Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Celebrating International Workers' Day

Let’s keep fighting for safer jobs and living wages for all. Today’s labor history: nineteen machinists take a stand. Today’s labor quote: The Internationale.

Grocery workers hail coronavirus testing expansion

“A big step in the right direction.” Today’s labor history: NLRB speeds up union elections. Today’s labor quote: Barack Obama.

MWC health committee calls for intensified contact tracing in DC

“Frontline workers cannot and should not be expected to unknowingly put their lives on the line.” Today’s labor history: Coxey’s Army reaches DC. Today’s labor quote: NYC ER doctor.

Workers Memorial Day: Fighting for the living

Write Congress, share a worker safety graphic. Today’s labor history: two WV coal disasters kill 300. Today’s labor quote: “We Just Come to Work Here”

Two organizing wins for local workers

Backstage workers at Signature Theater join IATSE 22; National Women’s Law Center staff organize with NPEU. Today’s labor history: Carpenters launch first 10-hour strike. Today’s labor quote: “Bread and Roses.”

CSA keeps the lights on for single mom

Emergency Assistance Fund “helped me to breathe." Today’s labor history: Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ after management defies labor board. Today’s labor quote: Bonnie Castillo.

DC nurses get much-needed masks

The equipment is essential as nurses work to save lives and limit the spread of the virus. Today’s labor history: New York Times eight-hour movement “un-American.” Today’s labor quote: Nydia Velazquez.

Fighting for hourly workers during COVID-19

“Corporations are not losing, it's the hourly employees that's losing.” Today’s labor history: Longshoremen’s Union halts shipping in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. Today’s labor quote: Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Nurses demand PPE at White House protest

Tens of thousands of health care workers nationwide have become infected with COVID-19. Today’s labor history: death of Ida Mae Stull, nation’s first woman coal miner. Today’s labor quote: Ida Mae Stull.

Earth Day at 50 and the BlueGreen Alliance

“Together, we will build clean, thriving and fair economy.” Today’s labor history: Red Jacket coal mine explosion in VA kills 45. Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka.