Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

On Memorial Day, resources from the Union Veteran’s Council.  
Today’s labor quote: Will Attig.  
Today’s labor history: The 1937 Memorial Day Massacre.    

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Is the GOP really the Flat Earth Society?; Nine-month battle yields contract for Howard healthcare workers; “A very, very scary time”; Labor TweetWatch; “Respect Us! Pay Us!”
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.
Today’s labor history: UFCW wins 17-year struggle for lettuce workers.

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Concessions workers at Oriole Park fight for better pay.
Today’s labor quote: Tracy Lingo.
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS says NIRA unconstitutional.

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Senate cafeteria workers on the move…Nurses sound alarm on staffing crisis…Daily Kos workers vote in union. Keep up with all the latest labor tweets by following us @dclabor on Twitter.
Today’s labor quote: Donna S. Edwards.  
Today’s labor history: 100,000 steel workers and miners strike in seven states.

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Buffalo shootings increase supermarket workers’ safety worries.
Today’s labor quote: Mike Wilson.
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO campaigns for 35-hour week.

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DCNA says deal advances patient care and alleviates staffing crisis.
Today’s labor quote: Ed Smith.
Today’s labor history: Striking Rubber workers return to work without a contract.  
 
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Bill Fletcher debunks the bogus “replacement theory” that motivated the May 14 racist attack in Buffalo.  
Today’s labor quote: Bill Fletcher.
Today’s labor history: 100,000 strike in Philadelphia.   

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Organizing Starbucks joyfully; Workers demand good jobs at Potomac Power Plant site; Buffalo attack underlines urgency of June 18 D.C. rally; Shakespeare Theatre workers organize; UFCW 1994 mourns Sidney Kramer’s passing.
Today’s labor quote: Eugene V. Debs.
Today’s labor history: Racism at Georgia Railroad strike.

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Montgomery County Executive negotiated the first-ever collective bargaining agreement with county workers.  
Today’s labor quote: Gino Renne.
Today’s labor history: Akron, Ohio rubber workers strike.

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Production workers want to join IATSE Local 22.
Today’s labor quote: Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
Today’s labor history: Matewan shootout between strikers and coal company gunmen.  

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