(audio) “I think the roles of unions are really important.”
That’s Texas AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Montserrat Garibay. On the latest edition of the AFL-CIO’s “State of the Unions” podcast, she shares her journey as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico City to a proud U.S. citizen and what it means in the wake of the horrific shooting in her home state of Texas. (audio: “Many of our members are people of color. Many of our members are being targeted in different ways. You know, as a teacher myself, I feel that we have to model the behavior we want to see. And I carry that as the Secretary-Treasurer here at the Texas AFL-CIO. We need to model being bold and courageous, and to speak up when we see hate actions happening, within our community, and also within our members. So I feel that as the labor movement, we have the responsibility of speaking out when we see something that isn’t fair”) On today’s labor calendar, we talk to "Ghost Workers" author Mary Gray and get a sneak preview of Gene Bruskin’s new labor musical “The Moment Was Now” on Your Rights at Work at 1 o’clock this afternoon here on WPFW. For all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1989, Gerry Horgan, chief steward of CWA Local 1103 and a NYNEX striker in Valhalla, New York, was struck on the picket line by a car driven by the daughter of a plant manager and died the following day. What was to become a four-month strike over healthcare benefits was in its second week. Today’s labor quote is by populist social commentator Will Rogers, killed on this date in 1935 in a plane crash in Point Barrow, Alaska. Will Rogers, who said: “Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. The Union Plus Prescription Savings program can save you money on brand names and generic drugs at pharmacies nationwide. Download the free Union Plus RX card and save today. Visit unionplus.org/healthsavings.
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