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.

Guest: Hassan Kanu, Legal Editor/Reporter, Bloomberg Law; Newspaper Guild member (and part of the Guild team accepting the 2018 Organizing Award at the recent Evening with Labor)
Topics: Breaking story he co-wrote on outsourcing at the NLRB; Trump labor board trying to outlaw Scabby the Rat; workers at the Anchor Beer company forming a union.

Music: Gang Starr - Work 

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus: Standing up for union members and their families.

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock 
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
Allen Lowe (right), Senior Partner, Ashcraft & Gerel: real-life stories behind Workers Comp cases.
Jennie Tomlinson, School librarian and technology coordinator at Chavez Prep: AFT Accuses Chavez Schools Of Violating Federal Law.

HOUR 2
Latest labor news with PAI News Editor in Chief Mark Gruenberg: Trump administration hatches yet another anti-federal worker scheme; West Virginia judge tosses state GOP’s “right to work” law – again; With citizen, union backing, lawmakers to tackle big election, ethics reform bill; Lawmakers move to end anti-worker, anti-consumer forced arbitration.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus: Standing up for union members and their families.

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
Spring membership drive: pledge now at 202-588-9739, 1-800-222-9739 or click here to donate online.

HOUR 2
Guests:
RN Vivian Obijekwu, fired by Johns Hopkins Hospital after organizing African American nurses who are being discriminated against.
Latest labor news with PAI News Editor in Chief Mark Gruenberg: House panel tackles legislation to curb violence against health care workers

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus.

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 
Spring membership drive: pledge now at 202-588-9739, 1-800-222-9739 or click here to donate online.

Guests: 
Amy Millar, UFCW 1994/MCGEO
MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMPLOYEES REACH AGREEMENT (2/21/2019)

Jon Shelton, Associate professor of democracy and justice studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.   
Teacher strikes made 2018 the biggest year for worker protest in a generation (2/14 Washington Post)
Shelton is the author of “Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order.” He is a proud member of local 6511 of the American Federation of Teachers and serves as Vice President of Higher Education for AFT-Wisconsin.

HOUR 2
Spring membership drive: pledge now at 202-588-9739, 1-800-222-9739 or click here to donate online.
Listener calls, plus latest labor news with PAI News Editor in Chief MARK GRUENBERG:
• Recent recognition wins bolster Teamsters, Teachers, Natl. Nurses United, RWDSU 
• Following NYC Amazon rejection, Virginian working class tools up for fight with firm

CREDITS: Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. 

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 
Spring membership drive: pledge now at 202-588-9739, 1-800-222-9739 or click here to donate online.
Listener calls
Labor news:

• Devastated by one shutdown, dreading the next
  
• "Smile, You’re Fired: Worst Mistakes When Firing Employees": email from "leadership expert" Kyle M.K. on: "New year, new layoffs; How leaders should use authentic emotion instead of false positivity; Criticize the Performance, not the Performer; The Band-Aid Effect."
• Dog Bone Firm’s Owner Claims He Does Not Owe Back Pay       
• 2019 Best Cities for Happy (and Unhappy) Employees (hint; DC's not in the Top 10!).

HOUR 2
Spring membership drive: pledge now at 202-588-9739, 1-800-222-9739 or click here to donate online.
Listener calls, plus latest labor news with PAI News Editor in Chief MARK GRUENBERG:

• Jayapal Outlines Pro-Worker Legislation As Part Of Progressive Platform
• ‘Future of Unions” conference speakers push sectoral bargaining
• Back to the future: British Labour Party pro-worker platform harks back a century
• Federal workers fear Trump could rerun shutdown/lockout 
• Consumers League blasts Trump appointee’s decision to let payday lenders run amok 
• Federal appeals court blows hole in age discrimination law 

CREDITS: Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. 

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.

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
Hanad Mohamud, Africa regional director, Solidarity Center on the violent repression of worker protests in Zimbabwe.
Music: Oliver Mtukudzi: Mutserendende

Heidi Burakiewicz, partner at Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch (KCNF); lead counsel in the 2013 lawsuit over the shutdown and in this year's lawsuit too for the American Federation of Government Employees: website is up and running for people to use to join the case: www.2018governmentshutdown.com
Anyone affected must submit information or opt-in in order to be included in the case.  This is not like a normal class action where people automatically are included. 
 
HOUR 2
Mark Gruenberg, PAI News: latest labor news, including:
• Unionists, allies to keep pressure on after people power beats down Trump lockout
• LaGuardia Airport shutdown ends Trump federal shutdown/lockout
• ILO report demands govts. commit to new worker protections
• CWA, allies: Big Sprint-T-Mobile mega-merger could  slam telecom door on people of color, poor
• Trump-named Labor Board GOP majority boosts firms’ ‘independent contractor’ dodge
Plus: Katea Stitt and the gang on the Super Bowl, the NFL owners, racism, sexism and worker oppression.
Music: Jenifer Lewis “That’s Enough!” 

CREDITS: Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus.

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: AFGE Political Director Tucker McDonald with the latest on efforts to end the government shutdown; American Income Life Vice President Denise Bowyer on how AIL is helping by extending their lay-off waiver of premiums; DC Labor Chorus Director Elise Bryant on the story on the Chorus – and Trump resistance -- in Monday's Washington Post.
 
Hour 2: The 1919 Seattle General Strike with Dana Frank, Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz and author, “Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929” and labor historian David Jepsen, Director, "Labor Wars of the Northwest." Plus Tula Connell with a Solidarity Center Report: “Cambodia Trash Collectors Win Pay Boost & Sri Lanka Garment Workers Stand up for  Rights at Work”

Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Robin Smith

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: Lawyer Heidi Burakiewicz with an update on the lawsuit against the government on behalf of federal employees forced to work without pay.
Furlough assistance from UnionPlus: Carl Calabro, UnionPlus Member Advocate

Hour 2: This week’s labor news with Mark Gruenberg, PAI News; “Financial help during and after furlough”: webinar prepared for UnionPlus, with Tara Alderete, Money Management International; historian and teacher Joe McCartin says “It’s Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick”. 

Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Robin Smith

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: LIVE from the AFGE/NFFE federal worker rally
Congressmen JAMIE RASKIN (D, MD 8) and DON BEYER (D, VA 8)
Montgomery County Councilman TOM HUCKER
WPFW reporter CHRIS BANGERT-DROWNS

Hour 2: Effect of the Trump shutdown on vets and the local labor movement
WILL ATTIG, Union Veterans Council
JACKIE JETER, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO president

Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Mike Nasella