Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Would be first unionized independent bookstore in D.C.
Today’s labor quote: Politics & Prose Workers Union.
Today’s labor history: Birth of Deborah Samson.   

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Their annual holiday Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs will be featured on today’s Your Rights At Work radio show, 1p on WPFW 89.3FM.
Today’s labor quote: DC Labor Chorus.
Today’s labor history: Female tellers stage first bank strike in U.S. history.    
 
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EPI: Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 179% since 1979 while share of wages for bottom 90% hits new low.
Today’s labor quote: Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra.
Today’s labor history: AFL votes funding to organize women.     

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ITUC: “We need to stand up and use our collective voice, the power of working people, to fight for a just future.”
Today’s labor quote: Sharon Burrow.
Today’s labor history: Machinists win 69-day strike against Boeing.   

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Buffalo workers vote in first-ever Starbucks union
Today’s labor quote: Bernie Sanders.
Today’s labor history: AFL founder Sam Gompers dies.   

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‘Tis the season to strike; MD House OKs USM collective bargaining; Fighting colonialism in Williamsburg.
Today’s labor quote: Stuart Applebaum.
Today’s labor history: Undocumented workers targeted.

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“Teaching history shouldn’t have to mean re-living it on the job,” says UNITE HERE Local 25.
Today’s labor quote: John Boardman.
Today’s labor history: First sit-down strike in the U.S.   

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Strike by Bakery workers continues into second month.
Today’s labor quote: Trevor Bidelman.
Today’s labor history: Longest U.S. tires trike ends.  
 
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Unions have been fighting for a consolidated bargaining process for years.
Today’s labor history: AFL founded.   
Today’s labor quote: AFL preamble.

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Incidents of harassment, violence and hate on the rise in stores as holiday shopping season gets underway.
Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis.
Today’s labor history: National hunger march on DC for unemployment insurance.
  
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