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Beyond the Corporate Robotic Environment · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  The kind of like dead corporate robotic environment that Amazon pushes very hard.
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  this is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, June 17th.
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  I think those are the main planks of organizing.
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  I'd say in terms of what we were, like, of the things we focused on were pay,
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  healthcare, and, like, job security 'cause a lot of people in, like, the
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  e-com departments just don't last.
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  Front end don't last.
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  That's from the Grocery Nerds podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  Network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  Today's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events
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  are available at laborheritage.org,
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  free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1903, Mother Jones led a Philadelphia
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  rally spotlighting child labor in textile mills, then marched with child
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  workers to New York to demand reforms.
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  Discover the stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Mother Jones, who said, "They began work
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  at 5:30 and quit at 7:00 at night. Children six years old going home
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  to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning."
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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.