Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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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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.   
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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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“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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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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