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- 0:02the news really is of no value.
- 0:04It's really just an economic entity to strip assets from.
- 0:07This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, June 19th.
- 0:12From sort of 2010 to 2020, you had 200 union drives with
- 0:18an over a 90% success rate
- 0:20That's from Economics for the People on the Labor Radio Podcast
- 0:26network, laborradionetwork.org.
- 0:28On this weekend's Labor Arts calendar, Bread and Roses screens
- 0:33tomorrow at four thirty PM local time in Bellingham, Washington.
- 0:37And on Sunday, there's a Pullman Labor History tour at one PM
- 0:41local time in Chicago, Illinois.
- 0:44Complete details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at
- 0:50laborheritage.org, In today's labor history on this date in nineteen
- 0:55thirty-seven, the Women's Day massacre took place in Youngstown, Ohio, when
- 1:01police used tear gas on women and children during a strike at Republic Steel.
- 1:07today's labor quote is by a union organizer at the nineteen thirty-seven
- 1:12Women's Day massacre who said, "When I got there, I thought the Great War had
- 1:18started over again. Gas was flying all over the place and shots flying and flares
- 1:24going up, and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in my life."
- 1:30Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union Plus, a
- 1:35nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in nineteen eighty-six.
- 1:42More information at unionplus.org.
- 1:46This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.