Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

“It really started with some women of color who came out and nobody was really listening to them.” Today’s labor history: Boston police strike. Today’s labor quote by Steven Greenhouse.

“When we bring race back into our analysis of class, it offers us resources of hope.” Today’s labor history: Avondale Mine disaster kills 110. Today’s labor quote by Carmen Castillo.

Point to performance issues at Challenger as well as an escalating labor dispute. Today’s labor history: first Labor Day parade in NYC. Today’s labor quote by E.P. Thompson.

Professor Satnam Virdee. Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow, summarizes his keynote speech on September 4 on "Race, Class and the Politics of Solidarity" at the 2019 Working-Class Studies Association conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury UK. Interviewed by Union City Radio's Chris Garlock.

At the Working-Class Studies Association conference. Today’s labor history: the longest strike in U.S. history. Today’s labor quote by John Lennon.

Linkon, Sherry by Union City Radio

EPI says labor law reform needed to restore and protect workers’ rights. Today’s labor history: 25 workers die in fire at Imperial Poultry. Today’s labor quote by Lightnin' Hopkins.

Professor Jim Gregory: Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century Joe McCartin, professor of history at Georgetown University and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Co-founder of the Labor History Today podcast.

John Boardman: UNITE HERE Local 25: How to tip in America quiz Vanessa Seagrove: (in-studio); Assistant Secretary of Unions, New South Wales, Australia Mary Gray: co-author, “Ghost Work: How to stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass”

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on September 2, 2019, 8-9am Judy Ancel: Heartland Labor Forum, Kansas City Chris LaGrange: UCOMM podcast, New York City Gene Lantz: Workers Beat, Dallas, Texas Rick Smith: Rick Smith Show, Pennsylvania Engineering & co-DJing by Chris Bangert-Drowns