Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's guests: JONATHAN WILLIAMS, UFCW 400: Supermarket workers to DC mayor: more must be done http://www.dclabor.org/home/supermarket-workers-to-dc-mayor-more-must-be-done TIM SHEARD, author “All Bleeding Stops Eventually” http://laborpress.org/condition-critical-a-report-from-the-medical-front-lines/ STEVE FRASER, author “Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History” https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/03/labor-movement-new-deal-history-civil-rights Music: The Elevator Man http://spudwrench.bandcamp.com/track/the-elevator-man; SpudWrench MICHAEL PETERSON, AKA SpudWrench; elevator engineer, member of Local 124 of the Elevator Constructors Union (in Alabama) Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Katea Stitt

Contract extended, which “will provide financial stability to our musicians during this difficult time.” Today’s labor history: IWW organizes the Leviathan. Today’s labor quote: John Costa.

“EML should be maximizing our safety not their profits.” Today’s labor history: Works Progress Administration approved by Congress. Today’s labor quote: Harry S Truman.

Union also continues its call for grocery store workers to be designated first responders. Today’s labor history: 300,000 telephone workers strike AT&T and the Bell System. Today’s labor quote: LA janitor.

Solidarity Center reports from Bangladesh and Ukraine. Today’s labor history: first slave revolt in the United States. Today’s labor quote: Rose Schneiderman.

On this week’s show, organizer and union rep John Barry on “Coronavirus ‘essential workers’ have rights too;” ethnographer Candacy Taylor on "Beauty Shop Culture and the Labor of Hairdressing" and Tales from the Reuther Library podcast host Dan Goldner celebrates Frances Perkins’ birthday.

“These guys go out there knowing that they're susceptible to exposure to this virus, but they do it anyway.” Today’s labor history: underground explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in W.V. kills 29 miners. Today’s labor quote: Marissa Lee.

This week, the Talking SMART podcast explores the impact the COVID-19 crisis is having on members and their jobs; the latest Teamster Nation podcast focuses on UPS Teamsters on the Frontlines; on the Heartland Labor Forum, labor lawyer Mark Galus talks about how Trump’s National Labor Relations Board is eroding worker rights to organize and bargain; last Thursday’s Opening Day for the World Champion Nationals in Washington, DC was canceled, but that had an effect on some very special workers, as Margaret Sharp, DC organizing director for UNITE HERE Local 23, tells us on this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work; plus a sound collage from Union City Radio, and the Labor History Today podcast brings us the story of the last days at work for a local bookseller as the nation’s capital shut down. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network of more than two dozen shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. Check out the Labor Radio/Podcast Network here: http://www.dclabor.org/labor-radiopodcast-network.html

“The time to take immediate action is now, now, now!” Today’s labor history: unemployed workers riot in New York City’s Union Square. Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

UNITE HERE 23 says the workers “stand to get nothing unless Major League Baseball and the Nationals take action.” Today’s labor history: 20,000 striking Paterson, NJ textile mill strikers gather. Today’s labor quote: from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I've Been to the Mountaintop speech.