Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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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Activities include support for the struggles of local unions, advising workers on workplace organizing and a speaker series.
Today’s labor history: Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer Edgar Daniel Nixon dies.

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Howard Stokes went to Glen Echo thousands of times, but he never went inside the park…
Today’s labor history: Police beat women and children textile strikers.
Today’s labor quote: ATU 689.

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UNITE HERE Local 23 member, immigrant and organizer: “We showed that when we fight, we win."
Today’s labor history: Woody Guthrie writes “This Land Is Your Land”.
Today’s labor quote: W.E.B. DuBois.

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EPI analysis shows number of striking workers declined in 2020 but data fail to capture many COVID-19 worker-safety walkouts.
Today’s labor history: Knights and Mine Workers plan People’s Party.
Today’s labor quote: Heidi Shierholz.

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Violence against women at work; It shouldn’t be this hard to form a union; Food workers need hazard pay now; Live from the BAmazon union drive.
Today’s labor history: CA wins 8-hour day (sort of).
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.

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In Alabama, “There’s a movement happening. It's coming and it's coming fast.”
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS establishes Weingarten Rights.
Today’s labor quote: Josh Brewer.

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Nearly 70,000 UFCW members have been infected or exposed to the virus and 374 have died.
Today’s labor history: Fire fighters form union.
Today’s labor quote: Kim Walsh.

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The story of a National Nurses United union drive at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC underlines need for PRO Act.
Today’s labor history: Yale University unions strike in solidarity with teaching assistants.

Today’s labor quote: Amy Waters, RN.

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“Women are increasingly part of the workforce and claiming their space, but they are reminded time and time again, that it's a man's world and they don't belong.”
Today’s labor history: Rubber Workers began sit-down strike at Goodyear.
Today’s labor quote: Leonora O’Reilly.

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