Your Rights At Work: AFGE sues gov’t over shutdown; Gali Service Industries’ $600K wage theft; space strike

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