Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Union City Radio Highlights

Another La Colombe organizes; DC teachers reach tentative contract agreement; Meet The People: Tambra Jackson; Think food prices are high now?; Protect pregnant workers!
Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther.     
Today’s labor history: Works Progress Administration ends.

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Protect pregnant workers!

Supporters urge passage of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.  
Today’s labor quote: Daniel Kindlon.
Today’s labor history: Wal-Mart agrees to pay $40 million for wage theft.  

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Think food prices are high now?

Supermarket workers warn Kroger-Albertsons merger would raise costs and cost jobs.
Today’s labor quote: Jane St. Louis.
Today’s labor history: “Bread and Roses” first published.  
  
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Meet The People: Tambra Jackson

National Gallery of Art union’s president on the best part of her job.
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones.
Today’s labor history: Unionists and activists shut down WTO in Seattle.   
 
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DC teachers reach tentative contract agreement

Deal recognizes “tireless efforts and sacrifice our teachers have made over the past three years.”  
Today’s labor quote: WTU President Jacqueline Pogue Lyons, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and DCPS Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.
Today’s labor history: NLRB rules that medical interns can unionize.    

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Another La Colombe organizes

Workers at the La Colombe Coffee Roasters Farragut location organize with UFCW 400; the Chinatown location organized the week before.
Today’s labor quote: William Sylvis.
Today’s labor history: Strike by 20,000 shuts down NYC papers.
   
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Union City Radio Highlights

Labor already prepping for 2024; Kroger/Albertsons mega-merger “a travesty”; Sick days and holiday pay spark worker revolt; Thanks, American workers
Today’s labor quote: “Pins and Needles”.
Today’s labor history: 1,200 workers sit down at Midland Steel in Detroit.  

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“Make Amazon Pay Day of Action”

DC joins global protest against one of the most exploitative companies on the planet.   
Today’s labor quote: Our Revolution.  
Today’s labor history: 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white,
participate in a solidarity parade.
  
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Thanks, American workers

Appreciating those who showed up, and those who walked out.  
Today’s labor quote: The Busboys.  
Today’s labor history: Gompers’ Cigarmakers local chartered.  

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Sick days and holiday pay spark worker revolt

Railroad workers threaten strike over sick days; casino workers picket over holiday pay.  
Today’s labor quote: Dennis Pierce.
Today’s labor history: History’s first recorded strike.    

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