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Workers’ Stories, Antidote to Despair · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  I will say talking about and hearing from workers on the pod has been a
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  refuge of sanity during an otherwise incredibly destabilizing time.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily from Monday, March 16th.
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  I think lately many of us have been at least privately kind of questioning
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  even our most basic assumptions about how our society functions.
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  And maybe we're even wondering what's the point of anything we're doing right now.
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  How do we gather ourselves as a public and a movement to resist?
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  Hearing from workers each week who are organizing to move their coworkers
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  on workplace issues, on making their unions better, on getting better
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  framing and facts on political issues is giving me so much hope.
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  in today's labor history.
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  On this date, in 1960, the United Federation of Teachers was formed in
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  New York to represent New York City public school teachers and later
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  other education workers in the city.
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  Today's labor quote is by Eleanor Roosevelt who said, I have always felt
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  that it was important to everyone who was a worker join a labor organization,
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  Discover the stories where they happen.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.