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The Ironworkers of Ground Zero · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  this is trauma- Yeah is not their realm.
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  Like, you guys put up buildings.
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  you're not rescue and recovery like a police officer or the fire department.
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  Like, that's, that's a different ballgame entirely.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, September 25th.
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  I would hope that audiences would take away, um, a story that they didn't know-
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  and would walk away with a, a greater respect and understanding of what was
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  happening at Ground Zero post 9/11.
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  That's from the Wealthy Ironworker Podcast on
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  the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On this weekend's Labor Arts Calendar Newsies screens at
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  the Rochester Labor Film Series tonight in Rochester, New York.
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  And then on Sunday, you can visit the Labor Heritage Foundation at our table
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  at the Takoma Park Folk Festival.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1891, two Black sharecroppers
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  were killed during a cotton pickers strike in Lee County, Arkansas.
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  By the time the strike was crushed, 15 Black people and a white
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  plantation manager had died and six others had been imprisoned.
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  Today's labor quote is by the Progressive Farmers and Householders Union, which
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  said, "We battle for our rights."
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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.