today's labor history

Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Patrick Dixson and Chris Bangert-Drowns. On this week's show: founding of the American Federation of Teachers; first McDonald’s opens, leading to "McJobs"; 20,000 blockade meetings of the World Bank and IMF in D.C. Plus Saul Schniderman on A. Philip Randolph, the IBEW's Curtis Bateman on the strike by the first women-led American union, and music including Elizabeth Perry’s “Oklahoma Teacher Walkout Fight Song,” JY Media’s “mcjobs” and Seun Kuti’s “IMF.”

West Virginia coal miners strike, defend selves against National Guard - 1912

After a four-week boycott led by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., bus companies in New York City agree to hire 200 Black drivers and mechanics - 1941
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