09/02/2024
It's Labor Day Monday, and it's the LOVE of LABOR Fest - hosted by LOVE of KDHX and Dogtown Records Radio!
The guest speaker today at 12:45 will be well known music journalist Bob Baugh, a writer for Big City Rhythm and Blues magazine, a national music publication.
Prior to his extensive music journalism, Bob Baugh was an Executive Director for the Industrial Union Council of the AFL-CIO, with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library - https://www.c-span.org/person/bob-baugh/1008651
Bob Baugh - "Labor Day is a holiday that grew out of local and national worker marches for workers rights. The workers knew that their demands for better hours, wages and working conditions meant having a voice in the workplace that would make their homes and communities safer and more secure. St. Louis workers were at the center of these struggles beginning with the great Railroad strike of 1877 and the founding of some of the earliest local unions like the Carpenters and Electrical workers (IBEW) that were founded here.
LOVE OF LABOR PRESENTED BY LOVE OF KDHX
League of volunteer enthusiasts
Noon till 6 PM Labor Day in partnership with Dogtown Records Radio, Big Daddy's Soulard at the corner of 10th and Sydney on the shady patio stage.
Event schedule
12:00PM: DJs Walter and Willa Volz
12:45PM: speaker Bob Baugh
1:00PM: Rough Shop
2:00PM: DJ rich Reese
2:45PM speaker Shannon Duffy
3:00PM The May Day Orchestra
4:00PM: DJ Ital K
4:45PM: speaker DJ Ital K
5:00PM: Comrad!
5:30PM DJ Bobee sweet
*Schedule subject to change
LOVE, the KDHX associates, are part of this tradition. Volunteers may not be paid but they are workers. Their rights and voice as partners in KDHX have been eroded. Associates were fired and others struck to demand representation. Make no mistake this is all about the solidarity of the associates and community fighting for the democratic rights of those workers in the workplace. LOVE stands for building a better workplace and a better co
