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Guests: Novelist Wiley Cash on “The Last Ballad” and the Loray Mill Strike Working History’s Beth English interviews award-winning New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash. His novel, The Last Ballad, explores the complexities of southern class, race, and gender relations against the backdrop of the 1929 Loray Mill strike, one of the most notable strikes in U.S. labor history. The Working History podcast is put out by the Southern Labor Studies Association. Anthropologist Paul Shackel on How a 1897 Massacre of Pennsylvania Coal Miners Morphed From a Galvanizing Crisis to Forgotten History (smithsonian.com). Produced by Chris Garlock, engineered by “Magic” Mike Nasella
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This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
(audio) "Anytime we've made real social progress as a country it is getting people...lower income...working class...whether they be white, black, Hispanic, Asian, various mixed ethnicities...to realize that they come together...that's how you make real social and economic progress. And the other side also knows this and they are pretty shrewd at figuring out ways to try to divide people along ethnic lines or other lines because if people focus on their common economic interests...that's when we make real progress.” That’s Congressman Brendan Boyle on the latest episode of the AFL-CIO’s “State of the Unions” podcast. Brendan comes from a union family and now co-chairs the House Blue Collar Caucus, formed in the aftermath of the 2016 election to better connect with blue collar workers. (audio) “It's not just an economic issue as well because when you do have losses in those areas, especially if that happens with an older workforce that doesn't see a future, you end up then having an increase in alcoholism...an increase in substance abuse...an increase in suicides. The stories I know just from folks laid off at the time that my dad was, a number of his personal friends who ended up unfortunately turning to the bottle or other ways to ease their pain. In a couple of instances suicide...we can't just look at those issues in a silo and not recognize the economic component and that connection.” Catch “State of the Unions” wherever you listen to podcasts. On today’s labor calendar, tune in at one o’clock this afternoon for this week’s “Your Rights At Work” where we’ll check in on the latest labor news and take your calls about workplace rights; that’s one o’clock today, here on WPFW 89.3FM. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1857, women’s rights advocate and labor activist Alice Henry was born in Melbourne, Australia. Henry came to the United States in 1905 and worked for twenty years for the National Women’s Trade Union League of America in Chicago, directing the education department and editing the League’s official journal. Today’s labor quote is from the preface to Alice Henry's book, The Trade Union Woman, published in 1915: “There is a mightier force at work…That is the spirit of independence expressed in many different forms, markedly in the new desire and therefore in the new capacity for collective action which women are discovering in themselves to a degree never known before.” Union City Radio is supported by Union Plus. The Union Plus Mortgage Program is union-owned and provides exclusive benefits for first time home buyers, union members and retirees. Visit unionplus.org/mortgage. 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: 1-2p Roundtable discussion with Washington Teacher’s Union president Liz Davis (below right), DC Personal Injury Lawyer David Schloss (below left) and labor reporter Mark Gruenberg. Topics: WTU settles “excessed” teachers case; DC teachers “wearing red for education”; Workers’ comp, injuries on the job; AFL-CIO Executive Council holds off on endorsing in Dem primaries HOUR 2: 2-3p Listener calls and latest labor news headlines, including: EMPLOYEES BRING FORWARD SEX DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST ORGANOGENESIS TENSIONS RISE AT RAM TRUCK PLANT Music: We Were There: Bev Grant & the Brooklyn Women's Chorus Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
Every Friday until the DC City Council holds hearings on the DCPS budget on March 29, DC educators are “wearing Red for Education,” reports the Washington Teachers Union. “They are sending the message to the entire community,” says the teacher’s union, “our students deserve the best educational opportunities possible and we must have the resources to ensure we can give them the best educational opportunities possible.” We have links on our website where you can find out if your school's funding been cut in the proposed budget, just go to dclabor.org, where you can also register to testify at the City Council hearings. On today’s labor calendar, the Fredericksburg Labor Coalition meets from 6 to 8pm tonight in Spotsylvania, Virginia; Complete details, as always, on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1865, Michigan authorized formation of workers’ cooperatives. Thirteen were formed in the state over a 25-year period. Labor reform organizations were advocating "cooperation" over "competitive" capitalism following the Civil War and several thousand cooperatives opened for business across the country during this era. Participants envisioned a world free from conflict where workers would receive the full value of their labor and freely exercise democratic citizenship in the political and economic realms. Today’s labor quote is by Robert Owen, the 19th century Welsh socialist and social reformer, considered to be the father of the cooperative movement. Robert Owen, who said: “There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, — that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.” Union City Radio is supported by Union Plus. The Union Plus Mortgage Program is union-owned and provides exclusive benefits for first time home buyers, union members and retirees. Visit unionplus.org/mortgage. |
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