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Data center jobs and community wealth · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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data centers create a lot of construction jobs, every time you show up on
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one of those sites, they're full.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, May 6th
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And so it creates jobs for our local people.
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It creates community wealth.
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It gives people a good sense of our community and, and helps us grow.
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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, Keona Ervin, Max Frazier, and Amy Loesel
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discuss redefining the American working class online at 7:00 tonight.
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Details and the latest labor arts news and events are 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 1937, 400 Black women working as
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tobacco stemmers walked off the job in a spontaneous revolt against poor working
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conditions and a $3 weekly wage at the Vaughan Company in Richmond, Virginia.
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quote is by Albert Einstein who said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same
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thinking we used when we created them."
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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.