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Holding the Line in Great Falls · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  today we are down here in beautiful Great Falls, Montana.
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  Uh, don't mind, listeners, if you, you hear honking.
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  We got people honking and waving and, uh, it is an active picket line here today.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, July 22nd.
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  She walked in, people asked if they're on the schedule, and she said no.
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  There were certain people, good people that have no reason to lose their jobs.
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  She just didn't wanna be union.
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  This was her way of doing it, was only hiring half the people back.
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  That's from the Blue Collar News Podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar at the San Francisco Labor Fest, the
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  Communist Party and the labor movement.
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  That's at 5:00 PM in Oakland, California.
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  Details and the latest labor arts, news, and events are
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  available at laborheritage.org,
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  where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
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  free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1886, San Francisco brewery workers,
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  many of them German socialists, won a landmark strike securing free beer,
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  a 10-hour day, and union recognition.
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  Today's labor quote is by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who said, " I don't
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  understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song."
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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