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Stuff You Should Know

How Labor Strikes Work

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Labor strikes are the last resort of a workforce frustrated with low pay or dangerous working conditions. A big part of winning a wage war is having the public in your side. Learn all about strikes in today's episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.9

Tour, tour, tour, tour live shows, live shows, tada, tada, tour.

0:36.0

It's baseball season.

0:37.2

Yeah, that's right it is.

0:39.3

That means we're going on tour, right?

0:42.8

Josh Seattle and Portland are sold out.

0:45.0

I know, we'll see you guys there.

0:46.7

Denver, Colorado, you are very close to selling out.

0:50.9

Yeah, Colorado Denver is like right there, right?

0:53.8

And Houston, Houston's doing okay.

0:56.1

It's respectable, but it's definitely, Denver was like give us this ticket.

1:00.6

Yeah, and I got to say Houston, we really stuck our neck out for you after Dallas and Austin.

1:04.8

We heard from a lot of Houstonites about how big your city is.

1:08.2

So prove it.

1:09.6

Oh, so they call throwing on the gauntlet, Josh.

1:12.6

And we have two more shows to announce.

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