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Our Labor, Our Lives · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  What I discovered in my work is that federal policy has been about,
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  trying to transform Native workers into individuals, and so they
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  use the tool of work to do that.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, October 15th.
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  We love cheap labor in this country.
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  We, we love what immigrants provide us.
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  We just don't like to see them and to experience them as full citizens.
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  Workers at the Detroit Historical Society have won their union with AFSCME Michigan.
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  Joining other Detroit cultural workers who are fighting for a stronger voice
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  to create better institutions for both employees and the community.
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  That's from the Labor Heritage Power Hour 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
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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 nineteen fourteen, President
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  Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act, hailed as labor's Magna
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  Carta for protecting union activity.
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  Later, court rulings and state measures weakened those protections.
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  More labor history quotes and arts are available on LHF's Labor Arts and
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  Culture Database at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Woodrow Wilson: "The government, which was designed for
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  the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special
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  interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network