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Today's guests: AFGE president J. David Cox on the implications of Trump’s democracy-busting Executive Orders; ‘I’ve been a hostage for nine years’: Fired teacher Jeff Canady on his winning battle with D.C. schools to get his job back. Listen live on WPFW 89.3FM or online at wpfwfm.org CALL IN at 202-588-0893. Your Rights At Work is also available as a podcast! Just search for Union City Radio on iTunes, Stitcher, OverCast or wherever you get your podcasts; subscribe and you’ll get our shows right on your phone! Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nasella.
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For the latest local labor news and calendar listings, go to dclabor.org.
In today's labor history, on this date in 1877, workers staged a general strike – believed to be the nation’s first – in St. Louis, in support of striking railroad workers. The successful strike was ended when some 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized special police killed at least eighteen people in skirmishes around the city. Today’s labor quote is by American labor lawyer and author Thomas Geoghegan, who said: “A union movement in America will always be a scandal...the subversive thing about labor is not the strike, but the idea of Solidarity.” For the latest local labor news and calendar listings, go to dclabor.org.
In today's labor history, on this date in 1968, the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters formed the Alliance for Labor Action, later to be joined by several smaller unions. The ALA's agenda included support of the civil rights movement and opposition to the war in Viet Nam. It disbanded after four years following the death of UAW President Walter Reuther. Today’s labor quote is by Walter Reuther, who said: “We in the UAW have been in the forefront of every basic struggle in the country, and we have learned some very simple, fundamental truths; that you cannot solve a human problem by pitting one human being against another human being. We have learned that the only way you can solve human problems is to get people to join hands and to find answers to those problems together. And it’s for this reason that we reject the voices of extremism in America, whether they be white or black; for there are no separate answers. There are no white answers to the problems, there are no black answers; there are only common answers that we must find together in the solidarity of our common humanity.” For the latest local labor news and calendar listings, go to dclabor.org.
In today's labor history, on this date in 1913, Northern Michigan copper miners struck for union recognition, higher wages and the eight-hour day. By the time they threw in the towel the following April, 1,100 had been arrested on various charges and Western Federation of Miners President Charles “Charlie” Moyer had been shot, beaten and forced out of town. Today’s labor quote is by Alexander Berkman, the anarchist who shot and stabbed -- but failed to kill -- steel magnate Henry Clay Frick on this date in 1892 in an effort to avenge the Homestead massacre 18 days earlier, in which nine strikers were killed. Alexander Berkman, who said: “If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.” |
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