Labor Heritage Power Hour

Remembering Richard Trumka

Broadcast on August 12, 2021
Hosted by Ed Smith
This week's show: AFL-CIO director of policy and special counsel Damon Silvers remembers his friend and colleague AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka, who died on August 5.
PLUS: The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance Episode 5: "Passion... For Justice!"
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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Rich Trumka, 1949-2021

Broadcast on August 5, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock
This week's show: Labor historian Joe McCartin on the life and legacy of AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka, who died on August 5. PLUS: "I've Never Been More Optimistic": A Conversation with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, on the AFL-CIO's State of the Unions podcast.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO @RichardTrumka Pass the #PROAct

SFMT’s Tales of the Resistance, Vol.2: Persistence (Episodes 3 & 4)

On this week's show: two great episodes of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance, Vol. 2 radio drama. First up, "We Keep Us Safe: A Discussion of Police Violence with the SF Mime Troupe," then, "Mysterious Mysteries! "The Tale of the Black FOX" Part 2."
Produced by the San Francisco Mime Troupe; YRAW produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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AFL-CIO’s PRO Act “Week of Action”

Broadcast on July 22, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: AFL-CIO director of policy and special counsel Damon Silvers reports on the labor federation’s week of action on the PRO Act…”Breaking the Shell” reports on the hardships faced by Mexican crab pickers on Maryland's Eastern Shore; we talk with Mari Perales Sánchez, one of the report’s authors…Plus: Jeff Bezos thanks the little people, Scabby the Rat lives to see another day, workers at Frito-Lay, Uber and Lyft strike and all the latest labor news headlines.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFLCIO Pass the #PROAct

Is telework more productive? Plus, Brewing a Boycott

Broadcast on July 15, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock
This week's show: Richard Loeb, AFGE Senior Policy Counselor, on why nearly 80% of federal and DC workers say they are more productive teleworking during the pandemic. Then, Allyson Brantley, author of the new book Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors & Remade American Consumer Activism on the historic Coors boycott, coalition building in the '60s & '70s and lessons for today’s organizers.
PLUS: Episode 2 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Tales Of The Resistance, Volume 2: Persistence”: injustice and romance are in the air when an Asian American Antifa activist and a Black American activist drag queen are both thrown in a cell for resisting arrest. And when right-wing insurrectionists attack the jail to free their leader, political passion becomes a … JAILBREAK! Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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Marvel Cooke & Tales of the Resistance

Broadcast on July 8, 2021
This week's show:
From The View from Somewhere podcast, the fascinating story of Marvel Cooke, a groundbreaking Black woman journalist who reported on labor in the 1940s and organized a union with the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s.
Then, Episode 1 of Tales of the Resistance, Volume 2, the brand-new radio drama from the San Francisco Mime Troupe that we’ll be featuring here on Your Rights At Work this summer.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @SFTroupers

Postal Workers celebrate 50 years

Broadcast on July 1, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: The American Postal Workers Union is celebrating its’ 50th birthday today; Postal Workers president Mark Dimondstein reports on how his union is still fighting for postal worker rights.
PLUS: Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen on the Hero Pay bill in DC City Council…DC Jobs with Justice Worker Rights Policy Advocate Nikko Bilitza on the Your Rights at Work and the New Minimum Wage webinar…the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Michael Gene Sullivan previews the Mime Troupe’s brand-new radio drama, “Tales Of The Resistance, Volume 2: Persistence” which we’ll be carrying right here on Your Rights at Work, starting next week…this Sunday is July 4, so we get the 411 – the Labor411, on which franks are kosher for a union-made Independence Day with Cherri Senders.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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World premiere: “Scabby the Rat, and Fatty the Cat”

Broadcast on June 24, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: NABET-CWA Local 31’s Barbara Krieger on workers under assault at Montgomery Community Television; former DC Jobs with Justice Executive Director Nikki Cole previews Wages, Benefits, and Fair Pay: 20 Years of DC JWJ panel.
Plus: World premiere of Todd Smith’s “Scabby the Rat and Fatty the Cat” song and the latest labor news headlines.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @NABETCWA @DCJWJ

YRAW Archives: Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream

Originally broadcast on February 11, 2021; rebroadcast on June 17, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show:
The AFL-CIO’s Cathy Feingold and Brian Finnegan report live from "The Sound of Democracy: A Global Noise Barrage for Myanmar" action at the Embassy of Myanmar in Washington, DC.
Jamie McCallum on his new book “Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream.” He argues that labor’s next big battle may be over not wages but time.
PLUS Labor news headlines and “Ampun Bang Jago” (Ease up, Mr. Hotshot), a popular Indonesian protest song that popped up in a viral video after the military coup in Myanmar last week. “Ease up, Mr. Hotshot” is a phrase that’s used to respond to arrogant or self-righteous authority figures. Like bosses, say. Or the military.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Fact-checking the labor shortage hype/Seeing Red

Broadcast on June 10, 2021
This week's show: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith are off this week but we’ve got a special show for you today.
First, on the State of Working America podcast, Heidi Shierholz and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute fact-check the labor shortage hype.
Then, from the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Seeing Red: What will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? And when did our electoral choices get so limited?
By the way, the Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance, Volume 2 starts July 10 and you can hear all 10 episodes right here on Your Rights At Work!
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia.
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