Labor Heritage Power Hour

Keolis bus driver: Why we’re striking

Broadcast on January 26, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
On the picketline, striking Loudoun County bus driver Sandra Vigil talks about why she and her fellow ATU 689 members are striking Keolis Transit.Plus labor news headlines: Union ratifies contract with Ingredion, ending nearly six-month strike; New Kroger payroll system has led to wage theft, UFCW 400 members allege; ‘SNL’ Postproduction workers authorize strike as contract negotiations stall; Nurses rally to uphold safe staffing standards.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and Kahlia Chapman.
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ULiners celebrate 20 years; Bill Lucy on MLK and the Memphis sanitation strike

Broadcast on January 19, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Longtime union organizer and musician Joe Uehlein drops by to preview the ULiNERS 20th Anniversary Celebration coming up this Saturday, and legendary labor leader Bill Lucy reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr. the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and why “Change is possible.”
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Keolis strike update; the “Holman Rule”

Broadcast on January 19, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
ATU 689 President Raymond Jackson gives us an update on the Loudoun County transit strike against Keolis; American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson explains The Holman Rule, which would empower Congress to fire, demote, reassign, or cut the pay of individual federal employees.Plus labor news headlines: Union membership grew by a quarter of a million workers in 2022; How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low; The Richest 1% of People Amassed Almost Two-Thirds of New Wealth Created in the Last Two Years, Oxfam Says; OSHA to fine Amazon after discovering warehouse workers have been exposed to unsafe working conditions; NLRB rules in favor of union victory at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, which may help move contract negotiations along.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Labor & MLK in DC this weekend

Broadcast on January 12, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond previews the AFL-CIO’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference (Jan. 13-15) and Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant on the origins of LHF’s annual MLK “Gonna Take Us All” Ball (Jan. 15). Music: Why We Sing: DC Labor ChorusPlus labor news headlines: Landslide union vote by Yale grad students and why the Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters case before the Supreme Court today has unions worried about their right to strike.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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LIVE from the Keolis picket line!

Broadcast on January 12, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Striking Loudon County paratransit driver Lisa Saunders reports live from the Keolis picket line. Plus labor news headlines: NYC nurses win strike, Microsoft grants unlimited leave, and was George Santos really a striker?
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Football players are workers, too

Broadcast on January 5, 2023
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Callers react to Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's on-the-job injury and the game’s shoddy treatment of workers, er, players; Patrick Dixon reports on the massive UK strikes; Ed Smith on why exhausted hospital workers are demanding change; a peek into the 2023 Labor Crystal Ball, and local gamers organize first union at Microsoft.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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DC Labor Chorus’ holiday concert

Broadcast on December 29, 2022Earlier this month, the DC Labor Chorus performed their annual Evening of Favorite & Sacred Songs at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church; on today’s show, we bring you an hour-long version of that concert, featuring both holiday and labor classics.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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DC doorknocks Georgia for Warnock

Broadcast on December 8, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
DC-area union members who door-knocked in Georgia to help elect Rev. Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate report: Amy Millar, UFCW/MCGEO 1994; Darlene Butler-Jones and Billy Osborn, UFCW 400.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Starbucks workers: “Ready to fight even harder”

Broadcast on December 8, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
“The harder they push back, the more literature they post in the back room, the more unionbusting they try to do, it just makes everyone at my store and across the country wanna fight even harder.”
December 9 marks the one-year anniversary of the organizing campaign at Starbucks, which first went public in Buffalo, New York; since then hundreds more across the country have organized and rallies across the country -- including in Arlington, Virginia -- are being held to mark the historic occasion. On today’s show local baristas Jillian O'Hare and Aleah Bacetti talk about why they’re organizing. Jillian works at the Willow Lawn location in Richmond, VA and Aleah worked at Bel Air Starbucks in Bel Air, Maryland.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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“Capital’s Terrorists”

Broadcast on December 1, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock
Chad Pearson traces “the continuity of thuggery” by bosses in “Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century”.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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