Workers call on Hogan and MD Assembly to approve $15 minimum wage; Protesting Reagan’s induction into Labor Hall of Honor…in today's labor history, ropemakers’ grievances, Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre...Plus today’s labor quote by Benjamin Quarles.

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, Carl Goldman and Debbie Goldman.

This week's labor history: FDR names Frances Perkins to be Secretary of Labor, first female cabinet member in U.S. history; Thousands of New York needle trades workers demonstrate for higher wages, shorter workday, and end to child labor; Machinists strike Eastern Airlines, soon joined by flight attendants and pilots in the nationwide walkout; César Chávez leads 5,000 striking farmworkers on a march through the streets of Salinas, Calif.; Chávez breaks a 24-day “fast for non-violence and a call to sacrifice.”

PLUS: Lane Windham on Frances Perkins; Congressman David Bonior on the Civilian Conservation Corps, Bill Fletcher on the GM wildcat strike, and Saul Schniderman on the origins of Joe Hill's “There Is Power In a Union.”

Music this week: Joe Hill’s song “There Is Power In A Union” first appeared in the IWW;s “Little Red Song Book” in 1913; we have versions of the song by Folk Hogan, Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland, Utah Phillips and Monsieur Jack.

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

Carl Goldman is the former Executive Director of AFSCME Council 26.

Debbie Goldman works a the Communication Workers of America and is studying labor history at the University of Maryand.

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 tech wizard Matt Lukban, with very special thanks to Aldo Bello.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:

There Is Power in a Union: Folk Hogan

https://youtu.be/az75TZuy5aE

There is Power in a Union: Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland

https://youtu.be/mSDh_qVXkFk

There is Power in a Union: Utah Phillips

https://youtu.be/BSUqeAgDvc0

There Is Power in a Union: Monsieur Jack

https://youtu.be/0LDd9MUkgT8

Reagan inducted into DOL Labor Hall of Honor…in today's labor history, 6,000 drivers strike Greyhound Lines...Plus today’s labor quote by Cesar Chavez.

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!

Fighting high water bills in DC …in today's labor history, strike marks the beginnings of the National Maritime Union...Plus today’s labor quote by “Paddy” Whalen.

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

Campaign workers organize…in today's labor history, successful strike by the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union...Plus today’s labor quote by Hattie McDaniel.

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!

Janus v. AFSCME: Live from the US Supreme Court …in today's labor history, occupying a Detroit Woolworth’s to support of the Waiters and Waitresses Union...Plus today’s labor quote by Eugene 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!

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

Black women workers to bear brunt of Janus attack…in today's labor history, 20-week strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers ends...Plus today’s labor quote by Pete Seeger.

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, Carl Goldman and Debbie Goldman.

This week's labor history: 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers strike; birth of John Steinbeck, author of “The Grapes of Wrath”; Eugene V. Debs joins the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen; IWW strikes Portland sawmills; CIO and U.S. Steel sign a landmark contract.

Plus: Dan Duncan on the merchant marine’s “Emancipation Proclamation.”

Music this week: “Oh Freedom” by Vivian Greene; “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” by Judy Collins and Tom Waits; “Wabash Cannonball” by Johnny Cash; “Hold The Fort” from the IWW songbook.

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

Carl Goldman is the former Executive Director of AFSCME Council 26.

Debbie Goldman works a the Communication Workers of America and is studying labor history at the University of Maryand.

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 tech wizard Matt Lukban, with very special thanks to Aldo Bello.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:

“Oh Freedom” by Vivian Greene

https://youtu.be/Gfk0BrPpGYo

“Brother Can You Spare a Dime” by Judy Collins

https://youtu.be/yCtIEeO-NrY

“Brother Can You Spare a Dime” by Tom Waits

https://youtu.be/uUCVVU1qVdY

“Wabash Cannonball” by Johnny Cash

https://youtu.be/aZiQ89_s67Q

“Hold The Fort” from the IWW songbook

https://youtu.be/nQWBH71UDFM

"Join us to fight for our freedom" at People's Day of Action…in today's labor history, Woody Guthrie writes “This Land Is Your Land”...Plus today’s labor quote by W.E.B. DuBois.

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!