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Who Gets Power at Work? · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Workers are organizing in Amazon delivery networks.
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  Nurses are organizing in hospitals.
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  Museum employees are organizing in cultural institutions.
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  Manufacturing workers are walking off the job.
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  And at UPS, workers are still offering a lesson in what it actually
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  takes to build collective power.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Tuesday, September 29th.
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  Different workplaces, different problems, different unions, but
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  underneath all these stories is the same basic conflict always and forever.
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  Who gets to have power at work, the people who actually do the work or the
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  people who own and control the workplace?
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  That's from the Labor Force
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  podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's labor arts calendar, Making Dances, Making Places is at noon
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  in Lansing, Michigan, and online.
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  The Smell of Money: Local and Worker Pushback Against Industrial
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  Pollutants online at 2:00 PM.
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  and the film Emergent City is available to watch online for
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  free through Wednesday night.
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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 1995, Liverpool dockworkers were
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  fired after refusing to cross a picket line, sparking a fight for reinstatement
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  that lasted more than two years.
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  Today's labor quote is by the IWW, which said, "We condemn all wars
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  promoting class solidarity among the workers of the entire world."
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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.