Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

AFGE says TSOs still don’t have the workplace rights they deserve.
Today’s labor quote: LaShanda Palmer.
Today’s labor history: UAW launches 69-day strike against GM.

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Fifteen army barbers have been on strike since July 4th at Ft. Lee in Hopewell, VA.  
Today’s labor quote: Robert F. Kennedy.
Today’s labor history: Cape Cod Cranberry Pickers Union strikes.

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Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (1-2p)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: Behind the scenes at Working in DC, The Musical.
With director Shanara Gabrielle, co-dramaturg Jordan Ealey, Scenic Designer Andrew Cohen and Social Accountability and Partnerships Director Trés McMichael.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.

The Secretary of Labor on the AFL-CIO’s State of the Unions podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Marty Walsh.
Today’s labor history: Attica uprising claims lives of prisoners and guards.

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Stand Together!; New AFL-CIO president hits doors and stores in VA; ”New era” for Painters union.

Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Williams Jr.

Today’s labor history: Jobless workers seize food in Toledo.  

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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (12p-1p)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: The people speak on the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Michelle Ellis: The BCTGM Project
Erroll Schweizer:  
Anna Canning: For A Better World
Judy Ancel: Heartland Labor Forum
Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English: Tales from the Reuther Library
Harold Phillips: Working to Live In Southwest Washington

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.

 

Native women earn just sixty cents for every dollar paid to white men.
Today’s labor quote: Peter Marks.
Today’s labor history: The Lattimer Massacre.

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Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (11a-12p)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: On the Line at the Warrior Met & Nabisco strikes.

Warrior Met strike: UMWA Communications and Governmental Affairs Director Phil Smith and singer-songwriter Tom Breiding.

Nabisco strike: BCTGM Local 358 President Keith Bragg and Corey Waddy, bakery worker and BCTGM 358 member.

Songs: Now It’s Here, and All You Scabs Bound to Lose, both by Tom Breiding.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.

43-year-old Jimmy Williams Jr. is the union’s youngest-ever president.
Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Williams Jr.
Today’s labor history: Boston police strike.

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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show
September 6, 2021 (10-11a)
Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant

This hour: Reading, writing and organizing: labor book authors!

Dr. Laura Warren Hill: Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970
Jamie McCallum: Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
Peter Cole: Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (2nd Edition)
Bev Grant: Bev Grant: Photography 1968–1972
Veronica Martinez Matsuda: Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Patrick Dixon: Managing Editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella.