Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

This year Union City Radio teamed up with the House of Soul for the annual celebration of International Workers’ Day on WPFW 89.3FM, DC’s Pacifica station. Our theme this year was “Workers: The Heart and Soul of America”; DJ Lance spun tunes about work and workers, while Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant featured the best of labor radio and podcast programming from across the country. This hour: Heartland Labor Forum, Monday Morning QB, Labor Express, Your Rights At Work, all members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Work Songs – “kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work” – opens 20^th annual festival of labor films, this year online in the AFI Silver’s Virtual Screening Room.
Today’s labor history: Chicago police attack strikers, killing 4, wounding 200.
Today’s quote: Pete Seeger.

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Anti-Union Shenanigans #4 & 5; Mourn for the dead, fight for the living
Today’s labor history: Chicago Trades Assembly’s general strike for the 8-hour day.
Today’s labor quote: Rev. Richard Trevellick.

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WPFW’s annual May Day labor show (10a-2p), a May Day Immigrant Justice March (11a) and an online discussion of the new film Haymarket (2p) headline this year’s activities.
Today’s labor history: Obama labor board speeds up unionization elections.
Today’s quote: Terry O'Sullivan

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This is the AFL-CIO's week of action on the PRO Act. Please call Senator Warner at 202-224-2023 or 703-442-0670 and ask him to co-sponsor the bill.
Today’s labor history: Western Federation of Miners dynamites Bunker Hill Company mill.
Today’s quote: Jacob Coxey

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Labor renews battle for workplace safety on annual Workers Memorial Day.
Today’s labor history: Coal mine accidents kill hundreds.
Today’s quote: “We Just Come To Work Here”

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This is the AFL-CIO's week of action on the PRO Act. Please call Senator Warner at 202-224-2023 or 703-442-0670 and ask him to co-sponsor the bill.
Today’s labor history: Eisenhower signs discriminatory Executive Order 10450.
Today’s quote: Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses.”

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Kalmanovitz Institute’s “Public Forum on Empowering a Post Pandemic Working Class.”
Today’s labor history: U.S. Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ.
Today’s quote: Lane Windham.

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Labor responds to Chauvin murder convictions; “Stop The Greed, Stop the Layoffs at Johns Hopkins”; Alexandria expands city workers’ rights
Today’s labor history: NYT declares 8-hour struggle “un-American.”
Today’s labor quote: Rev. Ralph David Abernathy.

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“We still have a long way to go to end the systemic cycle of injustice, racism, and hatred.”
Today’s labor history: UFW founder Cesar Chavez dies.
Today’s quote: Ida Mae Stull.

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