“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.
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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
Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview
Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work
50 years of “Strike!”
Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living!
Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas
The U.S.-Canadian Labor History Collaborative
Canal workers, gays & miners, Gandhi’s labor quote
The Hardhat Riot
We Were There; Pins and Needles; Dust for Blood
Bootlegged Aliens; UPPER CASE WOMAN
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Singing About Food Labor; Bill Lucy on the ’68 Memphis strike
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
The Valentine’s Day Strike of 1921
Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney
What’s the matter with labor history?
The People, No
Stand! The new hit labor musical
The Vancouver Island Coal Strike; Skyscraper Labor
Cutting along the Color Line
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