Labor History Today: January 14-20, 2018 by Union City Radio

Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin and Leon Fink.
This week's labor history: Dr. Martin Luther King and organized labor; John F. Kennedy guarantees federal workers the right to join unions; how Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It” and Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown” frame a turbulent era for American workers. Plus Saul Schniderman on the origins of labor’s anthem, “Solidarity Forever,” and Chris BD on the Filipino plantation workers strike in Hawaii.

Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Leon Fink, Professor Emeritus of the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, edits the journal, "Labor: Studies in Working Class History."
Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.

Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com

Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history

This week's music:
Martin Luther King Jr. Type Beat - "Power" https://youtu.be/PvE3wuAPP08

Black Eyed Peas "Union" https://youtu.be/rT_-Ln7eWpw

Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It https://youtu.be/gj2iGAifSNI

Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown https://youtu.be/z6LABdHtkUA

Plus: Solidarity Forever from the 2012 Chicago Teacher's Union Strike https://youtu.be/UQjM07mcN8Y