UNITE HERE stands up to harassment…in today's labor history, 1,300 undocumented workers arrested in immigration sweep...Plus today’s labor quote by Juan Somavia (Director-General of the International Labour Organization in 2001).

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. This week, you can get a discounted subscription to the digital edition of Consumer Reports and get the most value for your money on your holiday purchases, big and small. Details 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, Lane Windham and Ben Blake.

This week's labor history: 19,000 workers at Newport News Shipyard file for a NLRB election; Eight female bank tellers in Willmar, Minn. begin the first strike against a bank in U.S. history. PLUS: Peter Pocock on the Colored Farmers National Alliance, Rebekah Padgett on the “Amazon Army,” Mikhail Romanoff on the Bagel Bakers strike, and Saul Schneiderman on the IWW and the first sit-down strike in the U.S.

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.”

Benjamin Blake works at the University of Maryland, where he’s a labor archivist.

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]

This week's music:

The Staple Singers: When Will We Be Paid

https://youtu.be/ctfSmGpEqr4

Margo Price: Pay Gap

https://youtu.be/Oksn6TxU5Wc

Dolly Parton: 9 to 5

https://youtu.be/OPoSuyu0dsY

Tony Babino: L'Internationale

https://youtu.be/3JmFa2Q40lg

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

Georgetown University refuses to recognize grad student union…in today's labor history, Black farmers organize the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union...Plus today’s labor quote by Mark Twain.

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. This week, you can get a discounted subscription to the digital edition of Consumer Reports and get the most value for your money on your holiday purchases, big and small. Details 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.

Arbitrator: MD state workers deserve raises…in today's labor history, twenty-five unions found AFL..Plus today’s labor quote from the AFL’s founding preamble.

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. This week, hit the road for the holidays with special Union Plus savings from Budget. 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.

UMD workers and students rally for a fair contract…in today's labor history, National Nurses United founded...Plus today’s labor quote by Heywood Broun.

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. This week, hit the road for the holidays with special Union Plus savings from Budget. Check them out at unionplus.org!

D.C. nurses reach tentative agreement with Providence Hospital…in today's labor history, 361 die in the nation's worst mining disaster...Plus today’s labor quote by Isaac Myers, founding president of the Colored National Labor 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. This week, hit the road for the holidays with special Union Plus savings from Budget. 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.

Teachers picket Cesar Chavez School…in today's labor history, the two largest labor federations in the U.S. merge to form the AFL-CIO...Plus today’s labor quote by John Sweeney.

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. UnionPlus is committed to improving the quality of life of working families; find out more 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: 25 unions found the American Federation of Labor; AFL-CIO President John Sweeney welcomes the collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle; Birth of Newspaper Guild founder Heywood Broun. PLUS: Saul Schneiderman on miner’s ballads and George Farenthold on the founding of National Nurses United.

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 http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history

This week's music:

Billy Bragg -There Is Power In A Union

https://youtu.be/DwbzxemJZIc

Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown

https://youtu.be/KSS3V9M7a5g

Hazel Dickens, The Mannington Mine Disaster

https://youtu.be/GldkcfdgMEM

NewsGuild warns cell phone snooping case threatens press freedom…in today's labor history, Cesar Chavez jailed for refusing to end grape boycott...Plus today’s labor quote by Walter Reuther.

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. This week, hit the road for the holidays with special Union Plus savings from Budget. 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.

(12/1/2017) Metro using Red Line shutdown to expand privatization, harming riders and workers, union says…in today's labor history, Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of the bus...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. UnionPlus is committed to improving the quality of life of working families; find out more 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.