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Warehouse Workers and Historic Fights · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  we're in, in a historic area right now that you're involved with organizing
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  in, in the warehouse industry,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, May 25th.
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  which this is the biggest fight that we have going on in labor in this part of
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  the world, which is an historic challenge.
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  That's from the Worker Power Hour on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts Calendar, artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales
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  is celebrating his 70th birthday today at 2:00 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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  Details and the latest labor arts, news, and events are
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  available at laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1936, the notorious 11-month
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  Remington Rand strike began.
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  The strike spanned the, quote, Mohawk Valley Formula, unquote, described
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  by investigators as a corporate plan to discredit union leaders,
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  frighten the public with the threat of violence, employ thugs to beat
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  up strikers, and other tactics.
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  The National Labor Relations Board termed the formula, quote, "A
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  battle plan for industrial war."
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  Today's labor quote is by James Baldwin, who said, "Fires can't be made with
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  dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm
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  in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
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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.