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Spreadsheets Build Worker Power · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  It's kind of this mundane yet profound reality that every raucous, energetic
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  worker action you see, which might seem like a spontaneous burst of
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  energy or anger or excitement,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, June 24th.
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  is really often the product of painstaking organizing that started with workers
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  carefully filling out spreadsheets and reaching people one by one and
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  adding to their sheets over time.
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  That's from the Labor Notes podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  This week's labor landmark is the Cannery Lady Monument in East Contra
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  Costa County, California, which honors the generations of mostly women cannery
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  workers whose seasonal labor in the region's fruit, vegetable, and fish
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  processing plants helped to build the local economy and shape the working class
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  communities of Antioch and Pittsburgh
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1848, Haymarket
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  martyr Albert Parsons was born,
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  Today's labor quote is by Albert Parsons, who said, "The giant labor is awakening.
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  The masses aroused from their stupor will snap their petty
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  chains like reeds in the whirlwind.
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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