Local Verizon Contract Struggle Featured on New Labor Radio Talk Show

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

The Union Edge, “Labor's Talk Radio” is coming to DC, starting this Sunday, May 6. The Pittsburgh-based show will air on WPWC 1480 AM in Washington Northern Virginia from 4 to 6p. This Sunday’s show features an interview with CWA 2108 President Marilyn Irwin (at right), taped yesterday “live” from the local’s demonstration outside Verizon in Silver Spring. "WPWC is committed to raising the voices of America's working men and women,” says WPWC co-owner Alex Lawson, “and with The Union Edge joining the We Act Radio family we are closer to fulfilling that commitment." The Sunday, 4-6pm broadcast of The Union Edge, Labor's Talk Radio will also air an interview with NoVA Labor President Dan Duncan, programming segments from Workers Independent News, populist Jim Hightower and Free Press Media Minutes along with national interviews, Labor History, the Lawyer is In and Off the Clock, The American Way TV hunting and fishing shows produced by union members. Listeners can tune in on WPWC 1480 AM, hear the program streamed live or via TheUnionEdge.com mobile app. Podcasts can also be accessed on the website and on iTunes.