Today's Labor History

​This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Voices from the Lansing Auto Town Gallery
On today’s show, auto worker Dorothy Stevens on her pioneering career at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI. Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Dolly Parton’s hit song and the Cool Things from the Meany Archives team digs into the AFL’s cornerstone.
Last week's show: (1/19): MLK: All Labor Has Dignity
 
January 27
New York City maids organize to improve working conditions – 1734

First meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) – 1920

A group of Detroit African-American auto workers known as the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement leads a wildcat strike against racism and bad working conditions. They are critical of both automakers and the UAW, condemning the seniority system and grievance procedures as racist - 1969

January 28
American Miners’ Association formed - 1861

First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin – 1932

- David Prosten; photo: League of Revolutionary Black Workers

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