2021-07
2021-07
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Houston, We Have a Labor Dispute
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
For decades, rumors have circulated about a strike in space. The story goes that in 1973, the three astronauts on the Skylab 4 mission took an unplanned day off to protest ground controls management style, and the job action resulted in improved working conditions. It's a great story, but according to crew member Ed Gibson, that's not exactly what happened. Reporter Meagan Day says the real story is still a testament to the potential of strikes — or even just the threat of strikes — to shift the balance of power in the workplace. She wrote about it in Jacobin last month and brings us her report today. MULTIVERSE composed & produced by SutheeComposer.And on this week’s Labor History in 2:00… The year was 1969. That was the day hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina won union recognition.
Produced by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Dramatizing The Murals
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
THE MURALS is a play dramatizing the ongoing conflict over the George Washington High School murals painted by WPA artist Victor Arnautoff in 1936. The play premieres online at the LaborFest Saturday, July 17 – click here for free tickets – and LHT producer Patrick Dixon chats with playwright Howard Pflanzer about the debate and the issues.The Meany Labor Archive’s Alan Wierdak and Mieko Palazzo explore the Fascinating and Complicated Legacy of Bayard Rustin.
And on this week’s Labor History in 2:00… The year was 1968. That was the day that the American Indian Movement began at a meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Produced by Chris Garlock; editing by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
2020/2021 Joe Hill award-winners
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Labor cartoonists Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki, the 2021 Joe Hill Award winners, were joined at this year’s Great Labor Arts Exchange -- hosted by the Labor Heritage Foundation -- by musicians Steve Jones and Ysaye Barnwell, the 2020 winners. Today’s labor history: Duluth strikers killed. Today's quote: The New York Times.
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Supported by our friends at Union Plus; founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
The Memphis Fire Fighter Strike of 1978
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
On July 2, 1978, fire fighters in Memphis went out on strike, one of several groups of fire fighters across the country who struck that year. On today’s show – which originally aired on the IAFF Podcast, from the International Association of Fire Fighters – two Memphis fire fighters tell the story of the conditions that led up to the strike, the obstacles they faced on the job and how fire fighters in Memphis reached their boiling point and walked off the job not once but twice in the summer of 1978.And on this week’s Labor History in 2:00…The year was 1930. That was the day some 1300 labor radicals and Communist Party supporters assembled in Chicago to establish The National Unemployed Council.
Produced by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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