Hosts: Chris Garlock, with David Stephen

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This week's guests: 
Carroll Thomas, ATU 689 VP and Chief Safety Officer, on the recent attacks on transit workers. 
Lane Windham, author "Knocking on Labor's Door."

1:30 Labor Song:  The Staple Singers - When Will We Be Paid? 

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Hosts: Chris Garlock, with Damon Silvers and Bruce Jett. Damon is director of policy and special counsel for the AFL-CIO, and Bruce is an organizer with the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild

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Guest: Alyssia Osorio, Communications Specialist, UNITE HERE, on airport drivers calling on airlines to fix unsafe heat conditions in subcontractors' trucks.

Labor Song: 9: The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) 

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Hosts: Chris Garlock and  Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893

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This week’s guests:
Danielle Brian, Executive Director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), on whistleblowers, "leakers" and what's up with those creepy Energy Department anti-leak posters?​

Kenneth Yates and Tiffany Saltus on why Takoma Park Co-op workers organized with the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World).

Jeff Vogt, Solidarity Center Rule of Law Legal Director on how African unions championed worker rights at the recent AGOA Forum.

Plus: Dick Gregory at the State of the Black Union

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Hosts:  Ed Smith with guest co-host David Stephen; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893

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Hosts:  Ed Smith with guest co-host Bruce Jett; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893

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CREDITS: Produced by Mack Miller, engineered by Mike “The Man” Nasella; Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus. UnionPlus is committed to improving the quality of life of working families. Find out more at unionplus.org. And we’re supported by you, our listeners: call 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online at wpfwfm.org.

Hosts:  Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893

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This week's guests:
(in-studio) BRUCE JETT, Organizing Consultant with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, on recent organizing wins and the ongoing challenges of organizing workers.

JONATHAN ROSENBLUM, author of “Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement.” Jonathan will discuss his new book next Thursday at the Takoma Busboys and Poets from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm.
Readers interested in labor activism, history, economics, industrial relations, or immigration studies will find this book to be compelling and captivating, as Rosenblum captures the story of this unifying, important, and successful fight for economic equity. This event is co-sponsored by Bread & Roses.

Labor Song: Koko Taylor - Big Boss Man (with thanks to Chris DeProperty for the recommendation)

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This week's guest: 
Ari Schwartz, Lead Organizer for DC Jobs With Justice, on the Sick and Safe Leave Forum set for July 25. 
With just a few exceptions, if you work in DC, you have the right to take paid sick days when you or a loved one is ill, to go to a doctor, or to receive services related to domestic violence or assault. “It's outrageous how many employers still violate this law on a daily basis,” says Ari Schwartz, Lead Organizer for DC Jobs With Justice. To make paid sick days for all a reality, “workers need to know their rights and have the tools to defend them,” says Schwartz, which is why the Just Pay Coalition is hosting a Sick and Safe Leave Forum this presentation July 25, in partnership with the DC Department of Employment Services’ Office of Wage-Hour (OWH). “It's time for every employer to follow the law and for every worker to know about their right to paid sick days,” said Schwartz. Click here for details and to RSVP.

1:30 Labor Song: Sick Leave Blues · Gaye Adegbalola & the Wild Rutz

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This week's guests:
Roxie Mejia on the “Free Hugo!” campaign. A national call-in day was held earlier this week to support two union members detained by ICE. Although Hugo Mejia and Rodrigo Nuñez are union construction workers in California, “this could happen anywhere, including here in metro DC,” says Roxana Mejia (no relation), Political Director for Painters District Council 51. “These two union members were only detained because they showed up for work,” said Painters president Kenneth Rigmaiden. “We will not allow the act of showing up to work to be criminalized.” IUPAT is asking union members and supporters to call David Jennings, Director for the San Francisco ICE Field Office, at 844-526-8492 to demand the release of Hugo Mejia. 

Former Jimmy John's worker Erik Foreman on the recent ruling by a federal appeals court that ruled that a Twin Cities Jimmy John’s franchisee didn’t violate the union organizing rights of six employees fired for publicly protesting the company’s sick leave policy, saying the workers were “so disloyal” that they lost their legal protections. 

Labor Song: from the Broadway show Hamilton: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) 

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Guests:
Julie Karant (SEIU 32BJ) reports on the NLRB ordering an airline contractor to reinstate a Dulles wheelchair attendant fired for joining a strike.
Herbert Harris Jr (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers &
Trainmen) reports on a local fundraiser to support Canadian rail workers being blamed for management’s mistakes in the 2013 Lac Megantic disaster.

Plus: Listener calls and this week's Labor Song: “The Wreck of the Old 97”: Johnny Cash (Live at San Quentin); 
The song tells of the September 27, 1903, crash of the Old 97, a.k.a., “the Fast Mail,” which ran between Monroe, Virginia, and Spencer, North Carolina, and had legendarily never once been late. The train’s engineer, a thirty-three-year-old named Joseph “Steve” Broady, had been ordered to put on speed by his bosses at the Southern Railway, who were concerned about keeping the company’s U.S. Mail contract. The crash occurred when the 97 failed to negotiate a curve on a forty-five-foot-high wooden trestle outside Danville, Virginia. Eleven men died so the mail could get to Spencer on time.
It’s not true, as the song’s lyrics state, that Broady was going 90 miles an hour; this was a lie propagated by the railroad, which tried to blame the crash on its engineer. But it is true that “They found him in the wreck with his hand on the throttle / Scalded to death by the steam.” Most of the mail burned, too — but the Southern Railway unceremoniously rehabilitated the engine and ran it for another thirty-two years.