going if you don't understand where you came from.” Today’s labor history: remembering Attica. Today’s labor quote by John L. Lewis.
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September 12, 2019 15:48 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MBEverettKelly,AFGE.m4a by Union City Radio
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September 12, 2019 15:27 - 1 minute - 1.31 MBmarkroyal,giantworker.m4a by Union City Radio
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September 12, 2019 15:23 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBAfGEDistrict14'sEricBunnatUFcW400rally.m4a by Union City Radio
Union City Radio UFCW 400 president Mark Federici
September 12, 2019 15:16 - 3 minutes - 2.66 MBUFCW 400 president Mark Federici by Union City Radio
Union City Radio Gabrielle Carteris on the beginning of #MeToo
September 12, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.8 MB“It really started with some women of color who came out and nobody was really listening to them.” Today’s labor history: Jobless workers marched on grocery stores and seize food. Today’s labor quote by Steven Greenhouse.
Union City Radio MD state workers demand action on staffing crisis
September 11, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.42 MB“Chronic understaffing has meant state employees workloads have expanded to the breaking point, mandated overtime is skyrocketing, and work environments are increasingly dangerous.” Today’s labor history: coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia win ten-week strike. Today’s labor quote by Merle Travis.
Union City Radio Challenger Paratransit workers reach tentative agreement
September 10, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.37 MBAgreement addresses major worker concerns, including lack of respect. Today’s labor history: miners gunned down by Lattimer Mine deputies. Today’s labor quote by Saul Alinsky.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (9/8/19): Longest – and most divisive – teacher strike in NYC history
September 10, 2019 01:14 - 30 minutes - 26.4 MBOn this week’s show: Teacher-community solidarity was the key to victory in the 2018 Los Angeles teacher's strike, but this wasn't the case in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in 1968 when the longest teacher strike in New York City history also turned out to be its most divisive. Nick Juravich explains why. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected] Labor History Toda...
Union City Radio Gabrielle Carteris on the beginning of #MeToo
September 09, 2019 12:01 - 3 minutes - 4.97 MB“It really started with some women of color who came out and nobody was really listening to them.” Today’s labor history: Boston police strike. Today’s labor quote by Steven Greenhouse.
Union City Radio Satnam Virdee on "Race, Class and the Politics of Solidarity"
September 06, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.08 MB“When we bring race back into our analysis of class, it offers us resources of hope.” Today’s labor history: Avondale Mine disaster kills 110. Today’s labor quote by Carmen Castillo.
Union City Radio MontCo officials want review of MetroAccess contractor
September 05, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.12 MBPoint to performance issues at Challenger as well as an escalating labor dispute. Today’s labor history: first Labor Day parade in NYC. Today’s labor quote by E.P. Thompson.
Union City Radio Satnam Virdee on "Race, Class and the Politics of Solidarity" (full interview)
September 04, 2019 18:35 - 8 minutes - 8.22 MBProfessor Satnam Virdee. Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow, summarizes his keynote speech on September 4 on "Race, Class and the Politics of Solidarity" at the 2019 Working-Class Studies Association conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury UK. Interviewed by Union City Radio's Chris Garlock.
Union City Radio Studying the working class
September 04, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.59 MBAt the Working-Class Studies Association conference. Today’s labor history: the longest strike in U.S. history. Today’s labor quote by John Lennon.
Union City Radio Linkon, Sherry
September 04, 2019 10:27 - 6 minutes - 6.4 MBLinkon, Sherry by Union City Radio
Union City Radio Workers still want unions, despite attacks by bosses
September 03, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.18 MBEPI says labor law reform needed to restore and protect workers’ rights. Today’s labor history: 25 workers die in fire at Imperial Poultry. Today’s labor quote by Lightnin' Hopkins.
Union City Radio 2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: Mapping American social movements online (11am-12pm)
September 02, 2019 20:19 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBProfessor Jim Gregory: Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century Joe McCartin, professor of history at Georgetown University and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Co-founder of the Labor History Today podcast.
Union City Radio 2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: How to tip; labor Down Under; Ghost Workers (10-11am)
September 02, 2019 20:17 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBJohn Boardman: UNITE HERE Local 25: How to tip in America quiz Vanessa Seagrove: (in-studio); Assistant Secretary of Unions, New South Wales, Australia Mary Gray: co-author, “Ghost Work: How to stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass”
Union City Radio 2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: Labor Radio/Podcast Network Roundtable (9-10am)
September 02, 2019 20:14 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBHosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on September 2, 2019, 8-9am Judy Ancel: Heartland Labor Forum, Kansas City Chris LaGrange: UCOMM podcast, New York City Gene Lantz: Workers Beat, Dallas, Texas Rick Smith: Rick Smith Show, Pennsylvania Engineering & co-DJing by Chris Bangert-Drowns
Union City Radio 2019 WPFW Labor Day Show: Labor music (8-9am)
September 02, 2019 20:11 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBHosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on September 2, 2019, 8-9am Chris and Elise spin some of their favorite labor tunes from a variety of genres. Engineering & co-DJing by Chris Bangert-Drowns
Union City Radio Union approval and strikes way up on Labor Day 2019
September 02, 2019 20:08 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MBUnion approval rate highest in 50 years; nearly half a million struck in 2018. Today’s labor history: mineowners bomb West Virginia strikers by plane. Today’s labor quote by Richard Trumka.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (9/1/19): Who inspired The Rebel Girl? Labor Feminism in the Federated Press
September 01, 2019 20:15 - 45 minutes - 45.4 MBOn this week’s show: Who really inspired Joe Hill to write “The Rebel Girl?” We dig deep into this mystery and uncover some new heroes of the American labor movement. We also explore the lives and work of five pioneering female journalists in “Labor Feminism in the Federated Press” on the latest Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected] Labor His...
Union City Radio WMATA paratransit workers in MontCo prepare for strike
August 30, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.46 MBThey’ve been trying to negotiate a fair first contract for over a year. Today’s labor history: formation of the National Trades' Union. Today’s labor quote by Franklin Roosevelt.
Union City Radio Remembering “The Wailin’ Mailman”
August 29, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.98 MBRoger Wendell “Buck” Hill walked DC’s streets delivering mail by day but at night he was a saxophonist who accompanied such greats as Miles Davis, Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie. Today’s labor history: Lusty Lady Club dancers unionize. Today’s labor quote by Ramona Falls, organizer for Minneapolis’ chapter of Sex Workers Outreach Project.
Union City Radio Transdev workers authorize strike
August 28, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.84 MBVote unanimously to strike if ongoing negotiations stall. Today’s labor history: 250,000 turn out for DC march for jobs and freedom. Today’s labor quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Union City Radio DOL abruptly cancels popular apprenticeship program
August 27, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MB“We moved nearly 5,000 people into apprenticeship…3,800 of them were from communities of color, over a thousand were women.” Today’s labor history: Truman seizes railroads to prevent a general strike. Today’s labor quote from an African proverb.
Union City Radio Maryland state workers demand better pay, more staffing
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.25 MBSome say the staffing crisis is a matter of life and death. Today’s labor history: birth of strikebreaker Allan Pinkerton. Today’s labor quote by A. Philip Randolph.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (8/25/19): Rodeo women, Frances Perkins, MLK and desegregating Glen Echo
August 25, 2019 20:57 - 43 minutes - 48.5 MBOn this week’s show: Heidi Thomas on the history of rodeo women; Frances Perkins’ labor landmarks; Common revisits MLK’s "I Have A Dream" speech; labor and civil rights activists unite to desegregate Glen Echo Amusement Park. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected] Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Produced...
Union City Radio 2019.09.02 Labor Day Special Promo
August 23, 2019 17:12 - 1 minute - 1.26 MBTune in from 8 am to 12 noon on Monday, September 2, as Union City Radio celebrates Labor Day with the annual “WORKERS RISING” LABOR DAY SPECIAL. We’ll be playing music about work and workers and visiting with members of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network. Our guests will include Mary Gray, author of “Ghost Workers,” labor historians Joe McCartin and Jim Gregory and we’ll take the quiz on How to Tip in America. That’s the annual “WORKERS RISING” LABOR DAY SPECIAL, on WPFW 89.3 FM starting at 8a...
Union City Radio The dire need for infrastructure investment
August 23, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.57 MB“These are all things that we can invest in now and move forward on,” says Mike Monroe, Chief of Staff at North America's Building Trades Unions. Today’s labor history: Farm Workers Organizing Committee chartered by AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote by Cesar Chavez.
Union City Radio Latest local labor actions
August 22, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3 MBLocked-out BSO musicians picket; Your Rights At Work; DC Health Justice Coalition; NoVA Labor vigil. Today’s labor history: Sacco and Vanzetti executed. Today’s labor quote by Joyce Miller.