Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Peace starts at home

Labor and peace activist Gene Bruskin on the Ukraine crisis.  
Today’s labor quote: Sean Blackmon.
Today’s labor history: South Africa workers strike in support of U.S. 3M workers.
 
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Union City Radio Highlights

War: Who is it good for?; Starbucks organizing comes to NoVA; One Fair Wage back in DC.
Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs.
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS rules sit-down strikes illegal.

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War: Who is it good for?

Absolutely no-one, says a labor statement on the crisis in Ukraine.
Today’s labor quote: Edwin Starr.
Today’s labor history: Labor organizer and civil rights activist Edgar Daniel Nixon dies.    
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Supporting Merriweather Lakehouse workers

UNITE HERE 7 says don’t patronize Merriweather until its union workers are back on the job with their union rights and contract intact.
Today’s labor quote: Will Rogers.  
Today’s labor history: Cops beat women and children textile strikers in Lawrence, MA.

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Starbucks organizing comes to NoVA

Three more Virginia stores file for union elections, including the Huntsman Square Starbucks in Springfield, VA.
Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie.
Today’s labor history: Woody Guthrie writes “This Land Is Your Land.”  
 
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Ukraine whistleblower wins appeal

Unions in Ukraine are hailing the reinstatement of Independent Trade Union of Aviation Workers leader Olena Bebeshko.
Today’s labor quote: Albert Shanker.
Today’s labor history: Planning the founding convention of the People’s Party.   

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One Fair Wage back in DC

Initiative 82 – which would raise the minimum wage of tipped workers to full parity with minimum wage in D.C. -- returns to the ballot with DC City Council support.
Today’s labor quote: Saru Jayaraman.
Today’s labor history: CA passes 8-hour day.   

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Union City Radio Highlights

A Starbucks worker speaks; Turning up the heat on UMD; Expanding access to DC’s Paid Family Leave; Starbucks solidarity brews up hot and strong.
Today’s labor quote: Bradley McKenzie.
Today’s labor history: Working-class women march on New York’s City Hall.

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Privatizing education with AI

Education International warns of risks of AI in schools.
Today’s labor quote: Chana Luria*.
Today’s labor history: International Association of Fire Fighters forms.   

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*in The Big Quit.

Starbucks solidarity brews up hot and strong

Campaign spreads to 87 stores in 25 states, including six in Richmond VA.
Today’s labor quote: Wendell Phillips.  
Today’s labor history: Yale unions strike in solidarity with TAs.   

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