Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Food workers need hazard pay now

Nearly 70,000 UFCW members have been infected or exposed to the virus and 374 have died.
Today’s labor history: Fire fighters form union.
Today’s labor quote: Kim Walsh.

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It shouldn’t be this hard to form a union

The story of a National Nurses United union drive at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC underlines need for PRO Act.
Today’s labor history: Yale University unions strike in solidarity with teaching assistants.

Today’s labor quote: Amy Waters, RN.

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Violence against women at work

“Women are increasingly part of the workforce and claiming their space, but they are reminded time and time again, that it's a man's world and they don't belong.”
Today’s labor history: Rubber Workers began sit-down strike at Goodyear.
Today’s labor quote: Leonora O’Reilly.

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Worked Over

Jamie McCallum on his new book, “Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream.”
Today’s labor history: Birth of Susan B. Anthony.
Today’s labor quote: Karl Marx.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Help get Warner on board PRO Act; How unions have responded to COVID; Why workers support the SECURE Act; Building Futures “changes lives."
Today’s labor quote: Sylvia Casaro Dietert.
Today’s labor history: Frederick Douglass is born.

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Building Futures “changes lives”

Sylvia Casaro Dietert, Director of the Building Futures Pre-Apprenticeship Program at the Metro Washington Council's Community Services Agency.
Today’s labor history: Birth of John L. Lewis, head of the Mine Workers and CIO founder.
Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass
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The Sound of Democracy: A Global Noise Barrage for Myanmar

DC joins global day of protest against military coup in Myanmar.
Today’s labor history: Seattle General Strike ends.
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones.

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Why workers support the SECURE Act

“My work as an essential cleaner at Walter Reed Military Hospital can mean life or death," says Barbara Rauda, a member of 32BJ SEIU and a TPS recipient.
Today’s labor history: AFL founds Building and Construction Trades Department.
Today’s labor quote: George Orwell.

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How unions have responded to COVID

The International Labour Organization reports.
Today’s labor history: 19,000 Boeing workers launch strike.
Today’s labor quote: Chinese proverb.

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Help get Warner on board PRO Act

Today’s labor history: Birth of Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, first female general organizer for the American Federation of Labor.
Today’s labor quote: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan.

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