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C&H Sugar Workers Walk the Line · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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first we go to the C&H Sugar Refinery workers strike.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, July 21st.
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As you go over the Carquinez Bridge in Contra Costa County, you will
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see a big plant on the water's edge.
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It is a C&H Sugar Company, which is the largest sugar refinery on the West Coast.
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91 workers who are members of ILW Local 6 are on the first
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strike of the local in 70 years.
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That's from Work Week Radio on the Labor Radio Podcast
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network, laborradionetwork.org.
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On today's Labor Arts calendar, Scab Muggers, a play based on a true story
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of fighting back against sexism in the labor movement, will be performed at
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7:00 tonight in Berkeley, California.
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Complete details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at
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laborheritage.org, In today's labor history on this date in 1926, radio
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station WCFL, owned and operated by the Chicago Federation of Labor, took to
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the airwaves with two hours of music.
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The first and only labor-owned radio station in the country,
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WCFL was sold in 1979.
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Today's labor quote is by Sigmund Freud who said, "The danger of the past was
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that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots."
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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.