Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Healthcare workers demand PPE, crisis pay, testing

Months into the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare workers still trying to get the support they need. Today’s labor history: first federal legislation protecting workers’ rights to form unions. Today’s labor quote: Charles Horton Cooley.

County workers protest; Signature Theatre workers vote union

Car parade and walking protest targeted Council votes against funding revised contracts with the three county unions; Signature Theatre workers vote in IATSE 22. Today’s labor history: striking union miners’ shootout with coal company agents in Matewan, WV. Today’s labor quote: Jerry Stiller.

Plumbers Local 5 finds new ways to help protect the nation’s health

Donation is “just another way of showing solidarity within the labor movement." Today’s labor history: baseball’s first labor strike. Today’s labor quote: Ty Cobb.

This week’s Union City Radio highlights

Nurses’ silent WH protest honors their dead; UFCW 400 shop steward on ABC’s “the essentials”; contact tracing falling short in MD agency facilities, worker says; AFL-CIO’s Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments; MontCo workers say Council action “slap in the face”. Today’s labor history: first women’s anti-slavery conference. Today’s labor quote: Charles Evans Hughes.

Labor’s role in ReOpen DC advisory group

“If you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu.” Today’s labor history: Supreme Court’s Mackay decision permits the permanent replacement of striking workers. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph.

MontCo workers say Council action “slap in the face”

Montgomery County Council zeros out all provisions of Local 1994’s revised contract. Today’s labor history: Library Employees’ Union founded. Today’s labor quote: T Bone Slim.

AFL-CIO’s Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments

“This concept is neither new nor radical. It's been done before.” Today’s labor history: Milwaukee brewery workers begin 10-week strike. Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka.

Contact tracing falling short in MD agency facilities, worker says

State’s detention facility employees are “working in literal Petri dishes.” Today’s labor history: 10,000 dock workers strike in Philadelphia. Today’s labor quote: Doug Fraser.

UFCW 400 shop steward on ABC’s “The Essentials”

“The fact that I'm able to put a smile on somebody's face in the midst of all this pandemonium and chaos…let me be a rainbow in your day.” Today’s labor history: Laundry & Dry Cleaning union chartered. Today’s labor quote: Jeffrey Reed.

Nurses’ silent WH protest honors their dead

"We stand here today with heavy hearts but with fierce determination.” Today’s labor history: Pullman strike begins. Today’s labor quote: Eugene Victor Debs.