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“We Want to Be a Union” · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  private equity comes in and does what they do and, you know, 10
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  years later, um, it's pretty dismal.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily
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  for Tuesday, October 6th.
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  When I first got there, like, the company motto is where you can be who
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  you want to be, and it's like we wanna be a union, we want representation,
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  but we're getting treated like second class citizens in a sense, you know?
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  That's from the Grocery Nerds podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar, workers confront the Red Scare
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  movement in 1950s Baltimore.
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  That's a lecture at 11:00 AM this morning in Baltimore, Maryland,
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  and available online as well.
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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 1986, 1,700 female flight
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  attendants fired by United Airlines for getting married won a $37 million
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  settlement after an 18-year legal battle.
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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 Stephen King who said, "Amateurs sit and
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  wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a non-profit 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.