Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Native Women’s Equal Pay Day

Native women earn just sixty cents for every dollar paid to white men.
Today’s labor quote: Peter Marks.
Today’s labor history: The Lattimer Massacre.

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On the Line at Warrior Met & Nabisco

Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (11a-12p)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: On the Line at the Warrior Met & Nabisco strikes.

Warrior Met strike: UMWA Communications and Governmental Affairs Director Phil Smith and singer-songwriter Tom Breiding.

Nabisco strike: BCTGM Local 358 President Keith Bragg and Corey Waddy, bakery worker and BCTGM 358 member.

Songs: Now It’s Here, and All You Scabs Bound to Lose, both by Tom Breiding.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.

”New era” for Painters union

43-year-old Jimmy Williams Jr. is the union’s youngest-ever president.
Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Williams Jr.
Today’s labor history: Boston police strike.

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Reading, writing and organizing

Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (10-11a)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: Reading, writing and organizing: labor book authors!

Dr. Laura Warren Hill: Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970
Jamie McCallum: Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
Peter Cole: Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (2nd Edition)
Bev Grant: Bev Grant: Photography 1968–1972
Veronica Martinez Matsuda: Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Patrick Dixon: Managing Editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.

New AFL-CIO president hits doors and stores in VA

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler joins UNITE HERE hospitality workers and supermarket workers working to maintain Democrats’ control of the VA House of Delegates and pass the PRO Act.
Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler.
Today’s labor history: UFW launches historic national grape boycott.

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Music to start a workplace revolution!

Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (9-10a)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: Music to start a workplace revolution! 
Built by a Picket Line-Seth Newton Patel
Love me, I'm a Liberal-Ben Grosscup 
Washington Heights-Dilson Hernandez  
More Than Love-Jillian Matundan 
I'm Not Gone-Hali Hammer 
Women Vote-Lynn Marie Smith 
Elevator Business: SpudWrench 
Gallo-Steve & Peter Jones
Three Chords & The Truth-Joe Uehlein 
I'll Organize-Al Bradbury
Stand Together-Emma's Revolution 
Workers Song-Mike Glick 
Wonderful World-Al Bradbury 

Find more great labor music at the Labor Heritage Foundation! 

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.

Stand Together!

The song by Emma’s Revolution was the theme for yesterday’s 5-hour Union City Radio Labor Day show on WPFW 89.3FM.
Today’s labor quote: Randi Weingarten.
Today’s labor history: Federal workers win worker’s comp.

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Labor Day in the DMV

Your complete guide to Labor Day activities in the metro DC region.
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons.
Today’s labor history: Avondale Mine disaster kills 110.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Transit union condemns bus driver shooting; Cookie makers offered crumbs; Unions urge support for Afghani journalists.
Today’s labor quote: Ben Jealous.
Today’s labor history: New York's first Labor Day parade.  

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Labor Day preview

Your complete guide to Labor Day weekend activities in the metro DC region.
Today’s labor quote: Studs Terkel.
Today’s labor history: Labor scores record approval ratings.

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