This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
Here’s the State of the Union from a union perspective: Over the past two years, the Trump administration has overseen a wide-ranging and deeply harmful assault on the rights, dignities and livelihoods of working people. Here are just a few of the president’s worst anti-worker actions: He’s denied a pay check to 40% of the federal workforce through the longest government shutdown in history. Jammed through massive corporate tax cuts on the backs of working people, encouraging further outsourcing and automation. And derailed the Department of Labor’s overtime rule, blocking millions of workers from receiving a pay raise. Trump has also proposed widespread cuts to health care, stacked the National Labor Relations Board with union-busting corporate lawyers, and made workplaces more dangerous by rolling back important federal safety regulations. The good news is that working people across the country are fighting back, and winning, and that’s a state of the union we can all get behind. On today’s labor calendar, tune in at 1 o’clock this afternoon for this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work, when Ed Smith and I will take your calls and talk with guests about the latest labor news. That’s 1pm right here on WPFW 89.3 FM In today’s labor history, it took more than 1,200 firefighters 30 hours to put down The Great Baltimore Fire, which started on this day in 1904 and destroyed 1,500 buildings over an area of some 140 acres. Today’s labor quote is by organizer Saul Alinsky, who said: “Power goes to two poles -- to those who've got the money and those who've got the people." 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.
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This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
In a new Solidarity Center video, women farm workers in Morocco describe how they stood up for their rights and negotiated a contract that protects them from being fired when they marry and gives them access to maternity leave and training for jobs only men had been allowed to hold. Check out the video on our website at dclabor.org On today’s labor calendar, tonight at 6pm at the 5th and K Busboys, catch the DC premiere screening of "Labor Wars of the Northwest,“ about the 1919 Seattle General Strike, followed by a discussion with labor historians Joe McCartin and Julie Greene, moderated by Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large at The American Prospect. The program is FREE but you must RSVP at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s labor historian David Jepsen, who directed "Labor Wars of the Northwest,“ with today’s labor history: (audio): Seattle General Strike begins on this date in 1919. The city was run by a General Strike Committee for six days as tens of thousands of union members stopped work in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen. Today’s labor quote is by Hayat Khomssi, a female farm worker in Morocco, from the Solidarity Center video. Hayat Khomssi, who said: "I now feel equal to men, making the same weekly wages." 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. This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council. UFCW 1994 – the Municipal and County Government Employee Organization -- has canceled a contract rally originally scheduled for this Wednesday. “When we sent out notice for the rally we were at a stalemate with the county,” Local 1994 reports. “Since that time,” the union says, “contract negotiations have become more productive.” In an effort to allow the parties to continue to make progress, Local 1994 has canceled the rally but says “this fight is not over. Our power comes from our active and engaged membership. If bargaining stalls again, we will ring the bell and we know members will answer the call.” On today’s labor calendar, tune in at 5pm today for this month’s edition of Labor Live@5, featuring the Black Coffee quartet with Pam Parker. And for all the latest labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s labor film expert Tom Zaniello with today’s labor history: (audio) On February 5, 1937, the movie "Modern Times" premieres. The tale of the tramp (Charlie Chaplin) and his paramour (Paulette Goddard) mixed slapstick comedy and social satire, as the couple struggled to overcome the difficulties of the machine age including unemployment and nerve-wracking factory work, and get along in modern times. Today’s labor quote is by Charlie Chaplin, who said: “The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” 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. Hosted by Chris Garlock
Music and conversation with jazz quartet Black Coffee, led by retired IBEW member Dick Bissell on drums, Don Oliver (bass), Jared Marx (keyboard) and Fred Puhala (sax). Setlist: Georgia, Satin Doll, Night Train, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, C Jam Blues. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Robin Smith, Chris Bangert-Drowns and Katea Stitt. |
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