In today's labor history, earliest strike by Chinese immigrants...Plus today’s labor quote from IAM’s Roy Siemiller.

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Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention.

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

In today's labor history, the Pageant of the Paterson Silk Strike...Plus today’s labor quote from the Pageant.

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Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention.

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.

In today's labor history, Lansing’s “Labor Holiday”...Plus today’s labor quote from the U.S. Labor Party.

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.

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Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention.

June 5, 2018: SCOTUS says union ban violates free speech

In today's labor history, SCOTUS says union ban violates free speech...Plus today’s labor quote from “Smiling Joe” Ettor.

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Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention.

AFGE sues Trump over executive order…In today's labor history, House approves Taft-Hartley Act...Plus today’s labor quote from the Harry Truman.

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.

Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention.

This week's labor history: Chris Garlock hosts as Joe McCartin, Ben Blake and Julie Greene discuss the earliest recorded strike by Chinese immigrants to the U.S. when stonemasons struck for higher pay in San Francisco in 1852. Plus Patrick Dixon on the 1937 “Labor Holiday” general strike in Lansing, MI, Saul Schniderman on the Pageant of the Paterson Strike and this week’s Labor History Object of the Week, a Coors boycott button, part of the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” at the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus.

This week’s labor music is “You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa” from Joe Uehlein and The U-Liners.

Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

Julie Greene is a historian of United States labor, immigration, and empire; she teaches at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin Press, 2009).

Ben Blake works at the University of Maryland, where he’s a labor archivist at the George Meany Labor Archives.

Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.

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

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This week's music:

You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa

https://youtu.be/OHC-Ri7W1u0

Harley-Davidson move shows failure of Trump tax cuts …in today's labor history, Mexican government abolishes siestas...Plus today’s labor quote from Tom Kelly.

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.

Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention.

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

One Fair Wage campaign urges “Yes on 77”…in today's labor history, Rosie the Riveter dies...Plus today’s labor quote from the UFW’s Dolores Huerta.

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.

Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org!