Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Workers worried about more attacks on DC

Hotel and transit workers call for increased safety measures and/or closures around inauguration.
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor history: The Rise of the Bellamyites.
 
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DC-area educators demand coordinated reopening plan

Union leaders say the lack of a cohesive plan has created havoc for DC-area families, and poses a threat for students and teachers.
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons.
Today’s labor history: Johnny Cash Plays Folsom Prison.
 
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COVID’s unequal effect on women workers

ITUC’s Sharan Burrow says “a convergence of crises” is disproportionately affecting women care workers around the world.
Today’s labor quote: John Lewis.
Today’s labor history: The Cost of Wartime Industrial Peace.  

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Biden’s Labor Secretary has the right tools

AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka says “Marty Walsh will be an exceptional labor secretary for the same reason that he was an out-standing mayor: he actually carried the tools.”
Today’s labor quote: Jack London.
Today’s labor history: The Battle of Running Bulls.  

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AFL-CIO calls for Trump’s resignation

Labor federation calls Trump “an affront to every union member, and a clear and present danger to our nation and our republic.”
Today’s labor history: “Bread & Roses” textile strike begins.  
Today’s labor quote: Painters union.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

AFSCME MD: No Deal with Hogan; Laborers fight to save jobs at Johns Hopkins University; Caution: Democracy At Work; The real heroes of the insurrection
Today’s labor history: Pemberton Mill disaster.  
Today’s labor quote: George Meany.

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The real heroes of the insurrection

The folks who did their jobs on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol.
Today’s labor history: Birth of the AFL’s first woman organizer.  
Today’s labor quote: M Kei.

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Caution: Democracy At Work

Voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts by civil rights, community and labor activists pay off in Georgia Senate run-off.
Today’s labor history: Call to reunite the American labor movement.  
Today’s labor quote: Ben Franklin.

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Laborers fight to save jobs at Johns Hopkins University

Circulates petition to help save blue-collar jobs at Hopkins School of Medicine.
Today’s labor history: The Youngstown Sheet & Tube strike.  
Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony.

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AFSCME MD: No Deal with Hogan

"We are unwilling to accept less when we deserve more."
Today’s labor history: Ford doubles wages in effort to keep unions out.  Today’s labor quote: Isaac Myers.
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