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Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Statewide television and radio ads promote the Protecting the Right to Organize – or PRO -- Act.
Labor calendar: Virtual phone bank for the Medical Debt Protection Act.
Today’s labor history: Haymarket massacre in Chicago.
Today’s quote: Jay Kulstad.
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
This year Union City Radio teamed up with the House of Soul for the annual celebration of International Workers’ Day on WPFW 89.3FM, DC’s Pacifica station. Our theme this year was “Workers: The Heart and Soul of America”; DJ Lance spun tunes about work and workers, while Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant featured the best of labor radio and podcast programming from across the country. This hour: Heartland Labor Forum, Monday Morning QB, Labor Express, Your Rights At Work, all members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
Work Songs – “kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work” – opens 20th annual festival of labor films, this year online in the AFI Silver’s Virtual Screening Room.
Today’s labor history: Chicago police attack strikers, killing 4, wounding 200.
Today’s quote: Pete Seeger.
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
Anti-Union Shenanigans #4 & 5; Mourn for the dead, fight for the living
Today’s labor history: Chicago Trades Assembly’s general strike for the 8-hour day.
Today’s labor quote: Rev. Richard Trevellick.
@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @aflcio #PassThePROAct Pass the #PROAct #IWMD21 #SaveLivesAtWork
Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
WPFW’s annual May Day labor show (10a-2p), a May Day Immigrant Justice March (11a) and an online discussion of the new film Haymarket (2p) headline this year’s activities.
Today’s labor history: Obama labor board speeds up unionization elections.
Today’s quote: Terry O'Sullivan
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
This is the AFL-CIO's week of action on the PRO Act. Please call Senator Warner at 202-224-2023 or 703-442-0670 and ask him to co-sponsor the bill.
Today’s labor history: Western Federation of Miners dynamites Bunker Hill Company mill.
Today’s quote: Jacob Coxey
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Labor renews battle for workplace safety on annual Workers Memorial Day.
Today’s labor history: Coal mine accidents kill hundreds.
Today’s quote: “We Just Come To Work Here”
@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #IWMD21 #SaveLivesAtWork
Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
This is the AFL-CIO's week of action on the PRO Act. Please call Senator Warner at 202-224-2023 or 703-442-0670 and ask him to co-sponsor the bill.
Today’s labor history: Eisenhower signs discriminatory Executive Order 10450.
Today’s quote: Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses.”
@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #PassThePROAct Pass the #PROAct
Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Kalmanovitz Institute’s “Public Forum on Empowering a Post Pandemic Working Class.”
Today’s labor history: U.S. Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ.
Today’s quote: Lane Windham.
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Labor responds to Chauvin murder convictions; “Stop The Greed, Stop the Layoffs at Johns Hopkins”; Alexandria expands city workers’ rights
Today’s labor history: NYT declares 8-hour struggle “un-American.”
Today’s labor quote: Rev. Ralph David Abernathy.
@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @aflcio @MNAFLCIO @NationalNurses @32BJSEIU @AFGENational @maLiUNA
Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.