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A agreement affects 83,000 workers in seven states – including Virginia and Maryland -- as well as the District of Columbia. Today’s labor history: teachers strike in Rio de Janeiro. Today’s labor quote by Jimmy Hoffa.

“The past year has seen more strikes than we have since the 1980s.” Today’s labor history: cotton-pickers strike in Lee County, Arkansas. Today’s labor quote by Lewis Hine.

Lockout to end after 96 days. Today’s labor history: Canada rules IWW illegal. Today’s labor quote from the IWW constitution.

“The struggles for voting rights and workers’ rights in our nation’s capital are one and the same.” Today’s labor history: launch of the United Labor party. Today’s labor quote by Gray Davis.

On this week’s show: “Teachers strikes, the Me Too movement, the Black Lives Matters movement, all of those are collective actions that for years you never saw; people didn’t believe in themselves. Now they know that if they’re gonna make progress, they can’t look to anyone but themselves.” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka talks with Labor History Today’s Joe McCartin about the current state – and the future -- of the American labor movement. Plus, Mark Potashnick on Jim Pohle, the founder of the American Union of Pizza Delivery Drivers, class action law suits, and the app-based revolution in food delivery services. 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.

Latest State of the Unions podcast. Today’s labor history: Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Union strikes. Today’s labor quote by Israelmore Ayivor.

LaborFest Bread and Roses supports locked-out BSO musicians. Today’s labor history: Chinese coal miners forced out. Today’s labor quote by Lane Kirkland.

UAW 239 picketing picketing in White Marsh, MD. Today’s labor history: arbitrator end illegal lockout of Steelworkers at Kaiser Aluminum. Today’s labor quote by Terry Dittes.

Carteris: “We don’t have jurisdiction outside of the workplace, but a lot of our members are being assaulted in the process of getting work.” Today’s labor history: 100,000 Pennsylvania anthracite coal miner strike. Today’s labor quote by Susan B. Anthony.

“It speaks for itself that we’re out here today with such big numbers and such enthusiasm before there’s even a crisis.” Today’s labor history: Trumka elected president of the AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote by Richard Trumka.