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“We Had to Be Recognized as People” · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  if you could imagine that you're talking to a warehouse worker or a nurse or a
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  construction worker or a teacher who right now is feeling that they're, they're
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  struggling to pay their grocery bills.
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  Uh, what would you tell them about the economy and affordability today?
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, September 22nd.
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  I'd blame it on Obama.
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  I'd say, "That guy sucks, and he… and Biden." They're the people that ruined it.
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  If you got no money, it's their fault, That's from the Power At Work
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  Podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  Today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events
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  are available at 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 1910, 18-year-old Hannah
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  Annie Shapiro led a walkout that grew into a months-long strike by 40,000
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  Chicago garment workers against long hours, abusive bosses, and wage cuts.
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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 Hannah Annie Shapiro, who said, "We all went out.
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  We had to be recognized as people."
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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.