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The Right to Refuse Dangerous Work · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Oh, you know, we're, we're a progressive, uh, cannabis company,"
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, July 17th
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, this is utopia.
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  but we're gonna treat our workers like garbage just like any other company.
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  That's from the Workers Mic Radio Show on
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  the Labor Radio Podcast Network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On this weekend's Labor Arts Calendar, the Made in Hamilton Walking Tour explores
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  historic buildings and industrial sites throughout Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
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  tomorrow starting at 9:00 AM in that city.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  in today's labor history, on this date in 1944, two ammunition ships exploded
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  at Port Chicago, California, killing 322,
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  including 202 African Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives.
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  It was the worst home front disaster of World War II.
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  The resulting refusal of 258 African Americans to return to the dangerous
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  work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what
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  is called the Port Chicago Mutiny.
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  Today's labor quote is by Thurgood Marshall who said, "This is not
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  50 men on trial for mutiny. This is the Navy on trial for its whole
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  vicious policy toward Negroes."
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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