(audio) “Part of the problem is--is that we say we lost jobs. We didn’t lose jobs; you lost people.”
That’s Mark Fernapsis, a member of Steelworkers Local 979 in Cleveland, Ohio. He’s one of the workers who spoke out during the AFL-CIO’s recent trade tour to discuss the future of NAFTA. “They should got a picture of all those people walking out of there and their families and what’s happened to the community and everything else that’s happened here. There’s no face to this anymore. I see people; when this plant closed down I saw thousands of people without a job. They lost their homes. There were suicides. They lost their healthcare. But nobody put a face on it. We need to make sure we identify it’s not about the number, it’s not about the money; it’s about those people.” Hear more on State of the Unions, wherever you listen to podcasts. On today’s labor calendar, catch this week’s edition of Your Rights at Work Today at 1pm here on WPFW; For all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1919, 35,000 Chicago stockyard workers went out on strike. Today’s labor quote is by Mary Moultrie, a nurse’s assistant who rose to public recognition in 1969 as an organizer of the Charleston hospital strike that year. Mary Moultrie, who, when strikers finally won a historic marker for the 1969 hospital strike, said, “the only way to do this historical marker justice is to recognize that the struggle for equality, fairness, and democracy is continuous.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you’re thinking about buying a new phone this summer – and there are some pretty cool ones out there -- get waived activation and upgrade fees when you enroll in the Union Plus AT&T Signature Program. Visit unionplus.org/att.
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