Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic

dimensions of our lives and those of our children.

I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.

Before we get started, I want to remind everyone that the deadline to apply for the Worker Co-op Academy, Summer Boot Camp Edition, is June 10th.

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maintain, and grow their own worker co-op. It's presented in collaboration with the People's Network

for Land and Liberation and the Wellspring cooperative.

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Okay.

Today I want to do two things.

I want to talk to you about two important strikes

in which large groups of working people are fighting to change the situation we all find ourselves in. I find

people able and willing to hurt their own income, jeopardize, therefore, the things they hold dear

in terms of finance, in order to make a point, in order to get

a job that is more accommodating to real people's real needs.

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