Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Plus freedom from violence and an end to discrimination, says Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation.
Today’s quote: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Today’s labor history: Congress begins 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.  

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“The quicker that happens, the quicker our region can recover and reopen.”
Today’s labor history: Fur and Leather Workers Union workers -- many of them women – strike and win.
Today’s quote: Amazon worker/organizer Jennifer Bates.

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“Make your voice heard,” Biden tells workers; $55.77 an hour; Coalition fights employer “scare tactics” on hazard pay.
Today’s labor history: Ford gasses and shoots unemployed auto workers.
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons.

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American Rescue Plan’s current unemployment insurance provisions would lapse while Congress is on recess.
Today’s labor history: Colonists protest British soldiers taking their jobs.
Today’s quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Right now in Annapolis, the business community is ganging up to defeat or water down" the Maryland Essential Workers Protection Act.
Today’s labor history: Creation of the Department of Labor.
Today’s quote: Thomas Jefferson.

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Biden video calls on working people across the country to exercise their right to form unions.
Today’s labor history: Birth of AFL president William Green.
Today’s quote: President Joe Biden

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Union blames “management’s poor decisions and failure to enact strong health and safety measures.”
Today’s labor history: postal workers granted 8-hour day.

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That’s the hourly wage for members of Congress, who are debating whether to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Today’s labor history: Minimum wage jumps to $1/hr.

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Organizing, fighting, winning; He drove a truck in World War II, but he wasn’t allowed to drive a streetcar in DC; DC DSA Labor Working Group intensifies work; MWC joins call for sanitation worker vaccinations.
Today’s labor history: South African sympathy strike for New Jersey workers.
Today’s labor quote: Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd.

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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser urged to immediately move sanitation workers into the current phase of eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines.
Today’s labor history: 20-week strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers ends.

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