Broadcast on October 22, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Legendary organizer Phil Cohen’s shocking expose of illegal union-busting under the Trump Administration (info/order his book here ). Plus: Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester reports on the "No on B" labor rally, DC teachers hold a public hearing on re-opening DC schools safely, and DC dispensary workers organize with UFCW 400. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella. @wpfw...
Oct 23, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on October 15, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: “Systemic racism” at the VA? Plus: the latest episode of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of Resistance! Today, the continuing story of “DIMENSION 2020" - No one could predict that Greg and Clya could either save democracy, or lock the country into an endless cycle of tyranny and oppression, but now they have a hard choice to make... Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella. @wpfwdc @...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on October 8, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Policy nerd Ed Lazere – DC City Council At-Large candidate -- on why he wants to take the fight for DC’s working people inside the belly of the beast. “Marx at the Arcade” ; Dr. Jamie Woodcock on how Karl Marx can help us understand video games and the people who make them. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @edlazere @jamie_woodcock...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on October 1, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Rochester (NY) Labor Council president Dan Maloney on the local labor movement’s reaction to the killing of Daniel Prude and the need for police accountability: "It is imperative to remember that social justice, racial justice and human rights are forever intertwined with the fight for labor rights." San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance, Episode 7: Fear of the Dark: "The Rotten Orchard." Can Primo ...
Oct 02, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on September 24, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Heidi Shierholz on EPI’s report on the Trump administration’s 50 most egregious attacks on working people since he took office. Julie Karant, SEIU 32BJ: Essential workers launch union’s largest-ever voter turnout program. PLUS: NPEU president Kayla Blado on union-busting at the Feminist Majority , and "Resisterhood" director/producer Cheryl Jacobs Crim Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kailah @wpfwdc @a...
Sep 25, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on September 17, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Largest hospital union victory in South since 1975: Asheville, NC HCA nurses vote ‘Yes’ to unionize in Landslide Vote by 70% for National Nurses United. Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplac e; a chat with author Alex J. Wood, live from the UK. PLUS: The latest episode of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama . Today, the continuing story of "Novice Nurs...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on September 10, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock This week's show: The Union Veterans Council reports on their 2020 political strategy launch; AFGE’s Black Labor Week September 14-18. PLUS: Laid-off food service workers to rally at Senator Mitch McConnell’s house & labor news from RadioLabour International. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella. @unionveterans @radiolabour @AFGENational @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod...
Sep 10, 2020•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on September 3, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Grocery workers plan 18 simultaneous protests today at area stores to demand hazard pay; also, how UFCW 400 members rescued boaters at sea last week. PLUS: “The Case of the Wrinkled Egg”; Episode 5 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama; The continuing story of "Jade, For Hire!" - Looking for work during a race and class war ain’t easy, But why was "Derrick" fired in the f...
Sep 03, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on August 27, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: We visit with local union leaders participating in tomorrow’s Commitment March and Rally on the 57th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" Speech. PLUS: "Union Busting, Vegan Style"; No Evil Foods suppresses labor podcast; we talk to the show’s host and an expert on fair use. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Ma...
Aug 27, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on August 20, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Danny Alpert, Co-director of the upcoming film The Last Strike ; check out their Kickstarter campaign here . PLUS: Episode 4 of The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s "Tales of the Resistance" radio drama : “It Came From R&D!" Times are tough, but if you’re able to, please consider contributing to WPFW’s summer fund drive. You can give online at wpfwfm.org , On your phone via CashApp: $WPFW or pledge by phone ...
Aug 20, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on August 13, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Liz Davis, Washington Teacher’s Union ; “Getting it Right: Reopening Our Nation’s Schools” (Saturday, August 15, 12-4p on WPFW and WBAI FM) Music: “Old School Mechanic,” by SpudWrench Christopher Martin, Professor of Digital Journalism, University of Northern Iowa: author of "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella...
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on August 6, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's show: Jews United For Justice DC Community Organizer Zach Weinstein on “Wins, losses and a few things in-between: highlights from this year’s DC City Council”; read the report here . AFL-CIO Deputy Director, Corporations and Capital Markets Brandon Rees on “1,000-to-1 Pay Ratio CEOs Furlough Workers”; the AFL-CIO's 2020 Executive Paywatch report . Tales of the Resistance , an original radio serial from the San Francisco...
Aug 06, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on July 30, 2020 Chris Garlock and Ed Smith are off this week; they’ll be back next week with the latest labor news, guests and updates, plus of course your calls about your rights on the job. Today, catch up on Tales of the Resistance , the radio serial we’ve been running from the wonderful San Francisco Mime Troupe, featuring political comedy, biting satire, and catchy original music. The stories are all about workers fighting back in creative ways, perfect for these days. Here are t...
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on July 23, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock This week's show: A tribute to John Lewis, the American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death on July 17, 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Kayla Blado, president of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), on union-busting at the pro-democracy Scholars Strategy Network. News headlines: 18 ways to be a hero (by supporting...
Jul 23, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on July 16, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith This week's show: Doris Crouse-Mays , Virginia AFL-CIO President: Virginia Issues an Emergency Temporary Workplace Standard to Protect Workers from COVID-19 MUSIC: Fight The Power ; Public Enemy Joe McCartin & Sara Myklebust , Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor: An Interactive Tool for Building Power: Contract Map Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on July 9, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith This week's show: Latest labor news updates, including what’s happening with the proposed East End Hospital and the NLRB says the boss can search your car! Plus: Tales of the Resistance, an original radio serial from the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Today’s episode: JADE, FOR HIRE! Looking for work during a race and class war ain’t easy, But why was "Derrick" fired in the first place? And what is the secret of...Jamazon.com? Produced...
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on July 2, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith This week's show: MIKE STOUT, author, Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years ― Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy (PM Press). Remembering DR. HOWARD CROFT, the longtime social justice activist in Washington DC, who recently died of COVID-19. Excerpted from the June 29 broadcast of To Heal DC on WPFW 89.3 FM; hosted and produced by Joni Eisenberg Music: Occupy the song -Mike Stout Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered b...
Jul 02, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on June 25, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith This week's show: ERIN HATTON , author, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment MLOV’s MEGAN MACARAEG on the DC Excluded Workers Rally coming up Monday, June 29 Poem: "Ready To Kill" by Carl Sandburg , performed by ELISE BRYANT , Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women Music: You About to Lose Your Job ( Original Remix ) Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by...
Jun 25, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on June 18, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith This week's show: JERAME DAVIS, Executive Director, Pride@Work ANNE BALAY, teacher, activist and author of “Steel Closets” and “Semi Queer” Music: I Walk The Line : Sophie Hanson DYANA FORESTER, new President of the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike “The Man” Nasella...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on June 11 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith This week's show: Music to start a revolution. Plus, listener music calls and suggestions. Music: A Change Is Gonna Come (Aretha Franklin) Power Martin Luther King Jr. Type_Beat Rosa Parks Equality Song (Horrible Histories) This Little Light of Mine (Fannie Lou Hamer) $20 Bill (for George Floyd) ; Tom Prasada-Rao None of Us Are Free (DC Labor Chorus) Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around (The Roots from The Soundtrack For A Revoluti...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast on June 4, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock & Elise Bryant, President, Coalition of Labor Union Women This week's guests: RYAN TIMLIN, President, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota TERRY MELVIN, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists YANIRA MERINO, President, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement PLUS: Listeners call in to join the conversation. Music: Tracy Chapman, Talkin' Bout a Revolution Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Kat...
Jun 04, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast May 28, 2020 This week's guests: TEFERE GEBRE, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO, on the June 3 Workers First Caravan JONATHAN WILLIAMS, Communications Director, UFCW 400, on his union’s calls on Giant to extend “recognition pay” until the COVID-19 crisis is over ELIZABETH FALCON, Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice, on tomorrow’s DC Excluded Workers Social Media Blitz Music: Heroes (We Could Be) ; Alesso remix Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Jerr...
May 28, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast May 21, 2020 This week's guests: REBECCA DIXON, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project, on how big biz is using coronavirus as an excuse to get permanent protection from all worker lawsuits LYNN BERNABEI, lawyer, Bernabei & Kabat, on MedStar employee fired for tweeting about hospital’s lack of coronavirus safety precautions DAMON SILVERS, Director of policy and special counsel for the AFL-CIO: AFL-CIO sues feds over coronavirus workplace safety Music: “We Just Come to ...
May 21, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast May 14, 2020 This week's guests: FRANK STRICKER; Author, “American Unemployment Past, Present, and Future; Lies your economists told you—and the truths that can change the nation” SETH COOK; Principal tubist for the Washington National Opera and Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, member of the DC Musicians Union and a co-owner of the Takoma Beverage Company Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella
May 14, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcast May 7, 2020 This week's guests: LOLITA MARTIN, Staff Attorney, Claimant Advocacy Program: Updates on filing for Unemployment Insurance in DC NALISHA MEHTA; meditation and relaxation during the pandemic Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Michael Nasella
May 07, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's guests: ANTHONY RANDOLPH from UNITE HERE LOCAL 23; Tens of thousands more laid off workers filed for unemployment assistance in the DMV last week, for a total of nearly half a million claims over the last five weeks. A small fraction of those workers are lucky enough to be members of a union, and at American University that membership...
Apr 23, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's guests: JOHN BOARDMAN, UNITE HERE LOCAL 25: Update on hotel workers KATIE BARROWS, NPEU (Nonprofit Professional Employees Union): Why we’re still organizing Music: GmacCash - On Strike: https://youtu.be/uJOHvQ9cL38 TONI GILPIN, “The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in th...
Apr 16, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's guests: JONATHAN WILLIAMS, UFCW 400: Supermarket workers to DC mayor: more must be done TIM SHEARD, author “All Bleeding Stops Eventually” and Condition Critical! NYC Nurse Issues Harrowing Report From The Medical Frontlines STEVE FRASER, author “Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Con...
Apr 09, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith Today’s guests: HEIDI BURAKIEWICZ, partner at the lawfirm of KCNF DC; Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch: American Federation of Government Employees and Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch Sue Government on Behalf of Federal Employees Exposed to Coronavirus MICHAEL HONEY, historian: What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
Apr 02, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith Today’s guests: DEBORAH BERKOWITZ, Worker Health and Safety Director at the National Employment Law Project: As coronavirus spreads, so do reports of companies mistreating workers MARGARET SHARP, DC organizing director, UNITE HERE Local 23: Nationals Opening Day Finds Thousands Facing Destitution; MLB response inadequate 1:30: ...
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