Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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DC Paid Leave Campaign announces strong support for “Universal Paid Leave Portability Amendment Act.”
Today’s labor quote: Dyana Forester.
Today’s labor history: Rubber Workers strike Goodyear Tire.  
  
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AFSCME Maryland members call out university leadership.
Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony.
Today’s labor history: Birth of FLOC’s Baldemar Velasquez.  

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