DC charter school teachers take to the streets & grad students sit-in…in today's labor history, Everettville mine disaster kills 109 …Plus today’s labor quote from Mother Jones.

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, Patrick Dixson, Kevin Boyle, Chris Bangert-Drowns and Saul Schniderman.

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin talks about the origins of May Day and its relevance today. Patrick Dixon interviews historian Kevin Boyle on anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, and Saul Schniderman tells us how Mother Jones celebrated her 100th birthday in Silver Spring, Maryland. Plus, Billy Bragg on how Pete Seeger got him to write a new verse for “The Internationale,” and music by Billy, Pete and Joan Baez.

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

Kevin Boyle teaches at from Northwestern University; he’s a historian of the twentieth century United States, with a particular interest in modern American social movements.

Patrick Dixson is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative 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:

Pete Seeger-The Internationale

https://youtu.be/v85NWc0RIKc

Joan Baez - Here's to you, Nicola and Bart

https://youtu.be/7oday_Fc-Gc

Billy Bragg - Internationale

https://youtu.be/3BIvqbyku5g

Local organizing helps lift labor to historic week…in today's labor history, Eisenhower signs Executive Order listing “sexual perversion” as a condition for firing a federal employee and denying federal employment …Plus today’s labor quote from James Oppenheim’s “Bread and Roses”.

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.

EPA union & allies rally outside DC HQ …in today's labor history, U.S. Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ after management defies NLRB…Plus today’s labor quote from Daniel Webster.

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.

PSA for the 2018 “Workers of the World Unite: Union City Radio’s May Day Special”: May 1 from 2 to 6pm on WPFW 89.3 FM.

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

5-Year anniversary of Rana Plaza …in today's labor history, Times calls the struggle for an eight-hour workday “un-American”…Plus today’s labor quote from Reverend Ralph David Abernathy.

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.

CWA members ratify Frontier contract, call AT&T proposals “an insult”…in today's labor history, Longshoremen shut down West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal…Plus today’s labor quote from Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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.

Macy’s workers unite across the country…in today's labor history, Cesar Chavez dies…Plus today’s labor quote from Ida Mae Stull.

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!

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Joe Uehlein, Peter Cole and Patrick Dixson.

This week's labor history: Joe Uehlein on the connections between labor and the environmental movement; Patrick Dixon’s interview with Peter Cole on the IWW’s 1923 West Coast strike, Damon Silvers on the arrest of Montgomery Ward Chairman Sewell Avery in 1944, and Saul Schniderman on Ida Mae Stull, the country’s first woman coal miner. Today’s music features Joe Uehlein and the U-Liners singing “You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa” and “Power.”

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

Joe Uehlein is the founding president of the Labor Network for Sustainability, and Voices for a Sustainable Future. Joe spent over 30 years doing organizing, bargaining, and strategic campaign work in the labor movement, as well as a musician and member of the American Federation of Musicians.

Peter Cole is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University; he's the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive Era Philadelphia.

Patrick Dixson is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

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:

You Can't Giddyup By Saying' Whoa!

https://youtu.be/3McU8znWCCA

Joe Uehlein & The Bones of Contention "Power"

https://youtu.be/dmuaVz6M_Uw