Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Loudoun transit strike update

Loudoun County Supervisors walk ATU 689 picket line. Plus: Portia Wu nominated Maryland Secretary of Labor.  
Today’s labor quote: Johnny Paycheck.
Today’s labor history: “Take This Job and Shove It” is #1 song.

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Feds show up for work every day

GOP’s “SHOW UP” Act is deliberately misleading, says federal workers’ union.  
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons.  
Today’s labor history: JFK signs EO guaranteeing federal workers
the right to join unions.   

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MLK, building tradesman

Dr. King on a human blueprint based on dignity, worth, and “somebodyness”.  
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor history: Palmer Raids detainees win rights.
  
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Union City Radio Highlights

UK worker strike wave; UMD grad student union launches petition for rights and wages; Carrying on MLK’s work; “Heroes, not zeros”
Today’s labor quote: Ralph Chaplin.
Today’s labor history: CIO miners' union strike busted.

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“Heroes, not zeros”

Angry voices from the picket line by striking Loudoun County transit workers who work for Keolis.  
Today’s labor quote: Raymond Jackson.
Today’s labor history: Chicano citrus workers strike.
   
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Carrying on MLK’s work

AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Fred Redmond on strengthening the bonds between the labor and civil rights movement at this weekend’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference.
Today’s labor quote: Fred Redmond.
Today’s labor history: Seattle police raid fails to prevent a general strike.
  
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UMD grad student union launches petition for rights and wages

Fearless Student Employees, the union for grad students at the University of Maryland, College Park, has launched a petition for collective bargaining rights and living wages for all Maryland higher-ed workers.
Today’s labor quote: Margo St. James.
Today’s labor history: The “Battle of the Running Bulls”.
 
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“Claiming our Power, Protecting Our Democracy”

That’s the theme of this year’s AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference this weekend in Washington, DC. Starts Friday!
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today’s labor history: Former AFL-CIO President George Meany
dies.  

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UK worker strike wave

Hundreds of thousands of nurses, postal workers and rail workers in the UK have struck, and more may follow.  
Today’s labor quote: Patrick Dixon.  
Today’s labor history: 80,000 Chicago construction workers strike.  

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Union City Radio Highlights

2022’s top labor stories; More top labor stories from 2022; Union leaders make Power 100; Congressional Workers Union warns of GOP rights grab; “Hire local,” urge trades.
Today’s labor quote: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan.
Today’s labor history: “Great Steel Strike” ends.

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