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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

WAMU workers unionize; How to drive union; Hold the line on the Right to Return to Work; Protect Maryland Workers coalition launched
Today’s labor history: South-West African workers stage general strike to protest the contract labor system.
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers

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How you can help win in Georgia

Plus: Verso Books staff joins News Guild; IUPAT 51’s November Facebook photo contest winner.
Today’s labor history: 1,300 undocumented workers arrested in immigration sweep.
Today’s labor quote: Robert F. Kennedy

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Protect Maryland Workers coalition launched

Coalition of frontline workers urges covid-19 labor protections.  
Today’s labor history: Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union organized.
Today’s labor quote: Congolese proverb

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Hold the line on the Right to Return to Work

The Restaurant Association is quietly working behind the scenes to strip their workers out of bill before DC City Council.
Today’s labor history: IWW calls first sit-down strike in the U.S.
Today’s labor quote: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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How to drive union

United Auto Workers releases 2021 report on union-built vehicles.
Today’s labor history: Longest strike in U.S. tire industry history ends.
Today’s labor quote: Janet Wainwright

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“Totally different atmosphere”

Grocery store employees speak out as they face pressure of crowded stores, holiday stress, and coronavirus cases spiking.
Today’s labor history: 230 jailed teachers freed.
Today’s labor quote: American Federation of Labor preamble

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WAMU workers unionize

Content creators across WAMU vote unanimously to form a union with SAG-AFTRA.
Today’s labor history: Protesters staged national hunger march on Washington, D.C. to demand unemployment insurance.
Today’s labor quote: Jared Bernstein

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Nurses reclaim their vital role

“Nurses played a vital component since this country was founded,” says NNU co-president Deborah Burger. “They were involved in social justice issues from the very beginning.”
Today’s labor history: United Mine Workers begin 110-day national coal strike.
Today’s labor quote: Isaac Myers

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Robert Reich: “What Happened to Organized Labor?”; Nonprofit workers fight unionbusting; ‘Right to Return to Work’ clears first hurdle; Trump’s bid to restore patronage.
Today’s labor history: Labor federations merge to form the AFL-CIO.
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney

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Trump’s bid to restore patronage

“It would take us back to the political spoils system of 137 years ago,” says NTEU president Tony Reardon.
Today’s labor history: Works Progress Administration – which employed millions during the Great Depression -- ends.
Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther

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