Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

MD guards and state workers demand PPE

“We are not afraid of doing this job…We are afraid that we don’t have the proper equipment.” Today’s labor history: Goodyear Tire workers strike. Today’s labor quote: Lillian Roberts.

Shame on corporations using COVID-19 pandemic to attack workers

Workers are paying the ultimate price. Today’s labor history: 10,000 demonstrators celebrate textile workers’ win in Lowell, MA. Today’s labor quote: Eleanor Roosevelt.

In Memoriam: Michael Miller, UFCW 1994

Passed away last Wednesday night from Covid-19. Today’s labor history: American domestic terrorist’s bomb kills 168, including 99 government employees. Today’s labor quote: Booker T. Washington.

NPEU notches second organizing win this week

J Street staff joins the union. Today’s labor history: NYC bus companies agree to hire black drivers and mechanics after boycott. Today’s labor quote: Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Supermarket workers renew demand for COVID-19 testing

Unions urge declaring all grocery store, pharmacy, and food processing workers as ‘first responders.’ Today’s labor history: Supreme Court’s mistaken “Lochner versus New York” ruling. Today’s labor quote: Mary C. Turner, RN.

DC “playing Russian Roulette” at St Elizabeth’s?

DCNA wants guarantees nurses will be tested immediately. Today’s labor history: 20,000 blockade World Bank/IMF in DC. Today’s labor quote: David Brody.

Got bubble wrap?

SMART Local 100 face mask project needs envelopes. Today’s labor history: first women-led American union strikes. Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph.

LaborFest screens Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You”

DC LaborFest will screen the film online tonight. Today’s labor history: Mexican and Filipino farm workers arrested for union activities in California’s Imperial Valley. Today’s labor quote: John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.”

Journalists face double threat during pandemic

“We're trying to save journalism, save local news.” Today’s labor history: Eugene V. Debs imprisoned for opposing American entry into World War I. Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs.

Labor History Today (4/12/20): Organizing during historic crises

On this week’s show, labor historians Dorothy Sue Cobble and Michael Merrill talk with the NoVA Coalition to Repeal Right to Work about how workers engaged in mass uprisings and organizing during previous historical crises. Plus American Prospect Editor at Large Harold Meyerson, on The Return of the Breadline and retired nurse and novelist Tim Sheard visits a New York City hospital during the pandemic.