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- 0:02they just are really against the idea of unions, um, is what we came to see.
- 0:09This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, May 18th.
- 0:15just very staunchly, fundamentally against unions and what it
- 0:20means for workers to have power.
- 0:22That's from the Union Bug podcast, talking about the boycott of
- 0:26REI on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
- 0:31On today's labor arts calendar, the US working class on and off screen.
- 0:38That's online starting at 10:00 AM Eastern Time.
- 0:41Then at 6:00, also Eastern Time, Partners, how Starbucks baristas
- 0:46started a labor revolution, screens in Greenbelt, Maryland, and online.
- 0:51Details and the latest labor arts, news, and events are
- 0:54available at laborheritage.org,
- 0:58In today's labor history, on this date in 1928, Big Bill Haywood, a founding
- 1:04member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies,
- 1:09died in exile in the Soviet Union.
- 1:12Now you can discover the stories where they happened.
- 1:15The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
- 1:19Today's Today's labor quote is by Big Bill Haywood, who said, "For every dollar the
- 1:25boss has and didn't work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it."
- 1:32Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
- 1:35Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
- 1:42More information at unionplus.org.
- 1:46This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.