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Voices on Trade: Steelworker Jack Sablitch

“You can't make it on a Walmart paycheck.” Today’s labor history: Strikers shut down U.S. steel mills. Today’s labor quote by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Labor History Today (7/14/19): Why SF wants to "Paint It Black"

On this week’s show: Robert Cherney on the genesis of the San Francisco Board of Education’s decision to paint over New Deal murals. Eleanor Mahoney’s new feature on labor landmarks. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Produced & engineered by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon.

2019 Executive Paywatch report: Not a pretty picture

CEO-to-worker pay ratio now 287 to 1. Today’s labor history: striking coal miners dynamite housing for management thugs. Today’s labor quote by Sidney Hillman.

Liz Shuler on young people and the labor movement

“We need their voices now. We need their expertise now.” Today’s labor history: troops put down Pullman Strike. Today’s labor quote by Mary McLeod Bethune.

OPEIU launches campaign to organize nonprofit staff

Union works to “make our legal services and advocacy nonprofits more inclusive, accountable, and effective.” Today’s labor history: NYC subway workers fight speed-up. Today’s labor quote by Ken Riley.

DC a “hotbed” for transit organizing

More than 1,500 transit workers have joined the Amalgamated Transit Union. Today’s labor history: IWW wraps up founding convention. Today’s labor quote by Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor.

Labor History Today (7/7/19): You Can't Eat Coal: Women's Social Justice Activism in Appalachia

On this week’s show: The recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia; Working History podcast host Beth English interviews Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, on her book, "To Live Here You Have to Fight."

Liz Shuler on this moment for collective action

“People are finally connecting the dots that coming together is more powerful.” Today’s labor history: the Battle of Rincon Hill. Today’s labor quote by Robert Wagner.

Contemplating the meaning of America

Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter, Angie Valeria, Bev Grant’s “Bones in the Desert” and “The House I Live In.” Bones in the Desert by Bev Grant https://youtu.be/F20BYwCwXJ4

Challenger bus drivers unanimously authorize strike

“This is a ‘Fight for 40’ - forty hours a week. We will settle for nothing less.” Today’s labor history: children working in Paterson silk mills strike. Today’s labor quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.