All The Livelong Day — E8

03/01/23 • 52 min

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When the boss wants you gone, it’s only a matter of time, and this rolls out extra nastily on the railroad. In this episode, the story of Nickie Jackson, and how she was hounded by the railroad. Danelle digs deeper and Ruby tells her about a miracle.

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City of the Rails - All The Livelong Day — E8

Transcript

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When I go in, it's doctor. He's standing there and

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he says, okay, we need you to do so many squats. Okay, So I do the squats. Then he goes, okay, we need you to be able to stand here. And they brought in a male nurse and they go he needs to try to knock you down. Most times, when you get your back to work physical, the nurse takes your blood pressure and wait, but that's not what it's like wor