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- 0:02During the same timeframe, the CEO pocketed a hundred and eleven million
- 0:07dollars, and the top five executives made two hundred and thirty-one million That's
- 0:12not a business model, that's extraction
- 0:14This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Monday, June 29th.
- 0:20When workers move together, there's no force in this country that can stop us
- 0:24That's from the Labor Force podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
- 0:28network, laborradionetwork.org.
- 0:32This week's labor arts calendar and the latest labor arts news and events
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- 0:41where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
- 0:44free weekly newsletter.
- 0:47In today's labor history, on this date in 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 0:54established the National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB, by executive order
- 1:00after the Supreme Court struck down its predecessor, the National Labor Board.
- 1:06You can discover these stories where they happened.
- 1:08The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
- 1:14Today's labor quote is by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said, "It is
- 1:20now beyond partisan controversy that it is a fundamental individual right
- 1:25of a worker to associate himself with other workers and to bargain
- 1:30collectively with his employer."
- 1:33Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
- 1:36Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
- 1:43More information at unionplus.org.
- 1:47This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.