The bill “would protect affordable housing and good, middle-class jobs in the District of Columbia”… Truman uses U.S. Navy to break oil refineries strike…today’s labor quote from Richard Trumka.

“When we’re short-staffed, students feel the impact”… UFCW forerunner United Packinghouse Workers forms…today’s labor quote from Woody Guthrie.

“When we’re short-staffed, students feel the impact”… UFCW forerunner United Packinghouse Workers forms…today’s labor quote from Woody Guthrie.

Still time to check your registration or register to vote… steel workers shut down the nation’s foundries, steel and iron mills …today’s labor quote from the IWW lawyer Stuart L. Lichten.

How front-line bank workers can help fix the financial industry… 2010 “One Nation Working Together” rally…today’s labor quote from that rally.

How front-line bank workers can help fix the financial industry… 2010 “One Nation Working Together” rally…today’s labor quote from that rally.

Still time to check your registration or register to vote… steel workers shut down the nation’s foundries, steel and iron mills …today’s labor quote from the IWW lawyer Stuart L. Lichten.

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin talks about the long struggle for gender rights and equality, from the First National Conference of Trade Union Women in 1918 to a key win by female flight attendants in 1986 and right up to last week’s historic testimony by Dr. Ford in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Labor History Today's Patrick Dixon talks with five members of Culinary Workers Local 226 about their successful 1991 strike against the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and our Labor History Object of the Week is a dues cap from the archives of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America.

Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected]

Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:

Sara Bareilles – Brave

https://youtu.be/QUQsqBqxoR4

Picket Line - Bobby DePace

https://youtu.be/T4GJRi0subI

We Shall Not Be Moved-Pete Seeger

https://youtu.be/HmkoQXyj_NY

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin talks about the long struggle for gender rights and equality, from the First National Conference of Trade Union Women in 1918 to a key win by female flight attendants in 1986 and right up to last week’s historic testimony by Dr. Ford in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Labor History Today's Patrick Dixon talks with five members of Culinary Workers Local 226 about their successful 1991 strike against the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and our Labor History Object of the Week is a dues cap from the archives of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America.

Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected]

Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:

Sara Bareilles – Brave

https://youtu.be/QUQsqBqxoR4

Picket Line - Bobby DePace

https://youtu.be/T4GJRi0subI

We Shall Not Be Moved-Pete Seeger

https://youtu.be/HmkoQXyj_NY

Calls the move "a slap in the face" for Metro riders and workers… International Workingmen’s Association founded…today’s labor quote by Karl Marx.