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Take Labor Day Beyond Labor Day · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  take Labor Day and then take it beyond Labor Day,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Tuesday, September 15th.
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  And I, I do think this is a moment where the economy is not recognizing
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  and appreciating what we do, and so making our voices heard, and
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  we all do this through our unions.
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  Um, think about the power when we come together, the fact that the
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  labor movement is on the rise for the first time in a long time.
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  That's from the SAG-AFTRA
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  podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar, we have a new category, ongoing
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  labor screenings, details, and the latest labor arts news and events
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  are available at laborheritage.org,
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  where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
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  free weekly newsletter
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  In today's labor history, on this date in 1845, some five thousand
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  women cotton workers in the Pittsburgh area struck for a ten-hour workday.
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  Male unionists rallied to protect them from police attacks, forming
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  the first male strike auxiliary, but the strike ultimately failed.
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  Today's labor quote is by Susan B. Anthony, who said, "Cautious, careful
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  people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing,
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  never can bring about a reform."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network