Episodes

Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
February 19 - Do You Know Your Weingarten Rights?
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
If you are a member of union, you probably know that one of your most important protections as a worker is your “Weingarten Rights.” But do you know the story behind why union workers have those rights?
It all started on this day in labor history the year was 1975.

Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
February 18 - The Royal Indian Navy Revolt
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
On this day in labor history, the year was 1946 is what is known as the Royal Indian Navy Revolt.
The HMS Talwaar was in Bombay Harbor. Indian workers on ship went on strike.
They refused orders from the British naval officers.

Monday Feb 17, 2025
February 17 - Yale Students Strike
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
A current question is which workers are entitled to union representation? Who really gets counted as a worker? Who decides wages, hours, and conditions?
These were the questions that divided the campus of Yale University
On this day in labor history, the year was 1992.

Sunday Feb 16, 2025
February 16 - The Diamond Mine Disaster
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
On this day in labor history, the year was 1883 marking the deadliest day in Illinois mining history at the time. 74 men and boys lost their lives digging for coal in the Diamond Mine Disaster in Braidwood Illinois.

Saturday Feb 15, 2025
February 15 - US Labor Against the War
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
“We need to spend money on health care, schools, housing--not a war budget.” This was the statement of Fred Pecker, a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6,
On this day in labor history, the year was 2003.
Fred, who was protesting in San Francisco, was just one of the estimated 10 million people in 800 cities across the globe that protested the U.S. War in Iraq that day.

Friday Feb 14, 2025
February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa is Born
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
On this day in labor history, the year was 1913, James Riddle Hoffa was born to a coal miner in Brazil, Indiana. Tragedy struck the Hoffa home in 1920 when at age 7 young Jimmy lost his father.
In 1924, like many families in Brazil the Hoffa family moved to Detroit, Michigan in search of work.

Thursday Feb 13, 2025
February 13 - Writers Take to the Picket Line
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
If you turned on your T.V. in the winter of 2007-2008, you probably couldn’t find new episodes of your favorite programs.
That winter some 12,000 writers represented by the Writers Guild of America took to the picket lines holding a 100 day strike.

Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
February 12 - John L. Lewis is Born
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
On this day in labor history, the year was, 1880, labor leader John L. Lewis was born in a company mining camp outside of Lucas, Iowa.
His father was a Welsh coal miner, and young Lewis followed in his footsteps entering the Big Hill Mine in Lucas at the age of 17.

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
February 11 - NYC Fur Workers Strike Wins Big!
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Did you work 40-hours this week? If you did, today is an important day for you! On this day in labor history, the year was 1926
On this day, labor leader Benjamin Gold began what became a general strike of all Furriers in New York City.

Monday Feb 10, 2025
February 10 - A Day of Infamy for Farm Workers
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
On this day in labor history, the year was1979, Rufino Contreras gave his life to the labor movement.
In the Imperial Valley of California the United Farm Workers were engaged in a bitter labor strike against lettuce growers.
Shortly before noon, Contreres and six other strikers walked onto a lettuce field owned by Mario Saikhon in an attempt to try talk to a group of 75 scabs brought in to break the strike.
Before they could reach the scabs shots rang out.