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Locked In and Organizing Back · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  they regulated that only the women need to stay in a dormitory, which
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  is actually in- inside a, a floor in a company, and they couldn't leave.
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  They have to stay there every day.
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  They couldn't, uh, leave outside.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Monday, August 17th.
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  Whenever they're, they're pregnant, well, they'll be immediately ter-
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  terminated, and they have to pay one month's salary for as penalty
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  and buy their own ticket home.
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  and so the, the women eventually got tired of this behavior
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  and organized a union, right?
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  Yeah, they, um, they, they were very angry and,
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  That's from the Labor Start podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  And today's labor history on this date in 1985, a year-long strike
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  began by meatpackers at Hormel.
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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 Jesse Jackson Sr., who said, "Workers
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  must stand up and say enough is enough. We want jobs and justice."
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.