Union blames Hogan for weekend riot, staff injuries…in today's labor history, EEOC issues regs prohibiting sexual harassment of workers …Plus today’s labor quote from Jackie Robinson.

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.

April 10, 2018: DC Town Hall to protest billions stolen in wage theft

DC Town Hall to protest billions stolen in wage theft…in today's labor history, tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrated in 100 U.S. cities …Plus today’s labor quote from 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!

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Patrick Dixson and Chris Bangert-Drowns.

This week's labor history: the War Labor Board during World War 1, the 2006 national Day of Action by immigrants and their supporters, the arrests of farm workers for organizing in 1930, and the publication of “The Grapes of Wrath” in 1939.

Plus Saul Schneiderman on Florence Reese, Kurt Stand on Gene Debs, and music by Tish Hinojosa and Natalie Merchant.

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

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:

Tish Hinojosa - De Colores

https://youtu.be/mR8Wc0ZwKZ8

Which Side Are You On (1931)~Florence Reece~Natalie Merchant

https://youtu.be/A7DuVAbKeUQ

DC teachers walk out in Anacostia…in today's labor history, organizing the crew of the world’s biggest ocean liner …Plus today’s labor quote from “Woke Up This Morning.”

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!

AFT honors women labor leaders …in today's labor history, umpires call a strike…Plus today’s labor quote by Rose Schneiderman.

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!

DC residents urged to speak out at DC Water Town Halls…in today's labor history, 14,000 teachers strike in Hawaii …Plus today’s labor quote by Cecil Roberts.

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

WPFW special: No Rights and No Work, King and Labor

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Damon Silvers

Part of WPFW’s daylong program “MLK Interrupted: Poverty, Racism and Economic Inequality 50 years Later.”

Guests include:

Jackie Jeter, president of the Metro Washington Council and ATU Local 689 here in DC, reporting LIVE from the I AM 2018 50th Anniversary of Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike and March in Memphis.

Joe McCartin, labor historian and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. Author of many books and articles, including 'Fire the Hell Out of Them': Sanitation Workers’ Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s." Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History. (2005)

Music and actualities include:

“Glory” by Common & John Legend (from the movie “Selma”)

https://youtu.be/HUZOKvYcx_o

“The Legacy” https://youtu.be/9cWZOmEDj84 (AFL-CIO video)

Bree Newsome, Elle Hearns, Tef Poe and Tori Russell discuss Martin Luther King Jr. and how his legacy plays a role in the struggle for civil rights today.

“33 Letters and a Tragedy of Historic Proportions” (AFL-CIO video)

Secretary Bonnie Blair tells the untold story of the 33 letters that led to the historic strike by Memphis sanitation workers, which brought King to Memphis in 1968.

"Woke Up This Morning" by John Legend (from The Soundtrack For A Revolution)

https://youtu.be/0pOVElQFNMs

No Rights and No Work, King and Labor

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Damon Silvers

Part of WPFW 89.3’s daylong program “MLK Interrupted: Poverty, Racism and Economic Inequality 50 years Later.”

Guests include:

Joseph Rosenbloom, author "Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours."

Michael Honey, author of brand-new book “To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.”

Music and actualities include:

"Woke Up This Morning" by John Legend (from The Soundtrack For A Revolution)

https://youtu.be/0pOVElQFNMs

“Landmark” agreement allows Georgetown grad students to vote on union …in today's labor history, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, where he had been supporting a sanitation workers’ strike…Plus today’s labor quote by Dr. King.

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!