As the nation’s labor federation celebrates a significant anniversary, we hear the voices of AFL president George Meany and CIO president Walter Reuther at the 1955 founding convention of the AFL-CIO, and labor historian Joe McCartin looks at the federation’s past, present and future.
And, on this week’s Labor History in 2:00, The Union is DISSOLVED!
Produced and edited by Chris Garlock. 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. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, nearly 80 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
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“The waterfront is my life”
Debs’ radio station
The union archive that almost didn’t make it
Coit Tower’s New Deal Murals
Who Killed Frank Little?
Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
The Port Chicago Mutiny (Encore)
The Disney Revolt
Under The Iron Heel
MoJo’s March of the Mill Children; Remembering Harry Belafonte
The 1943 RJ Reynolds Strike
Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!
Democracy Under Siege
A white-collar strike
Detroit’s Walk to Freedom
Trumka on the power of labor arts
The Memorial Day Massacre
Mackay, Wurf, library workers, Matewan and the first baseball strike (Encore)
Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco
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