Union City Radio

By Metro Washington Council & 89.3 FM WPFW

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March 05, 2021 Union City Radio Relief plan could strand unemployed
American Rescue Plan’s current unemployment insurance provisions would lapse while Congress is on recess.
Today’s labor history: Colonists protest British soldiers taking their jobs.
Today’s quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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March 04, 2021 Union City Radio Coalition fights employer “scare tactics” on hazard pay
"Right now in Annapolis, the business community is ganging up to defeat or water down" the Maryland Essential Workers Protection Act.
Today’s labor history: Creation of the Department of Labor.
Today’s quote: Thomas Jefferson.
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March 03, 2021 Union City Radio "Make your voice heard," Biden tells workers
Biden video calls on working people across the country to exercise their right to form unions.
Today’s labor history: Birth of AFL president William Green.
Today’s quote: President Joe Biden
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March 02, 2021 Union City Radio UMD staff worried as COVID spreads on campus
Union blames “management’s poor decisions and failure to enact strong health and safety measures.”
Today’s labor history: postal workers granted 8-hour day.
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March 01, 2021 Union City Radio $55.77 an hour
That’s the hourly wage for members of Congress, who are debating whether to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Today’s labor history: Minimum wage jumps to $1/hr.
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February 28, 2021 Union City Radio This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights
Organizing, fighting, winning; He drove a truck in World War II, but he wasn’t allowed to drive a streetcar in DC; DC DSA Labor Working Group intensifies work; MWC joins call for sanitation worker vaccinations.
Today’s labor history: South African sympathy strike for New Jersey workers.
Today’s labor quote: Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
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February 26, 2021 Union City Radio MWC joins call for sanitation worker vaccinations
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser urged to immediately move sanitation workers into the current phase of eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines.
Today’s labor history: 20-week strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers ends.
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February 25, 2021 Union City Radio DC DSA Labor Working Group intensifies work
Activities include support for the struggles of local unions, advising workers on workplace organizing and a speaker series.
Today’s labor history: Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer Edgar Daniel Nixon dies.
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February 24, 2021 Union City Radio He drove a truck in World War II, but he wasn’t allowed to drive a streetcar in D.C.
Howard Stokes went to Glen Echo thousands of times, but he never went inside the park…
Today’s labor history: Police beat women and children textile strikers.
Today’s labor quote: ATU 689.
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February 23, 2021 Union City Radio Organizing, fighting, winning
UNITE HERE Local 23 member, immigrant and organizer: “We showed that when we fight, we win."
Today’s labor history: Woody Guthrie writes “This Land Is Your Land”.
Today’s labor quote: W.E.B. DuBois.
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FAQs about Union City Radio:

How many episodes does Union City Radio have?

The podcast currently has 3,067 episodes available.