In today's labor history, Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association fights foreclosures...Plus today’s labor quote by Hugo Black.

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.

In today's labor history, Colored National Labor Union forms in DC...Plus today’s labor quote by Frederick Douglass.

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.

In today's labor history, IWW formed in Chicago...Plus today’s labor quote by the IWW.

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.

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

This week's labor history: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) takes effect, over objections of labor; Conference of 23 industrial unionists in Chicago leads to formation of IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as Wobblies;

In what became known as Palmer Raids, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer arrests 4,000 foreign-born “labor agitators.”

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 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:

NAFTA The Lazy Song (definitely NOT the Bruno Mars version)

https://youtu.be/FFzn_Lfh7eA

We Have Fed You All for A Thousand Years by the Twin Cities Labor Chorus

https://youtu.be/L1qiq5AVr_o

We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years, by Ellie Bryan

https://youtu.be/8hrXmcbbp3A

From the IWW songbook, words "by an Unknown Proletarian," music by Rudolf von Liebich, “of the General Recruiting Union, Chicago, and Composer of Music for the Working Class.”

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

This week's labor history: Workingmen’s Party is reorganized as the Socialist Labor Party; Nixon signs the Occupational Safety & Health Act. Plus Saul Schneiderman on the 1913 Massacre.

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 https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/75wfg8we9780252039904.html

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:

“Fight Back” from the privately-released “Power To The Working Class” LP; https://youtu.be/1Ph8hn9TVwY

"I Wanna Be Safe" by Derek Wilson, features shipbuilders in Newport News rapping about safety on USS Enterprise, Gerald R. Ford and Virginia-class submarines (2014 Safety Song Winner); https://youtu.be/1-1BCF6_Dzs

"1913 Massacre," Woody Guthrie

https://youtu.be/oz7oguguIZE

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

This week's labor history: A 47-day strike at Greyhound Bus Lines ends with members of the Amalgamated Transit Union accepting a new contract containing deep cuts in wages and benefits; Thousands of workers begin a two-day strike of the New York City transit system over retirement, pension and wage issues; 21 Chicago firefighters, including the chief, died when a building collapsed as they were fighting a huge blaze at the Union Stock Yards. PLUS: Catherine Alvarado Cilfone on the AFL convention’s endorsement of a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.

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 https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/75wfg8we9780252039904.html

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:

Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

https://youtu.be/7Znh0OM9jiA

Bad Romance Women's Suffrage

https://youtu.be/Rn_S-9Ig6Vk

In today's labor history, Hank Williams’ last union meeting...Plus today’s labor quote by Hank Williams.

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.

In today's labor history, Roosevelt seizes railroads to avert strike...Plus today’s labor quote by Elizabeth Warren.

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.

In today's labor history, auto workers sit-in at GM’s Fisher Body plant...Plus today’s labor quote by Helen Keller.

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.

In today's labor history, enactment of OSHA...Plus today’s labor quote by Tony Mazzocchi.

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.