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Turning the Tide for Labor · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  look, we're losing about a 10th of a percent of union density per year.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, October 12th.
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  We've been losing that for the last 20 years, and if that, process
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  continues at pace, we could be somewhere close to 3% in 30 years.
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  And so if that happens, it's hard to imagine that we're gonna have the
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  institutional resources necessary to then go after something like an Amazon.
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  At that point, it seems like the, the jig is up.
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  That's from The Dig podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  Today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events are
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  available at laborheritage.org, where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage
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  Foundation's free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history, on this date in 1933, 2,000 workers demanding
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  union recognition closed down dress manufacturing in Los Angeles.
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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 John F. Kennedy, JFK, who said,
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  "The labor movement is people.
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  Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them
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  members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals.
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  Their goals are goals for all America, and their enemies
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  are the enemies for progress.
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  The two cannot be separated."
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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.