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News and views from Labor Radio Podcast Network shows, plus labor quotes and history. #LaborRadioPod
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Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
A song about low pay and high rents.
Today’s labor quote: Seth Newton Patel.
Today’s labor history: Mounties shoot down strikers.
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Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Lizaveta Merliak, former Salidarnast leader, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour.
Today’s labor quote: IWW.
Today’s labor history: Wobblies indicted for protesting WWI.
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Garment workers strike Triangle two years before fatal fire.
Today’s labor quote: Judge during Triangle strike.
Today’s labor history: Typographical Union renews LA Times strike.
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
AFL founder Sam Gompers on negotiating power. 
Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers.
Today’s labor history: Temple grad students organize.
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Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Remembering child labor.
Today’s labor quote: Lewis Hine.
Today’s labor history: Deadly cotton-picker strike.
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Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
18-year-old garment worker leads 1910 Chicago walkout.
Today’s labor quote: The Emancipation Proclamation.
Today’s labor history: Pizza delivery drivers unite.
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Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Mother Jones leads a march of miner’s children.
Today’s labor quote: Mother Jones.
Today’s labor history: Militia sent to break miner’s strike.
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Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Joe Jencks sings John Henry.
Today’s labor quote: Joe Jencks.
Today’s labor history: Birth of Upton Sinclair.
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Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
The Working People podcast talks with students and organizers at West Virginia
University, which recently announced plans to dramatically cut academic programs and jobs in the coming year.
Today’s labor quote: H.G. Wells.
Today’s labor history: 500K march on Solidarity Day.
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Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Nashville Central Labor Council president Vonda McDaniel on the Valley Labor Report.
Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass.
Today’s labor history: Illegal Kaiser lockout ends.
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