Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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Labor news headlines, on Labor Week
Today’s labor quote: Joyce Miller
Today’s labor history: Broom & Whisk Makers Union disbands

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Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights

Union Talk; Inside the UPS contract; A worker’s a worker; “Baltimore doesn’t happen without Charleston”
Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler
Today’s labor history: Liz Shuler elected AFL-CIO president

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Rock and civil rights

Radical Songbook host Michael Funke on how rock music helped drive the civil rights movement, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour.
Today’s labor quote: Eugene Victor Debs
Today’s labor history: WEVD founded in NYC.

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“Baltimore doesn’t happen without Charleston”

Longtime union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp on how a failed 1969 strike in Charleston led to an organizing win for Baltimore-area hospital and nursing home workers.
Today’s labor quote: The Wobblies.
Today’s labor history: IWW members tried for opposing war.

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A worker’s a worker

The Workers’ Mic reports on strike solidarity in Chicago.
Today’s labor quote: George Meany.
Today’s labor history: Homer Martin born.

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Inside the UPS contract

An update on the deal struck between UPS and the Teamsters, on Working Voices.
Today’s labor quote: Will Rogers.
Today’s labor history: NYNEX striker killed.

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Union Talk

How education is bridging the divides between Jews and Arabs, on the AFT’s Union Talk podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland.
Today’s labor history: Solidarity union seizes the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk.

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Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights

What the Teamsters won at UPS; AC at Big Brown; Why “The Nanny” is striking; Alberta Worker; Women on the line.
Today’s labor quote: A. Philip Randolph.
Today’s labor history: Bay Area mills lock out workers.

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Women on the line

Female lineman Cain Utek on the Powerline podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Big Bill Haywood.
Today’s labor history: Streetcar men walk off in San Francisco.

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Alberta Worker

Alberta Worker Podcast returns for its second season with a fascinating conversation with Juan Estevez, about his journey from Bogota, Colombia, emigrating to Canada as a child, trying to unionize his workplace, and then running for political office.
Today’s labor quote: I.W. Abel.
Today’s labor history: Air Line Pilots Association founded.

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