Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Julie Greene, Debbie Goldman and Chris Bangert-Drowns.

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin and Julie Greene revisit the case of Italian activists and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who went on trial 97 years ago this week. Julie talks about how anti-immigrant sentiment figured into the case, and Joe reveals how a chance high school encounter with a book on Sacco and Vanzetti re-directed him to his career as a labor historian.

We also check in with CWA’s Debbie Goldman on the 2004 strike by nearly 100,000 SBC Communications workers and find out about how communication workers today are still fighting back.

And this week we launch a brand-new feature, our Labor History Object of the Week.

Today, we visit the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus, where the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” is up through September.

Plus we’ve got music by Stephane Pompougnac with “The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti” and Pete Seeger singing “Sacco's Letter to His Son,” a song written by Woody Guthrie.

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).

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

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:

The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti-Stephane Pompougnac

https://youtu.be/SOloyjRxmXI

Sacco's Letter to His Son-Pete Seeger

https://youtu.be/2XdMB4t4wPk

AFL-CIO to host “We All Do Better” conference on immigration policy…in today's labor history, baseball’s first labor strike…Plus today’s labor quote from “Big Bill” Haywood.

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!

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

Hospital union escalates contract fight at GWUH…in today's labor history, Starbucks baristas organize…Plus today’s labor quote from IWW organizer Henry McGuckin.

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!

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

"We are here, we are strong"…in today's labor history, Supreme Court OKs scabs...Plus today’s labor quote from A. Philip Randolph.

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!

Poor People’s Campaign launches…in today's labor history, first union of public library workers in the U.S….Plus today’s labor quote from T Bone Slim.

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!

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

Cleaning contractor budget cuts create mess at State Dept …in today's labor history, Milwaukee brewery workers strike…Plus today’s labor quote from George Bancroft.

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!

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

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Joe Hower, Lane Windham, Saul Schniderman, David Fernandez, Patrick Dixson, and Chris Bangert-Drowns.

This week's labor history: co-host Joe McCartin discusses the 1938 U.S. Supreme Court’s Mackay decision, which permits the permanent replacement of striking workers. Joe says this obscure decision was in fact a “ticking time bomb” that would go off to devastating effect more than 40 years later, when Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981, giving employers across the country a green light for union-busting.

PLUS: Joe Hower on how Jerry Wurf built AFSCME into one of the most powerful unions in America, Lane Windham on the first union of public library workers, and Saul Schniderman and David Fernandez on the Matewan Massacre. Chris Bangert-Drown even manages to sneak in baseball’s first labor strike, when the 1912 Detroit Tigers refused to play after team leader Ty Cobb was suspended.

Plus music from Brooklyn Cablevision workers – and CWA members -- Jaywalk, Grim and Shatoya Thomas-Flemmings, and the immortal Hazel Dickens.

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

Joe Hower is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, and the author of "Revolution in Government: Jerry Wurf, the Rise of AFSCME, and the Fate of American Liberalism, 1919-1981." He’s interviewed by Patrick Dixson, research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, and Managing Editor of LABOR, Studies in Working Class History, the official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association for Labor and the Working Poor.

Chris Bangert-Drowns is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland who helped organize workers on the College Park campus and now works at the Metro Washington Council.

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

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:

We Are The Union-Jaywalk, Grim and Shatoya Thomas-Flemmings

https://youtu.be/PxyKP8qQ-3Y

Hazel Dickens - Fire in the hole

https://youtu.be/CiGPbHnpQks

Nurses rally & lobby in DC…in today's labor history, 1894 railway strike begins…Plus today’s labor quote from Eugene V. Debs.

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!

Labor Night at the Nats set for July 20…in today's labor history, immigrants help complete first transcontinental railway line …Plus today’s labor quote from Cherri Senders.

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!