Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter, Angie Valeria, Bev Grant’s “Bones in the Desert” and “The House I Live In.” Bones in the Desert by Bev Grant https://youtu.be/F20BYwCwXJ4

“This is a ‘Fight for 40’ - forty hours a week. We will settle for nothing less.” Today’s labor history: children working in Paterson silk mills strike. Today’s labor quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

“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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

“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.