Local labor bolsters CWA picket lines…in today's labor history, fabled railroad engineer “Casey” Jones born...Plus today’s labor quote by Johnny Cash.

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!

Solidarity fund for striking Frontier workers …in today's labor history, origins of the term “rat”...Plus today’s labor quote by Daniel DeLeon.

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!

Hosted by Elise Bryant

Gaiteros de Sanguashington http://gaiterosdesanguashington.com/ is a Colombian-American band from Washington DC. We play a variety of Colombian rhythms, including Vallenato, Cumbia (popular folk music from Colombia’s Caribbean region) and Tropipop (a blend of traditional musical forms with foreign Latin genres, such as salsa and merengue). The band has played alongside renowned iconic Colombian singer, Toto la Momposina, Latin Grammy 2015 best new artist- Monsieur Perine and Champeta Criolla- as well as world music band Tribu Baharu.

Gaiteros de Sanguashington has emerged as one of the premier Colombian bands in the Washington DC area, recognized and beloved by the Colombian and Latino Community and those who enjoy international music.

Produced by Jason Roe and engineered by Robin Smith and Ciera Shine.

Women deserve a raise …in today's labor history, victory in "Bread and Roses" textile 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!

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

This week's labor history: Luddites smash 63 “labor saving” textile machines near Nottingham, England; victory in the "Bread and Roses" textile strike (and in the recent West Virginia teachers’ strike); historic four-month UAW strike at General Motors; staffers strike San Francisco progressive rock station KMPX-FM.

PLUS: Saul Schniderman on Casey Jones and Rebekah Padgett on the Boeing engineer’s strike

Music this week includes the “Georgian Luddites! Heavy Metal Song” by Horrible Histories, “Bread and Roses” from the film “Pride,” including a wonderful solo by Bronwen Lewis, “Street Fighting Man” by The Rolling Stones and “We Shall Overcome” from Joan Baez.

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

Tula Connell, an historian of the United States focusing on 20th century labor and social movements, is Senior Communications Officer at the Solidarity Center, an international labor rights organization. She’s the author of Conservative Counterrevolution. Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog…52039904.html

Chris Bangert-Drowns is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland who helped organize workers on the College Park campus.

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:

Horrible Histories: Georgian Luddites! Heavy Metal Song

https://youtu.be/K6f6BNp1q1Y

Bread and Roses(from the film "Pride")

https://youtu.be/E2ISkeEc-9U

The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man

https://youtu.be/muJCXvvdlBU

Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome

https://youtu.be/-KyfY_eN7hs

Chase Brexton employees win “arduous” contract battle…in today's labor history, 100 days of New Deal legislation includes CCC...Plus today’s labor quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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!

WV teachers win raises for all state workers…in today's labor history, New York needle trades workers demonstrate, leading to International Women’s Day...Plus today’s labor quote by Beyonce.

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.

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

Frontier workers strike, Picket in Ashburn…in today's labor history, musicians strike Broadway...Plus today’s labor quote by Lucy Parsons.

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!

“Put the public back in public transit” DC Circulator workers urge…in today's labor history, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrate during Great Depression...Plus today’s labor quote from Joe Hill’s song “There Is Power In A Union.”

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.