On this week’s show, one day in 1969, a working woman by the name of Zelda D’Aprano took her lunch break, and proceeded to chain herself to the front door of a busy building in Melbourne, Australia in a protest that caused a sensation. What was Zelda protesting about? We find out from our friends Down Under at the On The Job podcast.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: the 1922 Chicago building trades split; in 1939, Missouri farmers and their families begin a highway sit in; and in 2003, do national security concerns outweigh the right of workers to form a union?
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This week's music: Lola Wright sings the Equal Pay song; #LeaveAt343-Growing Up Gracefully.
“UAW’s Southern Gamble” pays off
The Return of John Brown
The ’34 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
Trumka remembers Pittston
Connecting the ACLU, NRA and IWW
“Changing Lives, Changing L.A.”
B.C.’s Tough and Fearless Truck-Driving Woman
The 2024 Labor Oscar winners!
When Mother Jones teamed up with a U.S. Senator to battle West Virginia feudalism
We Were There
Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (Encore)
Mingo, Matewan and the Coal Wars of West Virginia
The myth of “highly paid” Alabama auto workers
Art Shields: The People’s Scribe
Saving "the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh"
The lost Matchgirl Strike leader
MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961 (Encore)
Woody’s resolutions
”Please Buy My Last Paper, I Want to Go Home”
Bayard Rustin, leader and lover
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