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99 percent vote to strike at JBS · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  the company had issued a final offer,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, March 25th.
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  but, to the union, however, their offer is, well, one, it's substandard,
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  it's not acceptable to the membership.
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  Um, members have voted by 99% to strike.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar, a commemoration of the Triangle Shirt,
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  waste Factory Fire is set for 1130 this morning in New York City.
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  In today's labor history on this date, in nineteen eleven, one hundred and
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  forty six workers, mostly young immigrant women were killed in a fire in New
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  York's Triangle shirt, waist factory, a disaster that would launch a national
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  movement for safer working conditions.
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  Today's labor quote is by Francis Perkins who said.
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  There was a stricken conscience of public guilt, and we all felt we had
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  been wrong, that something was wrong with that building, which we had accepted,
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  or the tragedy never would've happened, moved by this sense of stricken guilt.
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  We banded ourselves together to find a way by law to prevent this kind of disaster.
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