Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Washingtonian editorial staff organize; How to control out-of-control corporations; Metro Council urges passage of Hero Pay Act.

Today's quote Sam Gompers.

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Metro Council urges passage of Hero Pay Act

Supporters workers who have been on the front line throughout the pandemic, keeping us fed, safe, and clean.  
Today’s labor history: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bans discrimination.   
Today's quote: William Faulkner.

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Postal Workers celebrate 50 years

APWU’s half-century of “working together for postal jobs with good pay and benefits and dignity in a safe workplace.”
Today’s labor history: one million railway shopmen strike.   
Today's quote: William Burrus.

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How to control out-of-control corporations

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on restoring bargaining power to workers.
Today’s labor history: Alabama bans leasing convicts to mine coal.   
Today's quote: IWW preamble.

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Property rights defeat human rights

SCOTUS conservatives ban union organizers from farms.
Today’s labor history: Chicago’s streetcar strike.   
Today's quote: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Washingtonian editorial staff organize

”Collectively, we can ensure that Washingtonian will thrive for the next 56 years and beyond.”
Today’s labor history: Labor Day declared official U.S. holiday.   
Today's quote: Lawrence McGann.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Nurses demand safe staffing at Charles Regional Medical Center; The real reason the GOP opposes DC statehood; How to help stamp out hunger.
Today’s labor history: Congress passes National Labor Relations Act.
Today's quote: Industrial Workers of the World.

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How to help stamp out hunger

This year’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive asks members of the community to participate by donating food directly to food banks in their area.
Today’s labor history: 8,000 attend dedication ceremony for the Haymarket Martyrs Monument.

Today's quote: Franklin Roosevelt.

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The real reason the GOP opposes DC statehood

“DC would be the ONLY Black-majority state.”
Today’s labor history: 17 workers killed in water tunnel explosion.
Today's quote: Albert Parsons.

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“Statehood is racial justice”

DC statehood supporters rally as U.S. Senate holds historic statehood hearing.
Today’s labor history: Jobs With Justice stages its first big support action.

Today's quote: Harry Truman.

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