This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council. Federal employees will rally at noon today at the U.S. Capitol with members of Congress to demand that they avoid another costly shutdown and keep our government open. They’re inviting everyone to attend and stand, unite, and fight with federal employees! AFGE members and supporters will gather at Hyatt at 400 New Jersey Ave Northwest at 11:15a.m. to march to the Capitol. For complete details and all the latest labor event listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1880 John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America and founding president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, was born near Lucas, Iowa. Today’s labor quote is by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, born into slavery near Easton, Maryland on this date in 1818. This is from a great short video Mauri Belarmino put together; check it out on our website (see below) at dclabor.org, click on Union City Radio. Frederick Douglass, who said: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground..." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you paying too much for auto insurance? Compare quotes with the Union Plus Auto Insurance Program. Visit unionplus.org/auto to get started.
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This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
In spite of a “vicious” anti-union campaign, workers in the Engineering and Maintenance Unit at J.W. Marriott in downtown DC recently voted to join Operating Engineers Local 99. “We are extremely proud of the way the whole unit stayed together,” said Local 99 Business Manager Don Havard. “It is really a testament to their solidarity that in the face of a brutal ‘vote no’ campaign by the boss, they all stayed tough.” The workers voted in the union by a 2-1 margin, despite almost a month of daily captive audience meetings, “misinformation and distortions by Marriott International,” reports organizer Eamon Clifford. “We have been actively organizing all of the first class hotels in the region for several years now and the J. W. Marriott was an important piece of the puzzle,” Havard added. “This is a great unit of skilled men and women and they are a credit to our craft.” For the latest labor event listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1968, some 1,300 sanitation workers began what would become a 64-day strike in Memphis, ultimately winning union recognition and wage increases. The April 4 assassination in Memphis of Martin Luther King Jr., who had been taking an active role in mass meetings and street actions, brought pressure on the city to settle the strike. Today’s labor quote is by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, arrested on this date in 1913 while leading a protest of conditions in West Virginia mines. She was 83 years old at the time. Mother Jones, who said: “I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you paying too much for auto insurance? Compare quotes with the Union Plus Auto Insurance Program. Visit unionplus.org/auto to get started. This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council. (audio) Some people call it the gig economy...some call it the side hustle economy...but what it really is...is the exploitation economy.” That’s Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO, talking about the Exploitation Economy on the latest episode of the AFL-CIO’s ‘State of the Unions’ podcast. (audio) “You’re supposed to work longer hours for less pay and you’re supposed to do two, three or four jobs full-time in order just to get the basic things that people should be taking for granted. And to know that the labor movement is thinking about that and thinking about the future...that’s going to attract younger folks because no matter what we say on Instagram, no one likes the side hustle economy. Nobody likes being exploited.” Subscribe to the "State of the Unions" anywhere you listen to podcasts. On today’s labor calendar, “The Future of American Labor” conference starts at noon today at the Georgetown University Law Center; go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar for details and free registration. Here’s Kurt Stand with today’s labor history: (audio) U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy falsely charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. It seems that just about everyone else the Wisconsin senator didn’t like was a Communist as well, including scores of unionists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism." He ultimately was officially condemned by the senate and died of alcoholism - 1950 Today’s labor quote is by T Bone Slim, from his song “The Popular Wobbly;” vigilantes beat up IWW organizers for exercising their free-speech rights on February 9, 1912 in San Diego and this song first appeared in the 1920 edition of the Little Red Songbook published by the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies: I'm as mild mannered as I can be, And I've never done them harm that I can see. Still on me they put a ban, and they throw me in the can, They go wild, simply wild, over me. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Send love this Valentine's Day with the Union Plus Flower and Discounts Program! Union members save 25% on flowers, gift baskets + more. Visit unionplus.org/flowers. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. HOUR 1 ELIZABETH DAVIS, President, Washington Teachers Association, AFT Local 6. "Panelist on Teacher Insurgency: What Are The Strategic Challenges?" at the “The Future of American Labor: Initiatives for a New Era” conference February 8-9. LARRY COHEN, Former President, Communications Workers of America; chairs the board of Our Revolution, the successor organization to Bernie 2016. Panel moderator, “Sectoral Bargaining: America’s Past, Present And Future.” MARK GRUENBERG, Editor in Chief, PAI News, with the latest labor news headlines. Music: Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised HOUR 2 WILLIAM JONES, Professor of history at the University of Minnesota and vice president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. Author of two award-winning books, “The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South” (2005) and “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights” (2013). Music: Sweet Honey in the Rock; Eyes on the Prize Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Mike Nasella Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. |
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