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A Five-Year Fight for Equal Pay · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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It didn't take these temporary foreign workers very long to
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discover that they were being paid a lot less than Canadian laborers
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working on the project above ground.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, September 28th.
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Local 1611 of the Laborers Union took up their cause.
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Little did they know that the fight would last more than five years and
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cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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That's from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers on the Labor Radio Podcast
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Network, laborradionetwork.org.
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In today's labor history, on this date in 1917, 165 Wobblies were
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indicted for protesting World War I.
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Today's labor quote is by Dwight David Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made,
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every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
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a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are
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not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
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sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
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You'll find more labor history and quotes, as well as music and films, in LHF's
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Labor Arts Database at laborheritage.org.
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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.