Episodes
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
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Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
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Today’s labor quote: Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America.
Today’s labor history: Supreme Court approves the 8-Hour Act.
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Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
”Keolis is a serial violator”
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Keolis Transit settles Unfair Labor Practices charges as ATU strike enters 8th week.
Today’s labor quote: Esperanza Quintero.
Today’s labor history: Ford de-skills auto manufacturing.
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Monday Mar 13, 2023
Remembering Myrtle Witbooi
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
The General secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union and the first president of the International Domestic Workers Federation died earlier this year.
Today’s labor quote: Myrtle Witbooi.
Today’s labor history: GM workers win four-month UAW strike.
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Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Union City Radio Highlights
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Labor Spring sweeps nation; HMS Host workers ratify 1st contract; Why the Fair Wage Act is necessary; STEM women of the world, unite!; “Hands off DC!”
Today’s labor quote: Lane Kirkland.
Today’s labor history: "Bread and Roses" textile strike ends with victory.
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Friday Mar 10, 2023
“Hands off DC!”
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Audio from Wednesday’s spirited rally protesting this week's move by Congress to block the implementation of new criminal justice reforms in DC.
Today’s labor quote: DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Today’s labor history: Cesar Chavez ends 24-day fast for non-violence.
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Thursday Mar 09, 2023
STEM women of the world, unite!
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Unionists focusing on increasing women working in STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Today’s labor quote: Armelle Seby.
Today’s labor history: 16-month "Slovak strike" begins.
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Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Why the Fair Wage Act is necessary
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
$17 [in 2030] is going to be like $13 today," says 1199SEIU MD/DC political director Ricarra Jones.
Today’s labor quote: Frances Perkins.
Today’s labor history: César Chávez leads march of 5,000 striking farmworkers in Salinas, California.
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Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
HMS Host workers ratify 1st contract
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Plus: AFSCME higher education bargaining team at Bowie State University bargains for their first unified contract.
Today’s labor quote: SEIU 32BJ.
Today’s labor history: IWW founder Lucy Parsons dies.
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Monday Mar 06, 2023
Labor Spring sweeps nation
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Largest series of labor-focused teach-ins in recent memory, launched by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University in collaboration with multiple organizations and campuses.
Today’s labor quote: Dr. James Benton.
Today’s labor history: Unemployed demonstrate across U.S. during the Great Depression.
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Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Union City Radio Highlights
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Political action at work; “Fine Keolis” says ATU; “Organize or die”; Labor hails Julie Su nomination as labor secretary; Black women workers connecting globally.
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney.
Today’s labor history: 12,000 television and movie writers launch three-month strike.
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