METRO WASHINGTON LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
  • Home
  • Board & Staff
  • Who We Are
  • Calendar
  • Evening With Labor
    • Archive >
      • 2021 Evening With Labor
      • 2019 Evening With Labor
      • 2017 Evening With Labor
      • 2018 Evening With Labor
      • 2015 Evening With Labor
      • 2016 Evening With Labor
  • Stay Connected
  • Programs
    • Community Services >
      • Espanol
      • Mission
      • Donate Now
      • Programs
      • Funders
      • Archives
    • Political Action >
      • Archive
      • Mission
      • Elected Officials
      • Endorsements
      • DMV Voters Guide
      • Candidate Questionnaires: Archive 2006-2014 >
        • 2018
        • 2016
        • 2015
        • 2014
        • Other
        • 2012
        • 2010
        • 2008
        • 2007
        • 2006
    • DC unemployment appeals
  • Hiring Hall
    • ADMINISTRATIVE
    • COMMUNICATIONS
    • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
    • INTERNSHIPS
    • LEGAL
    • MISC
    • ORGANIZING
    • POLITICAL
    • RESEARCH
  • Affiliates

Labor [email protected]: The DC Labor Chorus

11/30/2017

0 Comments

 
Elise Bryant hosts the DC Labor Chorus as they preview their annual Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs -- with a social justice twist -- coming up Saturday, December 2, 2017 at the Tommy Douglas Center in Silver Spring. 
0 Comments

​Union City Radio for Thursday, November 30

11/30/2017

0 Comments

 
Drivers from Instantwhip – a company that delivers dairy products around the area – voted to join UFCW 1994/MCGEO over the summer and are now in the process of negotiating a first contract.

Today’s labor calendar pick is the free screening of Hassan's Way at the Films Across Borders series at 6:45pm at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain on 16th St NW;
Details on our website, dclabor.org, click on calendar, where you’ll find the complete labor calendar.

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1930, Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones died at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Maryland. She was once called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners.

Today’s labor quote is by Mother Jones, who said:
“I’m not a lady, I’m a hell-raiser!”

0 Comments

Your Rights At Work: November 30

11/30/2017

0 Comments

 
Host: Chris Garlock 

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:
Elise Bryant and Peter Jones on Saturday's Labor Chorus concert
Wayne Anthony Garland, International ATU Rep; member of ATU's action committee, about the Metro outsourcing of shuttles during the Takoma Redline shutdown this week. They did an action this morning where they overwhelmed the charter buses with wheelchairs.
Mark Collins, UFCW 400 rep and Kristy Vance, UFCW 400 shop steward on Kroger Shop Steward Wins $250 in Back Pay for Coworker.

Labor Songs: DC Labor Chorus
None of Us Are Free 
DC Labor Chorus Xmas Carol 3 (The Power and the Glory) 
DC Labor Chorus Xmas Carol (Share the Dough)

CREDITS: engineered by Mike “The Man” Nasella.
0 Comments

​Union City Radio for Wednesday, November 29

11/29/2017

0 Comments

 
Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have proposed a job-killing tax plan that favors the super-rich and wealthy corporations over working people.
"We cannot afford to let this bill become law," says the AFL-CIO, which urges calls to your senator today at 844-899-9913.
Under this plan, millions of working people would pay more, while the super-rich and Wall Street would make out like bandits. The richest point 1% -- not 1%, point one percent -- would get an average tax cut of more than $208,000.
The bill also includes job-killing tax breaks for outsourcing, cuts to infrastructure and education, and to top it off, working people would lose health care.
Call 844-899-9913 to tell your senator that working people can't afford this tax bill.

On today's labor calendar, join the American Federation of Teachers today at 1pm at a rally outside Representative Barbara Comstock’s office in Sterling, Virginia.
Details on our website, dclabor.org, click on calendar, where you’ll find more great labor events for today.

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1999, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that medical interns can unionize and negotiate wages and hours.

Today’s labor quote is by Julian Bond, who said:
“Good things don’t come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!”
Julian Bond was an American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, as well as a politician, professor and writer; he died in 2015. 
0 Comments
<<Previous

    Categories

    All
    Labor History Today
    Live5 Labor Edition
    Union City Radio
    Your Rights At Work

    Union City Radio is proud to be supported by UnionPlus, which has been working hard for union families since 1986.
    Union City Radio is part of The Labor Radio/Podcast Network
    badge image

    Listen now...

    UC Radio airs weekdays at 7:15a on WPFW 89.3 FM; subscribe to the podcast here.

    Your Rights at Work airs Thursdays from 1-2p; subscribe here.

    You can also subscribe to both shows on all major podcast platforms, including iTunes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts and Overcast. 

    UC Radio is a brief audio version of the award-winning Union City electronic newsletter, featuring DC-area labor news, updates, calendar and labor history with Union City Managing Editor Chris Garlock. UC Radio is a partnership between the Metro Washington Council and 89.3 FM WPFW.  

    Your Rights at Work is a call-in show about worker rights hosted by Chris Garlock and DCNA Executive Director Ed Smith. 

    RSS Feed

Share any story to Facebook, Twitter or via email!
Just click on the story ​and then click on the  social media icon!
COPYRIGHT METRO WASHINGTON LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO 2023
202-974-8150; [email protected]
  • Home
  • Board & Staff
  • Who We Are
  • Calendar
  • Evening With Labor
    • Archive >
      • 2021 Evening With Labor
      • 2019 Evening With Labor
      • 2017 Evening With Labor
      • 2018 Evening With Labor
      • 2015 Evening With Labor
      • 2016 Evening With Labor
  • Stay Connected
  • Programs
    • Community Services >
      • Espanol
      • Mission
      • Donate Now
      • Programs
      • Funders
      • Archives
    • Political Action >
      • Archive
      • Mission
      • Elected Officials
      • Endorsements
      • DMV Voters Guide
      • Candidate Questionnaires: Archive 2006-2014 >
        • 2018
        • 2016
        • 2015
        • 2014
        • Other
        • 2012
        • 2010
        • 2008
        • 2007
        • 2006
    • DC unemployment appeals
  • Hiring Hall
    • ADMINISTRATIVE
    • COMMUNICATIONS
    • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
    • INTERNSHIPS
    • LEGAL
    • MISC
    • ORGANIZING
    • POLITICAL
    • RESEARCH
  • Affiliates