Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Convention Center food and beverage workers authorize strike

“They have been replacing us with non-union workers and machines. I feel betrayed.” Today’s labor history: anti-union Sam Walton opens his first store. Today’s labor quote by Barack Obama.

Liz Shuler on modernizing the labor movement

“There's no doubt there’s going to be massive change going forward.” Today’s labor history: Arizona copper miners strike. Today’s labor quote by Bennie Martin.

Labor History Today (6/30/19): Revisiting Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

On this week’s show: Robert Cherny on Victor Arnautoff, the Russian-born artist who reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. The San Francisco Board of Education voted this week to paint over one of his most famous murals. (Click here to sign the petition to save the mural: https://www.change.org/p/san-francisco-board-of-education-prevent-the-removal-of-victor-arnautoff-s-mural-from-george-washington-high-school?cs_tk=AnAxHEYYo0ktAjzyHF0AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvHQ90GnBhshHppqH0GRmpmI%3D&utm_campaign=4389edb2b31944b6baa35276239bd0f1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_term=cs) Interviews by Patrick Dixon and Allan Wierdak. Ford Hunger March, Pam Parker, from the jazz opera "Forgotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant," music and lyrics by Steve Jones. www.forgottenshow.net 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.

Eulen airport workers strike at National Airport

Protesting health and safety concerns, wage theft and belittlement by supervisors. Today’s labor history: Labor Day declared a national holiday. Today’s labor quote by Gene Debs.

Liz Shuler on connecting the dots

People are finally connecting the dots that coming together is more powerful, especially when you’re in a union. Today’s labor history: 26,000 NYC hotel workers strike. Today’s labor quote by Emma Goldman.

ATU’S Larry Hanley celebrated

Union leaders and members came “not just to mourn Larry’s loss, but to celebrate his life and legacy.” Today’s labor history: U.S. Supreme Court rules that state and local public-sector unions cannot require nonunion members to pay for union work on their behalf. Today’s labor quote by the IWW.

BSO lockout continues; 2 noontime DC rallies today

BSO lockout picketline update, plus “No Vote Until NAFTA 2.0 is Fixed!” and “Stop the Merger of OPM and GSA!” Today’s labor history: Decatur police pepper-gassed locked-out A.E. Staley workers. Today’s labor quote by August Spies.

The problem with the HRC Corporate Equality Index

“They give 90s to companies like Walmart that treat their employees terribly.” Today’s labor history: Birth of Glove Workers Union president Agnes Nestor. Today’s labor quote by Albert Parsons.

Labor History Today (6/23/19): Circus workers of the world, unite!

On this week’s show: A rollicking hour with former union clowns Murray Horwitz and Chris Bricker; both were graduates of the Ringling College of Clowns, Class of 1971 and went on to become professional clowns and then union reps at the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus. Horwitz went on to become an American playwright, lyricist, NPR broadcaster, and arts administrator, and Bricker is a longtime labor organizer and saw-playing member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 1000, the acoustic travelling musicians union. 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. Grace Jones - Send in the Clowns https://youtu.be/TGUtkJgDehE

Day 5 of the BSO Lock-Out

Latest picketing schedule, plus how to support BSO musicians. Today’s labor history: 100,000 march in support of Detroit newspaper strike. Today’s labor quote by Abraham Lincoln.