Episode description
Broadcast on March 11, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: What’s been the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on DC-area workers and their unions? First-hand reports on the toll -- and the ongoing struggles -- from hotel workers (John Boardman, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, UNITE HERE 25), supermarket workers (Mark Federici, president, UFCW Local 400), DC teachers (Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union) and janitors, security guards and airport workers (Jaime Contreras, District Chair and Supervisor, SEIU 32BJ).
PLUS: Workers helping workers: Sonte DuCote, Executive Director, MWC Community Services Agency.
Music: Covid Vaccine - The Soulm8s
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella.
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