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On this week’s show: “You can't know where you are going if you don't understand where you came from.” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka sits down with Labor History Today’s Joe McCartin to discuss the historic Pittston strike, which began on September 17, 1989, when ninety-eight members of the United Mine Workers of America and a minister occupied the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Virginia. Plus Cool Things from the Meany Labor Archives: the AFL-CIO’s attempts to persuade union voters not to support George Wallace during the 1972 presidential campaign. 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.

“You can't know where you are going if you don't understand where you came from.” Today’s labor history: remembering Attica. Today’s labor quote by John L. Lewis.

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“It really started with some women of color who came out and nobody was really listening to them.” Today’s labor history: Jobless workers marched on grocery stores and seize food. Today’s labor quote by Steven Greenhouse.

“Chronic understaffing has meant state employees workloads have expanded to the breaking point, mandated overtime is skyrocketing, and work environments are increasingly dangerous.” Today’s labor history: coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia win ten-week strike. Today’s labor quote by Merle Travis.

Agreement addresses major worker concerns, including lack of respect. Today’s labor history: miners gunned down by Lattimer Mine deputies. Today’s labor quote by Saul Alinsky.

On this week’s show: Teacher-community solidarity was the key to victory in the 2018 Los Angeles teacher's strike, but this wasn't the case in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in 1968 when the longest teacher strike in New York City history also turned out to be its most divisive. Nick Juravich explains why. 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.