Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Workers battle in a war against a killer virus…Today’s labor history: Bonus Army arrives in DC…Today’s labor quote: Hiram Johnson.

Plumbers local 5 contributes $10,000 to CSA’s emergency assistance fund...Signature Theater workers join IATSE local 22...Healthcare unions work with members, elected officials, employers, and manufacturers to get healthcare workers the PPE, crisis pay and support they need…in Ukraine, unions and worker rights advocate for a better pay and conditions during quarantine…Virginia Interfaith Center organizes volunteers to sew and donate masks to grocery workers. Today’s labor history: striking rubber workers agree to return to work at Bridgestone-Firestone without a contract…Today’s labor quote: Bill Clinton.

“It is one of the small ways we can show grocery workers and shelter residents that they are loved and appreciated.” Today’s labor history: 10,000 strikers at Toledo Auto-Lite plant repel police attack. Today’s labor quote: The Stonecutters Kit.

Leveraging trade unions’ collective power to advocate for better pay and conditions for working people and help provide emergency relief during quarantine. Today’s labor history: racism during rail strike. Today’s labor quote: Eugene Victor Debs.

Real goal is permanent protection against all worker and consumer lawsuits on health and safety. Today’s labor history: 100,000 SBC Communications workers strike. Today’s labor quote: Emma Goldman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.