Today's guests: DCA baggage handler Trey Baccus and SEIU 32BJ's Julie Karant on why airport workers want a union and $15 an hour. Plus: Ritchie Brooks, president of Teamsters Local 730, on how solidarity just saved every job (over 700) at the Safeway warehouse in Upper Marlboro.
Union City Radio's Chris Garlock and Ed Smith, labor lawyer and DCNA Executive Director, take listener calls and give shout-outs to area emergency, hospital and DPW personnel preparing to help area residents weather the impending snowstorm. Labor song of the day: Save the Hammer for the Man, Tom Morello/Ben Harper This Week's Labor Quiz: How many U.S. states are “right-to-work,” in which unions in organized workplaces are prohibited from requiring that dues or service fees be collected from all workers covered by, and benefiting from, the contract. (These people are often called “free riders” in that they benefit from collective bargaining but don’t help pay for it.) Is it 21; 22; 23; 24; or 25? Click on Labor Quiz to submit your answer and you could be next week's winner of a labor-themed prize!
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