Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Union leaders make Power 100

AFSCME Maryland President Patrick Moran and Maryland State Education Association President Cheryl Bost have made the Daily Record’s 2022-23 Power 100 list.
Today’s labor quote: Patrick Moran.  
Today’s labor history: NYC social workers and transit workers strike.
   
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More top labor stories from 2022

Harold Meyerson’s top 2022 picks from The American Prospect.
Today’s labor quote: Harold Meyerson and Steven Greenhouse.
Today’s labor history: Alphabet Workers Union organizes at Google.  

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2022’s top labor stories

Sluggish institutions, corporate mergers, billionaires behaving badly: 2022 was a watershed year for the labor beat, reports In These Times magazine.
Today’s labor quote: Olga Miranda.
Today’s labor history: IWW founded in Chicago.   

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Union City Radio Highlights

New work-related words; Double win at MOM’s & La Colombe; Inequality continues to rise; Solidarity Forever, remixed.
Today’s labor quote: Hank Williams.       
Today’s labor history: United Transportation Union founded.  

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Solidarity Forever, remixed

The original Solidarity Forever was written in 1915; here’s a new millennium version.
Today’s labor quote: “Jock” Yablonski.
Today’s labor history: GM sit-down strike spreads.   
 
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Hear the DC Labor Chorus!

Special broadcast of hour-long version of the Dec. 11 DC Labor Chorus Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs concert, today at 1p on WPFW’s Your Rights At Work show.
Today’s labor quote: Elise Bryant.
Today’s labor history: Steel Workers end 86-day strike at Goodyear.

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Inequality continues to rise

EPI report says the top 1% now hold a record share of total earnings while the bottom 90% lose ground.
Today’s labor quote: Elise Gould.
Today’s labor history: Auto workers strike GM’s Fisher Body plant in Cleveland.   

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Double win at MOM’s & La Colombe

Workers at MOM’s Organic Market in College Park and the Chinatown La Colombe vote to unionize with UFCW Local 400.
Today’s labor quote: Chinatown La Colombe workers.
Today’s labor history: Roosevelt seizes railroads to block strike.
 
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New work-related words

Some of this year’s new work-related words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.  
Today’s labor quote: Merriam-Webster.  
Today’s labor history: Knights of Labor founded.   

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Union City Radio Highlights

Budtenders organize, teachers settle, drivers picket; DC-area Starbucks workers join national strike; IUOE 99’s JAC recognized for “Notable Contribution”; Union leaders on Moore-Miller Transition Committee; La Colombe baristas’ union vote today.
Today’s labor quote: Gene Debs*
Today’s labor history: Debs released from prison.
*Read by Rick Smith, from Labor History in 2:00.

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