Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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”.
  
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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.  

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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.  

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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.
 
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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.

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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.    

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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.    

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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.    

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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.   
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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.  

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