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Union City Radio “American Factory” film released on Netflix
August 21, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBEarly days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. Today’s labor history: Nat Turner’s Revolt begins. Today’s labor quote from the R.J. Phillips Band.
Union City Radio AFGE sues to protect federal employee speech rights
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.73 MBChallenges “extreme and unprecedented interpretation of the Hatch Act.” Today’s labor history: Northern Rockies firestorm kills firefighters. Today’s labor quote by Saul Alinsky.
Union City Radio “I never thought I would be here”
August 19, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.45 MBLife lessons from an immigrant who’s become an American labor leader. Today’s labor history: Striking Phelps-Dodge copper miners face state power. Today’s labor quote by Abraham Lincoln.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (8/18/19): Nat Turner; The Moment Was Now
August 18, 2019 21:25 - 24 minutes - 17.7 MBOn this week’s show: The R.J. Phillips Band’s "Nat Turner"; Gene Bruskin discusses his new musical play, “The Moment Was Now,” which takes place in post-civil war Baltimore in 1869, when “America almost did the right thing.” Plus an update on the fate of the Victor Arnautoff murals. 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 Kalm...
Union City Radio New labor musical premieres in Baltimore
August 16, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.98 MB“It’s about a moment when our country almost did the right thing!” Today’s labor history: Birth of Homer Martin, early UAW leader. Today’s labor quote by George Meany.
Union City Radio The labor movement responds to the El Paso massacre
August 15, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.48 MB“We have the responsibility of speaking out when we see something that isn’t fair” Today’s labor history: Remembering 1989 CWA striker Gerry Horgan. Today’s labor quote by Will Rogers.
Union City Radio Safeway undermined by private equity plunderers
August 14, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 4.23 MB“They’ve gamed the system so no matter what happens to the corporations they acquire, it’s ‘heads they win, tails you lose.’” Today’s labor history: Roosevelt signs Social Security Act. Today’s labor quote by Lech Walesa.
Union City Radio OmniRide drivers win new contract
August 13, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MBDeal is “an example of what working people can accomplish when we stand together." Today’s labor history: Bay Area mill employers lock out 8,000 workers. Today’s labor quote by A. Philip Randolph.
Union City Radio Stee-rike!
August 12, 2019 12:00 - 1 minute - 2.26 MB“It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game.” Today’s labor history: The 1994 baseball strike. Today’s labor quote by J.J. Bentley.
Union City Radio Fighting union-busting
August 09, 2019 12:00 - 1 minute - 2.14 MB“Unions remain many workers' best hope for some bargaining power.” Today’s labor history: 1998 Bell Atlantic strike. Today’s labor quote by David Leonhardt.
Union City Radio Cesar Chavez and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
August 08, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBCesar Chavez and the Presidential Medal of Freedom “The name of the game is to talk to people." Today’s labor history: St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly elects first African-American as president. Today’s labor quote by Cesar Chavez.
Union City Radio Joe Hill’s “Rebel Girl,” updated
August 07, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.79 MBToday’s labor history: Actors Equity recognized. Today’s labor quote from an updated version of Joe Hill’s classic “Rebel Girl.”
Union City Radio Remembering the 2000 Verizon strike
August 06, 2019 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBToday’s labor history: 18-day strike was over working conditions and union representation. Today’s labor quote by Staughton Lynd.
Union City Radio Roosevelt establishes National Labor Board
August 05, 2019 12:00 - 1 minute - 2.12 MBToday’s labor history: Roosevelt establishes the National Labor Board. Today’s labor quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (8/4/19): Scabby The Rat; Smoking at Work; the Which Side Are You On? remix
August 02, 2019 23:55 - 47 minutes - 32.1 MBLabor lawyer Matt Fusco on Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat, which is facing extermination at the hands of the Trump labor board. Gregory Wood, author of “Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace,” and a special LHT remix of the labor classic “Which Side Are You On?” 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...
Union City Radio What American workers want from their President
August 02, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MB“A candidate who will use the Presidency to make our country work for working people.” Today’s labor history: Hatch Act limits fed workers’ political activities. Today’s labor quote by Florence Reece.
Union City Radio House acts to save pensions
August 01, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.52 MBSupporters urge Senate to “quickly step up to protect the pensions of over a million working people.” Today’s labor history: American Federation of Musicians strikes major American recording companies. Today’s labor quote from a 1944 transit strike.
Union City Radio Justice delayed, but not denied, for Kroger worker & UFCW 400 member
July 31, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.19 MB“It wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t had my union there to help me.” Today’s labor history: football and baseball strikes. Today’s labor quote by hockey player Dave Brown.
Union City Radio UNITE HERE’s D Taylor on learning from failure
July 30, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.38 MB“Our greatest victories are always in situations when we didn’t know whether we were going to win or not.” Today’s labor history: United Airlines agrees to offer domestic-partner benefits. Today’s labor quote by Frank Moore Colby.
Union City Radio “We’re Workers, Not Robots”
July 29, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.92 MB“But in many ways their working conditions (at Amazon) are like if they were robots.” Today’s labor history: California grape growers sign first union contract. Today’s labor quote by Cesar Chavez.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (7/28/19): Plumbers train vets; MoJo goes digital
July 28, 2019 16:41 - 20 minutes - 14.9 MBLabor History Today (7/28): Plumbers train vets; MoJo goes digital On this week’s show: The Plumbers celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Veterans in Piping Program. Labor History Today's Patrick Dixon speaks with training specialist Mike Hazard about this program, which offers vets a pathway into a Plumbers apprenticeship program that can earn them direct entry into solid, private-sector jobs with good pay and benefits, as well as union membership. Also, this week, Mother Jones goes digit...
Union City Radio What’s wrong with America and what can be right with America
July 26, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.87 MBUNITE HERE’s airline food worker campaign: “We want to lift these people out of poverty to have a job where one job should be enough.” Today’s labor history: The "Battle of the Viaduct." Today’s labor quote by 1877 railroad strikers.
Union City Radio With political support, airline food workers take struggle public
July 25, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MB“One job should be enough!” is their rallying cry. Today’s labor history: First U.S. general strike takes place in St. Louis. Today’s labor quote by Liz Shuler.
Union City Radio Fighting for nurses and patients at Johns Hopkins
July 24, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MB“We want to send a message to Johns Hopkins management: people over profits!” Today’s labor history: 10-year anniversary of last minimum wage increase. Today’s labor quote from Fight for $15.
Union City Radio Support airline catering workers today
July 23, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.48 MBSupporters will rally in solidarity at National Airport at 4:30p. Today’s labor history: Michigan copper miners strike. Today’s labor quote by Alexander Berkman.
Union City Radio Trumka on good union jobs
July 22, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.09 MB“Sixty million people want to join a union.” Today’s labor history: brewery workers unionize. Today’s labor quote by Heywood Broun.
Union City Radio Huge rally Saturday at Hopkins for patients and nurses
July 19, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.82 MBPressing hospital officials to end their deplorable practice of suing low-income community patients and their families for medical debt, and to respect the rights of its RNs to form a union. Today’s labor history: Women's Rights Convention opens. Today’s labor quote from the Declaration of Women's Rights.
Union City Radio Voices on Trade: Steelworker Mark Fernapsis
July 18, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.03 MB“We didn’t lose jobs; you lost people.” Today’s labor history: Chicago stockyard workers strike. Today’s labor quote by Mary Moultrie.
Union City Radio Rich Trumka on getting the new NAFTA right
July 17, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.43 MB“It’s time for those negotiators to go back to the table and hammer out an agreement that’s good for working people across the country.” Today’s labor history: the Port Chicago Mutiny. Today’s labor quote by Joseph Small.
Union City Radio Liz Shuler on “The future of work”
July 16, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.44 MB“Working people should be included in every conversation.” Today’s labor history: SF Longshoreman's strike spreads into general strike. Today’s labor quote by Harriet Tubman.
Union City Radio Voices on Trade: Steelworker Jack Sablitch
July 15, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.55 MB“You can't make it on a Walmart paycheck.” Today’s labor history: Strikers shut down U.S. steel mills. Today’s labor quote by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (7/14/19): Why SF wants to "Paint It Black"
July 15, 2019 05:23 - 17 minutes - 12.6 MBOn this week’s show: Robert Cherney on the genesis of the San Francisco Board of Education’s decision to paint over New Deal murals. Eleanor Mahoney’s new feature on labor landmarks. 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 & engineered by Chris Garlock and Patrick ...
Union City Radio 2019 Executive Paywatch report: Not a pretty picture
July 11, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.44 MBCEO-to-worker pay ratio now 287 to 1. Today’s labor history: striking coal miners dynamite housing for management thugs. Today’s labor quote by Sidney Hillman.
Union City Radio Liz Shuler on young people and the labor movement
July 10, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MB“We need their voices now. We need their expertise now.” Today’s labor history: troops put down Pullman Strike. Today’s labor quote by Mary McLeod Bethune.
Union City Radio OPEIU launches campaign to organize nonprofit staff
July 09, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.59 MBUnion works to “make our legal services and advocacy nonprofits more inclusive, accountable, and effective.” Today’s labor history: NYC subway workers fight speed-up. Today’s labor quote by Ken Riley.
Union City Radio DC a “hotbed” for transit organizing
July 08, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MBMore than 1,500 transit workers have joined the Amalgamated Transit Union. Today’s labor history: IWW wraps up founding convention. Today’s labor quote by Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (7/7/19): You Can't Eat Coal: Women's Social Justice Activism in Appalachia
July 08, 2019 02:24 - 39 minutes - 28.4 MBOn this week’s show: The recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia; Working History podcast host Beth English interviews Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, on her book, "To Live Here You Have to Fight."
Union City Radio Liz Shuler on this moment for collective action
July 05, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.13 MB“People are finally connecting the dots that coming together is more powerful.” Today’s labor history: the Battle of Rincon Hill. Today’s labor quote by Robert Wagner.
Union City Radio Contemplating the meaning of America
July 04, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MBOscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter, Angie Valeria, Bev Grant’s “Bones in the Desert” and “The House I Live In.” Bones in the Desert by Bev Grant https://youtu.be/F20BYwCwXJ4
Union City Radio Challenger bus drivers unanimously authorize strike
July 03, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.88 MB“This is a ‘Fight for 40’ - forty hours a week. We will settle for nothing less.” Today’s labor history: children working in Paterson silk mills strike. Today’s labor quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Union City Radio Convention Center food and beverage workers authorize strike
July 02, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.26 MB“They have been replacing us with non-union workers and machines. I feel betrayed.” Today’s labor history: anti-union Sam Walton opens his first store. Today’s labor quote by Barack Obama.
Union City Radio Liz Shuler on modernizing the labor movement
July 01, 2019 12:01 - 2 minutes - 2.54 MB“There's no doubt there’s going to be massive change going forward.” Today’s labor history: Arizona copper miners strike. Today’s labor quote by Bennie Martin.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (6/30/19): Revisiting Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art
June 30, 2019 13:38 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBOn this week’s show: Robert Cherny on Victor Arnautoff, the Russian-born artist who reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. The San Francisco Board of Education voted this week to paint over one of his most famous murals. (Click here to sign the petition to save the mural: https://www.change.org/p/san-francisco-board-of-education-prevent-the-removal-of-victor-arnautoff-s-mural-from-george-washington-high-school?cs_tk=AnAxHEYYo0ktAjzyHF0AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvHQ90G...
Union City Radio Eulen airport workers strike at National Airport
June 28, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.34 MBProtesting health and safety concerns, wage theft and belittlement by supervisors. Today’s labor history: Labor Day declared a national holiday. Today’s labor quote by Gene Debs.
Union City Radio Liz Shuler on connecting the dots
June 27, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 3.38 MBPeople are finally connecting the dots that coming together is more powerful, especially when you’re in a union. Today’s labor history: 26,000 NYC hotel workers strike. Today’s labor quote by Emma Goldman.
Union City Radio ATU’S Larry Hanley celebrated
June 26, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 3.63 MBUnion leaders and members came “not just to mourn Larry’s loss, but to celebrate his life and legacy.” Today’s labor history: U.S. Supreme Court rules that state and local public-sector unions cannot require nonunion members to pay for union work on their behalf. Today’s labor quote by the IWW.
Union City Radio BSO lockout continues; 2 noontime DC rallies today
June 25, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.73 MBBSO lockout picketline update, plus “No Vote Until NAFTA 2.0 is Fixed!” and “Stop the Merger of OPM and GSA!” Today’s labor history: Decatur police pepper-gassed locked-out A.E. Staley workers. Today’s labor quote by August Spies.
Union City Radio The problem with the HRC Corporate Equality Index
June 24, 2019 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.88 MB“They give 90s to companies like Walmart that treat their employees terribly.” Today’s labor history: Birth of Glove Workers Union president Agnes Nestor. Today’s labor quote by Albert Parsons.
Union City Radio Labor History Today (6/23/19): Circus workers of the world, unite!
June 23, 2019 23:39 - 58 minutes - 40.7 MBOn this week’s show: A rollicking hour with former union clowns Murray Horwitz and Chris Bricker; both were graduates of the Ringling College of Clowns, Class of 1971 and went on to become professional clowns and then union reps at the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus. Horwitz went on to become an American playwright, lyricist, NPR broadcaster, and arts administrator, and Bricker is a longtime labor organizer and saw-playing member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 1000...
Union City Radio Day 5 of the BSO Lock-Out
June 21, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBLatest picketing schedule, plus how to support BSO musicians. Today’s labor history: 100,000 march in support of Detroit newspaper strike. Today’s labor quote by Abraham Lincoln.