Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Plus: Sunday deadline for shutdown lawsuit.
Today’s labor history: 47-day Greyhound strike ends.
Today’s labor quote: Reverend Delbert Keltto

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Plus: See Radium Girls and support the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Today’s labor history: GM shutters 21 North American plants, slashes tens of thousands of jobs.
Today’s labor quote: Brian Young

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“Thousands of District workers now have hope that they can return to the jobs they once held before this scourge hit us.”
Today’s labor history: Australian Workers’ Union ousts Northern Territory administrator.
Today’s labor quote: Kathy Newman

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“The more nervous you are about the reaction of your organization, the more you probably need a union.”
Today’s labor history: First women ushers in U.S. hired.
Today’s labor quote: Doris Boshart

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Before he became the first major Black star in country music, his days were spent toiling in a smelter operated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Helena, Montana.
Today’s labor history: California's longest nurses strike ends.
Today’s labor quote: Charley Pride  

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Business lobbyists are working hard to deny many workers their right to return to work. Click here for talking points and DC City Council member phone numbers.
Today’s labor history: Arrested for organizing a strike by New York state employees.
Today’s labor quote: Lillian Roberts

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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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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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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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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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