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Common Problems, Common Cause · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  The person who votes Republican, the person who votes Democrat, the person
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  who doesn't vote at all, put them in a workplace where they have a common
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  problem, and suddenly politics can become secondary to the question,
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  what are we going to do about this?
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, September 1st.
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  Unions became part of the community response to ICE, with educators, postal
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  workers, service workers, and other unions building networks of solidarity.
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  That's from The Labor Force Podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  The latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org.
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  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
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  1894, Congress declared Labor Day a national holiday.
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  You can discover these stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks Map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by UAW founder Walter Reuther, born on this date in 1907.
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  Walter Reuther, who said, There is no power in the world that can stop
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  the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the
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  solidarity of human brotherhood."
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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.