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The Dignity of Work in the Age of AI · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  here we have our new pope basically saying the same thing in what he
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  talked about, you know, as we embrace and, you know, br- brace ourselves
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  against the oncoming age of, of AI.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Tuesday, June ninth.
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  It was, um, basically about the importance of the dignity of work, and how we
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  must not lose sight of that dignity for workers in the age of automation
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  and artificial general intelligence.
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  That's from The Worker's Mic on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  The latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org, In
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  today's labor history on this date in eighteen sixty-five, Helen Marott was
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  born in Philadelphia to a wealthy family.
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  She went on to organize the Bookkeepers, Stenographers, and Accountants
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  Union in New York and organized and led the city's nineteen oh
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  nine-nineteen ten shirtwaist strike.
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  In nineteen twelve, she was a member of a commission investigating the
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  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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  Today's labor quote is by Helen Marott, who said, "The labor unions
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  are group efforts in the direction of democracy. Like the political efforts
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  in the same direction, they become many times stultified and lead up blind
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  alleys, but the effort creates power."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union Plus, a
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  nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in nineteen eighty-six.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network