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Hosted by Chris Garlock (Ed Smith is away this week)
DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them.

On today’s show: Protecting federal workers’ free speech rights; New DC paid leave regs fall way short; Black Women’s Equal Pay Day; a brand-new song from the R.J. Phillips Band. Plus your calls at 202-588-0893!
In-studio with us today: Mark Gruenberg from PAI News. 
On the line: AFGE 2578 president Ashby Crowder and Ashley Morse, Communications Manager for Jews United for Justice. 
AFGE Sues to Protect the Speech Rights of Federal Employees
New DC paid leave regs don’t cover all workers
Plus: American Factory offers hope, dismay and a more-automated future

Music 
Artist: The R.J. Phillips Band
Song title: Nat Turner
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched the most deadly slave revolt in American history. The R.J. Phillips Band, a group of Baltimore musicians and regular contributors to the Labor History Today podcast, remind us what was behind this rebellion with "Nat Turner," a brand-new song.

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Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.

Hosted by Chris Garlock, with Mark Gruenberg 
DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them

On today’s show: 
"Ghost Workers" author Mary Gray and a sneak preview of Gene Bruskin’s new labor musical “The Moment Was Now.” 

Support Your Rights At Work by making a contribution to WPFW now; call 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739, or pledge online. Your contribution will be matched this hour by our friends at UnionPlus, so please be generous! 
Any contribution over $40 gets you a WPFW membership and, any contribution over $100 gets you a choice of some very special premium gifts. We’ve got a couple of copies of “State of Emergency,” the latest CD from the amazing Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble. We’ve also got a limited number of copies of “One Foot in the Grave,” the brand-new Lenny Moss labor mystery novel from author Timothy Sheard, who you’ve heard right here on this show. Plus, we’ve got tickets to the new labor musical “The Moment Was Now”! We’ll be talking with the show’s creator later this hour. 

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Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus 

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
Hosted 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.

On today’s show: 
Healthcare east of the river and throughout the city. Guests include: UMC president Roberta Lenoir, Djawa Hall, SEIU 1199 organizer, Dr Marilyn Corder and Tony Powell, UMC worker.
 
Produced by Ed Smith; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, FIND OUT MORE AT UNIONPLUS.ORG

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
Hosted 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.

On today’s show: 
Did working people win this week’s Democratic debates? The AFL-CIO says that “Coming out of the second Democratic debate in Detroit, one thing is clear: working people won these debates. All too often, politicians treat labor issues as a passing talking point. But the past two nights, workers were a constant theme on the debate stage: candidates shared plans to increase union membership and tackle unfair trade deals, and touted their family union membership with pride.” AFL-CIO President Trumka kick-started the first night by addressing the crowd from the stage, "reminding everyone what and who we are fighting for." 
Lines are open for your calls on your rights at work: 202-588-0893. Plus: latest labor news with PAI's Mark Gruenberg and Which Side Are You On? with Pete Seeger and Billy Bragg. 
 
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Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, FIND OUT MORE AT UNIONPLUS.ORG

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.

Hosted 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.

On today’s show: 
Hour 1: “One job should be enough!”; airport workers and their allies take a stand, plus Inflatable Rats and Cats, Oh My! Why bosses are so afraid of balloons. First up, we talk to an airport catering worker about why she and hundreds of her co-workers and allies – including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren – rallied at National Airport earlier this week. 
Then: why are bosses so afraid of a few balloons? We’ll talk with Chris' old pal Matt Fusco about the threat of inflatable rats and cats.  
 
Hour 2: This week marked a very dubious anniversary: it’s been 10 long years since the minimum wage last increased; going up to $7.25 an hour on July 24, 2009. We talk with economist Heidi Shierholz and journalist Harold Meyerson about the impact on America’s working men and women, and the Fight for $15 movement. Plus PAI's Mark Gruenberg with the latest labor news, and of course, listener calls: 202-588-0893 

Music: Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band) & Minimum Wage (The Busboys)
Topic: Inflatable Rats and Cats, Oh My!

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Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, FIND OUT MORE AT UNIONPLUS.ORG

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
Hosted Ed Smith 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 
Guests:
NALISHHA MEHTA, Program Officer at Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO, on labor and meditation.
Ethan Michaeli is the award-winning author of “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America.” He worked at the Chicago paper as a copy editor and investigative reporter from 1991 to 1996, covering politics, public housing and criminal justice issues. After leaving The Defender Ethan founded the Residents’ Journal, a magazine written and produced by the tenants of Chicago’s public housing developments.
Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a "Modern Moses," becoming one of the first black millionaires in the process. 
Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive archival research, Ethan Michaeli brings to life the reporters who braved lynch mobs and policemen’s clubs to do their jobs.
 
Guest:  Mark Gruenberg, PAI Union News Service, with reports on recent events involving labor and workers.
 
Music: Sweet Home Chicago (Albert King)

HOUR 2
Latest labor news, plus listener calls: 202-588-0893
 
Guest:  Yael Averbuch, Executive Director, NWSLPA
Two-time national collegiate champion at the University of North Carolina, member of the US National Team, member of the Washington Spirit in the National Women’s Soccer League and just took over the helm as the NWSL Players’ Association Executive Director. Click here to see a pretty quick goal at UNC!

Music- Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill

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Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, FIND OUT MORE AT UNIONPLUS.ORG

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
Hosted 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: Labor organizers and novelists of the world, unite! Legendary union organizer David Sickler led the national Coors Boycott, pioneered immigrant worker organizing, and developed powerful political campaigns to defend worker rights throughout California. He’s the subject of the new book “From Coors to California: David Sickler and the New Working Class.”
Also this hour, Bill Fletcher, Gary Frank & Tim Sheard are all longtime labor activists who have published novels in the last year. They’ll be appearing next Tuesday at this month’s Bread & Roses program on “The craft of writing” -- Tue, July 16, 6pm – 8pm; Takoma Busboys and Poets – and Gary and Tim join us to talk about a couple of union guys got into the novel-writing business. 
 
Hour 2: After the U.S. women’s national soccer team won the World Cup last week, the crowd chanted “Equal pay! Equal pay!” One sportswriter said that “given the fact that a recent study shows that the US women actually generate more revenue than the men, maybe they shouldn’t stop at mere equity.” That sportswriter was none other than our very own Dave Zirin, who hosts “The Collision: Sports and Politics” with Etan Thomas here on WPFW. Dave, who’s been called the “conscience of American sportswriting,” is sports editor for The Nation, writes the Edge of Sports blog and has written 10 books, including “A People's History of Sports In The United States" and “Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love.” Dave also reflects on the life and work of Jim Bouton ("Ball Four"), who died yesterday at 80.
Plus PAI's Mark Gruenberg with the latest labor news. 

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
Hosted 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:       
UFCW 400’s “Week of Action” to save jobs at Shoppers
Amber Stevens: Works in the front-end at Shoppers Food & Pharmacy at Forestville, MD; been there 11 years and has been very active during this week’s actions. Member of UFCW Local 400.
Tanya Sealy: Has worked at Kroger for 20 years and 3 months; Currently employed at Kroger #555 in Yorktown, VA. Previously worked at Kroger #536 in Norfolk, VA, which closed in October 2018 despite months of campaigning to save the store. Member of UFCW Local 400.

Sequnely Gray, Organizer, DC Jobs With Justice: Just Pay Coalition plans Outreach Blitz this weekend

Susan Eisenberg, IBEW member and artist, "On Equal Terms" exhibit and “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Women in the Trades” panel discussion. She also has two books out from Cornell last year, a new poetry book, Stanley's Girl, and a reissue of (NYT Notable Book) We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction, With a New Preface. 

HOUR 2: 
Latest labor news, plus listener calls: 202-588-0893
Mark Gruenberg, Editor, Press Associates Union News Service
• Pro-worker Dems talk with Trump trade rep about writing strong worker rights right into ‘new NAFTA’
• Report reveals widespread Trump spending on temps to replace federal workers
• AFL-CIO Paywatch: Elon Musk earned $2.4B last year in pay and perks

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CREDITS: Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella
Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, FIND OUT MORE AT UNIONPLUS.ORG

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
Hosted 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: BSO lockout and Pride At Work's 25th anniversary
Brian Prechtl on the BSO lockout; he's a percussionist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2003, and co-chair of the Baltimore Symphony Musicians Players’ Committee (AFM Local 40-543).
Mark Gruenberg, Editor, Press Associates Union News Service
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra bosses cancel summer season, lock out unionized Musicians
• New Poor People’s Campaign demands redirecting military dollars to domestic needs
Jerame Davis, Executive Director, Pride At Work: Celebrating Solidarity to mark 25 years since our founding and 50 years since Stonewall. June 20, 2019 6PM at AFL-CIO in Washington, DC.

HOUR 2: Circus workers of the world, unite!
Murray Horwitz (right), American playwright, lyricist, NPR broadcaster, and arts administrator
Chris Bricker (Ieft), longtime labor organizer, saw-playing member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 1000 (acoustic travelling musicians union), attending the 40th annual Great Labor Arts Exchange, which starts today and runs through Sunday out at the ATU’s Tommy Douglas Center in Silver Spring. Chris also hosts Morning on the Salish every Tuesday morning from 9:30 to 11am on KPTZ FM, in storied Port Townsend, Washington.  
Both were graduates of the Ringling College of Clowns, Class of 1971 and went on to be professional clowns and then union reps at the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Plus: NLRB Can't Shut Down 'Scabby'-Aided Protest

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Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM.
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:           
Hosted by Ed Smith.
Guests: 
​Mark Gruenberg, PAI
Peter Winch, AFGE, Special Assistant to the National Vice President, District 14: Employees of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture voted on Tuesday to be represented by AFGE. The election was almost unanimous, 137-2.
Aminah Sequiera, NNU, Legislative Advocate. NNU legislative efforts concerning Workplace Violence and Medicare for All.
Music – Bob Marley – Redemption Song. 

HOUR 2: replay of MAY 2, 2019 show: 
​Hosted by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock
Gerry Connolly, Congressman for Virginia's 11th District: If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out.
Harold Meyerson, Managing Editor, The American Prospect: This May Day, It’s Time to Cut Work Down to Size; 
The Millennialization of American Labor. 
Judy Conti, Government Affairs Director, National Employment Law Project: A high-ranking lawyer says she was told to serve the cake. She complained, then she was fired; Remaking 9 to 5? What Today’s Working Women Want to See. Resources: CoWorker.org; NELA.org; workplacefairness.org; NELP.