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Also, if you miss our live show – or want to hear a past show – Your Rights At Work is now available as a podcast! Just search for Union City Radio on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts; subscribe and you’ll get our shows right on your phone! Guests: CWA Local 2222 Secretary Treasurer Jeff Schmidt discusses the ongoing strike in WV and Ashburn, VA against Frontier. Ryan Michael, AFT/WV, Staff Representative, on the successful teachers’ strike in West Virginia. He is also scheduled to be at Busboys and Poets on March 3/27 Shirlington for the Bread and Roses series. Labor Songs: Stand together. Stand Together was written and recorded for the Queensland Teachers' Union as part of the One Song One Union CD project. The video was created with archival footage of QTU strikes, protests and marches. Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash Communication Breakdown – Led Zeppelin CREDITS: Produced by Pete Pocock and Chris Bangert-Drowns; engineered by Mike “The Man” Nasella; Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus. UnionPlus is committed to improving the quality of life of working families. Find out more at unionplus.org. And we’re supported by you, our listeners.
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After launching DDOTCanDoBetter.com last week to educate the riding public about safety and labor issues at the DC Circulator, ATU Local 1764 has also launched a new Twitter account -- @DDOTCanDoBetter-- a petition to DDOT for supporters to sign, and has released a powerful new video in collaboration with the Washington Interfaith Network.
The video explores the link between private companies exploiting skilled workers who used to earn a living wage as public employees who are now struggling to survive working for private for-profit contractors. With DDOT preparing to roll out its cherry blossom-themed bus, the union is urging activists to take to Twitter with the hashtags #blossumbus and #DDOTCanDoBetter to oppose privatization. We’ve got a link to the petition and video on our website at dclabor.org Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1917, the Supreme Court approved the 8-Hour Act under threat of a national railway strike. Today’s labor quote is by Ernest DeMaio, former President of the United Electrical Workers, who defined privatization as: “The practice of transferring government property, enterprises and services to private ownership. …Legalized looting of public assets. The spoils that go to the winners of elections. The final step in the rip-off of the public purse.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! Striking Frontier Communications workers in Virginia got a welcome boost from Evening with Labor organizing award winners SEIU 32BJ and UNITE HERE 23, who both showed up on the CWA picket lines last week. Picketing continues this week in Ashburn – 6 am to 12pm every day except Wednesday, when a rally will be held from 8am to 2pm featuring CWA National President Chris Shelton. The strikers are asking supporters to join their picket lines and to donate to a solidarity fund to assist striking families in financial need. Tune into WPFW 89.3 this Thursday at 1p to hear a strike report from CWA Local 2222 Secretary Treasurer Jeff Schmidt on Your Rights at Work.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1863, fabled railroad engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones was born in southeast Missouri. A member of the Railroad Engineers, he was the sole fatality in a wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi on April 29, 1900. His skill and heroics prevented many more deaths¸ Today’s labor quote is by Johnny Cash, from the song “Casey Jones” Casey Jones climbed in the cabin Casey Jones orders in his hand Casey Jones leanin' out the window taking a trip to the Promised Land Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! CWA has launched a solidarity fund for Frontier Communications workers striking in Virginia and West Virginia. "The strike is not about money, it’s about job security,” CWA Local 2222 President Jeremy French tells Union City Radio. We've got a link to the fund on our website, dclabor.org
Over 800 local trade unionists and their allies turned out last Saturday night for the Metro Washington Council's 41st annual Evening with Labor. The evening celebrated solidarity and 2017’s award-winners, including SEIU 32BJ and UNITE HERE 23 for Organizing; AFSCME Maryland Council 3 won the Golden Picket award; CASA was the year's Outstanding Ally and OPEIU Local 2 was the Community Services award-winner. A special award went to Kathleen McKirchy, who's retiring after 35 years at the Council and the Community Services Agency. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1830, the term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appeared in print in the New York Daily Sentinel. The newspaper was quoting a typesetter while reporting on replacement workers who had agreed to work for two-thirds of the going rate. Today’s labor quote is by Daniel DeLeon, the American socialist leader and writer, who said: “The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! |
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