“America Works” launches new season

Mario Cervantes, a skilled factory worker -- and proud union member -- who makes the tools that make the planes for Boeing aircraft in Wichita, Kansas, kicks off the new season of America Works, the podcast series from the Library of Congress that features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. 
Also this week, Saul Schniderman brings us the touching true story of Rex, the Mine Pony, saved by the coal miners who he helped save from a mine collapse (subscribe here to Friday’s Labor Folklore). Bonus track: commemorating the 25 years since the last pit pony left the final deep coal mine in Northumberland, England.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: Saul Alinsky (1908); Chicago Gravediggers End 43-day Strike (1992); A Day for Remembering (2011).

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This week's music: Pit Pony's Tale, by Gordon Carter from his album Diary of a Coaltown, available on Bandcamp.