Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Working from home, furloughs, sick leave; exploring the options and worker rights. Today’s labor history: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins first female cabinet member. Today’s labor quote by Thomas Jefferson.

ATU 1764 settles with Transdev; UFCW Local 400 prepares for strike at Safeway. Today’s labor history: merchant marine gains rights with Seamen’s Act. Today’s labor quote by Stacey Abrams.

Professor Robyn Muncy, co-curator of “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote,” on the role organized labor played in the lengthy and difficult struggle for women’s rights. Plus Saul Schniderman on the origins of Women’s History Month and “Rise Up: Songs of the Women's Movement," the PBS show celebrating that history.

Advances a pro-worker, Unions For All agenda. Today’s labor history: 6,000 drivers strike Greyhound. Today’s labor quote by Moe Biller.

“WMATA seems to be moving in the wrong direction.” Today’s labor history: South Carolina raises mills, factory and mine worker minimum age to 14. Today’s labor quote by Bruce Springsteen and Willie Nelson.

Safeway’s refusal to fully fund pensions for its workers has become the main sticking point in contract negotiations. Today’s labor history: Supreme Court rules sit-downs illegal. Today’s labor quote by Eugene V. Debs.

Decision will make it “even harder for rank-and-file federal employees to speak up, defend their rights, and serve the American people.” Today’s labor history: 20-week strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers ends. Today’s labor quote by Reverend George W. Lee.

“I am proud of these workers and the solidarity, resolve and unity that they have shown.” Today’s labor history: labor organizer and civil rights activist Edgar Daniel Nixon dies. Today’s labor quote by Edgar Daniel Nixon.

Actor Tony Sancho talks about “Mother Road” at Arena Stage. Today’s labor history: Police beat striking women and children textile workers. Today’s labor quote by John Steinbeck.

William P. Jones on “The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South,” plus a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to AFL-CIO urging the formation of a “Committee on Inquiry Into the Administration of Justice in the Freedom Struggle.” Interviews by Chris Garlock and Alan Wierdak. 2020 Bonus: Patrick Dixon on Chaplin’s “City Lights” as a labor film. (Show originally released 2/24/2019)