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Dec. 30, 2018: DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido and NY Times columnist Dan Barry, author of This Land: America, Lost and Found. Show also aired on Wed., Jan. 2, 2019.

Dec. 9, 2018: NYC Health + Hospitals Pres. & CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz and Local 3 IBEW’s Derek Jordan. Show also aired on Wed., Dec. 12, 2018.

Dec. 2, 2018: Erik Loomis, Professor at the University of Rhode Island, discusses his book “A History of America in Ten Strikes” and Brooklyn College Professor Ron Howell, author of “The Boss of Black Brooklyn.” Show also aired on Wed., Dec. 5, 2018.

Nov. 18, 2018: DC 37 Dir. of Field Operations Barbara Edmonds talks about the DC 37 Women’s Leadership Academy and the recent tentative contract agreement for CUNY employees. Show also aired on Wed., Nov. 21, 2018.

Nov. 11, 2018: Newsday Political Columnist Dan Janison talks about the midterms. Show also aired on Wed., Nov. 14, 2018.

Nov. 4, 2018: AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride on the upcoming midterm elections. Show also aired on Wed., Nov. 7, 2018.

Oct. 21, 2018: Danny Homan, President of Iowa’s AFSCME Council 61; Eli Dvorkin, Editorial & Policy Director of the Center for an Urban Future. Show also aired on Wed., Oct. 24, 2018.

Oct. 14, 2018: Former NY Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on the state of labor unions today and DC 37 Exec. Director Henry Garrido on city pension funds. Show also aired on Wed., Oct. 17, 2018.

Oct. 7, 2018: DC 37’s Dir. of Political Action Jeremy John on November’s general elections and Criminalist/Local 3005’s Christina Aligizakis on NYC’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner Criminalists. Show also aired on Wed., Oct. 10, 2018.

Sept. 30, 2018: DC 37 Director of Field Operations Barbara Edmonds filing grievances and Local 768 President Fitz Reid on the office of the Chief Medical Examiner Medicolegal Investigators. Show also aired on Wed., Oct. 3, 2018.

Sept. 23, 2018: DC 37 Health & Safety Dir. Veronica Foley on 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund & NYC Lifeguards Supervisors Local 508 Pres. Peter Stein on 2018 beach/pool season safety record. Show also aired on Wed., Sept. 26, 2018.

Sept. 9, 2018: DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido and NYC Dept. of Education Employees Local 372 Pres. Shaun D. Francois I discuss the need for more School Crossing Guards. Show also aired on Wed., Sept. 12, 2018.

Sept. 2, 2018: DC 37 Dir. of Community Partnerships Raul Rodriguez, Jon Forster of the DC 37 Climate Justice Committee talks about the Climate Justice March. Also, Newsday columnist Dan Janison on the Trump administration. Show also aired on Wed., Sept. 5, 2018.

Aug. 12, 2018: Coalition of Labor Union Women of Missouri Vice-Pres. Cathy Sherwin on Missouri voters rejecting “Right to Work” and DC 37 Political Action Dir. Jeremy John on mid-term elections. Show also aired on Wed., Aug. 15, 2018.

Aug. 5, 2018: DC 37 Municipal Employees Legal Services Debt & Bankruptcy Unit Supervising Attorney Sheldon Barasch on predatory debt collectors. AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders speaks at 43rd AFSCME Convention in Boston. Show also aired on Wed., Aug. 8, 2018.

Jul. 29, 2018: AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride and former NY Daily News senior managing editor Stuart Marques discusses the recent layoffs at the Daily News. Show also aired on Wed., Aug. 1, 2018.

Jul. 15, 2018: DC 37 Education Fund Administrator Diallo Shabazz on Fund’s new initiatives & “Dark Money” documentary director, Kimberly Reed, on untraceable corporate money corrupting politics. Show also aired on Wed., July 18, 2018.

Jul. 8, 2018: Former Newsday city editor Paul Moses on Giuliani, Trump and immigration; DC 37 member and Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre Artistic Director Bruce Cannon. Show also aired on Wed., July 11, 2018.

Jul. 1, 2018: DC 37 Director of Research and Negotiations, David Paskin, on the tentative contract negotiated with the city. Show also aired on Wed., July 4, 2018.

Jun. 24, 2018: Illinois DC 31 Executive Director Roberta Lynch explains the union-busting politics behind the Janus decision and the consequences for public employees. Show also aired on Wed., June 27, 2018.

Jun. 10, 2018: City Council Public Housing Chair (and former DC 37 member) Alicka Ampry-Samuel and SSEU Local 371 Pres. Anthony Wells. Show also aired on Wed., June 13, 2018.

May 27, 2018: Local 1321 President John Hyslop discusses the need for more funding for public libraries in the city’s 2019 Budget. DC 37 Director of Field Operations Barbara Edmonds describes the union’s new initiative, the Women’s Leadership Academy. Show also aired on May 30, 2018.

May 16, 2018: City Council Parks Committee Chair Barry Grodenchik makes the case for baseline funding of 100 City Park Workers, 50 Gardeners and 50 Urban Park Ranger positions in the city’s 2019 budget. Journalist Tom Robbins discusses the Giuliani/Trump partnership. Show also aired on May 20, 2018

May 09, 2018: DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido urges members to come to DC 37’s town hall meetings. Local 1549’s Vanessa Reed discusses her book, “Red Storm.” Show also aired on Sunday, May 6, 2018.

May 02, 2018: EMS Officers Local 3621 Pres. Vincent Variale discusses recently passed State legislation that establishes a career ladder for his EMS members. Part II of our conversation with Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick about his new book, “The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.” Show also aired on Sun., June 3 and Wed., June 6, 2018.

Apr. 18, 2018: Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick talks about his new book, “The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.” Show also aired on Wed., Apr. 25, 2018.

Apr. 01, 2018: AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders and Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese announce a new program to educate young people about democracy, labor activism and civil rights using the medium of film. Former Newsday editor John Mancini, now global news editor at Quartz, discusses the legacy of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Les Payne. Show also aired on Wed., Apr. 4 and 11, and Sun., Apr. 8, 2018.

Mar. 25, 2018: DC 37 leaders, City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, city council members, the presidents of the three public library systems, and community activists call to increase funding for the city’s public libraries in the 2019 budget. Show also aired on Wed., Mar. 28, 2018.

Mar. 18, 2018: NYC Board of Education Employees Local 372 Pres. Shaun D. Francois I, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and several city council members called for the hiring of more school crossing guards, and assigning one to every school. Show also aired on Wed., Mar 21, 2018.

Mar. 11, 2018: AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride talks about women in the labor movement and AFSCME’s I AM 2018 campaign to honor the 50th anniversary of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike & the fight against current, right-wing attacks on public sector unions. Show also aired on Wed., Mar. 14, 2018.

Feb. 25, 2018: Former Executive Director of the New York Democratic Party Basil A. Smikle Jr., now Distinguished Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at the City University of New York’s Murphy Institute, discusses the current climate of political discourse. Plus: Bob Martin of DC 37’s Municipal Employees Legal Services weighs in on the Trump Administration’s gutting of payday lending regulations. Show also aired on Wed., Feb. 28, 2018.

Feb. 18, 2018: Audrey Browne and Seth Kennedy of DC 37’s Health & Security Plan discuss NYC’s recent lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and the union’s on-going work to contain the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. Show also ran on Wed., Feb. 21, 2018.

Feb. 11, 2018: New School labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci discusses Wall Street volatility and retirement insecurity. Show also aired on Wed., Feb. 14, 2018.

Feb. 4, 2018: Duke University Professor of History & Public Policy Nancy MacLean discusses her book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.” Show also aired on Wed., Feb. 7, 2018.

Jan. 21, 2018: Recently retired CWA Local 1180 Pres. Arthur Cheliotes reminisces about his decades-long history of union activism. Show also aired on Wed., Jan. 24 & 31 and Sun., Jan. 28, 2018.

Jan. 14, 2018: On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 89th Birthday, AFSCME’s Asst. Dir. of Political Action Kenny Diggs discusses Dr. King’s legacy of labor activism and its impact on AFSCME’s I AM 2018 campaign. NY Daily News’ editorial writer Robert George weighs in on the city’s declining crime rate. Show also aired on Wed., Jan. 17, 2018.