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Boss makes workers pay to stay safe · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  the workers at JBS are required to buy their own personal protective equipment.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Friday, March 27th.
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  That's right.
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  This extremely unsafe job, the historically unsafe meat packing industry,
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  the company garnishes the workers' wages of these workers if they need to have
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  their, the equipment that helps them not be maimed by the machines replaced
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  That's from the Work Stoppage podcast on the Labor Radio podcast network.
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  Labor radio network.org.
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  On this weekend's Labor Arts calendar.
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  The power of working women, 50 years of labor art and organizing,
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  and a jazzy celebration of Women's History Month, both in Washington
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  DC tomorrow, then in Milwaukee, west Alice, workers versus Corporate Power.
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  That's tomorrow at three.
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  Local time.
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  Details and the latest Labor Arts News and events are available@laborheritage.org,
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  in today's labor history on this date in 2002, the US Supreme Court
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  ruled that undocumented workers do not have the same rights as
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  Americans when they're wrongly fired.
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  Today's labor quote is by Mother Jones ordered to leave Colorado on this
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  date in 1904, where state authorities accused her of quote unquote,
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  stirring up striking coal miners.
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  Mother Jones, who said, I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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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@unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.