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When Food Workers Need Food · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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we tased a guy over donuts and milk last night
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Friday, June 26th.
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no one ever told us that our job was to stop shoplifters, because
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I think even a manager knows that's, uh, an unreasonable demand
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we have a retail food system where the people that sell
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food cannot afford to buy it
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That's from the Green and Red
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podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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Today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events are available
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at laborheritage.org, In today's labor history on this date in 1894, members of
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the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refused to handle Pullman cars
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in solidarity with Pullman strikers.
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Two dozen strikers were killed over the course of the strike.
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Today's labor quote is by Gene Debs, who said, "Solidarity is not
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a matter of sentiment, but a fact, cold as impassive as the granite
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foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest,
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clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these
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is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity and all other efforts to
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achieve it will be barren of results."
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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