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Local Union Activists Plan Event with Joe Burns Author of Strike

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Tags: low wages, minimum wage, strikes, organized labor

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. On the first part of today's program- an interview with local labor activist Dustin Ponder. The West Central Florida Federation of Labor and The Young Workers of Florida are sponsoring a talk by author Joe Burns (STRIKE: How Working Poeple Can Regain Power and Transform America) this weekend at IBEW 824 this saturday at 1PM in Tampa. We'll talk with Ponder about the event and labor's campaign to stop wage theft in Florida.

Tampa Bay activists plan Black Friday protests at WalMarts in solidarity with striking workers

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Tags: WalMart, labor, strikes, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Occupy Wall Street

On Last Call we took calls about the strikes by WalMart workers this Friday across the country and the local actions in support of the laborers. The day after Thanksgiving is typically the busiest shopping day of the year -- called Black Friday by shoppers and Buy Nothing Day by people protesting the hyperconsu...