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We’re not working, we’re not spending · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  We're not gonna work.
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  We're not going to school
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Tuesday, May 5th.
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  and we're not spending any money in your stores until you stop invading
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  our neighborhoods and kidnapping our neighbors and destroying our society.
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  That's from Work Stoppage on the Labor Radio podcast network.
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  Labor radio network.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar, the New Jersey State IUC Solidarity
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  Singers perform at five today in Princeton, New Jersey.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available@laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history on this date, in 18 88 19, machinists working for the
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  East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad gathered in a locomotive pit
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  to decide what to do about a wage cut.
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  they voted to form a union, which later became the International
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  Association of Machinists.
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  Today's labor quote is by John Sweeney, president of the Service Employees Union
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  from 1980 to 1995, and then president of the A-F-L-C-I-O from 1995 to 2009.
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  Born in the Bronx on this date in 1934, John Sweeney, who said.
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  I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they
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  are ignoring their most powerful resource.
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  There are workers
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  support for the Labor Radio podcast.
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  AI comes from Union Plus a nonprofit organization founded
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  by the A-F-L-C-I-O in 1986.
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  More information@unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.