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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

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: Trump Shutdown
ANDREW WASHINGTON, Executive Director, AFSCME Council
JANICE FRIDIE, furloughed research librarian at the Department of Justice & member of AFSCME Local 3097.
HEIDI BURAKIEWICZ, partner at Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch (KCNF)
American Federation of Government Employees and Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch Sue the Government Over Shutdown
ELIZABETH FALCON, Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice
“Call it Stormy Monday” written by Aaron “T-Bone” Walker and performed by B.B. King and Albert Collins

Hour 2: Gali Service Industries’ $600K wage theft; space strike
DANIEL KATZ, Senior Counsel, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
ERIK LOOMIS, Associate Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island; author of A History of America in Ten Strikes and the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, on the 1973 Skylab strike.
"Sadie’s Servant Room Blues” written and recorded in 1928 by Hattie Burleson

Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Ciera Shine

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: The Trump Shutdown
Lila Johnson, cleaner and SEIU 32BJ member who usually works at Department of Agriculture/USDA but is out of work during the ongoing shutdown. 
Richard Loeb, senior policy counsel at AFGE and a former federal employee who worked for two decades at the OMB. 
Seth Couslar, vice president, federal sector at AFSCME Council 20; he’s worked at the FAA for 27 years; this is his third shutdown.
Jean Ross, Co-President at National Nurses United (discussing the Trump Administration policy that led to the deaths of children from families seeking asylum.
Harold Meyerson, executive editor, The American Prospect
Sonte DuCote, Executive Director, Metro Washington Council's Community Services Agency

Hour 2: Replay of our August 2, 2018 show featuring Boots Riley, director, “Sorry To Bother You," and Elizabeth Hempowicz, Director of Public Policy, Project On Government Oversight, on National Whistleblower Day. 
MUSIC: "The Guillotine" The Coup
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed 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.
 
On today’s show:
Hour 1: Cherri Senders on the new Labor 411 app, the consumer guide to ethical products and services that help create good jobs. Available on Apple and Android. 
Labor music: Factory; Bruce Springsteen
 
Hour 2: Former TWU 100 president Roger Toussaint talks about what led up to the historic 3-day strike by New York City transit workers that began on this date in 2005, his 10-day jail sentence and the labor movement today.
 
Labor music:  Underground Train; Lord Kitchener

This Week's Labor News Headlines:
Chaos and the chocolate factory as leak smothers German street
The GOP tax bill only gave workers 2 cents more per hour in bonuses
What's Monopsony? It May Be the Reason You Haven't Had a Raise
Sears Adds Further Insult to Its Workers -- Bankruptcy Bonuses for Execs
Over Half of Workers Eat At Desk More Often Than Dining Table
 
Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Robin Smith.   

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.
 
On today’s show:
Hour 1: Latest on the DC East End hospital crisis, with Jackie Jeter, President, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO & Dr. Hugh Mighty, Dean of the Howard College of Medicine
Labor music: I got knocked down (but I'll get up) -- Joey Ramone
 
Hour 2: Slate writers authorize strike: Fredrick Kunkle. Washington Post unit chair for the NewsGuild reports; on this week’s State of the Unions’ podcast, Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson talks about solidarity, and Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, on how EPI and Mixed Martial Arts fighter Leslie Smith are fighting back after Smith was fired for organizing a union. Check out the video below: GLUE: Gorgeous Ladies Unionizing Everywhere! from the December 5, 2018 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

This Week's Labor News Headlines:
Poultry workers reveal working conditions that restrict bathroom breaks
Burger King's 'no poaching' rule held down wages, opportunities for workers, suit says
The fears, anticipation, and regrets that go hand in hand with the holiday season and the workplace.
Labor music: Which Side Are You On? by Florence Reece
 
Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by “Magic Mike” Nasella. 

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.
 
On today’s show:
Hour 1: 
EPI’s Heidi Shierholz on the “Restoring Justice for Workers Act.” 
Brad Markell, Executive Director of the AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Council, on the human impact of the GM plant closings (clip from the latest ‘State of the Unions’ podcast).
 
Hour 2: Labor historian Jean-Christian Vinel, author of “The Employee: A Political History” and now working on “The Reaction at Work: The Right, Labor and the Making of the New Gilded Age.”
POGO's Nick Schwellenbach and AFGE’s Marilyn Park on the OSC's ominous “Guidance Regarding Political Activity.”

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

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM 
 
Hosted by Chris Garlock, Damon Silvers 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
Jane Love, Associate Executive Director, Washington - Mid Atlantic Local, SAG-AFTRA on the BBH strike.
Plus Damon Silvers discusses the GM plant closings and clips from this week’s AFL-CIO ‘State of the Unions’ podcast. 
Plus: Daddy What Did You Do In The Strike: Ewan MacColl 
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Hour 2 
The D.C. Council's rushed deal to put a new hospital in Ward 8 and the effects on hospital workers and patients.
Guests:
Yahnae Barner, Vice President 1199 SEIU
David Dzidzienyo, Politcal Director, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO
William Kennedy Smith, Chairman AMC, Ward 2A
Plus: A Change Is Gonna Come: Leela James 

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

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. 

On today’s show:
Hour 1
Suzanne Gordon, author of “Wounds of War,” which describes how veterans, VA care givers, and their VA unions (primarily AFGE but also NNU and SEIU in some places) are fighting Trump's attempt to privatize federally funded health care for nine million former military personnel.
Taren Peterson, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East Vice President on why the union has filed unfair labor practice charges against George Washington University Hospital officials. 
Anton Hajjar, Retired labor lawyer and former general counsel for the American Postal Workers Union, author of recent letter to the editor in The Washington Post: “Google employees had the legal right to protest.”  
Plus: “A Wall Against The Wind” by Tom Morello

Hour 2 
Labor news headlines:
Josh Groban urged to end exploitation of musicians. 
Mass call-in to save Providence Hospital set for Friday.
Conor Lamb on ‘State of the Unions’ podcast.

Guests:
Celine McNicholas, EPI Director of Labor Law and Policy, on how the 
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Trump administration is attempting to roll back critical protections for working people, attacking workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain. 
Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes Co-Director, on the “Conversation on Rebuilding Power in Open-Shop America” webinar. 
Plus:  “I’m a Union Card”; Kenny Winfree

Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by “Smooth” Ciera Shine

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. 

On today’s show:

Hour 1
Linda Donahue on “The Law: Not Just for Lawyers,” four labor law books available from Union Communication Services at unionist.com. Linda is senior extension associate with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, which offers training, research, and other resources to advance workers rights and collective representation. 
Plus: Lawyers in Love - Jackson Browne

Hour 2 
On today’s show:
Harold Meyerson, Executive editor of The American Prospect on "What Each Side Won Yesterday" 
Kayci Moodie, Field Director at Working America in Montana, on how swing voters processed this election at their doors and how she and other Working America canvassers effectively moved voters' choice and turnout. 
Karen Nussbaum, former Director of Working America, on "Class Consciousness Comes to America" 
Elise Bryant, president, Coalition of Labor Union Women, on the surge of women’s participation in the recent mid-terms. 
Plus: Minimum Wage by Bambu

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike “The Man” Nasella