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Zookeepers? Don’t Say That · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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it's not the apes' fault that- No ... you know, that the, the
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Brookfield Zoo w- was being piggish.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, May 20th.
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Animal care specialists.
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Not zookeepers.
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Not zookeepers.
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Do not ever call them a zookeeper.
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It was the first federal legislation protecting workers' rights to form unions.
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Today's labor quote is by Charles Horton Cooley, who said, "One of the great
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reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self
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a sense of power. For once, the human tool knows itself a man able to stand
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up and speak a word or strike a blow."
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