Felicia fights to win elections, pass pro-worker laws…in today's labor history, birth of Mine Workers president John L. Lewis...Plus today’s labor quote by Frederick Douglass.

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"Working People’s Day of Action" set for Feb 24…in today's labor history, Hollywood writers win strike...Plus today’s labor quote by Theodor Herzl.

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

This week's labor history: Memphis sanitation workers strike; unions at Yale University strike in solidarity with teaching assistants; births of Frederick Douglass, Jimmy Hoffa and Leonora O’Reilly. Plus Jews United for Justice’s Jacob Feinspan on the New York furrier strike and Saul Schniderman on the arrest of 83-year-old Mother Jones.

Music this week from the film "Soundtrack for a Revolution," screening in this month’s Bread and Roses series:

Tuesday, February 20, 6p at the Takoma Busboys and Poets, and

Tuesday, February 27, 6p at the Shirlington Busboys and Poets.

Both screenings are free; details and RSVP link at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

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."

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

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history

This week's music:

“Woke Up This Morning”: John Legend

https://youtu.be/0pOVElQFNMs

“May be My Last Time”: Anthony Hamilton with the Blind Boys of Alabama

https://youtu.be/RM7wyzkDJx8

“Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”: The Roots

https://youtu.be/uJ6mhRZ8LjM

Secretary DeVos gets an “F”…in today's labor history, Boeing workers strike...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 sponsor UnionPlus wants you to know that they’re committed to improving the quality of life of working families through their unique products and services. Find out more at unionplus.org!

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

Be a part of Labor History Today …in today's labor history, vigilantes beat IWW organizers...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 sponsor UnionPlus wants you to know that they’re committed to improving the quality of life of working families through their unique products and services. Find out more at unionplus.org!

WaPo workers mobilize online…in today's labor history, militia backs striking miners in Cripple Creek...Plus today’s labor quote by Bayard Rustin.

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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Georgetown agrees to recognize grad workers' right to organize…in today's labor history, Seattle General Strike begins...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 sponsor UnionPlus wants you to know that they’re committed to improving the quality of life of working families through their unique products and services. Find out more at unionplus.org!

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Why we're still fighting pay discrimination…in today's labor history, “Modern Times” premieres...Plus today’s labor quote by Charlie Chaplin.

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 sponsor UnionPlus wants you to know that they’re committed to improving the quality of life of working families through their unique products and services. Find out more at unionplus.org!

And we’re supported by listeners like you, who make all the great programming here on WPFW possible: please call now to pledge: 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or give online at wpfwfm.org. Thank you!

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene.

This week's labor history: Births of IWW founder Big Bill Haywood and Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man launched the 1955 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott; unemployment demonstrations and strikes during the Depression; the Seattle General Strike; state militia supports striking union miners in Cripple Creek, CO; Congress approves funding for Depression-era relief projects; Boeing engineers and technical workers strike.

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

Lane Windham is at the Kalmanovitz Initiative and co-directs the Women Innovating Labor Leadership Empower project, a joint initiative of Kalmanovitz and the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and author of “Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.”

Julie Greene is a historian of United States labor, immigration, and empire; she teaches at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin Press, 2009),

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.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history

This week's music:

Hold The Fort; The Union Boys

https://youtu.be/zPVeujpwCHc

The Red Flag; Billy Bragg

https://youtu.be/obpd9uc5HVg

Rosa Parks Equality song; Horrible Histories

https://youtu.be/sHttUInZHTY

Rosa Parks; Outkast

https://youtu.be/Ilf-2N6ibjg

Brother Can You Spare a Dime? - George Michael

https://youtu.be/Ij3ba71gtrU

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times...Bruce Springsteen

https://youtu.be/jYsSVNl8xmE

General Strike; Moe Shinola

https://youtu.be/ygDeYTUoBrE

War on the Workers; Anne Feeney

https://youtu.be/e78TqI53bPQ

General Strike; D.O.A.

https://youtu.be/JGDGqMmCcoM