Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

UMD staff worried as COVID spreads on campus

Union blames “management’s poor decisions and failure to enact strong health and safety measures.”
Today’s labor history: postal workers granted 8-hour day.

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$55.77 an hour

That’s the hourly wage for members of Congress, who are debating whether to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Today’s labor history: Minimum wage jumps to $1/hr.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Organizing, fighting, winning; He drove a truck in World War II, but he wasn’t allowed to drive a streetcar in DC; DC DSA Labor Working Group intensifies work; MWC joins call for sanitation worker vaccinations.
Today’s labor history: South African sympathy strike for New Jersey workers.
Today’s labor quote: Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd.

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MWC joins call for sanitation worker vaccinations

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser urged to immediately move sanitation workers into the current phase of eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines.
Today’s labor history: 20-week strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers ends.

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DC DSA Labor Working Group intensifies work

Activities include support for the struggles of local unions, advising workers on workplace organizing and a speaker series.
Today’s labor history: Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer Edgar Daniel Nixon dies.

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He drove a truck in World War II, but he wasn’t allowed to drive a streetcar in D.C.

Howard Stokes went to Glen Echo thousands of times, but he never went inside the park…
Today’s labor history: Police beat women and children textile strikers.
Today’s labor quote: ATU 689.

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Organizing, fighting, winning

UNITE HERE Local 23 member, immigrant and organizer: “We showed that when we fight, we win."
Today’s labor history: Woody Guthrie writes “This Land Is Your Land”.
Today’s labor quote: W.E.B. DuBois.

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2020’s missing strikers

EPI analysis shows number of striking workers declined in 2020 but data fail to capture many COVID-19 worker-safety walkouts.
Today’s labor history: Knights and Mine Workers plan People’s Party.
Today’s labor quote: Heidi Shierholz.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Violence against women at work; It shouldn’t be this hard to form a union; Food workers need hazard pay now; Live from the BAmazon union drive.
Today’s labor history: CA wins 8-hour day (sort of).
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.

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Live from the BAmazon union drive

In Alabama, “There’s a movement happening. It's coming and it's coming fast.”
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS establishes Weingarten Rights.
Today’s labor quote: Josh Brewer.

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