This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
(audio) “A lot of things that people my age are dealing with now is economic and societal alienation.” That’s Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO, on the latest episode of the AFL-CIO’s ‘State of the Unions’ podcast. (audio) And so people feel this alienation from being separated from the rest of the community. So many of our cultures are based off of the individual and so they feel alone. You see a lot of folks are dealing with mental health problems and they don’t feel like they’re part of anything, part of any greater plan, part of any greater society or culture. And so, that leads to all kinds of problems within society and the culture. But my experience seeing a situation in which you have a small area concentrated where most folks are part of a union, most folks are engaged in the same struggle, most folks know they’re all in it together at the end of the day, that does things for a community and for a neighborhood that are very difficult to measure but you can see it and you can feel it. When I saw that and when I read more and educated myself later on after my grandfather passed, I knew I wanted to create that all over the country.” Subscribe to "State of the Unions" anywhere you listen to podcasts. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1865, a national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ended in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars—the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States. Today’s labor quote is by Lowell Peterson, describing the three-month strike by 12,000 Hollywood writers against television and motion picture studios, which ended on this date in 2008. Lowell Peterson, executive director of the Writers Guild of America East, who called the strike “The first major labor action of the digital age.” The writers won compensation for their TV and movie work that gets streamed on the Internet. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you paying too much for auto insurance? Compare quotes with the Union Plus Auto Insurance Program. Visit unionplus.org/auto to get started.
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