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Hospitality Workers Carry More Than Trays · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  a lot of people who are working in service industry jobs, community-facing
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  jobs in the urban core are often tasked with being social workers by default.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, August 4th.
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  And it's something I've seen continuously for going on two decades
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  now, and that's something we really do
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  That's from the Boiling Point
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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 are
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  available at laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1997, 185,000 Teamsters began
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  what would become a successful 15-day strike at the United Parcel Service
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  over excessive use of part-timers.
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  Today's labor quote is by Ron Carey, who said, "This fight with UPS shows
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  what working people can accomplish when they all stick together.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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