Labor Heritage Power Hour

Latina Equal Pay Day; women soccer players strike

Broadcast on October 21, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: Today is Latina Equal Pay Day: Xochitl Cobarruvias (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement LA chapter chair) on why Latinas must work 10 extra months for the same pay.
During the sixth minute of each of the National Women’s Soccer League's games on October 6, players stopped the game, gathered at midfield and locked arms in solidarity; Dave Zirin, sportwriter and host of WPFW’s The Collision tells us what happened next.
Plus: Click here to support Your Rights At Work’s home station WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kaliah Chapman.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @LCLAA #LatinaEqualPay #Trabajadoras @EdgeofSports @nwsl_players

#Striketober: MA nurses and KY distillers

Broadcast on October 14, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: 700 nurses have been striking for 8 months at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the folks who make Elijah Craig Bourbons at the Heaven Hill distillery in Kentucky have been on strike since September 11.
Plus: Click here to support Your Rights At Work’s home station WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kaliah Chapman.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @MassNurses #StVincentHospital #Tenet #Healthcare @UFCW Local 23D

No justice, no Froot Loops!

Broadcast on October 7, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: Bakery Workers Local 3G president Trevor Bidelman reports on the Kellogg strike from Battle Creek, MI; latest on the UNITE HERE Hilton Housekeeping Campaignwith UNITE HERE Local 25’s Benjy Cannon.
Plus: Click here to support Your Rights At Work’s home station WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @BCTGM
#KelloggStrike

Striking Hollywood, more DC paid leave & boycotting the Merriweather Lakehouse

Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 23, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock
This week's show: Hollywood could be facing the biggest strike since World War Two; IATSE Local 488’s CDavid Cottrill on why the folks who make the movies and shows we love are so fed up.
DC Jobs with Justice’s Melinda Fiedler provides details on the new benefits and expanded access in the updated DC Paid Family & Medical Leave Act, which goes into effect October 1.
The Sheraton in Columbia, Maryland is now the Merriweather Lakehouse hotel, but a lot more than the name has changed: UNITE HERE Local 7’s Tracy Lingo on how hotel workers are being left out in the cold. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @IATSE488 @UHLocal7

Sneak attack on worker rights; Oreo’s OK again; Womxn’s Labor Leadership Symposium

Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 23, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock
This week's show: Why Bill 34-20 in Montgomery County is a sneak attack on all union rights…Oreos are OK again (sort of); workers won their strike against Nabisco, but an “M” or “MS” on the product code means it was made non-union in Mexico…Plus: highlights from next week’s Womxn’s Labor Leadership Symposium.Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @UFCW1994 @BCTGM #NabiscoStrike @GeorgetownKILWP @RutgersCIWO #WeSymposium2021 @WomenLeadLabor

Bad bosses, TSA worker rights & affordable housing

Broadcast on WPFW (89.3FM) on September 16, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
This week's show: Nabisco strikers win tentative contract.
Stories of terrible managers—and the workers who fought back; we talk with Mother Jones editor Jacob Rosenberg about Bad Bosses, a brand-new feature in the publication named after the legendary labor organizer.
Want shorter lines at airport security? Improve conditions for TSA workers! We’ll find out how from Johnny Jones, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFGE TSA Council.
We’re still struggling with effects of the global pandemic, now comes the threat of mass evictions on top of a housing shortage. We talk with Race and Economic Empowerment Project director James Benton about the September 22 panel on Affordable Housing in DC During (and after) the Pandemic.
Plus music from Working in DC; don’t miss the final four performances, Thu-Sun, Sept 16-19. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @va_labor @BCTGM #NabiscoStrike @JamesCBenton @GeorgetownKILWP #NewSocialCompact @GUGlobalCities

On the line with striking bakers and barbers

Broadcast on September 9, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock
On this week's show: NoVA Labor's Ginny Diamond (and friends) with a live report from the Richmond bakery and barber strike picket lines; plus we visit with new Painters and Allied Trades president Jimmy Williams Jr., and Carolyn Bobb, the new co-host of State of the Unions, the AFL-CIO’s podcast.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @va_labor @BCTGM #NabiscoStrike @GoIUPAT

Working in DC: The musical!

Broadcast on September 2, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: Working in DC, the musical based on Studs Terkel’s book of oral histories of workers, opens on Labor Day on Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the AFL-CIO. We talk with director Shanara Gabrielle about taking it to the streets with revolutionary theater.Plus: The latest episode of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama: “Hobos in Space”.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @WorkingDc @ShanaraG @SFTroupers

No contracts, no snacks!

Broadcast on August 26, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: A frontline report from the Nabisco strike*, a preview of Saturday’s March On for Voting Rights, and Jamie McCallum remembers activist and labor historian Stanley Aronowitz, “who knew that freedom begins where work ends.”
Plus today’s labor music, "One Day Longer" by Tom Breiding, about the United Mine Workers strike at Warrior Met. *click here for details on the Nabisco/Mondelēz “Made in Mexico” boycott.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO #NabiscoStrike @BCTGM @nabisco

Tales of the Resistance: Persistence (Episodes 6 & 7)

Broadcast on August 19, 2021
This week's show: Two episodes of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance: Persistence radio drama. First up, a little change of pace, with the "What Were You Thinking?" game show and Eyeball On History. Then, "Collision at the Intersectionality," the culminating episode for both the Jailbreak and Black Fox story lines.You’re not going to find programming like Your Rights At Work or the San Francisco Mime Troupe anywhere else but on WPFW 89.3FM, where our show originates. Please keep us going with your generous contribution to WPFW’s summer fund drive; you can pledge right now by phone at 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739, online at wpfwfm.org or via CashApp: $WPFW.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @SFTroupers