“You're 36% more likely if you're LGBTQ to have either lost your job or had your hours reduced since COVID-19 hit and for black queer folks, that's over 40% more likely.”
Pride At Work Executive Director Jerame Davis and activist and author (“Steel Closets” and “Semi Queer”) Anne Balay on last week’s historic Supreme Court ruling banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
“The MCS -- the Marine Cooks and Stewards union -- had this turn of phrase that said ‘For solidarity, no red baiting, no race baiting and no queen baiting.”
Wayne State history PhD candidate James McQuaid, on the gradual awareness and acceptance of queer workers in the twentieth century.
Plus, a celebration of The Power of Unity on the anniversary of the founding of the steelworkers union.
Produced by Chris Garlock. Patrick Dixon edited the Jerame Davis interview from the June 18 Your Rights At Work WPFW radio show; the James McQuaid interview is excerpted from the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast.
To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
Links:
Your Rights At Work (WPFW 89.3FM)
Tales from the Reuther Archive
Cordwainers strike of 1805
The AFL-CIO turns 65
Paul Robeson and the 1948 Library of Congress cafeteria workers’ strike
America’s last general strike
Monopoly and Class Struggle: The games we play
Uprising of the 20,000
A journey down the Working River
Blue Wave? Labor and the Democratic Coalition in the Southwest
Organizing through the Divide
O Canada, organize!
One Day More
The Package King
Roediger on "The Sinking Middle Class"; Feurer on Mother Jones' legacy
“Despotism on Demand”
Escape on the Pearl; Black Labor Week
Labor Day: no picnic in a pandemic
“Boomer Jones": Vintage labor radio show (LHT podcast extra)
We Do The Work; Working History
Cutting along the Color Line
A travel guide to labor landmarks
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Lore