MLK videos on re-booted AFL-CIO YouTube channel…in today's labor history, Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking sanitation workers…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.

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The lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire are still relevant 107 years later…in today's labor history, major league baseball players end 232-day strike...Plus today’s labor quote from baseball Hall of Famer Goose Gossage.

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!

This week's labor history: Kohler strike, longest in U.S. history, begins; strikes by baseball and hockey players and minor league umpires; 15,000 union janitors strike in LA.

PLUS: Saul Schniderman on Rose Schneiderman of the New York Women's Trade Union League.

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Leon Fink and Patrick Dixson.

Music this week includes "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen, "El Pueblo Unido," by Inti Illimani, "One People, One Struggle," by Anti-Flag, and "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" by Fredric Rzewski.

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

Leon Fink, Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, edits the journal, "Labor: Studies in Working Class History."

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:

Inti Illimani - El Pueblo Unido

https://youtu.be/7F_9FEx7ymg

Anti-Flag - One People, One Struggle

https://youtu.be/gi9_suDEdvU

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days

https://youtu.be/6vQpW9XRiyM

Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated! [Audio + Score]

https://youtu.be/yLGeJ9mrNfU

AFGE warns anti-union drive at Education Dept could spread to other feds…in today's labor history, Australian-born dock union leader Harry Bridges dies at 88...Plus today’s labor quote from “The Ballad of Harry Bridges,” sung by Arlo Guthrie.

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!

“The Ballad of Harry Bridges,” lyrics by Lee Hays, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger

In Memoriam: Carolyn Jacobson…in today's labor history, the “Battle of Wall Street”...Plus today’s labor quote by Richard Trumka.

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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Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

CWA Frontier strikers win…in today's labor history, Gas House Workers’ Union strikes in St. Louis...Plus today’s labor quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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!

Revolution Messaging workers unionize…in today's labor history, Supreme Court says undocumented workers don’t have the same rights as Americans...Plus today’s labor quote by 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!

Some PG teachers stage 'sick out'…in today's labor history, Nixon sends troops to break postal strike...Plus today’s labor quote from the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

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!

New video shows cost of privatization at Circulator…in today's labor history, “Salt of the Earth” opens...Plus today’s labor quote by Esperanza Quintero.

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!