Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

MD university staff: unsafe conditions at work

Say their schools’ leaders have treated their safety and wellbeing as afterthoughts. Today’s labor history: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded. Today’s labor quote: Anne Feeney.

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Transdev fires ATU leader

“A perfect illustration for why public services should not be entrusted to for-profit companies like Transdev.” Today’s labor history: Gatling Gun Company promotes use of machine guns to put down strikes. Today’s labor quote: Jay Gould.

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Lincoln and slave labor

The history books would have us believe that the Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves, but of course it did not. Today’s labor history: United Labor party launched. Today’s labor quote: The Emancipation Proclamation.

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Labor mourns Ginsburg’s passing

“The best way to honor Ruth’s life is to make sure every woman eligible to vote is registered and that her vote is counted.” Today’s labor history: 18-year-old Hannah Shapiro sparks a mass garment worker strike in Chicago. Today’s labor quote: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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3 organizing wins

Hub Project staff join NPEU; Democratic Party of VA staff join UFCW 400; Planned Parenthood DC staff join SEIU 500. Today’s labor history: militia sent to break strike in Leadville, CO. Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Transit workers: “worst case scenario” avoidable; DC Safeway cashier tapped for Electoral College. Today’s labor history: “The Jungle” author Upton Sinclair born in Baltimore. Today’s labor quote: John Henry (Joe Jencks)

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Thoroughbred Teamsters; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers; Crimes of Capital; RadioLabour

Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

RadioLabour on labor’s calls for reform of post-pandemic corporations, plus singing "Hold That Line"; Thoroughbred Teamsters’ update on the story of J’s Teamster cousin and his family losing their home in Oregon fire; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers catches up with Lamar Wise, a Political Coordinator with Oregon AFSCME and an organizer on the frontlines of the Black Lives Matter movement with Rose City Justice; Crimes Of Capital on The Cochabamba Water Wars and its lessons for U.S. activists. Plus Labor History in 2 on “The End of My Sweet Jennie.”

Edited & produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Labour calls for a new social contract

International news from RadioLabour: ITUC calls for post-pandemic reform of corporations.
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Nurses hail historic union vote in NC

Nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville voted in a landslide -- 965 to 411 -- to join National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United. Today’s labor history: illegal Steelworkers lockout ends. Today’s labor quote: Hannah Drummond

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CPC Center staff unionizes

Congressional Progressive Caucus Center voluntarily recognized its staff union, CPC Center Union. Today’s labor history: Pittston mine occupation begins. Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony
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