Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Drivers for the Fairfax Connector prepare for a possible strike. Today’s labor history: Oakland general strike started by female department store clerks. Today’s labor quote by Rosa Parks.

Will Attig, Executive Director of the AFL-CIO’s Veteran’s Council. Today’s labor history: Wal-Mart agrees to pay $40 million for abusing workers. Today’s labor quote by U.S. Catholic Bishops.

Eileen Boris on “Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards” from the Working History podcast. Plus this week’s labor history highlights! 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. Engineered by Chris Garlock. The Labor History Today team includes Ben Blake, Chloe Danyo, Patrick Dixon, Leon Fink, Sherry Linkon, Joe McCartin, Jessica Pauszek and Alan Wierdak.

Use the Union Label and Labor 411 apps or check out their websites at unionlabel.org and labor411.org. Today’s labor history: The Boston Stores Christmas Strike in Milwaukee. Today’s labor quote by W.E.B. DuBois.

Retail chains put profits over people. Today’s labor history: 11-day strike shuts down NYC newspapers. Today’s labor quote by William Sylvis.

The number of striking workers jumped to nearly 500,000 last year, the highest in 40 years. Today’s labor history: Midland Steel sitdown forces union recognition. Today’s labor quote from “Pins & Needles”.

Airline catering workers plan sit-in at National Airport; supermarket workers to rally at dozens of Giant and Safeway locations. Today’s labor history: women workers die in factory fire in Newark. Today’s labor quote by Harry Bridges.

Resources for holiday shopping. Today’s labor history: 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, march in solidarity parade. Today’s labor quote by George Meany.

Jessica Pauszek on the Federation of Worker Writers And Community Publishers; Mark Anner and Tula Connell on the International Labor Organization, and Cool Things at the Meany Archives team dig into their files on the Lattimer Massacre of 1897 and discover, not only the names of those killed, but perhaps a personal connection as well. 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. Engineered by Chris Garlock. The Labor History Today team includes Ben Blake, Chloe Danyo, Patrick Dixon, Leon Fink, Sherry Linkon, Joe McCartin, Jessica Pauszek and Alan Wierdak.

Nonprofit Professional Employees Union files charges. Today’s labor history: Young immigrant women launch Uprising of the 20,000. Today’s labor quote.