Union City Radio

By Metro Washington Council & 89.3 FM WPFW

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February 02, 2018 Union City Radio (2/2/2018) News Guild vows to fight firings at tech start-up
News Guild vows to fight firings at tech start-up…in today's labor history, legal secretary fired for refusing to make coffee...Plus today’s labor quote by Rosa Parks.
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!
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3min
February 01, 2018 Union City Radio (2/1/2018) Remembering the Memphis sanitation workers
Remembering the Memphis sanitation workers …in today's labor history, female laundry workers organize...Plus today’s labor quote by Dr. 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!
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4min
February 01, 2018 WPFW - Your Rights at Work Your Rights at Work - Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:00:00 -0500
Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith
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1h 1min
January 31, 2018 Union City Radio (1/30/2018) MD state professionals ratify new contracts; Labor Notes Conference Early Bird rate
MD state professionals ratify new contracts; Labor Notes Conference Early Bird rate…in today's labor history, birth of FDR...Plus today’s labor quote by Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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!
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3min
January 31, 2018 Union City Radio (1/31/2018) Dulles picket back on; Takoma Park workers to present petition
Dulles picket back on; Takoma Park workers to present petition…in today's labor history, UFW ends grape, lettuce and wine boycotts...Plus today’s labor quote by Emma Tenayuca.
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!
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4min
January 29, 2018 Union City Radio (1/29/2018) Survey: DC teachers pressured to change grades
Survey: DC teachers pressured to change grades…in today's labor history, Obama signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act...Plus today’s labor quote by Dolly Parton.
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!
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3min
January 28, 2018 Union City Radio Labor History Today: January 28-February 2, 2018
Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene.
This week's labor history: Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Pres. Andrew Jackson orders first use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute; Dolly Parton hits number one with "9 to 5,"; Newly-elected President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas – mostly Latino women – walk off their jobs at 400 factories; Secretaries across Chicago protest after legal secretary Iris Rivera is fired for refusing to make coffee; US Supreme Court rules the United Hatters Union violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by organizing a nationwide boycott. Plus Saul Schniderman on the end of historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts by the United Farm Workers of America.
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:
Dropkick Murphys - Cadence to Arms (Scotland The Brave)
https://youtu.be/s2ctpx0zYgk
Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4
Alicia Keys – Superwoman
https://youtu.be/-AphKUK8twg
Joan Baez - No nos moveran
https://youtu.be/kKopB66ujuQ
The Gallo Song; Steve and Peter Jones
https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/media/media/TheGalloSong.mp3
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56min
January 26, 2018 Union City Radio (1/26/2018) Metro Washington Council endorses Elrich for MontCo County Executive
Metro Washington Council endorses Elrich for MontCo County Executive…in today's labor history, the pirate’s code and workers’ comp...Plus today’s labor quote by Sam Gompers.
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!
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3min
January 25, 2018 Union City Radio (1/25/2018) UFCW 400 condemns prosecution of inauguration protesters
UFCW 400 condemns prosecution of inauguration protesters…in today's labor history, Supreme Court upholds “Yellow Dog” employment contracts...Plus today’s labor quote by Sojourner Truth.
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!
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4min
January 25, 2018 WPFW - Your Rights at Work Your Rights at Work - Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:00:00 -0500
Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith
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1h 1min

FAQs about Union City Radio:

How many episodes does Union City Radio have?

The podcast currently has 3,067 episodes available.