Labor Heritage Power Hour

Ukraine: Labor Radio Podcast Network reports

Broadcast on March 17, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Compilation of reports about Ukraine from shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Your Rights At Work, The Dig, Working 4 a Livin, The Rick Smith Show and Work Week Radio.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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“We Are Not Slaves”

Broadcast on March 10, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
On Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed an agreement with unions that represent more than 11,000 DC government employees; we find out more from AFSCME Council 20 Executive Director Robert Hollingsworth.
Then, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America; this book, first published in 2020, is now out in paperback and we’re joined by author Robert Chase and prisoner rights advocate Kurt Stand. Plus: music by Odetta.
Labor news headlines: 20,000 Longshore Workers Refuse to Unload Russian Ships; Starbucks Workers Unionizing in Virginia; USW Local 8888 ratifies 5-year contract with Newport News Shipbuilding; New York Times Tech Workers Win a Union; Mpls. school, union leaders return to bargaining table on 2nd day of teachers strike; Grocery workers contract with Southern California supermarkets expires; Howard Nurses Face Sunday Deadline.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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Greenhouse on Two-Faced Anti-Unionism; Zirin on the MLB lockout; Crandell on Twenty-Two Cents an Hour

Broadcast on March 3, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on Two-Faced Anti-Unionism; sportswriter Dave Zirin on the MLB lockout, and Doug Crandell on Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages.
Plus labor news headlines: REI Workers in New York Vote to Unionize; Arizona Starbucks becomes first outside New York to unionize; Union Activists Arrested at Amazon warehouse in Staten Island.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Ciera Shine.
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Workers say No to war in Ukraine

Broadcast on February 24, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
The American people don't want another war. The Ukrainian people don't want a war. The Russian people don't want war. We talk with longtime labor and antiwar activist Gene Bruskin about a working-class analysis of the crisis in Ukraine.
Then, what can we learn about America from Starbucks and the current explosion of organizing by their baristas? We visit with Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks.
Today’s music: War (What is it good for) Edwin Starr.
Plus labor news headlines:
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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One Fair Wage declares victory

Broadcast on February 17, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman with an update on the DC and U.S. Congress campaigns, plus a special 9 to 5 screening with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on 2/25; Cathy Feingold on the Jerry Black Scholarship Fund at the TraRon Center; Timothy J. Lombardo on Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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Organizing with Union Kitchen, Starbucks and POTUS

Broadcast on February 10, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Reports from the folks who are organizing a union at, yes, Union Kitchen here in Washington, DC, and at Starbucks in Virginia. Then, with the PRO Act blocked in the U.S. Senate by Republicans, has President Biden found another way for American workers who want to organize? Actually, he’s found almost 70 ways; we hear more from Damon Silvers at the AFL-CIO.Today’s music: Union Town, by The Nightwatchman himself, Tom Morello.Plus labor news headlines: Portland averts major municipal strike as city, union reach 11th hour agreement; Stop & Shop Union Negotiations Are Underway; A Las Vegas bartender was robbed at gunpoint. His bosses made him pay back the stolen money, a lawsuit says; ‘Unions benefit all of us’: new Biden plan encourages federal workers to unionize; Starbucks Fired Union Leaders In Memphis. Will Labor Law Protect The Workers?
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and Ciera Shine.
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Transit Equity Day, grocery prices & ”Revolutionary Nonviolence”

Broadcast on February 3, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock
February 4 is Transit Equity Day and ATU Local 689 President Raymond Jackson and Labor Network For Sustainability Maryland Director Elizabeth Bunn join us to talk about why transit affects working people the most.
Then, Where Do Grocery Prices Come From? Corporate consolidation and profiteering, that’s where; Errol Schweizer, host of The Checkout Podcast, explains.
Finally, there’s a brand-new book out this month, "Revolutionary Nonviolence, Organizing for Freedom", and one of the authors, Michael Honey, joins us to discuss the philosophy and power of nonviolent organizing, and how to build and sustain effective social movements.
Today’s music: Woke Up This Morning by The Freedom Singers.
Plus labor news headlines: Center For American Progress Staffers Threaten To Strike Amid Contract Fight; U.S. Labor board official seeks swift punishment for anti-union threats; NWSL, NWSLPA Agree to 1st CBA in League History; Minimum Salaries, More Addressed; Starbucks union push spreads to 54 stores in 19 states; The NLRB accused Amazon of illegally threatening, surveilling, and interrogating workers over union organizing at a New York warehouse; Genesee Co-op FCU Congratulates Employees on Joining Communication Workers of America
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kaliah Chapman and Ciera Shine.
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The Future We Need

Broadcast on January 27, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
Erica Smiley (Jobs with Justice) and Sarita Gupta (Ford Foundation's Future of Work) on their new book, “The Future We Need, Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century,” plus 1199SEIU organizer James Crosby on “Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They’re quitting in droves.”
Today’s music: Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” which hit #1 on January 28, 1981.
Plus labor news headlines: King Soopers workers ratify 3-year contract after striking across Denver metro; Bus Drivers Go on Strike to Protest Low Pay in Rural Mississippi School District; CTA reaches tentative labor agreement; Golden Gate Transit Bus Drivers Vote to Authorize Strike; Next Thursday, February 3, is national Transit Equity Day, local activities are planned and we’ll be covering it here on Your Rights At Work; Union feels optimistic about Amazon union vote in Alabama.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and Ciera Shine.
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Confessions of a Union Buster

Broadcast on January 20, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock
Longtime union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp, who’s written an introduction to a new “activist” edition of Confessions of a Union Buster, says a half-century of union busting has eroded American democracy. Then we’ve got a brand-new song from “the singing elevator constructor,” and SpudWrench himself drops by for a visit. Last up is Jim Russell, whose book The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans explores the damages caused by the privatization of retirement plans and the connection to current struggles by labor activists.
Plus labor news headlines: Two more Boston-area Starbucks join unionization push; Starbucks employees at Calgary's Chinook Centre apply for certification with United Steelworkers; Will the Starbucks Union Victories Ignite Organizing Across the Country?; Howard University professor says Americans are quitting ‘bad jobs’; Starbucks comes to Virginia and Norton introduces pay equity bill.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and Ciera Shine.
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The filibuster’s racist roots

Broadcast on January 13, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
The AFL-CIO’s Bill Samuel on the racist anti-democratic roots of the filibuster, nurses hold a national day of action, Elise Bryant previews the annual MLK Gonna Take Us All Ball and Donald Cohen on The Privatization of Everything.
Plus: labor news headlines and music from the DC Labor Chorus.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and Ciera Shine.
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