Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Voices from the ATU 689 picket line in Loudoun County.
Today’s labor quote: John Costa.
Today’s labor history: Workers win sitdown strike at Brooklyn electric plant.  
  
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Plus: Insulators 24 welcomes Hot & Cold; CWA 2108 pays respects to Maurice Moore.  
Today’s labor quote: Sojourner Truth.
Today’s labor history: Supreme Court upholds “Yellow Dog” contracts.    

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Loudoun County transit workers speak out on why they’re striking Keolis Transit.
Note: Loudoun County’s “I Byde My Time” motto is from the county’s coat of arms, modeled after that of John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun, the Scottish nobleman after whom the county was named. 
Today’s labor quote: Striking Loudoun County transit worker.
Today’s labor history: Federal minimum wage increases.   

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Strike by ATU 689 members against Keolis Transit now in second week.  
Today’s labor quote: Harold Meyerson.
Today’s labor history: Rochester clothing workers strike.    

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MLK, building tradesman; Feds show up for work every day; Loudoun transit strike update; Rockville cannabis workers unionize.
Today’s labor quote: Terence V. Powderly.     
Today’s labor history: United Mine Workers of America founded.

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The longtime labor leader on how labor has changed the course of history.  
Today’s labor quote: The U-Liners.
Today’s labor history: Biden fires anti-labor NLRB counsel.    

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Cannabis workers at Potomac Holistics Dispensary vote to join UFCW 400.
Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today’s labor history: SAG-AFTRA investigates Trump for endangering members.   

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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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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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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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