Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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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All You Fascists Bound To Lose

The Selecter’s ska version of Woody Guthrie’s song.
Today’s labor history: farmers, social workers and transit workers fight back.
Today’s labor quote: Mike Quill.

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Remembering the Great Depression

Looking back for a perspective on the year ahead.
Today’s labor quote: Hank Williams.

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Unemployed workers rally in Pittsburgh

In 1931 labor history, plus Canadian loggers strike.
Today’s labor quote: "Jock" Yablonski.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund staff union files for election

Management refuses to recognize union despite supermajority of staff signing cards to join NPEU.  
Today’s labor history: GM sit-down strike spreads.
Today’s labor quote: Big Bill Haywood.

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RIP AFSCME 20’s Andrew Washington

COVID takes young labor leader who fought for social and economic justice.
Today's labor history: Today’s labor history: Occupational Safety & Health Act signed after labor lobbying. 
Today’s labor quote: Lee Saunders.

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Remembering the ’36 GM Fisher Body Sit-In

In one of the most significant strikes in American labor history, auto workers took over a key GM plant, sparking a wave of sit-ins.
Today’s labor quote: Flint auto workers.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Democratic Party of VA staff OK first contract.
Today’s labor history: Roosevelt seizes railroads to prevent nationwide strike.
Today’s labor quote: FDR’s Executive Order 9412.

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Remembering the Knights of Labor

Early union organized all workers except “parasites” like stockbrokers and lawyers.
Today’s labor quote: Knights of Labor constitution.

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