The History Behind a Holiday: Martin Luther King Day

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This was a holiday that was not obtained without struggle including strikes, shaming and strange political bedfellows. In one of the first casts on MHCBUYP from 2007, We took a look at this history and some well-known and lesser known actors in its occurrence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	a safe tomorrow.
0:35.3	Just today, January 15th, some workers at the Massive Smith Fields Foods Hogg Slotering
0:41.9	Plant in Tarheon, North Carolina, missed the first shift.
0:46.9	To protest, the company's decision not to give them the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
0:52.1	is a paid day off.
0:54.3	United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 among the 2500 scheduled to work
1:00.0	and walked out are just not come to work on Monday.
1:03.8	National holiday, marking, would would be the slain civil rights leader's 78th birthday.
1:11.0	Union workers took credit for shutting down a production line, but company officials
1:15.7	at Smithfield said the action had not slown operations and just hasn't been effective.
1:21.2	The company says that the Monday had already been planned as a work day and the Union
1:25.9	request for a holiday came too late to change plans and workers that miss work will be
1:31.5	docked today's pay and could be disciplined.
1:37.4	If this news from the Smithfield Hogg Slotering Plant seems unusual, thought it might be interesting
1:43.9	to take a quick look at the history behind Martin Luther King Day.
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