Your Rights At Work

Tuesday, April 4, was the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been supporting a strike by 1,300 Black sanitation workers. This week, AFSCME -- the union those sanitation workers belonged to -- released the first episode of I AM STORY, a podcast that retells the gripping story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history. We talk with Kris Stith, one of the members of the I AM STORY team, plus we share a trailer for the podcast.
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Labor movement researcher and organizer Eric Dirnbach says that Bon Jovi’s 1986 hit “Livin’ on a Prayer” is an anthem about working class survival. We talk with Eric about the song’s deeper message about class struggle.

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If it seemed like there were more strikes last year, that’s because there were; Johnnie Kallas has the data to prove it with the Cornell ILR Labor Action Tracker's second annual report. We find out who struck, where, and why.
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As Americans pay astronomical health care costs, the new film “American Hospitals: Healing A Broken System” takes a provocative look at hospitals accruing wealth and evading scrutiny. We talk with director, co-producer and co-writer Vincent Mondillo. The film is set to premiere at E Street Cinema in Washington, DC on March 29th, 2023 (CLICK HERE for your free ticket!) and will subsequently open nationwide in over twenty cities, via the theatrical distributor 8 Above, including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles, followed by community screenings starting May 1. View the trailer here.

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Award-winning RN Angelo Estrellas, fired Wednesday for purportedly supporting DCNA’s union organizing campaign at George Washington University Hospital, speaks out on why the nurses want a union. Demand his reinstatement here.

Why is Virginia trying to erase labor history from its schools? The Virginia Education Association’s Shane Riddle and Brian Peyton from Teamsters 322 explain.

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We talk with Jos Williams, former president of the metro Washington Labor Council AFL-CIO and David Mott, retired SEIU Organizing Coordinator, about the Banking on our Future Day of Action.

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SAKET SONI’s astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor--told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship. His new book is THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America.
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Myrtle Witbooi started as a young domestic worker in apartheid South Africa, became General Secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union and was the first president of the International Domestic Workers Federation. From the Labor History Today podcast, in honor of International Women’s Day, Myrtle Witbooi – who died earlier this year – in her own voice, honored by the late Richard Trumka, and remembered by the Solidarity Center’s Alexis De Simone.

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In one of the largest series of labor-focused teach-ins in recent memory, academics have joined with workers, Gen Z activists, unions and others to launch “Labor Spring.” These events, held on college campuses and in communities nationwide from late February through early May, are clear outgrowths of the current moment’s surge in union organizing and pro-worker sentiment.  We talk with Dr. James Benton, director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, which launched the effort. Click here for a full list of planned events.

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Starbucks Violated Labor Law in Buffalo Union Drive, Judge Rules
Caterpillar and UAW reach a tentative contract agreement, averting strike
Union leaders hail Su nomination as new Labor Secretary
Brandon Johnson Is Heading to Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff as a Champion of the Working Class
High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever

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Jon Melrod on the life and legacy of David Fagen, a Buffalo Soldier who became a Filipino revolutionary. A former auto worker, Melrod’s the author of Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War.  

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EPI policy analyst and government affairs specialist Margaret Poydock: Major strike activity increased nearly 50% in 2022.
Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig: Labor joins Ukraine solidarity rally this Saturday at Lincoln Memorial.
Evening with Labor award-winners Sam Epps, UNITE HERE 25 Political Director and IATSE 22’s Chuck Clay.
Plus: Latest labor news headlines.

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Elise Bryant on a new generation’s plans at the Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Labor Heritage Foundation. Plus an audio postcard from the Feb. 15 Prince George’s County building trades rally for a project labor agreement.

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Back when he was an arc welder, longtime labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr fell 20 feet on the job; his second novel, The Man Who Changed Colors, imagines the story of another worker who didn’t survive the fall, exploring the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans, Portuguese fascist gangs, and abusive shipyard working conditions on Cape Cod.

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Pasha Fesenko and Jeslyn Zakes on why DC-area farmers market workers voted to unionize this week with UFCW Local 400 to form the FRESHFARM Workers Union.
Plus: Harold Phillips, actor and fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member, on the workplace safety issues raised by the recent charging of actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the tragic 2022 "Rust" shooting case.

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Ralph Fasanella, a former UE organizer who became recognized as one of America’s greatest painters of working-class life and struggle, passed away twenty-five years ago, on December 16, 1997. UE Communications Director Jonathan Kissam talks about Fasanella’s life, art and commitment to the working class.
Read his article here: Remembering Ralph Fasanella, UE Organizer and Painter of Working-Class Life and Struggle
 
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Economic Policy Institute Policy Analyst and Government Affairs Specialist Margaret Poydock on how Unionization increased by 200,000 in 2022; tens of millions more wanted to join a union, but couldn’t.

Emily Barth, Assistant Attorney General in the DC OAG’s Office of Consumer Protection on how Instacart workers who made deliveries in DC may be eligible for $150+ cash payments. Click here for details on how to file a claim. Deadline: March 25.

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Longtime union organizer and musician Joe Uehlein drops by to preview the ULiNERS 20th Anniversary Celebration coming up this Saturday, and legendary labor leader Bill Lucy reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr. the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and why “Change is possible.”  

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ATU 689 President Raymond Jackson gives us an update on the Loudoun County transit strike against Keolis; American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson explains The Holman Rule, which would empower Congress to fire, demote, reassign, or cut the pay of individual federal employees.

Plus labor news headlines: Union membership grew by a quarter of a million workers in 2022; How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low; The Richest 1% of People Amassed Almost Two-Thirds of New Wealth Created in the Last Two Years, Oxfam Says; OSHA to fine Amazon after discovering warehouse workers have been exposed to unsafe working conditions; NLRB rules in favor of union victory at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, which may help move contract negotiations along.

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AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond previews the AFL-CIO’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference (Jan. 13-15) and Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant on the origins of LHF’s annual MLK “Gonna Take Us All” Ball (Jan. 15).
Music: Why We Sing: DC Labor Chorus
Plus labor news headlines: Landslide union vote by Yale grad students and why the Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters case before the Supreme Court today has unions worried about their right to strike.

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Callers react to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's on-the-job injury and the game’s shoddy treatment of workers, er, players; Patrick Dixon reports on the massive UK strikes; Ed Smith on why exhausted hospital workers are demanding change; a peek into the 2023 Labor Crystal Ball, and local gamers organize first union at Microsoft.  

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Chad Pearson traces “the continuity of thuggery” by bosses in “Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century”.

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BaristaTyler Hofmann on organizing a Richmond Starbucks; sportswriter Dave Zirin on Brittney Griner in “The land of prisons”; "The Workers Cup" director Adam Sobel on worker rights in Qatar.
NOTE: Starbucks Workers United Rally 5p Friday Dec. 9th on the plaza outside the Arlington government center, 2200 Clarendon Boulevard, Arlington, VA.

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SAM DUKORE, striking barista at the Arlington Courthouse Starbucks store, reports on the nationwide “Red Cup Rebellion”. Former Union Kitchen worker – and Union Kitchen Workers organizer -- GABE WITTES with an update on D.C.’s Union Kitchen Slapped With 26 Counts Of Labor Law Violations.
Today’s music: When I’m Gone - Anna Kendrick

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With the holidays coming up, Letycia Pastrana, Executive Director of the Metro Washington Labor Council’s Community Services Agency, on how CSA helps needy working families in the metro area.

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Union Veterans Council Executive Director WILL ATTIG on how the UVC mobilized against a lawsuit seeking to block counting of military ballots in Wisconsin.
STEVE EARLY on “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.”
Meet Steve at “Do Veterans Need a New Agenda in Washington?”; Mon, November 14, 1:00pm – 2:30pm; CLICK HERE to RSVP (Free)

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Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant premieres It's About Our Choice, the brand-new song/video from Lynn Marie Smith, and discusses getting out the union women’s vote in the 2022 elections.

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American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson on how UNITE HERE, the hotel workers union, has been talking to voters in Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania about progressive fixes to inflation for months.
Plus: a special on-the-ground report from Atlanta, Georgia, where retired Utility Workers staffer Sam Weinstein and Mark Brooks (national staff at the Utility Workers) report on labor’s get out the vote efforts in that battleground state.

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Errol Schweizer, host of The CheckOut podcast and Jonathan Williams from UFCW Local 400 on Why A Kroger/Albertsons Merger Is A Bad Idea (except for investors and top executives who have extracted windfall profits).

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Elizabeth Falcon, DC Jobs with Justice Executive Director on the Still in the Dark: Tipped Wages in DC wage theft report and a caller suggests direct action at local Jose Andres restaurants.

Plus labor news headlines:
Threat of rail strike rises as members of another union reject proposed labor deal
Corn Nuts workers in Fresno end strike over benefits, wage. Here’s what they won
Ring cameras are being used to control and surveil overworked delivery workers
“Altruistic” Celebrity Chef José Andrés Is Fighting To Keep His Own Workers’ Wages Low
Your boss can monitor your activities without special software
“The Class War Never Ends, the Master Never Relents”: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Debates over worker protections in Qatar continue as World Cup approaches
Beer delivery workers in UK plan to go on strike at end of October, prompting fears of shortages at pubs

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Sociologist Tom VanHeuvelen on how Being in a Union Means You Could Make $1.3 Million More Over Your Lifetime.

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A chat with longtime labor journalist Joe Maniscalco, founder/publisher of  Work-Bites.com. Plus: Working Girl Blues for Don't Forget The Blues host Chris Deproperty, who passed last week. Click here to support WPFW (select Your Rights At Work on the dropdown menu).

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CEO pay rose more than 11% in 2021, a new record, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute; JOSH BIVENS, EPI Director of Research, reports.

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DC's P Street Starbucks votes in a union; Rebecca Hess, Mid-Atlantic Regional Joint Board, Workers United, SEIU, reports.  
Iron Workers Local 5 member Nathan Merhige on how he won #1 in the 2022 Outstanding Ironworkers Apprenticeship Competition.
Today’s music: Paul Robeson sings “Joe Hill” on the legendary organizer/singer’s 143rd birthday.  

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Professor CHRIS MARTIN on Workers at Big Brands Like Starbucks Aren’t the Only Ones Unionizing, and Railroad Workers United’s Fritz Edler on Canadian railroaders who died on the job under circumstances where their deaths were self-investigated by private police owned and directed by their employer.

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Vocalist Pam Parker is hosting an online concert on Sunday, September 25; details/tickets at pamelaparker108@gmail.com. Pam, who recently survived a near-death experience, talks about finding her voice after a serious illness, Sunday’s concert’s theme of gratitude, and the importance of music to the labor movement.

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Netflix documentary The Anthrax Attacks: In The Shadow of 9/11 with director Dan Krauss and Dena Briscoe, president of APWU, Nation’s Capital and Southern MD Local.
From Oscar-nominated director Dan Krauss (Extremis) comes the story of the 2001 anthrax attacks on the United States in the days following 9/11 and the incredible forensic investigation that followed. Briscoe is among the DC postal workers featured in the film and two of the five people killed in the anthrax attacks were members of her local.

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Economic Policy Institute policy analyst Margaret Poydock on President Biden’s first 18 months, including his key role in the tentative rail settlement averting a nationwide strike.

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Last week we talked to U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh about the induction of Essential Workers of the Coronavirus Pandemic into the Labor Hall of Honor. This week we talk with Wade Rathke, Chief Organizer for ACORN about how “Essential workers are taking action” and organizing.
“Acknowledging workers' importance doesn't give employers the right to exploit them,” he says.

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Sportswriter Dave Zirin on three major labor sports stories: the Major League Baseball Players Association affiliates with the AFL-CIO, minor league ball players organize, and U.S. Soccer signs equal pay agreements. Plus: DC has its first union bookstore! We talk with Isa Salazar, one of the Politics and Prose Workers Union organizers, about how workers there won a union and a first contract in just 10 months.  

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This week’s guests:
Rebecca Hess, Mid-Atlantic Regional Joint Board, Workers United, SEIU, with updates on Starbucks Labor Day Weekend Sip-Ins in the DC metro area.
Margaret Poydock, Policy Analyst and Government Affairs Specialist at the Economic Policy Institute on Union approval hits highest point since 1965 (Here’s why this isn’t surprising).
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh on the induction of Essential Workers of the Coronavirus Pandemic into the Labor Hall of Honor, record approval rates for unions, and a Labor Day message.
Ellen Cassedy: co-founder of 9 to 5; author of the new book Working 9 to 5: A women’s movement, a labor union, and the iconic movie.
MUSIC: Classic Union Yes promo.  

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Broadcast on August 18, 2022

While hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith take a break, check out these reports from the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, which features brief excerpts from some of the more than 150 labor radio shows and podcasts around the country.

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Kentucky AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan reports on labor’s efforts to provide disaster relief to those impacted by the recent floods in eastern Kentucky as well as last Fall’s tornados in the western part of the state.

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Broadcast on July 21, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock
Writer, feminist and social activist Selma James on the International Wages for Housework Campaign at 50. Her latest book, Our Time Is Now, compiles several decades of James’s work with a focus on her more recent writings.
PLUS: An audio postcard from the July 20 Senate cafeteria worker civil disobedience action.

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Velina Brown, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s new live musical, Back To The Way Things Were, playing free in San Francisco parks through Labor Day: In a country where we can finally stop wearing masks to get pizza and go to the movies, and where we again have a president who isn’t dumb as a two dollar ham, hard-working, middle-aged liberals Ralph and Alice wistfully yearn for The before Times, when things seemed normal. But for Zoe - their twenty-something daughter who grew up in a world of climate change, housing crashes, student debt, the rise of dictatorships and the fall of democracies - there is no “better” to go back to. For her the purgatory of the last two years was just a pause from life in Hell. So what’s the point? Isn’t it easier to just give up?

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UFCW 1994’s Amy Millar reports on how labor is getting out the vote for the July 19 Maryland primary; UNITE HERE Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer Paul Schwalb on how to find a good union hotel on fairhotel.org, plus today’s labor news headlines.

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Sean Hendley, former president of AFSCME Local 3399, reports on how Takoma Park City Manager Jamal Fox has wasted more than $33,000 in city taxpayer funds on legal fees to fight a city employee’s request for six days of telework, which would have cost nothing.
Plus labor news headlines: Americans have lost confidence in everything from organized religion to Congress, but their faith in unions is staying strong; Production workers on “The Simpsons,” “American Dad!” and “Family Guy” secured voluntary recognition from 20th Television Animation after more than 90% of eligible workers voted to join The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839); I Got Fired for Unionizing at Starbucks. And I’d Do It Again.

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Labor historian Joe McCartin reminds us that counting on the Supreme Court to uphold key rights was always a mistake, and journalist podcaster Errol Schweizer tells us Why Worker Organizing Is So Essential To The Food Industry.
Plus original music from local folksinger Steve Jones.

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After months of delays by the boss, Union Kitchen workers have finally won union recognition; UFCW Local 400 organizer Travis Acton reports. Then, it’s Back To The Way Things Were, a brand-new live musical from our friends at the San Francisco Mime Troupe; Resident Playwright Michael Gene Sullivan joins us for a preview. Plus, Kathy M. Newman wonders what the Van Gogh Immersive Experience can tell us about the relationship between art, social class, and work.  

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How did our movements in the south flip key states against Trump, hold the line in Virginia, and make gains states like in Florida and Texas
against such great odds? The must-read book Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections” lays out the organizing work building up to the monumental 2020 election including what worked, what didn't, and how they approached the challenge of both "going broad" to win a crucial election and "digging deep" to build a base for long-term progressive change. Deepak Pateriya, Former Managing Director of Community Change Action, and a contributor to Power Concedes Nothing, joins us to discuss the book and the future of the struggle to win power at the ballot box.
Along with Vivian Chang, APALA's Civil Engagement & Racial Justice Coordinator and SEIU National Political Director Maria Peralta, Pateriya will be doing a book talk Tuesday, June 14 from 6pm – 8pm at the Takoma Park Busboys and Poets;
 
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Washington Teachers Union president Jacqueline Pogue Lyons on Saturday’s March for Our Lives against gun violence (12 noon at the Washington Memorial). “Our union has taken on this issue for years,” says the American Federation of Teacher, “fighting to keep our schools, streets and communities safe from the public health crisis that is gun violence in America.”

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The Great Labor Arts Exchange, usually held in Washington, DC, will be part of the annual Labor Notes conference coming up June 16th through 19th in Chicago.  Judy Ancel, longtime producer/host at the Heartland Labor Forum radio show in Kansas City, and one of this year’s Joe Hill award-winners, joins us to report on both events as well as the role of labor radio and podcasts in the labor movement.

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The Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls is coming up on June 18 and has a lot of labor support; Roz Pelles and David Mott discuss the demand for a living wage, affordable health care, housing and a democracy that guarantees dignity and respect for all.

Plus labor news headlines, including Starbucks Is the Country’s Worst Labor Law Violator, Carvana cuts 12% of their workforce over email and Zoom, and CEO-Worker Pay Gap Widens—And Employees Aren’t Happy About It.

Broadcast on June 2, 2022, hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith.
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Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig on why he got arrested with fellow union vets at the Warrior Met strike. What the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre has to tell us today, with Ahmed White, professor of law at the University of Colorado-Boulder and author of “The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America.” And Harold Meyerson, Editor At Large at The American Prospect, on the return of “law and order” to the NLRB.
Today’s music: One Man Revolution; Tom Morello

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Labor journalist KIM KELLY on her new book “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor”, plus NALC Branch 142 President KEITH HOOKS on the Letter Carriers’ annual "Stamp out Hunger" Food Drive, Saturday, May 14 and why longtime organizer RICHARD BENSINGER thinks Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz “will go down in history as the Al Capone of union busters”.
Plus the latest labor news headlines.

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Hayley Brown, VP for Organizing at the Nonprofit Employees Union (NPEU): Reproductive rights are workers rights, and abortion access is a labor issue (Read NPEU’s statement here); Damon Silvers on “Labor, Climate Change, and Innovation” and why working people are central to any solution to the climate change crisis.
Plus labor news headlines: D.C. Circulator drivers strike for second day amid negotiations; Apple workers in Maryland seek unionization; Amazon Workers Urged to Fight On After Staten Island Union Push Fails; Starbucks will raise wages again — but not for unionized workers; White House to host union organizers representing Amazon, Starbucks workers; Jorts the Cat vs. Scabby the Rat: Rising Labor Movement Needs New Mascots.

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On Workers Memorial Day, National Council for Occupational Safety and Health Communications Coordinator Melissa Moriarty on the Killed at Work and Dirty Dozen reports. Monsignor George Higgins, the leading “labor priest” of his era, passed away 20 years ago; Clayton Sinyai, Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network and member of Laborers Local 11, reports on events honoring Higgins scheduled for May 1 and May 2 (details here). Filmmaker Deborah Shaffer discusses “The Wobblies,” which screens on May Day at the 2022 DC Labor FilmFest.
Today’s music: We Just Come to Work Here & Dump The Bosses Off Your Back; by Anne Feeney.

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Barista J FLETCHER on this week’s vote by workers at five Richmond Starbucks to unionize; JOHN DOHERTY (Painters union) on the April 23 Fight for Our Future rally for climate, care, jobs and justice; ROBIN RUNGE on Stopping Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Work: The Campaign for an ILO Convention (April 26 book talk); labor historian and journalist MICHAEL MATEJKA on the April 28 Steve Sutton Memorial Dedication in Marseilles, Illinois.

Today’s music: Paradise (John Prine cover) by Joe Uehlein; Night Falls by Tom Morello.

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Chris Biondi, Training Director at the Washington DC Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee talks about apprentices and Plumber Local 5’s April 21 Industry Day and Open House. Then, there are real questions about the future of the office in the wake of the pandemic; we take a look at the fascinating history of office design with Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, author of Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office.
Labor news headlines: Starbucks workers vote to unionize 6 more stores, pushing total to 16; Amazon alleges ALU interference in recent union election win, calls for a re-vote; Companies like Amazon spend millions on anti-union efforts. Where’s that money going? ; Starbucks is advertising for an in-house lawyer with experience in 'strike contingency planning' amid increased unionization efforts; Wave of union victories suggests union-busting consultants may have lost their sway; Amazon workers suffer injuries at inflated rates; Actors in ‘Waitress’ Tour Seek to Join Labor Union.
Today’s music: 9 to 5, Dolly Parton.

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American Prospect editor at large HAROLD MEYERSON on the historic win at the Amazon JFK8 warehouse, plus exciting news about big changes in labor law thanks to NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.
Hundreds of workers at Howard University Hospital are planning a one-day strike next Monday; YRAW co-host Ed Smith, who’s Executive Director of the District of Columbia Nurses Association (DCNA), explains why.
Commercial security officers rallied Wednesday for a fair contract; we hear more from JUDITH HOWELL, a longtime security officer and board member at SEIU 32BJ.
At another rally yesterday, AFSCME Local 2401 members demonstrated in support of telework for DC city workers; the local’s chief shop steward, ROGER SCOTT, reports.
Today’s music: Union Strike Folk Song; Lisa Simpson.
Labor news headlines: Senators announce funding for Capitol cafeteria workers facing layoff; Southern California grocery workers union signs tentative wage hike agreement, averting strike; Bus operators for the DC Circulator approve strike; Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Says Companies Are Being ‘Assaulted’ by Unions.

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On today’s show, Washington Hilton housekeepers were up in arms on Tuesday; we find out why from UNITE HERE Local 25’s Paul Schwalb. Then, the Montgomery County Council last week unanimously approved an expansion of the Prevailing Wage; Stephen Courtien, president of the Baltimore-D.C. Metro Building and Construction Trades Council tells us what that will mean for local building trades workers.
Our final guest is longtime union organizer Daisy Pitkin; her brand-new book, ON THE LINE: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union, takes a very timely behind-the-scenes look at the fight to build a union.

PLUS: Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire(Bev Grant) and the latest labor news headlines.

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Movement Crystal City is the first major gym in the country to unionize; organizer Gus Mason joins us to explain why…then, Sunday was the first day of Spring and strikes have been popping up all over; Johnnie Kallas from Cornell's Labor Tracker Project updates us on their latest findings…And finally, if you were glued to this week’s Senate hearing on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, here’s a case no one brought up: Holmes v. Atlanta, when the Supreme Court ruled against Atlanta's "separate but equal" public golf courses. We find out what the game of golf has to tell us about race in America today, with professor Lane Demas, author of Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf.
Plus labor news headlines: Tentative agreement reached between Howard University and their faculty; Virginia, the first state to set Covid workplace rules, drops them; Seattle Starbucks workers vote yes for unionization; Grocery workers in California are voting to authorize a strike; Many workers are looking to switch jobs; 52 million workers make less than $15 an hour.

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Compilation of reports about Ukraine from shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Your Rights At Work, The Dig, Working 4 a Livin, The Rick Smith Show and Work Week Radio.

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On Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed an agreement with unions that represent more than 11,000 DC government employees; we find out more from AFSCME Council 20 Executive Director Robert Hollingsworth.
Then, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America; this book, first published in 2020, is now out in paperback and we’re joined by author Robert Chase and prisoner rights advocate Kurt Stand. Plus: music by Odetta.
Labor news headlines: 20,000 Longshore Workers Refuse to Unload Russian Ships; Starbucks Workers Unionizing in Virginia; USW Local 8888 ratifies 5-year contract with Newport News Shipbuilding; New York Times Tech Workers Win a Union; Mpls. school, union leaders return to bargaining table on 2nd day of teachers strike; Grocery workers contract with Southern California supermarkets expires; Howard Nurses Face Sunday Deadline.

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Longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on Two-Faced Anti-Unionism; sportswriter Dave Zirin on the MLB lockout, and Doug Crandell on Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages.
Plus labor news headlines: REI Workers in New York Vote to Unionize; Arizona Starbucks becomes first outside New York to unionize; Union Activists Arrested at Amazon warehouse in Staten Island.

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The American people don't want another war. The Ukrainian people don't want a war. The Russian people don't want war. We talk with longtime labor and antiwar activist Gene Bruskin about a working-class analysis of the crisis in Ukraine.
Then, what can we learn about America from Starbucks and the current explosion of organizing by their baristas? We visit with Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks.

Today’s music: War (What is it good for) Edwin Starr.
Plus labor news headlines:

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One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman with an update on the DC and U.S. Congress campaigns, plus a special 9 to 5 screening with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on 2/25; Cathy Feingold on the Jerry Black Scholarship Fund at the TraRon Center; Timothy J. Lombardo on Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics.

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Reports from the folks who are organizing a union at, yes, Union Kitchen here in Washington, DC, and at Starbucks in Virginia. Then, with the PRO Act blocked in the U.S. Senate by Republicans, has President Biden found another way for American workers who want to organize? Actually, he’s found almost 70 ways; we hear more from Damon Silvers at the AFL-CIO.
Today’s music: Union Town, by The Nightwatchman himself, Tom Morello.
Plus labor news headlines: Portland averts major municipal strike as city, union reach 11th hour agreement; Stop & Shop Union Negotiations Are Underway; A Las Vegas bartender was robbed at gunpoint. His bosses made him pay back the stolen money, a lawsuit says; ‘Unions benefit all of us’: new Biden plan encourages federal workers to unionize; Starbucks Fired Union Leaders In Memphis. Will Labor Law Protect The Workers?

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February 4 is Transit Equity Day and ATU Local 689 President Raymond Jackson and Labor Network For Sustainability Maryland Director Elizabeth Bunn join us to talk about why transit affects working people the most.
Then, Where Do Grocery Prices Come From? Corporate consolidation and profiteering, that’s where; Errol Schweizer, host of The Checkout Podcast, explains.
Finally, there’s a brand-new book out this month, "Revolutionary Nonviolence, Organizing for Freedom", and one of the authors, Michael Honey, joins us to discuss the philosophy and power of nonviolent organizing, and how to build and sustain effective social movements.

Today’s music: Woke Up This Morning by The Freedom Singers.

Plus labor news headlines: Center For American Progress Staffers Threaten To Strike Amid Contract Fight; U.S. Labor board official seeks swift punishment for anti-union threats; NWSL, NWSLPA Agree to 1st CBA in League History; Minimum Salaries, More Addressed; Starbucks union push spreads to 54 stores in 19 states; The NLRB accused Amazon of illegally threatening, surveilling, and interrogating workers over union organizing at a New York warehouse; Genesee Co-op FCU Congratulates Employees on Joining Communication Workers of America

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Erica Smiley (Jobs with Justice) and Sarita Gupta (Ford Foundation's Future of Work) on their new book, “The Future We Need, Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century,” plus 1199SEIU organizer James Crosby on “Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They’re quitting in droves.”
Today’s music: Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” which hit #1 on January 28, 1981.
Plus labor news headlines: King Soopers workers ratify 3-year contract after striking across Denver metro; Bus Drivers Go on Strike to Protest Low Pay in Rural Mississippi School District; CTA reaches tentative labor agreement; Golden Gate Transit Bus Drivers Vote to Authorize Strike; Next Thursday, February 3, is national Transit Equity Day, local activities are planned and we’ll be covering it here on Your Rights At Work; Union feels optimistic about Amazon union vote in Alabama.

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Longtime union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp, who’s written an introduction to a new “activist” edition of Confessions of a Union Buster, says a half-century of union busting has eroded American democracy. Then we’ve got a brand-new song from “the singing elevator constructor,” and SpudWrench himself drops by for a visit. Last up is Jim Russell, whose book The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans explores the damages caused by the privatization of retirement plans and the connection to current struggles by labor activists.

Plus labor news headlines: Two more Boston-area Starbucks join unionization push; Starbucks employees at Calgary's Chinook Centre apply for certification with United Steelworkers; Will the Starbucks Union Victories Ignite Organizing Across the Country?; Howard University professor says Americans are quitting ‘bad jobs’; Starbucks comes to Virginia and Norton introduces pay equity bill.

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The AFL-CIO’s Bill Samuel on the racist anti-democratic roots of the filibuster, nurses hold a national day of action, Elise Bryant previews the annual MLK Gonna Take Us All Ball and Donald Cohen on The Privatization of Everything.
Plus: labor news headlines and music from the DC Labor Chorus.

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This week's show: One year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Capitol Police resist privatization and AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the fight for democracy. EPI Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock on why unions are not only good for workers, they’re good for communities and for democracy. This week’s music: The Selecter’s “All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose”.
Plus labor news headlines: Politics and Prose recognizes union; DNC staff votes to unionize; The Long American Meltdown Led to the January 6 Insurrection; AFL-CIO, Nurses Unions Demand Permanent OSHA Covid-19 Safety Standard

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Broadcast on December 30, 2021

This week’s show, after months of negotiations and a public campaign, Colonial Williamsburg workers have finally won new contract; we talk with Benjy Cannon, Communications Director at UNITE HERE Local 25.
Then: will this year’s historic strike wave continue in 2022? Contracts covering 1.3 million workers expire next year; Labor Notes Assistant Editor Dan DiMaggio reports on Who Might Strike in 2022.
PLUS: "We Won't Back Down" a brand-new song from Jerry Levinsky.

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This week's show: Live from Battle Creek, Michigan, an update from Trevor Bidelman, president of Baker’s Local 3G on why Kellogg’s strikers overwhelmingly rejected the latest contract offer.
Then, teaching history shouldn’t have to mean re-living it on the job. Workers at Colonial Williamsburg are being worked to the bone and exploited, just like in the old days, says their union, UNITE HERE Local 25; Benjy Cannon reports.
The ongoing strike wave reminds many of The Labor Upsurge of the 1930s and ’40s in the United States; we talk to political scientist Michael Goldfield about today’s lessons.
Plus, Before The Fall, a brand-new song from the R.J. Phillips Band, and listeners call in on a range of workplace issues.

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This week's show: we talk with David Story, a defense industry worker who says it’s time to cut the Pentagon budget (and spend the money on unionized green jobs); then we catch up with James Schiffman, an associate professor in Georgia who was punished when he spoke out (‘We are teaching in COVID factories') about his concerns about his school’s lax covid policies.
Plus labor news headlines: M.L.B.’s lockout begins; Union workers ratify contract, end strike at WVa hospital; Citing new Omicron variant, nurses say permanent OSHA Covid-19 standard for health care workers badly needed; Judge orders Google to disclose secret anti-union documents.

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This week's show: The Warrior Met Coal strike comes to DC; UMWA’s Erin Bates reports. AFL-CIO Director of government affairs Bill Samuel on how the just-signed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will put millions of Americans to work. Author Joseph Anderson explores the worker perspective in his new book “Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America.”
PLUS: Hold The Line; brand-new music from Tom Morello!

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This week's show: William Attig, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO drops by to discuss a brand-new program, Operation Union Veterans Day. Then, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith on Why the Media Loves Labor Now. Plus, the 60-second Labor Rap!

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This week's show: Michigan Congressman Andy Levin remembers AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and tells us about the “Keeping Workers Safe Act” Levin just introduced in Congress. Then, Jack Metzgar on his book "Bridging the Divide” and the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the U.S. We wrap up with singer-songwriter George Mann, who’s just released a brand-new CD, “A World Like This.”

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This week's show: Today is Latina Equal Pay Day: Xochitl Cobarruvias (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement LA chapter chair) on why Latinas must work 10 extra months for the same pay.
During the sixth minute of each of the National Women’s Soccer League's games on October 6, players stopped the game, gathered at midfield and locked arms in solidarity; Dave Zirin, sportwriter and host of WPFW’s The Collision tells us what happened next.
Plus: Click here to support Your Rights At Work’s home station WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.

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This week's show: 700 nurses have been striking for 8 months at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the folks who make Elijah Craig Bourbons at the Heaven Hill distillery in Kentucky have been on strike since September 11.
Plus: Click here to support Your Rights At Work’s home station WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.

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This week's show: Bakery Workers Local 3G president Trevor Bidelman reports on the Kellogg strike from Battle Creek, MI; latest on the UNITE HERE Hilton Housekeeping Campaignwith UNITE HERE Local 25’s Benjy Cannon.
Plus: Click here to support Your Rights At Work’s home station WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.

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Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 23, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock

This week's show:
Hollywood could be facing the biggest strike since World War Two; IATSE Local 488’s CDavid Cottrill on why the folks who make the movies and shows we love are so fed up.
DC Jobs with Justice’s Melinda Fiedler provides details on the new benefits and expanded access in the updated DC Paid Family & Medical Leave Act, which goes into effect October 1.
The Sheraton in Columbia, Maryland is now the Merriweather Lakehouse hotel, but a lot more than the name has changed: UNITE HERE Local 7’s Tracy Lingo on how hotel workers are being left out in the cold.

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Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 23, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock

This week's show:
Why Bill 34-20 in Montgomery County is a sneak attack on all union rights…Oreos are OK again (sort of); workers won their strike against Nabisco, but an “M” or “MS” on the product code means it was made non-union in Mexico…Plus: highlights from next week’s Womxn’s Labor Leadership Symposium.

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Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 16, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith

This week's show:
Nabisco strikers win tentative contract.
Stories of terrible managers—and the workers who fought back; we talk with Mother Jones editor Jacob Rosenberg about Bad Bosses, a brand-new feature in the publication named after the legendary labor organizer.
Want shorter lines at airport security? Improve conditions for TSA workers! We’ll find out how from Johnny Jones, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFGE TSA Council.
We’re still struggling with effects of the global pandemic, now comes the threat of mass evictions on top of a housing shortage. We talk with Race and Economic Empowerment Project director James Benton about the September 22 panel on Affordable Housing in DC During (and after) the Pandemic.
Plus music from Working in DC; don’t miss the final four performances, Thu-Sun, Sept 16-19.

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This week's show: Working in DC, the musical based on Studs Terkel’s book of oral histories of workers, opens on Labor Day on Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the AFL-CIO. We talk with director Shanara Gabrielle about taking it to the streets with revolutionary theater.
Plus: The latest episode of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama: “Hobos in Space”.

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This week's show: A frontline report from the Nabisco strike*, a preview of Saturday’s March On for Voting Rights, and Jamie McCallum remembers activist and labor historian Stanley Aronowitz, “who knew that freedom begins where work ends.”
Plus today’s labor music, "One Day Longer" by Tom Breiding, about the United Mine Workers strike at Warrior Met.
*click here for details on the Nabisco/Mondelēz “Made in Mexico” boycott.

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Broadcast on August 19, 2021

This week's show: Two episodes of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance: Persistence radio drama. First up, a little change of pace, with the "What Were You Thinking?" game show and Eyeball On History. Then, "Collision at the Intersectionality," the culminating episode for both the Jailbreak and Black Fox story lines.
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This week's show: AFL-CIO director of policy and special counsel Damon Silvers reports on the labor federation’s week of action on the PRO Act…”Breaking the Shell” reports on the hardships faced by Mexican crab pickers on Maryland's Eastern Shore; we talk with Mari Perales Sánchez, one of the report’s authors…Plus: Jeff Bezos thanks the little people, Scabby the Rat lives to see another day, workers at Frito-Lay, Uber and Lyft strike and all the latest labor news headlines.

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This week's show: Richard Loeb, AFGE Senior Policy Counselor, on why nearly 80% of federal and DC workers say they are more productive teleworking during the pandemic. Then, Allyson Brantley, author of the new book Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors & Remade American Consumer Activism on the historic Coors boycott, coalition building in the '60s & '70s and lessons for today’s organizers.
PLUS: Episode 2 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Tales Of The Resistance, Volume 2: Persistence”: injustice and romance are in the air when an Asian American Antifa activist and a Black American activist drag queen are both thrown in a cell for resisting arrest. And when right-wing insurrectionists attack the jail to free their leader, political passion becomes a … JAILBREAK!

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Broadcast on July 8, 2021

This week's show:
From The View from Somewhere podcast, the fascinating story of Marvel Cooke, a groundbreaking Black woman journalist who reported on labor in the 1940s and organized a union with the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s.

Then, Episode 1 of Tales of the Resistance, Volume 2, the brand-new radio drama from the San Francisco Mime Troupe that we’ll be featuring here on Your Rights At Work this summer.

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This week's show: The American Postal Workers Union is celebrating its’ 50th birthday today; Postal Workers president Mark Dimondstein reports on how his union is still fighting for postal worker rights.
PLUS: Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen on the Hero Pay bill in DC City Council…DC Jobs with Justice Worker Rights Policy Advocate Nikko Bilitza on the Your Rights at Work and the New Minimum Wage webinar…the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Michael Gene Sullivan previews the Mime Troupe’s brand-new radio drama, “Tales Of The Resistance, Volume 2: Persistence” which we’ll be carrying right here on Your Rights at Work, starting next week…this Sunday is July 4, so we get the 411 – the Labor411, on which franks are kosher for a union-made Independence Day with Cherri Senders.

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First, on the State of Working America podcast, Heidi Shierholz and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute fact-check the labor shortage hype.

Then, from the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Seeing Red: What will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? And when did our electoral choices get so limited?

By the way, the Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance, Volume 2 starts July 10 and you can hear all 10 episodes right here on Your Rights At Work!

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This week's show: MD Dems and labor leaders are denouncing Governor Hogan’s efforts to end supplemental unemployment insurance payments; we hear from UNITE HERE 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Boardman…Then we get a report from Will Attig, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council on how veterans joined the picket line at the Mineworker’s Warrior Met strike last week.
And we discuss class, country music and social change with Tim Fowler, who teaches a class on how these all connect.

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This week's show: Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the maintenance and dispatch center for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, California has once again raised the issues of workplace violence and mental health. We talk with Nurse Consultant – and DCNA member -- Laverne Plater.
Also, Strathmore Music Center is threatening to replace ticket-sellers there with machines; Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Union, IATSE Local 868 Business Agent Anne Vantine reports on what’s at stake.
We do have some good news this week, as DC workers notched another victory against wage theft on Monday and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s just-released budget restores salary cuts for AFSCME Comps 1+2; we check in with Elizabeth Falcon, Executive Director at DC Jobs With Justice, for an update.
Plus: WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; click here to support Jazz & Justice in the nation’s capital.

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This week's show: Washington Gas workers (Teamsters 96) blow the whistle on corporate greed. Organizer Steve Lanning (LiUNA 11) on workers’ right to strike. And Brittany Scott on Ending Racial Discrimination in Industrial Temp Hiring Through Innovative Enforcement.
Plus: WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; click here to support Jazz & Justice in the nation’s capital.

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This week's show: ATU 689 shop steward Tonia White on why MetroAccess Operations Control Center workers voted this week to authorize a strike. Alejandro Ortiz on how the ACLU staff union won voluntary recognition. The American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson on the PRO Act's prospects and "Biden’s Good-Paying Union Jobs? Here’s How to Get Them."  
Plus: WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; click here to support Your Rights At Work in the nation’s capital.

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This week's show: The AFL-CIO’s 30th annual Death On The Job report…DC Labor Chorus’ annual spring concert preview…Nikko Bilitza from DC Jobs with Justice reports on the Essential Workers Bill of Rights…and Gabriel Winant discusses his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.
PLUS: We Did Not Come This Far, by the DC Labor Chorus.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.  
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This week's show: David Stephen, MWC political director, on today’s historic House vote on DC statehood; Ginny Diamond, NoVA Labor president, on the Volvo worker strike in Dublin, VA; Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative Associate Director, on Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class (April 28 – May 1, 2021).
Plus: D.C. Vote by the Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.  

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This week's show: AFL-CIO Communications Director Tim Schlittner on the PRO Act Digital Day of Action today (Click here to call your rep!); Moment of Silence for WTU 6 president Liz Davis; latest labor news headlines, including our new Bad Bosses feature and peeing in bottles at Amazon (yes, it’s really true!).

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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Breaking news: AFL-CIO reports that the federation’s headquarters have been renamed the Scott Walker Center for Labor Solidarity, noting that “Nobody has done more to unite and galvanize the Labor Movement than the former Wisconsin Governor.”

This week's show: Constant turnover, extended vacancies, low compensation, inconsistent policy enforcement and patterns of discrimination at the Duke University Press has sparked an organizing drive by workers there. We talk to DUP Workers Union members Dan Ruccia and Kelsea Smith.
PLUS: Labor Heritage Foundation’s Elise Bryant on the April 3 celebration of Anne Feeney’s life and work.

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This week's show: Music by and about working women from Anne Feeney, Bev Grant, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, the Rose City Kings, Nina Simone, Keb' Mo' & Roseanne Cash. And we celebrate the birthday of Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul.  
PLUS: Bev Grant and Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (March 25, 1911) and Seeds Of Freedom by the R.J. Phillips Band for Óscar Romero – the archbishop of San Salvador who spoke out against social injustice -- assassinated March 24, 1980 by the right-wing military while celebrating mass.

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This week's show: Labor movement unites in condemnation of murders of female Asian workers in Atlanta; fire fighters battle Virginia’s Jim Crow legacy; Who is Keolis and why are they hurting local transit workers? Fitness workers unite!

APALA Grieves for the Asian Women Who Were Victims of Targeted Shootings in Georgia, and Condemns Misogyny and White Supremacy that Motivated These Murders: Virginia Rodino, Maryland coordinator of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and the national convenor of United Against Hate.
Alexandria fire fighters battle Virginia’s Jim Crow legacy: Josh Turner, President, Alexandria Fire Fighters Local 2141.  
Who is Keolis and why are they hurting local transit workers? John Ertl, Collective Bargaining Administrator, Amalgamated Transit Union.  
Fitness workers unite! Emily Collinson, former trainer with Solidcore.  
PLUS: World Against Racism day of action Saturday (3/20) and concert Sunday (3/21).
Music: Spirit; written/performed by Tarn Goelling, APALA member who will be singing it at the concert against racism on Sunday.

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This week's show: What’s been the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on DC-area workers and their unions? First-hand reports on the toll -- and the ongoing struggles -- from hotel workers (John Boardman, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, UNITE HERE 25), supermarket workers (Mark Federici, president, UFCW Local 400), DC teachers (Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union) and janitors, security guards and airport workers (Jaime Contreras, District Chair and Supervisor, SEIU 32BJ).
PLUS: Workers helping workers: Sonte DuCote, Executive Director, MWC Community Services Agency.
Music: Covid Vaccine - The Soulm8s

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This week's show:
Pushing to extend Unemployment Insurance benefits with Judy Conti, Government Affairs Director at the National Employment Law Project…
"Essential Worker Wednesdays" and the Maryland Essential Workers Protection Act (MEWPA), with Chris Stevenson, analyst for 1199SEIU…
Solidarity Forever, with Pete Seeger and special guest Joe Biden…
And Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States, with David Madland, Senior Fellow and Strategic Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress.

PLUS: it’s WPFW’s annual Winter Pledge Drive; pledge at 202-588-9739 or online; be sure to scroll down to Your Rights At Work to show your support for DC’s only call-in show about your rights on the job.

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This week's show:
EPI Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock on the story behind the 2020 decline in the number of striking workers.
David Paul Kuhn on his book THE HARDHAT RIOT: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.
Music: Strike (1970 funk tune by Union).
PLUS: it’s WPFW’s annual Winter Pledge Drive; pledge at 202-588-9739 or online; be sure to scroll down to Your Rights At Work to show your support for DC’s only call-in show about your rights on the job.

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This week's show:
Special Black Labor History Month show: Peter Cole on “Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly” (2nd Edition) and Dr. Laura Warren Hill on “Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970” (March 2021).
Peter Cole is Professor of History at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois; Laura Warren Hill is Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Music: The Preacher And The Slave (Pie in the Sky): Mischief Brew

PLUS: it’s WPFW’s annual Winter Pledge Drive; pledge at 202-588-9739 or online; be sure to scroll down to Your Rights At Work to show your support for DC’s only call-in show about your rights on the job.

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This week's show:
The AFL-CIO’s Cathy Feingold and Brian Finnegan report live from "The Sound of Democracy: A Global Noise Barrage for Myanmar" action at the Embassy of Myanmar in Washington, DC.
Jamie McCallum on his new book “Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream.”  He argues that labor’s next big battle may be over not wages but time.
PLUS Labor news headlines and “Ampun Bang Jago” (Ease up, Mr. Hotshot), a popular Indonesian protest song that popped up in a viral video after the military coup in Myanmar last week. “Ease up, Mr. Hotshot” is a phrase that’s used to respond to arrogant or self-righteous authority figures. Like bosses, say. Or the military.

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This week's show:
Stephen Lerner, Marilyn Sneiderman, Harold Meyerson and Joe McCartin remember John Sweeney, who led the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009. John Sweeney died on Monday at his home in Bethesda, Maryland; he was 86.
American labor and community organizer Stephen Lerner worked with Sweeney at SEIU to create the Justice for Janitors campaign in the mid-Eighties. Marilyn Sneiderman is Executive Director of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers; under Sweeney, she directed the National AFL-CIO’s Department of Field Mobilization, where she helped launch the national "Union Cities" initiative. Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect; his piece on Sweeney, The Man Who Realigned Labor, appeared on February 2. Joe McCartin is a labor historian at Georgetown University, where he also serves as the executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

PLUS: Elise Bryant, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, on the February 9 free online screening of 9to5: The Story of A Movement.
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This week's show:
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe on her new book Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone.
Richard Loeb, AFGE Senior Policy Counselor on President Biden revoking Trump’s Executive Orders targeting federal workers’ rights.
Sophia Miyoshi, Restaurant Opportunities Center-DC Lead Organizer on the upcoming webinar on Your Rights At Work In A Pandemic
(Thursday, January 28; 6:30 – 8:00pm).
Plus: Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) and I Do What I Love by Ellie Goulding (both from Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back Spotify playlist)

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This week's show:
Joe McCartin on Biden’s firing of Peter Robb, Trump-appointed general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, who helped Reagan bust PATCO in 1981.  McCartin wrote "Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America."
Becky Kolins Givan on “Strike For The Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public Education”; she’ll be discussing this online next Monday, January 25, 5:00 pm EST with Joe McCartin, hosted by the Albert Shanker Institute.
Steve Striffler, co-editor “Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston.”
Plus: Worker's Song by the Dropkick Murphys.

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This week's show:
John Boardman, UNITE HERE Local 25 on calls for DC-area hotel closures and transit safety procedures to protect staff and public from right-wing violence.
Anita Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer at Howard University Hospital, clears up the myths and realities about the COVID vaccine.
Richard Schweid on “The Caring Class.”
Plus: Maryland My Maryland: The Free State Song. Hear a proposed replacement for the state’s song glorifying secession and violence. Sign the petition here.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella and Shepsu Baker.

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This week's show:
A Red Carol; Daniel Savio, Music Producer and member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe Collective, talks about the Mime Troupe's first-ever radio play A Red Carol, which airs next week on Christmas Eve at 1pm on Your Rights At Work.
Workers in holiday movies: Kathy Newman, Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses the workers who make your favorite holiday movies possible. Read her essay “Christmas (and Class) Behind the Scenes” on the Working-Class Perspectives blog.  
Plus: There is Power In A Union, sung by the SFMT Red Carol cast.
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Proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

This week's show:
Bill Fletcher, Jr. explains how the 2020 election proves the existence of zombies (and reveals his simple 3-step Zombie Test). Callers weigh in on this and much much more.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella.
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Plus: Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen on labor-endorsed DC-area candidates and why Montgomery County voters should vote against Question B.

Labor headlines: Kroger workers demonstrate for contract; ‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service; Gig Worker Groups Release Solidarity Letter Opposing Proposition 22

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This week's show:
Legendary organizer Phil Cohen’s shocking expose of illegal union-busting under the Trump Administration (info/order his book here).

Plus: Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester reports on the "No on B" labor rally, DC teachers hold a public hearing on re-opening DC schools safely, and DC dispensary workers organize with UFCW 400.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella.
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This week's show:
Policy nerd Ed Lazere – DC City Council At-Large candidate -- on why he wants to take the fight for DC’s working people inside the belly of the beast.
“Marx at the Arcade”; Dr. Jamie Woodcock on how Karl Marx can help us understand video games and the people who make them.

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This week's show:
Grocery workers plan 18 simultaneous protests today at area stores to demand hazard pay; also, how UFCW 400 members rescued boaters at sea last week.  
PLUS: “The Case of the Wrinkled Egg”; Episode 5 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama; The continuing story of "Jade, For Hire!" - Looking for work during a race and class war ain’t easy, But why was "Derrick" fired in the first place? And what is the secret of... Jamazon.com? Find out this week in...Jade for Hire!

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia.

This week's show:
Danny Alpert, Co-director of the upcoming film The Last Strike; check out their Kickstarter campaign here.
PLUS:  Episode 4 of The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s "Tales of the Resistance" radio drama: “It Came From R&D!"

Times are tough, but if you’re able to, please consider contributing to WPFW’s summer fund drive. You can give online at wpfwfm.org, On your phone via CashApp: $WPFW or pledge by phone at 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739.  WPFW and Your Rights At Work: Radio for the Resistance!

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This week's show:
Liz Davis, Washington Teacher’s Union; “Getting it Right: Reopening Our Nation’s Schools” (Saturday, August 15, 12-4p on WPFW and WBAI FM)
Music: “Old School Mechanic,” by SpudWrench
Christopher Martin, Professor of Digital Journalism, University of Northern Iowa: author of "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class"

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This week's show:
Jews United For Justice DC Community Organizer Zach Weinstein on “Wins, losses and a few things in-between: highlights from this year’s DC City Council”; read the report here.
AFL-CIO Deputy Director, Corporations and Capital Markets Brandon Rees on “1,000-to-1 Pay Ratio CEOs Furlough Workers”; the AFL-CIO's 2020 Executive Paywatch report.
Tales of the Resistance, an original radio serial from the San Francisco Mime Troupe. This week's episode: “The Good Cop.”

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella