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This week on Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Filipino migrant workers fight back against union busting in Taiwan, protesters and their canine comrades take to the streets in Chile and Greece, and labor activists revisit the legacy of the Qatar World Cup as workers ask whether conditions have improved. Plus, organizing at Colorado's historic Hotel Boulderado, the closure of an Alabama tire plant, and a conversation about building worker power through independent radio.
On LabourStart, Lennon Wang of the Taidoc Technology Union tells the story of Filipino migrant workers at TaiDoc Technology in Taiwan, who organized in the face of discrimination, forced labor conditions, and union busting.
On Working Class History, Movements and Riot Dogs explores the role of street dogs in mass protests in Chile and Greece, focusing on the legendary Negro Matapacos and Loukanikos.
On Heartland Labor Forum, Natasha Iskander revisits the worker-rights abuses surrounding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, while Stage Hands union leader Jacob Hobbs assesses whether this summer's tournament has treated workers any better.
On Delivering Solidarity, organizers gather for the union's national convention.
On Labor Exchange, the hosts discuss Boulder City Council's decision not to cut tipped workers' pay, the union drive at the Hotel Boulderado, and the working-class history of soccer.
On The Valley Labor Report, an Alabama USW local president reacts to the closure of the BFGoodrich plant, and Jennifer Berkshire joins the show to discuss the future of public education.
On The Worker Power Hour, Chris Garlock and Harold Phillips discuss the growing partnership between the Worker Power Radio Network and the Labor Radio Podcast Network and the importance of independent media in amplifying workers' voices.
PLUS: Shows You Should Know: The Workers Mic, Working People, Blue Collar News, Reinventing Solidarity, and Breaking Ground.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
This week on Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, Boiling Point explores hospitality-worker organizing in Cincinnati and celebrates its 100th episode; Blue Collar News launches a new series on Native workers in Montana's skilled trades; Wealthy Ironworker decodes construction contracts; and Re:Work follows an Indian auto-rickshaw driver who became a union leader. Plus, On the Line tells the story of Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, while The Workers' Mic covers the Ashland Specialty Chemicals strike and the fight against wage theft. Plus more Shows You Should Know.
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This week's special edition of Labor Radio Podcast Weekly features extended excerpts from two outstanding shows on the Labor Radio Podcast Network instead of the usual sampler format.
First, Continent of Resistance explores what it means to rewrite the culture of labor movements. The discussion argues that strong organizing depends on healthy relationships, democratic decision-making, collective care, and a culture of solidarity that welcomes new workers and builds resilient movements.
Then, The Solidarity Report sits down with Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Chris Garlock and actor and SAG-AFTRA member Harold Phillips. The conversation ranges from the origins of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and the importance of labor storytelling to organizing through arts and culture, preserving labor history, protecting workers from AI, and why communication is essential to building worker power. The episode also highlights the Labor Heritage Foundation's Labor Landmarks Map and the growing community of labor podcasters working together across the movement.
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Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Work Week Radio: ILWU Local 6 members take on C&H Sugar in a strike over jobs, safety and respect.
Blue Collar News: Terrie Trettenback examines the case of a worker at Hometown Harvest Foods and what it says about workplace rights.
Grocery Nerds: Why ALDI is winning the U.S. grocery war—and what it means for workers and shoppers.
Labor Notes Podcast: Highlights from the live show at the 2026 Labor Notes Conference.
My Labor Radio: TikTok creator Joe Lundequam discusses labor messaging and reaching new audiences online.
The SAG-AFTRA Podcast: Harrison Ford reflects on life as a working actor and the realities of the profession.
Shows You Should Know: Concrete Gang, The Voice, The Canadian Union Podcast For Employees, Labor History Today, Union Labor Advisory Network Podcast.
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On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Roswell Hub — Teamsters discuss surviving extreme heat on the job and the contract rights that can save workers' lives.
Labor Force — AI, gig work, engineering, ports, and video games all point to one conclusion: workers are organizing to shape the future of work.
The Workers Mic — Teamsters launch the nation's first cannabis industry strike as workers fight for a first contract.
Pipe Up — A 19-year-old union apprentice prepares to represent the UA and the U.S. at the WorldSkills competition in Shanghai.
Labor Notes Podcast — Toy Story turns out to be a master class in organizing, collective action, and worker solidarity.
Green & Red Podcast — Historian James Cheney explores the largely forgotten 1912–13 Little Falls textile strike led by immigrant women workers.
Shows You Should Know: Worker Power Hour; Next Generation Carriers; Working People; My Labor Radio; Labor History Today.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Stoppage examines the Faster Labor Contracts Act and whether it could finally speed first-contract negotiations. Reinventing Solidarity digs into the Labor Action Tracker's latest findings on strikes and labor militancy. Labor Radio on KBOO checks in with Oregon university workers preparing for a possible strike, while Grocery Nerds talks with Dr. Bronner's CEO David Bronner about worker justice and regenerative business. Plus: the Manufacturing Report visits Detroit's "Arsenal of Democracy," Working Class History revisits the IWW's pioneering Starbucks organizing drive, and our regular roundup of Shows You Should Know.
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Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Winning a strike. Building a union. Defending organizers. This week on Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we hear why the real work begins after the victory. LaborForce recaps the action at this year’s Labor Notes, plus live from the stage, UAW Local 2093's John Krause about the American Axle strike that delivered every demand after 18 years of concessions. Working People: Hamilton Nolan and Alex Press ask why union membership fell during the most pro-union administration in decades—and what organized labor needs to do differently. Work Stoppage tackles another Labor Notes focus, the fightback in Minnesota. On We Rise Fighting, Rick and Brian examine the federal indictment of 15 Minnesota immigrant rights and labor organizers—and labor's response. And from Labor Jawn, the story of Carl Mackley, the young Philadelphia striker whose death inspired 25,000 workers to pledge they'd keep fighting.
Shows You Should Know: Heartland Labor Forum; The Valley Labor Report; Concrete Gang and more from Labor Notes on the Labor Heritage Power Hour.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: the Labor Heritage Power Hour live from last weekend’s Great Labor Arts Exchange at Labor Notes to explore how culture builds worker power; Grocery Nerds talks Whole Foods union organizing; Economics for the People examines labor organizing in newsrooms; Next Generation Carriers celebrates Pride Month and queer labor history; and Class Matters revisits the Labor Party experiment 30 years later. Plus Shows You Should Know and Chris, Harold and Patrick throw away the script!Subscribe, listen, and follow us at laborradionetwork.org
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Artificial intelligence dominates this week's Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly. The Workers Mic examines Pope Leo XIV's call to protect the dignity of work in the age of AI, while WorkWeek Radio, the International Labour Organization's Future of Work podcast, and Working Voices explore automation, inequality, workplace surveillance, and who benefits from the rapid deployment of new technologies.
Then we step away from AI for a look at the human side of work, as Project Labor profiles a funeral director whose profession centers on service and compassion. And the Manufacturing Report visits Rhode Island's historic Slater Mill to trace the origins of American manufacturing and the lessons it offers workers today.
Plus, Shows You Should Know. Hosted by Chris, Harold, Thejis and Steve Matthews.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Radio on KBOO talks with workers organizing at a gender-affirming care clinic, Riverside Rank and File explores union organizing at Amazon, Solidarity Breakfast marks National Sorry Day with Indigenous activists in Australia, Heartland Labor Forum talks with retiring Texas AFL-CIO leader Rick Levy, El Cafecito del Día examines the history of mass deportations and mixed-status families, and Say Watt explores the core beliefs that shape our lives. Plus, a speed round of Shows You Should Know from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, we feature stories from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network on coal miners, grassroots democracy movements, labor media, Starbucks organizing, labor music, and more.
Working People: Labor journalist Kim Kelly reports on the Trump administration’s weakening of mine safety protections, exacerbating the black lung crisis and jeopardizing coal miners' health.
Green and Red: Anthropologist Ida Susser discusses France’s Yellow Vest movement, highlighting grassroots workers' challenges to both liberal and far-right politics while fostering new democratic organizing.
The Worker Power Hour: Steve Matthews emphasizes the need for labor unions to adopt podcasts, radio, and digital media to educate and inspire workers in a changing media landscape.
I Am An Actor: In this new SAG-AFTRA series, Kate Hudson explores the craft of acting.
Heat the Ground Up: This episode continues the oral history of Starbucks Workers United, detailing Starbucks’ anti-union campaign and the organizing efforts that transformed labor in the service industry.
Mine Wars Forum: Celebrating the legacy of labor musician and activist Hazel Dickens, stories from her nephew Buddy span from West Virginia coal country to the Pittston strike and beyond.
Plus tips on more Shows You Should Know.
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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: REI workers launch a nationwide boycott campaign after stalled bargaining talks, Alabama lawmakers battle over voting rights and representation, Brookfield Zoo workers score a contract breakthrough after a strike threat, Montana nurses discuss burnout and staffing shortages, and Cincinnati labor activists talk about connecting unions to broader community life.
Featuring clips from The Union Bug, The Valley Labor Report, The Workers Mic, Blue Collar News and Boiling Point.
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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly is our May Day recap special, featuring reports from across the country on the biggest crop of actions in decades —and welcoming new shows to the Network.
From Work Stoppage, a reminder that May Day is a day of action, not celebration. New to the Network, Solidarity Report digs into the history and meaning of International Workers’ Day, Maryland Labor History captures a story transformed by a sudden mill closure, and Project Labor explores the realities of representing workers on the shop floor.
Plus, We Work Europe highlights Ukrainian women workers supporting their communities during wartime, and Concrete Gang revisits the fight for the eight-hour day—won through collective action.
On Shows You Should Know: Union Or Bust — organizing at San Diego Musical Theatre; Apple Box Talks — IATSE’s John Lewis on AI and Canadian crews; The Docker Podcast — urgent fight against automation in Tacoma; Working People — Post-Gazette layoffs and the future of journalism; The Powerline Podcast — building stronger union halls and supporting members.
The Labor Radio Podcast Weekly brings you highlights selected from more than 200 labor shows across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, May Day takes center stage as workers organize nationwide actions and build power on the ground:
Working People features organizers behind May Day Strong and calls for a national economic blackout; Work Stoppage urges a full shutdown to hit the boss class where it hurts; Labor History Today explores how strikes and disruption can rebuild worker power with Jeremy Brecher, Joe McCartin, and Stephen Lerner;
Blue Collar News looks at unions shaping jobs and standards in the growing data center industry; the ILO’s Future of Work podcast examines the global toll of workplace stress and insecurity.
Plus, in our “Shows You Should Know” speed round: Reinventing Solidarity with Chris Brooks on organizing to win, The Worker Power Hour with Lorena Gonzalez on innovation in California labor, The Valley Labor Report on union busting and workplace safety, Say Watt on IBEW RENEW building new leaders, and The Union Bug on organizing inside Amazon.
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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly features organizing campaigns across the movement:
Green and Red — Will Potter on the growing criminalization of protest and expanding surveillance powers targeting activists.
On Union Strong, Albany News Guild journalists discuss their 17-year fight for a first contract—and what it means for workers, wages, and the future of local news. Heartland Labor Forum — Transit riders organizing for equitable public transportation and building Bus Riders Unions.
The Union Bug — How workers can build their own unions with a new framework for organizing from the ground up.
LaborStart — Extreme heat is a growing global threat to workers—and unions are key to protecting lives.
Organising for Change — Why organizing isn’t a checklist but a creative, worker-led process.
Plus, Shows You Should Know, including: Youth pay fights in Australia (Stick Together); NYC building workers and LA educators (Work Stoppage); Appalachian storytelling (Mine Wars Forum); OSHA failures at a deadly workplace (The Wealthy Ironworker); Intimacy coordinators win a union contract (SAG-AFTRA Podcast).
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we explore the real-world impacts of major economic and industrial shifts—and how working people are organizing in response.
The Rick Smith Show examines the rapid expansion of AI data centers, raising questions about massive public subsidies, environmental impacts, and who really benefits from this booming industry.
From My Labor Radio, tradeswomen are building power in the construction industry—mentoring, organizing, and breaking down barriers to ensure access and opportunity for the next generation.
On Labor Express Radio, we look ahead to May Day 2026 in Chicago, which organizers say could be the largest mobilization in decades—and a critical test of workers’ collective power.
Working People brings powerful firsthand accounts from Louisiana residents dealing with the aftermath of a chemical plant explosion, highlighting the human cost of environmental disaster and the role of working-class solidarity.
From Australia’s Stick Together, we hear why protecting endangered grasslands is also a labor issue, tied to sustainability, land use, and community survival.
And on Radio Labor, Canadian unions push back against legislation that critics say undermines public education and democratic oversight.
Plus: Shows You Should Know featuring Green and Red Podcast, Riverside Rank and File, Work Stoppage, Labor Notes Podcast, and On The Line: Stories of BC Workers.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Week Radio reports on a shocking ICE raid at San Francisco International Airport and the fight for sanctuary…El Cafecito Del Dia and Solidarity Works examine how unions are mobilizing to support immigrant workers and families. America’s Workforce looks at mass layoffs at a Whirlpool plant in Iowa, while Boiling Point explores the threat of AI replacing teachers. Plus, the new Mine Wars Forum highlights the importance of preserving labor history, and our Speed Round features The Worker Power Hour, Talking SMART, The Labor Show, My Labor Radio, and Hot House with Richie Ray.
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On this week’s Labor History Today: In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood with striking sanitation workers in Memphis—members of AFSCME Local 1733—delivering his powerful “Mountaintop” speech just one day before his assassination. We reflect on King’s labor legacy and what it means for organizing today.
With the 2026 baseball season underway, we also take a look at the business of the game, featuring a segment from the Heartland Labor Forum on how players organized to break free from a system that bound them to their teams—and built one of the most powerful unions in the country.
Along the way, Conor Casey, Labor Archivist and Head of the Labor Archives at the University of Washington, brings us the story of the Seattle Union Record, a pioneering labor newspaper that showed the power of workers telling their own stories.
Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: direct action, rising costs, worker resilience, and the long fight for free agency—Chris and Harold are joined by special guest co-host Judy Ancel of the Heartland Labor Forum as Patrick enjoys a day off.
Labor Express Radio explores the shift from protest to direct action, connecting global solidarity to organizing for a potential May Day 2026 general strike.
Union Talk examines the growing affordability crisis, with educators and union members detailing how rising costs are impacting workers and students alike.
Powerline Podcast shares a lineman’s story of resilience, skill, and pride in the trade—highlighting the grit behind keeping the lights on.
Heartland Labor Forum kicks off baseball season with a deep dive into the Major League Baseball Players Association, the reserve clause, and the fight for free agency.
Plus on Shows You Should Know: WestJet MEC PIREP Podcast, ales From The Reuther Library, Labor Notes Podcast and Boiling Point.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Working People – JBS meatpacking workers launch one of the largest strikes in decades, demanding safer conditions, fair pay, and dignity on the job amid growing corporate consolidation.
CWA Hour of Power – A powerful Women’s History Month segment on Dolores Huerta that honors her legacy while confronting difficult truths about power, accountability, and survivor courage within movements.
The Workers Mic – A lively discussion on labor and sports, exploring solidarity through the lens of NFL referees, WNBA gains, and the importance of honoring picket lines.
Re:Work – The story of a woman in India challenging gender norms and carving out space in a male-dominated transport industry.
PLUS this week’s “Shows You Should Know”: Engage – Contract negotiations, strategy, and why labor history matters at the bargaining table; The Valley Labor Report – Hospital consolidation, prison reform, and new union organizing drives; Reinventing Solidarity – Rethinking economic policy and a worker-centered “abundance agenda”; Labor Radio on KBOO – Voices from the Portland Community College strike line; Powerline Podcast – What rodeo culture can teach about teamwork, communication, and job site safety; El Cafecito del Día (en Español) – Latina union leaders building power in communities and local government.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: comprehensive coverage of the strike bymeatpacking workers at JBL; Labor Force looks at what led to the walkout, Colorado-based Labor Exchange brings us voices from the picket lines, and Work Stoppage provides global context. Plus, ICE detains a gaming champion on Working People and Workers Beat Extra wonders Who really counts as a worker?
In our speed round Shows You Should Know segment, we spotlight new episodes on resistance in film, women in the labor movement, construction protests, labor shortages, and the politics shaping workers’ lives today.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: comprehensive coverage of the strike bymeatpacking workers at JBL; Labor Force looks at what led to the walkout, Colorado-based Labor Exchange brings us voices from the picket lines, and Work Stoppage provides global context. Plus, ICE detains a gaming champion on Working People and Workers Beat Extra wonders Who really counts as a worker?
In our speed round Shows You Should Know segment, we spotlight new episodes on resistance in film, women in the labor movement, construction protests, labor shortages, and the politics shaping workers’ lives today.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, guest co-hosts Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Danielle Smith from the Labor Notes Podcast join the crew to celebrate their show’s first anniversary. They reflect on a year of sharing rank-and-file organizing stories and explain why hearing directly from workers has become a source of hope during turbulent times.
We also feature highlights from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network:
Madison Labor Radio reports from Calumet, Michigan, where organizers are raising funds for a life-sized statue honoring Big Annie Clements, the early 20th-century miner’s union organizer who led thousands during the 1913 copper strike.
The Voice Podcast looks back at the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, remembering the workers whose deaths sparked sweeping workplace safety reforms and helped fuel the growth of the labor movement.
America Works shares the story of Robert O’Keefe, a nurse and Marine veteran who describes caring for fellow veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic and why serving veterans remains a calling.
On the Line talks with United Educators of San Francisco leader Natalie Rey about the union’s historic four-day strike — the first since 1979 — and how organizing, member engagement, and community support helped educators win key demands.
The SAG-AFTRA Podcast takes a humorous look at artificial intelligence in acting. Director Sergio Cilli explains how his viral “AI audition” videos reveal that AI actors still can’t manage simple human tasks — like loading a dishwasher.
Plus, in our speed Shows You Should Know round, we highlight more shows across the network, including Working Voices, The Labor Show with Jim Snell, The Concrete Gang, Future of Work, Pipe Up, and Power Line Podcast.
As always, you can find links to every show featured this week at laborradionetwork.org.
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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly spotlights workers and activists confronting powerful institutions—from Big Tech’s rapidly expanding data centers to global snack companies, anti-union politicians, and workplace conflicts on the job.
On Economics for the People from Dollars & Sense, activists Katie Currid and Rachel Gonzalez discuss the boom in artificial-intelligence-driven data centers across the Midwest and the enormous demands these facilities place on local electricity grids and water supplies.
On the Green and Red Podcast, host Scott Parkin talks with forest campaigner Maggie Martin about the campaign targeting Mondelēz International—the company behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone—over tropical deforestation and labor abuses in its supply chains.
The Solidarity Podcast from Teamsters Local 769 in Miami features Business Agent Andy Madtes explaining new anti-union legislation moving through the Florida legislature and why union members need to organize and push back.
On Hot House with Richie Ray, the focus is workplace conflict for letter carriers. Richie breaks down common Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) issues, mistakes workers make during disputes, and practical ways carriers can protect themselves on the job.
And on We Rise Fighting, Olivia Najera-Garcia of the Union of Southern Service Workers talks about organizing service workers in North Carolina and building worker power across the South.
Plus, in our regular Shows You Should Know segment: RadioLabour Canada, Work Stoppage, Pipe Up, and Labor History Today.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Work Week Radio, more than 6,500 San Francisco educators strike for living wages, safe staffing, and protections for immigrant students.
From Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Portland Community College faculty describe their contract fight and readiness to strike for the first time in school history.
A frontline nurse on Riverside Rank & File explains why 30,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are striking over patient safety and staffing levels.
Unite & Win shares strategies for protecting immigrant workers amid growing political pressure.
From Labor History in 2:00: MADISON!
And on Labor History Today, we explore how labor memory survives through the new Labor Landmarks Map.
Plus, in Shows You Should Know, highlights from Boiling Point, Labor Force, The Workers’ Mic, El Cafecito del Dia, and Roswell Hub.
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This week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly features the Green and Red Podcast honoring civil rights and labor champion Jesse Jackson and his lifelong fight for economic justice and multiracial working-class solidarity. The Valley Labor Report speaks with Dr. Augustus Wood about his new book Class Warfare in Black Atlanta and why Black working-class struggle remains central to confronting inequality and building liberation movements.
On My Labor Radio, letter carriers organize nationwide rallies demanding fair contracts, living wages, and respect for essential public service workers. The FedEx pilots’ union podcast Fly By Night highlights how worker feedback leads to real improvements in safety and working conditions, while Australia’s Concrete Gang defends construction unions against political attacks and makes the case for unions’ critical role in protecting wages, safety, and dignity.
Finally, Tales from the Reuther Library marks its 100th episode with a look at the Radical Fund, showing how bold ideas and strategic support helped advance labor rights and civil liberties during some of America’s most turbulent times.
The episode concludes with our “Shows You Should Know” roundup, featuring strike votes by Nova Scotia care workers, ongoing coverage from the Working People podcast, organizing lessons from Labor Notes and Labor Force, and new data on strikes and work stoppages from Power At Work.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
- Labor Notes Podcast — Minnesota workers organize a mass day of action as ICE activity turns immigration enforcement into an unavoidable workplace issue.
- Words & Work — USL soccer players use the championship spotlight to demand a real CBA, healthcare, and basic professional standards.
- America Works — Nurse practitioner Tracy Augusta connects holistic health, spirituality, and the labor history of Black caregiving.
- The SAG-AFTRA Podcast — Performers break down new AI protections, digital replica rules, and what producers can—and cannot—do without consent.
- Labor Express Radio — A documentary filmmaker and UAW activists recount corruption, job selling, and the rank-and-file movement that reclaimed union democracy.
Plus Shows You Should Know: El Cafecito del Día — youth activism and love-in-action organizing; Green and Red Podcast — general strikes, May Day, and class-conscious storytelling; The Concrete Gang — construction industry news and a CFMEU victory; Pipe Up — Black leadership in the pipe trades; Union Or Bust — nurses on the Kaiser strikes; The Valley Labor Report — a Volkswagen win in Chattanooga.
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This week on Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:The Heartland Labor Forum examines the stunning decision to shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just hours after workers won their case at the U.S. Supreme Court, with NewsGuild–CWA president John Schleuss on what comes next.
The Power Line Podcast goes inside the substation with Arizona Public Service electricians Juan Huerta and Beau Tubbs, exploring high-risk work, accountability, and what it takes to stay safe where everything connects.
On the Green and Red Podcast, hosts revisit the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the rise of SNCC, and the lessons mass direct action still holds today.
Labor Jawn features songwriter Mindy Mary on Striking at King’s, a new labor song inspired by a 1938 Pennsylvania farmworkers’ strike—and why its message still resonates.
On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, we feature one of the powerful medleys from the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Songs for Minneapolis YouTube playlist, responding in music to recent ICE killings.
Bonus track: Labor History in 2:00 looks back at the 1919 Seattle General Strike, when tens of thousands of workers shut down a city and briefly ran it themselves.
Plus, in Shows You Should Know, quick highlights from Alan on Labor, Union Talk, Apple Box Talks, The Union Labor Advisory Network Podcast, and Labor Radio on KBOO.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, shows across the Network spotlight the Minneapolis General Strike and a growing wave of worker resistance and organizing.
We hear from Workers Beat Extra, Voice of the People, and Work Stoppage on what’s happening in Minnesota and why it matters nationally. The Manufacturing Report looks at ethical U.S. manufacturing, while Solidarity Works honors Pete Seeger’s legacy of music and movement-building.
Shows You Should Know highlights include new episodes from The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Blue Collar News, Talk The TAUC, and Unite And Win.
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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly brings urgent reporting and analysis from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network, with a focus on resistance, organizing, and solidarity in a moment of escalating political and workplace conflict.
We begin with Working People, where organizers and union members in Minnesota describe the Trump administration’s largest ICE operation to date and the growing call for a statewide day of no work, no school, and no shopping.
On We Rise Fighting, frontline reports on Minneapolis resistance to ICE.
Green & Red marks MLK Day weekend with a deep dive into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical legacy—his opposition to the Vietnam War, the Poor People’s Campaign, his socialist politics, and how those ideas continue to shape resistance to state violence today.
For organizers looking to sharpen their skills, Unite & Win returns to the fundamentals. Guests Dawn Tefft and Bob Lawson walk through the basics of building power, organizing coworkers, and keeping campaigns rooted in member leadership.
From Canada, On The Line: Stories of BC Workers looks back at the life of Syd Thompson, a towering figure in British Columbia’s labor movement.
We close with tips on more Shows You Should Know, featuring The Heartland Labor Forum, The Union Labor Advisory Network Podcast, Pipe Up and The Labor Notes Podcast.
BONUS TRACKS: Labor History in 2: If Poison Doesn’t Work, Try Briggs! Plus the DC Labor Chorus keeps their Eyes on the Prize and Holds On.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we bring you voices from across the labor movement grappling with state violence, organizing under pressure, and the fight to protect workers’ power—on the streets, in the workplace, and in the digital economy.
🔹 The Rick Smith Show: Journalist Amanda Moore reports from Minneapolis, where ICE and Border Patrol operations have escalated into street-level raids that are traumatizing entire communities—not just those being detained.
🔹 Worker Power Hour: On this show from the Teamsters 1932 Broadcast Network, Randy Corrigan and steward Jason Nugent talk about what workers should be demanding in 2026: affordable healthcare, wage increases that beat inflation, and dignity backed by strong union contracts.
🔹 Counter App: This episode digs into “Uberization”—how digital labor platforms spread precarious work across industries, the warning signs to watch for, and how unions can respond before jobs are broken into tasks and controlled by algorithms.
🔹 The Valley Labor Report: From the largest union talk radio program in the South, Julie Prill of the Painters and Allied Trades shares how house calls, internal organizing, and honest conversations helped unionize more than 200 workers at a Mississippi shipyard.
🔹 Labor History Today: Historian Martin Wright, co-author of Made by Labour, explores labor history through objects—banners, lockboxes, and visual culture—that reveal how workers understood power, solidarity, and self-organization.
BONUS TRACK: Labor History in 2: Packinghouse Workers Join the ‘46 Strike Wave.
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Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly (1/9): It’s the first week back in the New Year—and it feels like five days crammed into three. Chris, Harold, and Patrick return with a packed roundup: geopolitics, strike action, tax-policy sleight of hand, a brand-new show on worker-focused media, year-end reflections, and a fresh new intro.
Featured this week:
The Dig — Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, and Yoletty Bracho join Daniel Denvir to analyze the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Trump’s imperial project, oil politics, and how different forces inside Venezuela are responding.
Labor Force — Mike Struan checks in on strike action at Telluride Ski Resort, spotlighting leverage, seasonal labor, and the power of unionized workers to shift the balance in a resort economy. (And: good news—workers later ratified a CBA.)
Labor Notes Podcast — Labor Notes staff share New Year’s organizing resolutions—more phone calls, fewer Zooms, better delegation, and making time to evaluate fights and build for the long haul.
Tribunus Plebis — Sean takes on Trump’s “no tax on overtime” promise, arguing it’s less a benefit than an accounting trick: a rebate structure that rewards overwork while protecting employer power.
NEW: The Union Bug — Mel Buer launches a brand-new show with a conversation on why worker-focused media matters, featuring Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Harold Phillips and Chris Garlock.
Shows You Should Know — Tariff debates, end-of-year wrap-ups, best-of episodes, and a look ahead to 2026, including: The Manufacturing Report, From A to Arbitration, Heartland Labor Forum, Canadian Union Podcast for Employees.
Credits / notes: This podcast is recorded under a SAG-AFTRA collective bargaining agreement. Edited this week by Patrick Dixon, Chris Garlock & Harold Phillips; produced by Chris Garlock; social media—always and forever—by Harold Phillips.
This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we wrap up our Best of the Year series with another round of standout episodes—chosen by producers and hosts across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Highlights include deep Midwest reporting from Heartland Labor Forum; urgent political and cultural conversations from The Green and Red Podcast; working-class reflection and debate from The Wealthy Ironworker; and sustained local labor reporting from Boiling Point.
We also share Best of selections from Labor History Today, connecting centuries of labor struggle to today’s fights, and we close with Work Stoppage—bringing sharp analysis, humor, and unapologetic class politics to the Network.
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As the year winds down, the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly takes a step back to celebrate the work coming out of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Instead of choosing favorites ourselves, we asked Network producers and hosts to select their top five episodes of 2025—and this week, you’ll hear the first batch of those Best of the Year picks.
Highlights include Labor Jawn’s deep dives into Philadelphia labor history; Labor Force’s sharp analysis of power, precarity, and organizing in today’s economy; and selections from the Labor Heritage Power Hour exploring labor culture through music, history, and imagination. We also feature grassroots reporting from Working To Live in Southwest Washington, national political coverage from The Valley Labor Report, and on-the-ground worker stories from My Labor Radio.
Want to hear the full episodes our producers chose as their best of the year? Find them at LaborRadioNetwork.org, and follow @LaborRadioNet on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and X for links to each episode as we roll them out over the coming weeks.
Thanks to all the producers and hosts who make the Network what it is—and to everyone who listens, shares, and supports labor radio.
This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly takes a wide-angle look at where labor power is showing up right now—on the shop floor, in politics, in culture, and across the media landscape.
We start on The Workers’ Mic, where hosts are joined by The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Chris Garlock and Harold Phillips to talk about why independent labor media matters and how the Network connects worker struggles across industries and regions.
From there, The Dig digs into the political moment, with Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid examining the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn and what it means for organizing and strategy moving forward.
On Labor Radio from WORT in Madison, it’s a packed labor news roundup—from state worker rallies and dairy workers authorizing a strike to Starbucks organizing wins and fights over school voucher transparency.
We also hear from Heartland Labor Forum, which takes on the often-overlooked issue of mental health in the labor movement, spotlighting union-led programs that support members and their families.
Our unusual pick this week comes from the Power Line Podcast, featuring a tailgate conversation with Austin Carr—known online as “America’s Favorite Lineman”—on life in the trades and how social media is reshaping work and identity.
Plus, in our Shows You Should Know speed round, we spotlight more voices across the Network, including The Wealthy Ironworker, Boiling Point, RadioLabour Canada, El Cafecito del Día, and The CWA Hour of Power, and we pause to remember Ken Nash of Building Bridges.
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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, we spotlight powerful stories from across the movement:
• LabourStart updates us on imprisoned Hong Kong union leader Lee Cheuk-yan, whose January trial underscores the escalating repression of independent unionism under the National Security Law.
• Union or Bust digs deep into the spread of high-tech surveillance—from license plate readers to smart streetlights—featuring computer scientist and organizer Lily Irani on the real-world dangers of “smart policing.”
• On Union Strong, New York Assemblymember Harry Bronson traces how growing up in poverty and experiencing workplace discrimination shaped his fight for workers’ rights.
• From Labor Jawn, a rich conversation with historian Francis Ryan about Philadelphia’s lost industrial era and the working-class neighborhoods that built the city.
• Reinventing Solidarity brings us roundtable on 100 years of Black labor activism.
We wrap with a lightning-fast Shows You Should Know speed round, featuring James Cameron on AI and acting on TheSAG-AFTRA Podcast; David Rovics and labor music on The Labor Heritage Power Hour; on The Heartland Labor Forum, Randi Weingarten on why fascists fear teachers; plus holiday episodes from Economics for the People and Pipe Up; and, from OnWriting, late-night writers on comedy and free speech.
As always, stay tuned, stay active, and stay connected to the Labor Radio/Podcast Network—where the people speak.
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This Week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: From a mass climate-justice blockade in Australia to the hidden labor history of British Columbia’s fruit-packing women, this week’s episode ranges across the movement to bring you standout stories from the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
We kick things off with Solidarity Breakfast, reporting from Newcastle’s Rising Tide camp, where thousands gathered to shut down the world’s largest coal port. Then, Power at Work digs into the escalating fight over Amazon as New Jersey’s attorney general sues the company for violating worker-protection laws, with Teamsters organizer Randy Korgan connecting the legal battle to on-the-ground organizing.
Public media writers join On Writing to break down the growing threats to free speech and funding in public broadcasting, while Tales from the Reuther Library features AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson on why labor history is a critical tool in today’s contract fights. Finally, On The Line brings us the story of the “Apple Box Belles,” the union women who powered BC’s fruit-packing plants for decades.
Plus: our “Shows You Should Know” speed-round segment highlights more excellent episodes across the Network.
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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: the crew is taking a well-earned union break for Thanksgiving — but Chris and Harold are here with a special holiday mini-edition; even during the holidays, labor shows across the Network are busy lifting up workers. This week’s highlights include:
• Fight Like Hell: Letter carriers give back with a Thanksgiving-week blood drive in Flushing, NY.
• Labor Jawn: How the Starbucks strike kitchen feeds and sustains workers fighting for their first contract.
• Say Watt: The St. Paul Electrical JATC partners with community groups to reshape outreach, recruitment, and retention.
• Working Voices: AFSCME rallies, a Black Friday Home Depot boycott, and a Building Trades perspective from LA/Orange County.
• The Manufacturing Report: How the Lost Dutchman leather goods brand scaled from a teen hobby to a thriving U.S.-made shop.
• The Dig: Roasts, toasts, and reflections as The Dig celebrates a huge milestone: 500 episodes!
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Starbucks workers are fed up — and they’re walking out. This week’s show spotlights the escalating Red Cup Rebellion, with frontline stories from baristas, organizers, and labor leaders across the country.
We begin on Working People, where Max Alvarez talks with veteran barista and organizer Michelle Eisen about the urgent new strike wave hitting Starbucks stores nationwide — why workers are walking out, what the company refuses to fix, and what’s at stake for the movement.
Then over on Work Stoppage, the team unpacks Starbucks Workers United’s first open-ended strike — already underway in dozens of stores and growing — and the national call for a full boycott.
On We Rise Fighting, Madison barista Joanna breaks down why Red Cup Day has become a flashpoint for worker action, highlighting the role of community care and solidarity in sustaining the fight.
From the Labor Notes Podcast, baristas describe a workplace defined by speedups, dangerous understaffing, impossible time-standards, and corporate mandates that ignore the crisis on the shop floor — including the now-infamous “cup writing” rules.
And on WBAI’s What’s Going On, Juliana Forlano joins Brooklyn baristas on the picket line, alongside AFT President Randi Weingarten and NY Assemblymember Claire Valdéz, rallying in solidarity with the nationwide rebellion.
Plus: Dave Rovics’ brand-new song No Contract, No Coffee and, on Shows You Should Know, The Wealthy Ironworker on politicians pushing “right-to-work”; From A To Arbitration with cold-weather tips for CCAs; Re:Work Radio on healing, UFCW, and the cannabis industry; Labor History Today on land reform, race, and early labor conflicts; Ted talks about AFT’s organizing at BASIS charter schools on Words and Work; and we salute Concrete Gang’s Gorilla on his retirement.
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On This Week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Boiling Point – Grassroots democracy proves its power as Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral win in New York sparks a conversation about movement-based politics.
Art and Labor – Brooklyn artists take to the streets on election night with sharp, funny commentary on culture, power, and political change.
Blue Collar News – From Helena, Montana, AFGE Local 4012 President Jordan Harwell describes how the federal shutdown is hitting working families — and what unions are doing to help.
Next Generation Carriers – Host Margot opens a “Women’s Roundtable” on burnout among postal workers and union activists, with candid talk about caring for ourselves and each other.
SAG-AFTRA Podcast – New SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin shares his vision for the union’s future, from health and pension protections to confronting the challenges of artificial intelligence.
Shows You Should Know – Tiffany Roman on the federal shutdown (El Cafecito del Día); two new Two Classes of Mail episodes on veterans and discipline; Pipe Up’s Veterans Day special with UA’s Veterans In Piping; Fight Like Hell salutes NALC veterans; We Rise Fighting breaks down labor wins and strikes; and a farewell to APWU’s Mark Dimondstein as he signs off from Communicating With You, The Member.Listen to all these and 200+ more shows at laborradionetwork.org
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
LabourStart talks with Serbian air traffic controllers Ranko and Igor, fired after leading a 40-day strike — part of what they describe as a growing wave of anti-union repression in Serbia.
On Organising for a Change, hosts Simon Sapper and Martin Smith join Matt Collins from Hope Not Hate to discuss how unions can counter the rise of far-right politics in workplaces.
Apple Box Talks welcomes Winnie Luk, Executive Director of the Disability Screen Office, to talk about accessibility, inclusion, and recognizing both visible and invisible disabilities in the film industry.
The Workers’ Mic gets fired up after a Chicago business owner threatens to stab Scabby the Rat, revisiting the legal fights that made Scabby a First Amendment icon.
And on America’s Workforce Union Podcast, host Ed “Flash” Ferenc talks with historian Scott Nelson about the real—and haunting—story of John Henry, the young Black convict whose tragic death inspired a legend.
Plus teasers for more Shows You Should Know: Economics For The People: David Bacon on deported workers in Tijuana; The Powerline Podcast: Steve Kopp turns “safety on paper” into real jobsite innovation; School Me: Jennifer Albert Mann brings labor history to life for teens; Union Or Bust: Kickstarter United’s Dannel Jurado talks 30 days on strike; Labor Force: Mike connects the government shutdown, SNAP cuts, and Eugene Debs’ legacy; Labor Notes Podcast: A spooky look at organizing lessons from They Live, Hill House, and Nosferatu.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: it’s all about power — who’s got it, who’s lost it, and how working people are organizing to take it back.
On the Labor Notes Podcast, federal workers push back against executive overreach and call out politicians who pretend they’re powerless. Workers Beat Extra dives into divisions inside the labor movement. The Bipartisan Buzz breaks down what postal workers can and can’t do under the Hatch Act. Union Strong spotlights the WNBA Players Association’s fight for equal pay and better facilities. And from South Africa’s Buwa Basebetsi, the Casual Workers Advice Office tells the story of the Unpaid Benefits Campaign — a fight to reclaim billions owed to workers and families.
We also say farewell — for now — to the Buwa Basebetsi crew, whose final episode marks the end of a great run. Special thanks to Charles Leonard, a regular at our weekly Network meetings, for his solidarity and storytelling.
Plus in Shows You Should Know:
- Classes of Mail takes on USPS safety guides and the finer points of curbing wheels.
- My Labor Radio talks trades and tunes with IUOE 369’s Sammy Cossairt.
- Engage: The Podcast for Delta Pilots explores hotel quirks in the “layover landscape.”
- Labor Radio on KBOO takes you to the Kaiser strike line.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Line on record-breaking membership growth; Talk the TAUC on bridging labor and tech in megaprojects; Work Week Radio covers a protest against Amazon's landlord Prologis's plan to build a massive E-Commerce warehouse in the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood; Boiling Point investigates ICE and its pattern of unlawful and problematic behaviors; The Flight Deck explores how the new United pilot uniform came to life.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Work Stoppage: 32,000 Michigan home healthcare workers win SEIU recognition with a 73% “yes” vote and gear up to bargain with the state.
Radio Labour Canada: CUPE re-elects Mark Hancock, announces 800,000 members, and vows to fight back-to-work orders and a right-wing federal agenda.
Machinists 141 Connections: Inside JetBlue ramp organizing: why workers want a union and how an in-shop committee is building power.
Labor History Today: The 1948 Donora “Death Fog”: how a Pennsylvania smog disaster reshaped U.S. thinking on work, health, and environmental accountability.
Plus, on Shows You Should Know: Labor Force, Working People, Labor Notes Podcast, Heartland Labor Forum, Tales from the Reuther Library, Talk The TAUC, Labor Heritage Power Hour.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
- Working People — Max Alvarez follows up with two HUD whistleblowers who were fired after going public; our clip captures them describing how they watched officials “continue to dismantle fair housing” from the inside.
- The Labor Show (with J-Doc & Krausey) — FOP Lodge 5 President Roosevelt Poplar talks tech and accountability; in our excerpt, he explains how body cams protect officers: “If someone makes a complaint…we have it on video.”
- Stick Together — On-the-ground from Melbourne, security guards at hospitals and public housing rally for safety and pay; our cut features UWU’s blunt message: disrespect guards and you disrespect residents.
- My Labor Radio — NYC Building Trades leader Gary LaBarbera on PBS’s Hard Hat Riot and union identity; “You go to work, you work hard, you don’t want anything for free.”
- Third & Fairfax (WGAW) — Filmmaker Susie Singer Carter on No Country for Old People and exposing elder abuse.
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly SPECIAL EDITION: After five years, we’re mixing things up a bit; Chris, Harold and Patrick talk about what’s new.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: workers standing up for safety, history, and democracy—from aquariums to archives.
Over on America’s Work Force Union Podcast, Monterey Bay Aquarium Workers United explains why hazard pay and a real living wage matter when your job includes deep dives, disease treatment, and dangerous animals.
This week on El Cafecito del Dia, Cheryl Niro breaks down how the Constitution protects immigrants and why unions are teaching due process in their halls.
From Buwa Basebetsi Updates, Zimbabwe farmworkers lay out how U.S. tariffs ripple through jobs, prices, and organizing on the ground.
In the latest Say Watt, instructor Summer Zachary traces her path from tinkerer to union electrician—and the bootcamp that changed everything.
From the Labor Exchange, steelworker Joel Buchanan remembers the late USW president Leo Gerard with stagecoaches, shareholder showdowns, and steadfast solidarity.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: This week on Work Stoppage, Italy’s unions show how it’s done, with port blockades and a nationwide transit shutdown in solidarity with Palestine.
Over on WorkWeek, a Wells Fargo banker in Wyoming tells how workers organized with CWA—and what happened when the company fired him for it.
From the Labor Notes Podcast, beauty-salon workers at Sugared + Bronzed unionize amid safety concerns and punishing metrics—and win momentum shop by shop.
In the latest Reinventing Solidarity, NEA president Becky Pringle argues public education is where democracy takes root—and why that scares authoritarians.
Meanwhile, on Words & Work, Jonathan Rosenblum revisits Kshama Sawant’s wins—from $15 to taxing Amazon—and how an elected office became an organizing center.
And on the Powerline Podcast, JNCTN’s crew breaks down an app built to tighten safety, compliance, and efficiency across the building trades.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: art, political corruption, and worker power — from Robert Redford’s films to frontline labor struggles and global supply-chain fights.
Over on The Green and Red, a film-forward conversation looks at Redford’s movie work and how cinema has long probed political corruption and community resistance.
This week on Working People, fired tech workers tell the story of No Azure for Apartheid and why they risked their jobs to pressure a tech giant.
From Stick Together, an Oxfam campaigner walks us through a new report exposing wage theft and the crisis facing garment workers in Bangladesh.
In the latest We Work Europe, the founder of Bulgaria’s first independent trade union shares lessons learned and how they echo in today’s Europe.
Plus, Harold’s got some more hot tips on his Shows You Should Know segment.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: how workers, artists, and activists are pushing back, telling their stories, and demanding change.
Over on Exploits of Play, hosts dig into video games and capitalism, exploring how play shapes the way we work and learn.
This week on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, veteran narrator Sean Pratt shares what it really takes to build a career in the booming world of audiobooks.
From South Africa, Buwa Basebetsi follows a factory worker named Happiness as she struggles to raise two kids on a national minimum wage that doesn’t cover the basics.
In the latest episode of AAUP Presents, lawyers and professors take on ideological deportations targeting pro-Palestinian voices, and what that means for free speech on campus.
Meanwhile, on Power at Work, we hear from college football players fighting to organize and claim their rights as workers in a multibillion-dollar industry..
Plus, of course, Harold with Shows You Should Know.
Find these—and dozens more—at laborradionetwork.org.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: we’re talking about solidarity, storytelling, and the ways workers are fighting back against power.
Over on The Rick Smith Show, Painters Union President Jimmy Williams Jr. calls out the Trump administration for canceling union jobs while claiming to put “American workers first.”
This week on The Labor Show, we’re on the picket line in South Philly, where Scabby the Rat is making an appearance and union members explain what real solidarity looks like.
From Work Stoppage, farmworkers in New York face ICE raids that expose the ugly alliance between bosses and the state to silence immigrant workers.
In the latest Director’s Cut from the DGA, filmmaker Adele Lim reveals the craft and complexity behind her body-swap comedy Freakier Friday with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Meanwhile, on The Labor Exchange from KGNU, Austin Sauerbrei talks about his new graphic novel Trouble at Coal Creek, which brings to life a forgotten East Tennessee miners’ uprising.
Plus, on Shows You Should Know, Labor Day was a big theme across the Network this past week; Harold gives us a roundup of how shows marked the holiday.
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On this week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly:
- On WBAI’s What’s Going On, Liz Shuler talks with Bob Henley about the fight to defend collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
- The Heartland Labor Forum features former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, reflecting on her abrupt firing and what it reveals about presidential power.
- From the Engage Podcast, ALPA pilots explain why a simple union pin represents nearly a century of solidarity in the cockpit.
- On Boiling Point, campaign strategist Celeste Trees shares how grassroots organizing is powered by issues, not candidates.
- The Labor Heritage Power Hour welcomes National Book Award winner Martín Espada, who reads from his new collection, Jailbreak of Sparrows.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Power at Work explores why conservatives support unions; Australia’s Concrete Gang reports on a jobsite medical emergency and safety fight; The Alberta Worker covers Air Canada flight attendants’ battle over unpaid labor; Workers Beat Extra takes on Trump’s torrent of lies; the IAM’s Connections Podcast highlights shop-floor organizing and building member power; plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: federal bargaining rights under fire, rank-and-file power rising, and one very odd ICE headline. The Labor Notes Podcast spotlights UAW Region 9A’s member-driven endorsements and field power; Green and Red digs into how to turn non-compliance into concrete action; The Workers Mic unpacks Dean Cain’s leap from Superman to ICE amid a recruitment blitz; The Valley Labor Report features AFGE’s Jessica LaPointe on SSA attrition and service delays; Heartland Labor Forum debunks “national security” claims behind canceling federal CBAs; and Harold’s Shows You Should Know. Find these—and dozens more—at laborradionetwork.org.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From America’s Workforce Radio, we revisit the Vietnam era’s “Hard Hat” protest and how labor’s stance on war split the movement. Tales from the Reuther Library explores rank-and-file reform in the Steelworkers with the story of “Oil Can Eddie.” Labor Jawn takes us inside Philadelphia’s once-every-40-years sanitation strikes. On Solidarity Works, the legacy of Cesar Chavez and the Delano grape strike is remembered as a call to action for today’s immigrant workers. And the Labor Heritage Power Hour uncovers the radical roots of the American West in the Great Cowboy Strike of 1883. Plus, Harold Phillips spotlights “Shows You Should Know” from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: What happens when union leadership tries to shut down support for women, LGBTQ members, Black and Latino caucuses—all in the name of “compliance”? On the Labor Notes Podcast, the rank and file are pushing back inside the building trades, and they’re not backing down.
Then: over in Boston, the Pipe Up podcast is thinking outside the pipe—literally. If electricians can represent blackjack dealers, why can’t plumbers organize chimney sweeps?
We’ll also hear from Working to Live in Southwest Washington, where delegates reflect on solidarity and strategy at the Washington State Labor Council convention. Why “everybody should be union”? Let’s just say it starts with healthcare—and ends with dignity.
From Cincinnati’s Boiling Point to labor YouTubers calling for collectivization over corporatization, this week’s shows aren’t afraid to tackle the deep questions:
Who gets a voice in our unions? What kind of future are we organizing for? And how do we fight disinformation at the hyperlocal level?
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From contract fights to community radio, you’ll hear the voices of working people telling their own stories—in their own words. This is the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: stories you won’t hear anywhere else.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From trash pick-up to the Vietnam War, from Inland Empire housing justice to Wisconsin healthcare strikes—this episode is full of grit, struggle, and solidarity.
We begin with Power at Work, where Victor Mineros of the Teamsters and Kathy Torres from Local 179 break down the nationwide strike against Republic Services. These essential sanitation workers aren’t just cleaning up your waste—they’re cleaning up corporate greed, one picket line at a time.
Then we head to Madison Labor Radio, where UAW Local 95's Enrique Castano is fighting for a fair contract at Mercy Health East Clinic. The stakes? Wages, safety, and keeping the only unionized unit in a sprawling non-profit hospital chain alive.
On Teamsters 1932's Worker Power Hour, Randy Corgan speaks with Shayla Bernard from the UCR Labor Center about worker organizing and vanishing middle-class opportunity in California’s vast Inland Empire. It’s a call for regional labor power and research that centers real workers’ voices.
Finally, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, longtime activist Michael Ansara reflects on a life of organizing—from SDS and the Civil Rights movement to community empowerment and poetry—with a moving message on The Hard Work of Hope, also the title of his new memoir.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
On Green and Red, Mike Elk reports from Brazil, where Trump’s tariffs have sparked backlash—and boosted Lula’s standing.
Art Labor returns with a new name—Pod Save Ridgewood—and a sharp take on affordable housing and class warfare in New York.
On Union or Bust, Mai Han of Borderlands for Equity talks student-led walkouts, protest training, and the faith-fueled fight for justice.
The Labor Link Podcast heads to Ghana, where former child laborer Eric Mawuko Atsiatorme shares what it’s really like organizing in the artisanal fishing sector.
And on On Writing, the head writers of Saturday Night Live take us behind the scenes of Season 50, from subway ads to last-minute rewrites.
Stories from the frontlines of the working class—one podcast at a time.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Valley Labor Report unpacks devastating Medicaid cuts with Chuck Corra. The Labor Exchange explores the ripple effects on rural healthcare in Colorado. The Line dives into AI-driven data center construction—and the electricians needed to build them. Rachel Kushner joins the Heartland Labor Forum to discuss her new novel about FBI infiltration. And Harold Phillips rounds things out with more Shows You Should Know.
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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
The Labor Show shares why 9,000 Philadelphia city workers were prepared to strike if they didn’t win a fair contract.
Stick Together takes us to Melbourne, where community members rallied to save a vital library social worker program serving the most vulnerable.
Union Talk hears from nurses who warn that dismantling Medicaid will be catastrophic for patients and healthcare workers alike.
OnWriting spotlights WGA East captains who kept the strike lines strong and the spirit of solidarity alive.
Classes of Mail heads to New Mexico, where wind energy project managers describe the challenges of working on a site so vast it takes hours just to drive across.
Wherever you are, these voices are working to build power, protect their communities, and fight for a better future.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor unions are leading the fight to protect workers from the impacts of artificial intelligence—from film and television to privacy and job security. On Union Strong, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls out what she describes as a “big, beautiful betrayal” of working people hidden in the latest federal budget bill—and explains why unions must stay vigilant as AI reshapes entire industries.
Then on Pipe Up, plumbers and pipefitters discuss the wave of major federal construction projects abruptly canceled or put on hold, costing union jobs across Maryland and Washington, D.C.
In British Columbia, Apple Box Talks features Mikelle Sasakamoose, who shares how she’s working to indigenize colonial spaces as the first Director of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation for the City of Burnaby.
And on The Docker Podcast, ILWU longshore workers mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Ballantyne Pier—a defining moment of solidarity and resistance on Vancouver’s waterfront.
Plus, from South Africa’s Buwa Basebetsi podcast, the remarkable story of an American activist who went underground after a 1970s bank heist and resurfaced decades later as a labor educator.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From veterans rallying on the National Mall…To postal workers fighting privatization…To musicians lifting up migrants' voices…To labor leaders warning against fascism and false unity…we bring you a snapshot of the urgent struggles—and enduring solidarity—shaping the working class today.
On Labor Radio in Portland, hosts Michael and Elliott take a hard look at the first 100 days of a second Trump term—describing a “relentless onslaught” of executive orders, wage cuts, and attacks on federal workers.
On the Heartland Labor Forum, Bill Fletcher, Jr. warns against labor giving even tacit support to authoritarianism, reminding us: “There is no middle ground.”
Working People joins a powerful protest on the National Mall, where veterans speak out against Trump’s betrayal of their service and the gutting of VA protections.
On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, Francisco Herrera says it plainly: “Migration strengthens the nation.” His songs, rooted in struggle, become tools for organizing and survival.
And in the Bipartisan Buzz and The Hot House, letter carriers sound the alarm: Postal workers are under attack, facing rising violence, congressional inaction—and a push toward privatization.
From the shop floor to the stage, from the picket line to the podcast mic—this is the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
WorkWeek Radio: Cliff Smith of Roofers Local 36 joins Steve Zeltzer to sound the alarm on ICE raids and rising fascism, calling for immediate labor action to defend immigrant workers.
Green and Red Podcast: Organizer Estuardo Mazariegos of ACE Los Angeles details how neighbors, workers, and community groups are resisting federal violence with both organization and spontaneous solidarity.
Work Stoppage: Hosts John, Dan, and Lina unpack the brutal crackdown in LA and expose how conspiracy laws—used to charge SEIU California President David Huerta—have long targeted labor and social movements.
Union Talk: Randy Weingarten and Skye elevate the voices of Gen Z and Gen Alpha organizers fighting back against anti-trans laws, book bans, and erasure—from Kentucky to California.
Buwa Basebetsi: From Johannesburg, we hear from students working to overcome inequality and thrive in math, nearly 50 years after the Soweto Uprising.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: What makes a union meeting worth showing up to? On the Labor Notes Podcast, organizers dive into how to make meetings matter—and why members sometimes stay away for good reason.
On Power at Work, the newly formed Washington Post Tech Guild explains how and why tech workers—long considered outside the traditional bounds of labor organizing—built a winning union campaign at one of the nation’s most influential newsrooms.
On Economics for the People, Chris Sturr and Mike Osh examine how short staffing—once seen as a crisis—is now a corporate strategy, from hospitals to warehouses.
The Engage Podcast explores how Delta is undermining state sick leave laws, even as it touts its "Delta family" values.
And from The Dig and Green and Red: what does fashion say about power—and what does Star Wars’ Andor say about rebellion? Turns out, quite a lot.
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On this week’s edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From Tucson to Melbourne to Vancouver, workers are rising up—and their stories are being told.
We start with Words and Work, where Bookmans employees in Arizona walk off the job, demanding movement at the bargaining table. “If they’re not going to make a motion,” one worker says, “we’re going to make a motion.”
On Working People, student hunger strikers at the University of Oregon connect their campus protest to the starvation crisis in Gaza, calling it not only physical destruction—but cultural erasure.
Down under, Stick Together brings us to a pastry factory in Melbourne, where bakery workers making muffins, donuts, and Australia’s famous Woolworths mud cakes go on strike for fair pay—and win a seat at the table through collective action.
From Roswell Hub, we explore what it means when your workplace relocates—sometimes a blessing, sometimes a life-altering burden—and what unions can do to protect workers when buildings close or operations shift.
And on On the Line, we travel back to WWII-era Vancouver, where women known as “conductor-ettes” defied gender roles—and unruly passengers—to keep the streetcars running while the men were at war.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Barbecues and base building at Amazon, ICE agents confronted in Newark, redefining plumbing with kids, the magic of assimilation, and why turning doctors into data entry clerks is bad for us all. Plus, a roundup of even more labor shows you should know. It’s a jam-packed episode with clips from Labor Notes, My Labor Radio, Third and Fairfax, The Labor Heritage Power Hour, and more.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
The Valley Labor Report asks: What does the new Pope mean for labor? Catholic TikToker Union Dad breaks it down.
America’s Workforce talks air safety with PASS President David Spero.
Heartland Labor Forum hears from frontline Social Security workers.
The Boiling Point explains workers’ comp with attorney George Mueller.
Stick Together explores the 4-day workweek in Australia.
LaborStart Canada covers Alberta’s new Solidarity Pact.
America Works meets a small-town pharmacist who treats circus elephants.
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Working Voices, UTLA fights to protect immigrant students; from On the Line, CTU’s Stacy Davis Gates marks May Day with a contract that builds working-class power; The Manufacturing Report exposes the hidden costs of cheap factory TikToks; The Labor & Energy Show goes inside Boilermakers Local 13; Reinventing Solidarity traces Jaz Brisack’s journey from atheist autodidact to salting strategist; and Solidarity Works honors cross-border unity with Mexico’s Los Mineros.
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This Week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From San Francisco to South Africa, this week’s show brings you powerful stories of labor resistance, solidarity, and organizing across borders.
- WorkWeek Radio takes us to a San Francisco ICE rally demanding the release of detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, then dives into the fight for Medicare and Medicaid with Dr. Ana Manilow ahead of a national day of action for single payer on May 31.
- Work Stoppage rounds up headlines from workers organizing at PetSmart, Kroger, the Port of Casablanca and more, with a deep dive into the misclassification crisis in construction and the continuing contract battle at Starbucks.
- On Union Talk, AFT President Randi Weingarten joins three professors and union leaders to expose Trump’s assault on higher ed and what it means for academic freedom and student rights.
- BCTGM Voices highlights union-made sugar from beets, with two local union presidents in Idaho sharing what union contracts mean to their work and their families.
- Tales from the Reuther Library features Dr. Justine Modica on the Seattle-based Worthy Wages childcare movement, where SEIU workers organized for equity in early childhood education.
- And in Buwa Basebetsi, Moss Manganyi remembers the massive May Day strike of 1986 in apartheid-era South Africa—a turning point for worker power.
Plus, on Shows You Should Know, Harold Phillips brings us a special spotlight on building trades podcasts—featuring new voices from the United Association, Laborers’ International Union, and more—plus stories from firefighters and educators pushing back on anti-worker policies.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
📻 First, on Labor Radio from KBOO FM in Portland, Oregon, we hear from members of the Oregon Education Association Board of Directors on the power of unions and how they’re preparing for the challenges ahead—including the return of Trump and the threat to workers’ rights.
⚖️ Then on America’s Workforce Radio, longtime labor lawyer Lynn Rhinehart and NLRB Board Member Lauren McFerren break down the growing threats to labor law and employee protections—and what we can do to defend them.
🗳️ Next up on Union Strong, Peter de Jesus, president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation, talks about why lobbying—yes, lobbying—is critical to advancing the labor movement.
🏗️ On The Concrete Gang, we get a reportback on a near miss involving a tower crane and follow-up actions to protect health and safety on the job site. Real talk, real risks—and why vigilance matters.
⚓ And finally, on America Works, we meet Natalie Ameral, a Port Sampler from New Bedford, Massachusetts, whose work connects her to the ocean, the community, and the rhythms of the working day.
Plus, Harold’s "Shows You Should Know!"
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: This week’s episode takes us from South Africa to California, Wisconsin to the Pilbara — with a few sharp words about Trump along the way.
- Work Stoppage: The fight against illegal deportations and labor’s role in defending our communities from unjust immigration policies.
- Power at Work: How recent administrative policies are hitting hospitality workers in California — and how unions are pushing back.
- Buwa Basebetsi Updates: In South Africa, workers at East Rand’s M&N Waste stand up against poor treatment and demand better conditions.
- We Rise Fighting: UAW Local 291 is on strike in Oshkosh, Wisconsin — we bring you voices from the picket line.
- Classes of Mail: Ever wonder how scanners keep the postal system running? Alan breaks it down in a surprisingly fascinating look behind the scenes.
- Stick Together: Author Alexis Vassiley discusses Striking Ore, his powerful new book on the rise and fall of union power in Australia’s Pilbara region.
🎧 Plus: In Shows You Should Know, Harold Phillips rounds up sharp takes on Trump, union organizing at REI, and how workers are challenging corporate and political power — from Missoula to Baton Rouge.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Hands off our public services, our public workers, and our public spaces. The Workers' Mic reports that across the country, protests are rising up against the Trump administration's attacks on federal workers and the services so many of us rely on.
Then The Valley Labor Report talks with Jeff, an organizer from 50/51, the group behind Saturday’s Hands Off protest down in Huntsville, Alabama — where folks came out to stand with public workers and defend their communities.
And over on Working People, Max gets a firsthand account from National Park Service employee James Jones about what it’s like inside the federal workforce right now — with Trump’s attacks not just targeting agencies, but the people who depend on them.
Plus — can a mindworm influence the state budget? We’ll find out on the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast.
And what can we actually do about cyberbullying? School Me has some thoughts.
Then on Boiling Point, we’ll hear from Thad Breckenridge and Kay Bishop about the issues affecting SEIU District 1199 members and what workers are doing to push back.
Finally, we’ll head to South Africa and the Know Your Rights podcast, where Connie and Irene unpack the socioeconomic rights of asylum seekers and refugees — and how the fight for justice crosses every border.
Plus Harold’s rundown of Shows You Should Know.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Labor Notes Podcast: How TSA Agents and Federal Workers are fighting a hostile administration.
Heartland Labor Forum: Cuts to Haskell Indian Nation's University in Lawrence.
My Labor Radio: Discussion with Eric Blanc on his new book We Are The Union.
The Flight Deck: Women's history month: two captains discuss their inspiring stories.
Economics for the People: The political economy of the Middle East.
The SAG-AFTRA Podcast: Jane Fonda discusses her career with Fran Drescher.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: the US Postal Service is under the most existential attack in it’s history; Everything U$P$ assesses the situation.
What's behind Europe's labor shortages? We’ll find out, on the ETUI Podcast.
From brand-new Network member Buwa Basebetsi Updates; migrant workers say enough is enough.
Machinists Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes talks about Latinas in the labor movement on El Cafecito del Día.
AAUP Presents talks with Stephanie Hall about how academic freedom is on the line.
And, in our final segment, the Labor Jawn podcast talks with Blair Kelley, author of Black Folk.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Stewart Acuff discusses his new book of poetry Love Is Solidarity in Action, on the Heartland Labor Forum radio show; then, Work Week Radio takes us to a protest to shut down Google's Waymo taxis; on Work Stoppage, grad workers negotiate at Brown University; CUPE's Mark Hancock talks about the "Montreal Declaration" on LabourStart; the scallywags discuss an accident at Crinum on the Concrete Gang podcast; and in our final segment, Alex Lin talks about her new play, American Steel on the Labor Heritage Power Hour.
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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: from the inaugural episode of The Labor Notes Podcast, which just launched yesterday: When Nippon sought to acquire U.S. Steel in a $15 billion acquisition last year, the companies went to great lengths to convince U.S. Steel workers that the deal would benefit them too (and not just line executives’ pockets). Hear why the workers didn’t buy it.
Then, from the 3rd & Fairfax podcast, a report on the SAG-AFTRA video game strike.
Justice for Phil, on the Speaking of Work podcast
On The Dig podcast, TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. They say Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone’s minds, including their own. Now they’re seizing the state.
The Workers Beat wonders, Is this the end of capitalism?
And the UFCW 3000 Union Podcast is back, with a report on working with rank and file members in contract bargaining.
In our final segment, On The Line: Stories of BC Workers remembers union solidarity against apartheid in South Africa.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Teachers talk about the impact education cuts will have on kids, on the Union Talk podcast…Then, from Labor Radio on WORT, teachers and advocates rally in Madison…Organizing in Utah and Colorado's ski communities; the Labor Exchange reports…Meet the union reps keeping front line union members safe, on The SAG-AFTRA Podcast…On the Heartland Labor Forum, labor historian Julie Greene discusses who built the Panama Canal…And in our final segment, from LabourStart radio, an interview with Liza Merliak, exiled trade unionist from Belarus.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Fedrick Ingram, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, joins the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the AFT's role in civil rights, challenges in public education and the importance of organizing. On the Malmborg Report, Caleb Jerome Morales discusses the economic realities of independent music and the challenges of sustaining a creative career.On this week’s episode of Stick Together host James Brennan speaks with author Santilla Chingaipe about her book 'Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia.'On the Organising for a Change podcast, Martin and Simon are joined by Mick Rix to get behind the headlines of successful organising campaigns like Deliveroo, looking at what tactics are needed to make such work successful - and what success itself looks like.Ryan Hunt, co-founder of Shloop and BLKSWN Footwear, talks with The Manufacturing Report about how his journey to a footwear factory in Meridian, Mississippi began with a bioengineering lab.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: National Treasury Employees Union President Doreen Greenwald, on the Power at Work podcast, talks about the attack on the rights of federal workers by the Trump administration and NTEU's strategies in defending its members; Tesla Fremont Assembly worker Branton Philipps, after working for years at the plant -- which has over 20,000 workers -- talked with Work Week Radio about why he quit in protest this week after opposing the union busting, racism and health and safety dangers at the plant, caused by owner Elon Musk; On Fire Up: Plumbers, from Melbourne, Australia, the fellas talk about the summer, when the temps soar; Rasean Clayton, an AFSCME member who heads up the A. Philip Randolph Institute's Arizona chapter, talks about the work of the Institute and other issues in labor on Words and Work; In a special LIVE Art and Labor show OK talks with Liz Pelly about the state of DIY and our extractive relationship with big tech.
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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the Boiling Point podcast, Michelle updates us on the trials and tribulations of AFGE, the American Federation of Government Employees; from El Cafecito del Día, the impact of Trump’s Executive Orders on DEI programs; New year, new legislative challenges, on the BCTGM Voices Project, the podcast from the bakery workers’ union; In the first of our Black History Month segments, from Stuck Nation, legendary labor leader A. Philip Randolph still speaks to us today; Then, Tina Turner-Morfitt, Dr. Audrey Terrell and Deborah Hall salute Black History Month on Labor Radio on KBOO FM; and finally, on The Teamster View, Randy Korgan talks about Black History Month and how the struggle continues today.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the NEA’s School Me podcast, Mary Ellen goes shopping with one Florida educator to expose the reality of what it means to live on a teacher’s salary; On CUPE Cast, Moe and Brianna sit down with Brandon Hayes from CUPE Local 4948 and Nas Yadollahi from CUPE Local 79 to discuss their bargaining process as they return to the bargaining table with their employer; REEL Green Lead at Creative BC Justin Barnes discusses the organization’s efforts to move the needle when it comes to sustainable motion picture production in British Columbia on Apple Box Talks; Hannah Srajer talks with Daniel about how to build tenant unions by applying labor organizing models on The Dig; Jacob and Adam talk with Patricia Todd with Jobs to Move America about getting a local hire ordinance passed in Birmingham and react to Trump's latest attacks on federal workers on The Valley Labor Report; And on LabourStart, Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage discuss their new book 'Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics'.
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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the Union or Bust podcast, hosts Chris and Juan talk with Steve Gutierrez, National Business Representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees, about the LA fires, what his members go through, and what they are fighting for nationally; on The Manufacturing Report, Scott Paul and Scott Boos give you their take on the “America First” trade memo President Trump issued on January 20, and its implications for U.S. manufacturing; Pawel Gmyrek and Hernan Winkler explore the ways generative AI is affecting different regions of the world, particularly in Latin America, on The Future of Work podcast; Nick Richardson discusses the challenges FedEx pilots are facing, the role of the Professional Standards Committee in providing support and resources, and the formation of FedEX ALPA’s Pilot Media Group on the Fly By Night podcast; the Say Watt podcast introduces us to Electrical Workers Without Borders North America and looks at its mission to create a world where the benefits of electricity are available to everyone; The Last Showgirl screenwriter Kate Gersten talks about drawing from her own experience of Las Vegas nightlife, her transition from writing for television to film, and more on 3rd & Fairfax.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Rick Smith Show takes a look at dealing with the Trump administration; Jon Milton wonders Is the US a fascist country? on RadioLabour; On the Real News Network Podcast. Mehdi Hasan and Francesca Fiorentina on Trump's political strategy; Work Week Radio investigates the threats of AI; The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights on Tales from the Reuther Library; And in our final segment, we find out how airline workers cope with extreme cold, on Delta Workers Unite.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Work Stoppage, SEIU – the Service Employees union – re-joins the AFL-CIO; Randy Korgan talks about the recent Amazon strike, on The Teamster View; from Art and Labor, big tech and right wing politics; Dale Pierson from Operating Engineers Local 150 discusses Scabby the Rat on The Workers' Mic; and in our final segment, author, researcher, screenwriter and activist Siddharth Kara, on The Labor And Energy Show; from the Mining & Energy Union Podcast, how convicts made Australia fair.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: A labor law analysis of what could happen under the new Trump administration, on the Power at Work podcast. On the Voice of the People podcast, H1B or not 2B, that’s the visa question. Then, a master class in bladesmithing with Tony Bravo, on the Power Line Podcast. On The Director’s Cut, Barry Jenkins discusses Mufasa: The Lion King with Ben Affleck. And in our final segment, from Australia, the Stick Together podcast brings us the fascinating story of the Eureka Rebellion, when in 1854 the army and police attacked miners for daring to call for the end of mining licenses and universal suffrage.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From the We Rise Fighting podcast, reports on the UAW strike at Strand Bookstores and organizing at Newbury Comics…The Work Stoppage podcast takes a look back at the 2024 Year in Review…Assassin Nation with Patrick Blanchfield, on The Dig podcast…The Fed Up podcast talks with John Cruz, President of the Brooklyn-Staten Island NALC Merged Branch 41…And in our final segment, from The Labor Exchange, Author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale talks about her book “Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike.”
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On AFT’s Union Talk podcast, Randi talks to union members who supported Trump and searches for common ground…Adolph Reed and Mark Dimondstein discuss the 2024 election and its aftermath, on Class Matters…Then, on The Teamster View, Zach Duke, who plays for the Inland Empire Strikers team at Toyota Arena….Laurent Picard talks about becoming a Licensed Psylocybin Facilitator, on the PFFA Pod…In our final segment, Read and rap across America with Dwayne Reed, on the School Me podcast. Plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know.
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly…
The We Rise Fighting podcast interviews Madeline Topf, co-president of the graduate workers union in Madison, Wisconsin, about Act 10 and its reversal last week…
It's been a new day in the United Auto Workers since the election of Shawn Fain as president in 2023, with the union carrying out an aggressive organizing and political program that has established the UAW as a major presence in American life. On the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, New Labor Forum's Micah Uetricht spoke to Jonah Furman, a top aide to Fain, about the union's strategy, its various wins and losses among nonunion auto manufacturers in the American South, its relationship to the Democratic Party under President Joe Biden, and the impact of a Donald Trump presidency on the union and labor as a whole…
The Art and Labor podcast folks have thoughts on the CEO shooter, Wicked, and seeing the Bidens in a bookstore…
Live, in front of a seductive studio audience, Sarah and Max bring to a climax the first intoxicating season of What Do We Want?, a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart…
Intimacy coordinators are an essential part of creating safe and professional working environments on movie sets, acting as advocates and liaisons between actors and production for scenes involving nudity, simulated sex and other intimate acts. Last month, intimacy coordinators unanimously agreed to join SAG-AFTRA in a National Labor Relations Board vote. To discuss why this matters and what it means for the future of the profession and the entertainment industry at large, the SAG-AFTRA Podcast is joined by intimacy coordinators Claire Warden and Erin Tillman, who were instrumental in the recent vote to unionize…
Labor History Today producer Patrick Dixon talks with historian Sarah McNamara about her book Ybor City, Crucible of the Latina South, which tells the story of immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas and Latinos who organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized U.S. foreign policy…
Alan Moore is one of the most important comic book and graphic novel creators in the business. The Green and Red podcast discusses how Moore’s work – including “The Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta,” -- has subverted literary and comic book genres and put radical ideas into the mainstream…Plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know!
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Kevin and Kiang launch a new series of the Asian Labour Review's Continent of Resistance podcast that examines the wave of labor strikes across Asia in the late 2000s and early 2010s…Brian Schneck discusses the UAW’s big win for workers at NY car dealerships, while Ray Jensen and Nancy Erika Smith discuss the battle to end smoking in NJ casinos on What’s Going On Labor Monday…Don Unwin and Jackie Crawford discuss the work of FedEx ALPA’s Trip Services Committee to enhance pilots’ quality of life through hotel, catering, and transportation services on the Fly By Night podcast…Then, on Apple Box Talks, IATSE 891 member Julie McHaffie claims that her work in the Hair Department is "50% skill, 50% personality"…and in a show that originated on the Heartland Labor Forum last week, and then picked up for the Labor Heritage Power Hour this week, Mark Galus plays classics from Billy Bragg, Joe Glazer and Anne Feeney as well as some more obscure folk and punk tracks…plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: From Labor Radio on KBOO FM, a discussion of the Democratic Party and unions' response to the election; Then, LabourStart brings us an interview with Tamar Ansiani, one of the striking gaming workers at Evolution Gaming, Georgia;
On the Mining & Energy Union Podcast, one of our new Network members, a discussion of Same Job, Same Pay laws; Campo and Sparrow talk about a recent death at a wind farm on the Golden Plains, on Concrete Gang, another new Network member; Next, on the Power at Work podcast, Painters' president Jimmy Williams has ideas about the Democratic party’s failure to elect Kamala Harris president, plus he shares his views on the current state of labor and how he envisions the future of the labor movement; In our final segment, is Amazon trying to Americanize Canadian labour law? Find out when RadioLabour looks into this question.
That’s all ahead – plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know -- on this week’s edition of The Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly…
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Taking a look at the fallout from the big election, Work Stoppage rounds up of statements from union leaders in response to the new era of organizing….on The Dig, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here….What will the Trump election will mean for southern and rural working folks and their unions? The Valley Labor Report talks to Joel Bleifuss of Barn Raiser…Bill Fletcher Jr. and Dave Zirin, on The Radical Songbook…Workers Beat host Gene Lantz reacts to last week’s results. Plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: On the Payday Report, Steven Greenhouse discusses how NAFTA bred working class distrust in the Rust Belt…Workers take on Kaiser Permanente again in Southern California, on the Working People podcast…On the State of Working America Podcast, Naomi Walker and Chandra Childers discuss the Southern economic development model…Barbara Stevens, whose parents were both union activists in the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, tells her story in On The Line: Stories of BC Workers…Singer/songwriter Bev Grant tells the story behind her song We Can Move Mountains, on The Labor Heritage Power Hour. And, in our final segment, we go all the way to Melbourne, Australia, for the Solidarity Breakfast podcast’s report featuring a photo exhibition exploring Greek/Australian life, including work, culture, recreation, and politics.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: The NEA’s School Me podcast takes a peek into the exciting weekend of training hosted by NEA's See Educators Run team…Step Up Louisiana co-founder and co-director Maria Harmon joins the Working History podcast to talk about the group’s Freedom Summer-inspired voter turnout campaigns and grassroots mobilization efforts in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Jefferson Parish…on the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, Harold sits down with State Senate candidate Adrian Cortes and State House candidates John Zingale and Deken Letinich to find out the differences - and similarities - between the Federal Legislature and the State Legislature, the value of failure, and how you can change things in your state by talking to local legislators…Jason Lopes, Health Care Director for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a business agent for Teamsters Local 25, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the new national master agreement for workers at the American Red Cross…on What Do Workers Want? -- a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart -- Sarah and Max ask the tear-jerking questions about movement breakups, wounded hearts and petty revenge fantasies…and in our final segment, volunteer blood courier Larry Martin on That's My Job, from the Working Voices podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: "The Apprentice" screenwriter Gabe Sherman, on the On Writing podcast…Operating Engineers Local 3 House Counsel Gening Liao and Local 3 Political Director Chris Snyder join the Breaking Ground podcast to discuss the impact that presidential elections have on working people’s legal rights and the ability of unions like Operating Engineers Local 3 to defend or promote their memberships’ rights…Writers Guild of America West Senior Research and Public Policy Director Laura Blum-Smith joins Kristina Woo on the 3rd and Fairfax podcast to talk about the union’s policy priorities…Two takes on the tentative agreement between the Letter Carriers and the US Postal Service; first we’ll hear from Letter Carrier president Brian Renfroe on You Are The Current Resident, the Letter Carriers podcast, then the On The Workroom Floor podcast hosts a roundtable discussion on the proposed contract.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: 30,000 Machinists at Boeing are on strike because of Jack Welch and the GE legacy, on The Valley Labor Report; American Jewish labor history with Caroline Luce, on Labor Jawn; Roswell Hub on the new uniform policy for UPS drivers; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month; Angie Moreno from Chicago JWJ, on My Labor Radio, and the Green and Red podcast remembers Kris Kristofferson and his politics.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Power at Work podcast host Seth Haris talks to Labor Secretary Julie Su about empowering workers and The State of Labor 2024…then, on Work Week Radio, Amazon workers in San Francisco demand recognition…The Building Bridges podcast talks with Rachel Ybarra from Starbucks Workers United…Next, David Van Pevenage, who worked at a WestRock paper mill in Washington state until it was shuttered, and Steel Workers Legislative Director Roy Houseman on fair trade, on Solidarity Works: A Podcast From The United Steelworkers…What matters most to senior flight attendants? We find out on the It’s Time Live podcast from SkyWest AFA…On America Works, German sausage maker George Neiden…And in our final segment, after an impressively long run, RadioLabour – which brought us labour news from around the globe, is hanging up their microphone; their final programme was about Project 2025 and the Pro Act.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: John, Dan, and Lina discuss the East Coast dockworker strike, on the Work Stoppage podcast…What is the Clark PUD? The Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast explains why you should care…Then, on the Heartland Labor Forum, Emily Guendelsberger, author of On the Clock…Allison Jones and Sherry Thomas from Teamsters Local 399’s Casting Department in Hollywood, on the WGA’s 3rd & Fairfax podcast. On the PFFA Pod -- the official podcast of the Portland Fire Fighters' Association, IAFF Local 43 in Portland Oregon -- PFFA President Isaac McLennan and OSFFC President Karl Koenig discuss the recent Fire Fighters Convention…And our final segment is from the final episode of the Labor Force podcast, as Mike Struchen signs off; thanks for all the great work, Mike, and we wish you the very best!
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: From Madison Labor Radio, Wisconsin Teamsters endorse Harris-Walz; Bob looks at how workers get hurt when companies merge on the Million Dollar Organizer; Adam Gattuso discusses the precision and planning necessary for a refinery turnover, on The Labor And Energy Show; Script Supervisor Laura Collini talks shop on Apple Box Talks, and in our last segment, from Re:Work Radio, the UCLA Labor Center approaches it's 60th anniversary. PLUS: Harold’s Shows You Should Know!
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On this week’s show: Two reports on the strike by 32,000 workers at Boeing,
one from the Work Stoppage podcast, the other from Labor Radio on KBOO FM,
where Jamie Partridge interviews strikers in Portland, Oregon. Then, Casey and Eric Robinson discuss Thrift Savings Plan scams, on the NALC Branch 458 Podcast,
the Resolved Labor Podcast explores how Joseph Caleb discovered the value of being in a union, and in our final segment, from the America Works podcast, we meet Emily Daniel, one of a small but growing number of female agricultural pilots, or “Crop dusters”.
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On this week’s show: We Rise Fighting’s Ric and Bryan look at the UNITE HERE hotel workers' strike; Power at Work attends the Labor Day Breakfast on the UNITE HERE picket line in Boston; On the Line visits with SAG-AFTRA video game workers who are on strike; Labor Jawn’s Sam and Gabe talk with two organizers behind Green 4 Falasteen, a coalition of AFSCME members and staffers organizing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and in our final segment, the Labor Vision Michigan podcast is back!
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On this week’s show: The Future of Work podcast explores the challenges facing athletes with disabilities…Labor History Today takes a labor walk in Wheeling…Debbie Goldman discusses her new book Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age on the Heartland Labor Forum…then, on the CUPE Cast podcast, Brianna and Brittany discuss the recent Liquor Control Board of Ontario strike, and in our last segment, the Reinventing Solidarity podcast talks with Megan Svoboda from the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: The Green and Red podcast reports from the streets outside the DNC in Chicago…Rick talks about Project 2025 with historian Erik Loomis on The Rick Smith Show… The Wealthy Ironworker askes the question “What is a union?”… Phillip Toner and Mike Rafferty discuss their new book, “Press Captured: How Neoliberalism transformed the American State” on Solidarity Breakfast…and in our final segment, Sabrina Pitre talks about editing in a new episode from Apple Box Talks, the podcast from IATSE 891.
And of course, Harold’s bonus tips on Shows You Should Know…
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Bill Ayers talks with What's Going On Labor Mondays about the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in 1968 and today…from Labor Radio on WORT, Threatened job losses at Harley Davidson in Milwaukee… the Power at Work podcast explores Governor DeSantis' attacks on public employees…Keeping teachers ahead of the AI curve, that’s on the AFT’s Union Talk podcast…and, in our final segment, SAG-AFTRA recently secured a new agreement that marks a significant milestone in the union’s ongoing efforts to protect performers in the age of artificial intelligence; the SAG-AFTRA Podcast explains. Plus, Harold’s “Shows You Should Know” and don’t forget to order your Labor Radio Podcast Network t-shirts here now!
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: The RMIT Strike: 1000 days without an agreement, Stick Together reports from Australia.
Then, on The Dig, a discussion of international solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and Laleh Khalili.
Next, some podcast solidarity, as the Classes of Mail podcast features a conversation with Fred Woodley from the Delivering Solidarity Podcast.
Then, of special interest to anyone who’s planning to catch a plane anytime soon; contractual fatigue rights and protections on the Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast.
And in our last segment, conversations with women from BC's once thriving fishing industry, from On The Line: Stories of BC Workers.
PLUS: Harold’s “Shows You Should Know”: Labor Force; Madison Labor Radio; Wealthy Ironworker; Working Voices; On The Workroom Floor.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: labor policy analyst Sophie Mariam, on The rise of union curious: Support for unionization among America’s frontline workers, on the Labor Exchange; the UFCW 3000 podcast reports on Macy's unfair labor practice strikes; then, Is Stellantis planning to send jobs from Sterling Heights to a plant in Mexico? We find out, on the UAW 1700 podcast;
Mike and Committee members discuss new information they’ve received; In our final segment, from the BCTGM Voices Project, bakery workers union retirees got welcome news on July 22, when union president Anthony Shelton sent out a memo announcing: "Our money is in the bank. The promise of pension reform has been realized for more than 100,000 BCTGM retirees."
PLUS: Harold’s “Shows You Should Know”: Fragile Juggernaut; Labor Force; Labor Express Radio; Classes of Mail; 3rd & Fairfax.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: the Art and Labor crew discuss Kamala Harris and Millenialism…From the Say Watt, podcast, the influence of technology on the electrical industry…Then, a couple of driver organizers from San Diego Drivers United talk with the Union or Bust podcast about their efforts to organize app-based drivers, including Uber and Lyft…Calgary-based disability advocate, karaoke enthusiast, and entertainment usher Dan Pederson, on The Alberta Worker Podcast…and in our final segment, Dr. Jay Cephas considers two Depression-era murals in Detroit and their contrasting messaging about workers, labor, and power; that’s on the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast.
PLUS: Harold’s “Shows You Should Know”: The Future Of Work; Work Stoppage, Working Voices, The Radical Songbook, the SAG AFTRA podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Project 2025 and the labor movement…The plan to destroy worker power…Universal basic income and the 4 day week…The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955-1965.
This week’s featured shows are On the Line, Power at Work, The Organizing for a Change Radio Podcast, and AAUP Presents.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: IBT VP John Palmer discusses Sean O'Brien's RNC appearance; Discussion of solar power in America with Nick Iacovella; Do you ask questions?; Nicole Schwartz discusses labor challenges in the trades.
This week’s featured shows are The Real News Network Podcast, The Labor And Energy Show; The Wealthy Ironworker; The Construction User 2.0
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On this week’s show:
Veteran stagehand Brandon Resenbeck talks about the Old Globe Theater, on the Union or Bust podcast.
Historian James Benton on the politics of trade, on the Heartland Labor Forum,
And, wildcat in BC; the day 400 women electrical walked off the job in British Columbia, Canada; that’s from On The Line: Stories of BC Workers.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: A brand-new show from two veteran UK organizers; we’ve got a sneak preview of the “Organising for A Change” podcast.
What happens when the FBI doesn’t pay one of it’s stooges? Workers Beat Extra host Gene Lantz tells the story.
Erin Beard talks about Makerspaces on the OEA Grow podcast, from the Oregon Education Association.
And, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, we remember two giants of the labor movement: civil and labor rights apostle Rev. James Lawson and labor radio pioneer Frank Emspak, who both died recently.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: celebrating Pride Month! Why are unions essential to LGBTQ liberation? Why is union organizing that advocates for all workers essential to uplifting queer workers? And why is queer advocacy so commonsense to many of today’s unionized workers? Political scientist Joanna Wuest explores these questions and more in a conversation with New Labor Forum editor-at-large Micah Uetricht on the Reinventing Solidarity podcast.
Then, from a special Pride Month blogcast on Power at Work, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jerame Davis, President of Pride At Work, Evette Avery, Southeast Regional Director of Teamsters' LGBTQ+ Caucus, and Jared Reece, Co-President of SEIU's Lavender Caucus, to discuss the state of the world for LGBTQ+ workers.
On Slacker Radio, from Melbourne, Australia, Tilde and Jordan talk with Harry from Melbourne's Rental and Housing union about the eviction of one of their members, who’s aboriginal, queer, and neurodiverse.
In our final segment, AFT President Randi Weingarten and Brian Bond, the executive director of PFLAG, celebrate Pride on the Union Talk podcast, encouraging everyone to build community in solidarity as a way to push back against bigoted legislation that targets LGBTQIA+ kids and teachers.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: The Supreme Court's latest ruling on the National Labor Relations Act; EPI Chief Economist Josh Bivens discusses the economic performance of the Biden administration in a historical context; longtime organizer Chris Townsend on the organizing surge in Virginia; Madeline Gamsemer Topf, co-president of TAA Local 3220 in Wisconsin discusses grad workers, and we wrap up with a report on the attack on unionists in Hong Kong.
This week’s featured shows are Work Stoppage, The State of Working America Podcast, Payday Report, We Rise Fighting and RadioLabour.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Hollywood Teamsters talk negotiations…WTF are "the METHODS"?...Tim Drea from the Illinois AFL-CIO, on recent legislative accomplishments…And the FTC bans non-competes.
This week’s featured shows are 3rd & Fairfax; news and information about the Writers Guild of America West…Roswell Hub, A weekly podcast dedicated to Teamsters helping Teamsters…America’s Workforce Radio, a clear and unfiltered voice for the working people of America, and, Tribunus Plebis, a new member of the Network; independent commentary focusing on labor issues across the United States and around the world.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Kitchen solidarity with Dontazz Williams, food service worker at UW; Naomi Harris, Waffle House worker and founding member of USSW, and Quichelle Liggins, 13-year Hyundai worker in Alabama; Restoring domestic shipbuilding; Les Leopold discusses his book Wall Street's War on Workers; Author/illustrator Nic Robertson discusses his book The Last Few Years of Neoliberalism; Justine Sachs gives advice on employee dress codes.
This week’s featured shows are Building Bridges: A Labor Podcast, from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies; On the Line, a network of union members and leaders who cover, analyze, and draw lessons from the struggles of workers across the country to build a fighting labor movement; Solidarity Works: A Podcast From The United Steelworkers; My Labor Radio, Interviews and information about working Americans broadcast on WELT 95.7 FM in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Solidarity Breakfast, a Rank and File Worker and Trade Union Show from Melbourne, Australia, covering current affairs, progressive issues and news and events from the labour movement; Red Dead Redemption, hosted by Justine Sachs, comes to us from Aukland, New Zealand.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's show we'll feature Green and Red, hosted by Bob Bozanko and Scott Parkin, a show that discusses radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. The SAG AFTRA podcast, the official podcast of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, hosted by Duncan Crabtree Ireland. For the first time we'll include A Third of Your Life podcast from the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Labor Heritage Power Hour, a weekly radio show celebrating the cultural heritage of the American worker, hosted by Elise Bryant and Chris Garlock. And we'll listen to the Powerline Podcast, which host Ryan Lucas describes as a community of workers sharing the places they've been, the people they've met, and the things they've done in the trades. This week you'll meet Wayne Pickard.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
South Baltimore is a sacrifice zone…Interview with Esther Lynch, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)…USPS Rural Carrier James Brennan…70 years of Brown vs. Board…Kjersten Forseth discusses accomplishments in Colorado's legislative session.
This week’s featured shows are Working People, a podcast by, for, and about the working class today. LabourStart, the official podcast of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. Fed Up, a podcast for federal employees who are FedUp with noncompliance and an unjust system, and who are FedUp with being constantly mistreated, misinformed, and or misrepresented. School Me, a podcast fueled by educators; Labor Exchange, Colorado's only labor focused radio show on KGNU Community Radio, featuring interviews about current challenges facing workers.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Mercedes UAW election this week, on Work Stoppage; on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Tik-Tok star embraces the influencer agreement; from Labor Radio on KBOO, Vincent Blanco Jr discusses transitioning the Oregon political process to address the concerns of communities of color; Allie Malis from the APFA, on My Labor Radio, and, on the Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast, Scheduling Committee Chair Captain Marty Harrington.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Who is Jon Melrod? College students mobilize; “We don't have time to wait”; No Fakes
Today’s labor quote: Donna Reed
Today’s labor history: 400 immigrant workers arrested
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Political interference in higher ed, from the AAUP Presents podcast; on thePower at Work podcast, Stadium battles: how to beat a billionaire; we meet Fire fighter Audrey Tollefson on the Air Line Pilot Podcast, and on Union or Bust, Paul Diaz, the Portland iron worker from the Chasing the Hook podcast, another Network member. Plus: why the Weekly is good RX.
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On today’s show, the Art and Labor podcast discusses the demands of the campus protests, and potential strategies for coordination and escalation; The Valley Labor Report talks with Alabama auto workers Quichelle Liggins from Hyundai in Montgomery and Jacob Ryan from Mercedes in Vance about their campaigns after the huge win in Chattanooga; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast takes a look at the NO FAKES Act, which would protect all people's voices, images and likeness from unauthorized recreations from generative A.I.; On the Air Line Pilot Podcast, Akbar Sultan, Director of NASA's Airspace Operations and Safety Program joins ALPA President Capt. Jason Ambrosi for a conversation about the latest advances in aviation safety research and a behind-the-scenes look at how researchers and pilots are collaborating to strengthen aviation safety. In our final segment, the Say Watt podcast chats with John Harriel Jr., aka Big John, about the work he is doing in Los Angeles through Big John Kares and 2nd Call.
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VW workers in Chattanooga win a historic union vote to join the UAW; Workers file for election in London, Kentucky; Roland "Rex" Rexha on the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident; Health and safety wins in Washington, and a profile of labor organizer and activist Jonathan Melrod.
This week’s featured shows are Work Stoppage, the podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class. They’re here to demolish corporate ladders and chew bubblegum. And they don't even like bubblegum. BCTGM Voices Project, the podcast from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union.
America’s Workforce Radio, a clear and unfiltered voice for the working people of America. Solidarity Works: a podcast from the United Steelworkers. And the Resolved Labor Podcast, highlighting labor leaders who we definitely should have learned about in school. This podcast is for union activists, history buffs, and any human who just wants to learn something new.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Chris Garlock here, back with another special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, live from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. It’s late again, or, since it’s two o’clock Sunday morning, early. Like the Beatles said, it’s been a hard day’s…night.
Today we bring you another sound collage of the voices of activists at the Labor Notes conference. Let me paint you a quick picture of the scene: the Labor Radio Podcast Network set up a open studio in the vendor area, basically the lobby of the Hyatt Regency, where everyone else is hawking labor books, shirts, buttons, literature and the like. So when they come to us they’re kind of curious, but not exactly sure what this Labor Radio Podcast Network thing is; so one of us explains the Network is this loose confederation of labor radio shows and podcasts, all working to bring out and raise up the issues and voices of working people. That sounds great, the people usually say; how’d you like to tell us about why you’re here, what you’re working on, we say. Almost no-one says no. And that’s why we have so many voices to share with you. Hope you enjoy.Our interviews were conducted by members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Lynn Fields from the Resolve podcast, Carmen Rodriguez, from El Cafecito del Dia, Jerry Mead Lucero, from Labor Express Radio, Mark Gevaart from My Labor Radio, Judy Ancel, from the Heartland Labor Forum, Harold Phillips, from Working to Live in Southwest Washington, and Patrick Dixon, co-producer here on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, Harold and Patrick co-produced today’s show.
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Hey, it’s Chris Garlock. It’s after midnight Friday night, so really Saturday morning here at the Labor Notes conference. The late-night jam here at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is winding down, but folks are still deep in intense conversations in the hallways of the Hyatt Regency. Maybe the best way to think about today’s show is like music. It's voices from dozens of activists at Labor Notes, captured by some of the crew here from shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, who spent the entire day recording interviews, many of them at the Network’s open-air studio in the vendor area, others caught in the hallways, on the run from one session to the next. We’ve taken bits and pieces of those interviews and woven them into the fabric that makes up today’s show. Hope you enjoy it!
Our interviews were conducted by members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Lynn Fields from the Resolve podcast, Carmen Rodriguez, from El Cafecito del Dia, Jerry Mead Lucero, from Labor Express Radio, Mark Gevaart from My Labor Radio, Harold Phillips, from Working to Live in Southwest Washington, and Patrick Dixon, co-producer here on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, Harold and Patrick co-produced today’s show, doing all the heavy lifting processing the dozens of interviews the rest of the crew did, with a special shoutout to Lynn Fields (in action here with Patrick producing), who really set the blistering pace for us all.
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The Labor Radio Network is back at the Labor Notes conference! The biannual event, being held April 18-21 in Chicago, Illinois, attracts over 4,000 grassroots labor activists from across the country and around the world. We’ll be bringing you voices from Labor Notes over the next few days; today’s brief show is a conversation between Chris Garlock, Harold Phillips, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp, longtime Network organizers and show producers who organized a gathering of almost 20 Network members on April 18 at Labor Notes, the first official in-person such gathering. Here are their immediate reactions to the historic gathering.
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Union organizing and Colorado House Bill 1230; Books for our community; An interview with Egyptian trade union activist Ahmad Badawy; Capitalism is dead...welcome to technofeudalism; and former Vermont AFL-CIO president David van Deusen talks about his new book.
This week’s featured shows are Labor Exchange, Colorado's only labor-focused radio show on KGNU Community Radio; El Cafecito del Día; the podcast from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; LabourStart, the official podcast of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement; Green and Red; organizers, academics, artists discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics; and We Rise Fighting; Labor theory, news, history and analysis.
Look for us at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago next week and keep an ear out for special daily reports as we bring you the voices of today’s labor movement!
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips. This podcast recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Collective Bargaining Agreement.
This week: Randi talks with the co-chairs of Standing Together about Palestine/Israel; Tom Owens talks bridges; Victoria Police use explosive weapons at the Web Dock picket; Plus, discussions on the current status of ALPA Canada, United Musicians and Allied Workers.
This week’s featured shows are Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; Chasing The Hook, a podcast about union ironworker stories, told by the old timers; Solidarity Breakfast, a rank and file worker and trade union show covering current affairs, progressive issues and news and events from the Australian labour movement; ALPA Canada Podcast, the official podcast for ALPA Canada, the segment of the Air Line Pilots Association that manages all things Canadian; Art and Labor, a podcast for art workers trying understand their place in the brutal capitalist systems of power.
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This week: A report from East Palestine; the UAW's Brandon Mancilla talks about why peace is a labor issue; What's next for Canadian labor journalism? IUOE Legislative and Political Director Seth Toth discusses the Biden administration and offshore wind energy in Humboldt County; and in our final segment; Jessica Breidinger, a Social Science instructor
at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon,
talks about the rural community college experience.
This week’s featured shows are Work Week Radio, which broadcasts Thursdays on San Francisco’s KPOO 89.5 FM; The Valley Labor Report, a weekly talk radio show airing Saturdays on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville, Alabama and Sundays on WGOL 920 AM in Russellville, Alabama; RadioLabour, the global news service; Breaking Ground, the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3 in the Western U.S.: OEA Grow, the weekly podcast from the Oregon Education Association.
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On today’s show: A visit with striking Teamsters at Coors-Molson in Ft. Worth, Texas…American Postal Workers Union Organization Director Anna Smith talks about the union’s 2024 organizing campaign…JDoc and Krausey speak with Philly labor leaders…Park Ranger Jerry Bransford’s connection to Mammoth Cave National Park goes back to his enslaved ancestors…And in our final segment, "Changing Lives, Changing L.A.," a play featuring rank and file members of UNITE HERE Local 11.
This week’s featured shows are Workers Beat, which airs at 9:00 AM Saturdays Central Time on KNON in Dallas Texas…Communicating With You, The Member, the podcast from APWU, the American Postal Workers Union…The Labor Show, the radio voice of Philly’s Labor Movement, airs every Saturday at 7 pm on WPHT 1210 AM…America Works, an ongoing podcast series from the Library of Congress, featuring the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States…Re:Work Radio is a women-led radio show and podcast from the UCLA Labor Center that spotlights the voices of workers, immigrants, and people of color.
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On this week's show: Labor Express Radio celebrates 30 years on the air; The Resolved Labor Podcast highlights past leaders of the Worker's Rights Movement; Kazem Nik-Khah talks about workers in Iran on the LabourStart podcast; Succession creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong tells the On Writing podcast about how he staffed and ran his writers’ room; and, from the Workers Rock podcast, an Upstate New York dairy worker who emigrated from Mexico talks about the Farm Laborers Fair Practice Act.
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The 96th Academy Awards – the Oscars -- are tomorrow night, and one of our shows, Power at Work, put together their own Labor Oscars contest (they’re probably gonna get a cease-and-desist letter from the Academy’s lawyers any day now), and in honor of all the Hollywood folks who held the line last year, we wanted to give the Labor Oscars a bit more time than we can in the Weekly. So here they are (the envelope, please), the Labor Oscars, from the Power at Work podcast!
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show: Members of IATSE Local 122 discuss their contract fight in San Diego; Fighting political interference in higher ed: From Florida to Texas, Ohio to Indiana, politicians are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. Then, a chat with Jamell Thrower, National Secretary of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus. Next, meet Ray Connor, the new president of the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council. And in our final segment, Paul Robeson sings at Peace Arch Park.
This week’s featured shows: Union or Bust, two union activists discuss organizing, unions, and politics; AAUP Presents, the podcast produced by the American Association of University Professors, on issues related to academic freedom, shared governance, and higher education; SayWatt, which covers what’s going on in the world of electrical apprenticeship; Working to Live In Southwest Washington, the podcast from the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council; and On The Line: Stories of BC Workers, a Canadian labour history storytelling podcast, produced by volunteers & staff of the BC Labour Heritage Centre.
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On this week’s show: Carolina Dantas, Project Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Building and Wood Worker’s International, Jon Hartough discusses migrant fishers in Thailand, Sara Nelson takes questions from SkyWest flight attendants, Second City educators discuss tentative deal, Michael and Elliott discuss the lawsuit against the NLRB, and a dangerous mixture: booze and the workplace.
This week’s featured shows: LabourStart, the official podcast of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, a brand-new podcast and a brand-new member of the Network; Labor Link, the podcast cast is about the brave individuals organizing the workers who make our stuff; It’s Time Live, the official podcast of SkyWest Flight Attendants; 3rd & Fairfax, news and information about the Writers Guild of America West; Labor Radio on KBOO FM, radio of the working class, by the working class and for the working class, from Portland, Oregon; and our final segment is from Union Days, longtime trade unionist Simon Sapper’s stories of people, places, scraps and scrapes. Heroes and villains. Tall tales and low blows. It’s the stuff of life itself.
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Liberia Firestone workers’ 2006 strike; Forward for justice; Organized labor and the Civil Rights Movement; American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson; “Our union is us”
Today’s labor quote: Joe Glazer
Today’s labor history: Cops beat textile strikers
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On this week’s show: Labor Secretary Julie Su; Joelle Salerno and Danielle Harshman from the National Association of Women in Construction; Catarina Cinnani discusses allegations of sexual harassment at Perfection Fresh; Did the mob control the Teamsters?; Mike talks with Darren about attendance; Remembering the 1997 UPS Strike.
This week’s featured shows are El Cafecito del Día, from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; The Construction User 2.0, the podcast from the Association of Union Constructors, Stick Together, Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues; Roswell Hub, a weekly podcast dedicated to Teamsters helping Teamsters; the UAW 1700 Podcast, and Labor Jawn, the podcast tackling the working class history of Philadelphia and the surrounding world with comprehensive research and off-color absurdity.
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On this week’s show: AFT's Fedrick Ingram on his experience with unions and how he got to his current position; Unions and the Civil Rights Movement; How to get it done in 2024; Disneyland actors seek a union; and we meet Damon Walker, a luthier from Durham, North Carolina.
This week’s featured shows are America’s Workforce Radio, a clear and unfiltered voice for the working people of America; The Heartland Labor Forum, Radio That Talks Back to the Boss! It’s Time Live, the official podcast of SkyWest Flight Attendants; Labor Force, a podcast about labor issues and working people; America Works, an ongoing podcast series from the Library of Congress.
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Hyundai Workers sign union cards; More on UAW organizing; Cord Jefferson and USC adjunct professors fight for a union; and, Remembering the 2006 Liberia Firestone Strike.
Plus, Labor History in 2:00.
This week’s featured shows are The Valley Labor Report, a weekly talk radio show airing on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville Alabama and on WGOL 920 AM in Russellville Alabama; Work Stoppage, a podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class; 3rd & Fairfax, news and information about the Writers Guild of America West; On This Day in Working Class History, daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year, from the Working Class History team; Labor History in 2:00, daily podcasts with a two-minute story about an event or person connected to that day in labor history.
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On today’s show: Teamsters protest Donald Trump’s invitation to union headquarters; Delta workers discuss the need for union representation; Veteran firefighter Chris Fukai; The importance of family engagement in schools; and LCLAA's Annual Report on Latino Workers and Unions.
This week’s featured shows are Work Week Radio, covering the voices of working people, unions and their struggles locally, nationally and internationally. IAM Delta,
The official podcast for ramp, tower, and cargo workers at Delta Air Lines who are organizing their union with the IAM; PFFA Pod, the official podcast of the Portland Fire Fighters' Association, Fire Fighters Local 43 in Portland Oregon; OEA Grow, the weekly podcast from the Oregon Education Association; El Cafecito del Día, the podcast from LCLAA, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement.
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Economic Policy Institute president Heidi Shierholz, on what the latest surge in labor actions means for workers and the fight for racial and economic justice; New York State AFL-CIO Legislative Director Mike Neidl on legislative priorities for 2024; Carlos Jimenez, head of the AFL-CIO’s special projects division, talks about labor strikes over the past year; General Secretary of UNI Global Union Christy Hoffman on the benefits of being in a union in the age of AI; and writer and recording artist Hilary Peach reads from her memoir, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood.
This week’s featured shows are The State of Working America, the podcast from the Economic Policy Institute; Union Strong, the official podcast of the New York State AFL-CIO; Black Work Talk, a show that elevates the voices of Black labor, workers, leaders, activists, and intellectuals; RadioLabour, which promotes global communication between labour organizations; and the Labor Heritage Power Hour, which promotes knowledge of the cultural heritage of the American worker through the arts.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Rick Smith remembers Martin Luther King; will 2024 be the Year of the Fascist?; How to Preserve Democracy in 2024; Bill Fletcher Jr on a ceasefire in Gaza; and a COP28 Recap with Lauren Baker.
This week’s featured shows are The Rick Smith Show, “Where Working People Come to Talk!”; RadioLabour, Bringing Labour's Voices to the World; Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; Union or Bust, a podcast with two union activists discussing organizing, unions, and politics; and The Check Out, centering the voices and efforts of essential workers on the frontlines of our food system.
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Organizing at Marquette University Starbucks, Wells Fargo workers in Albuquerque win their election, three types of office visits, extra-judicial killings of unionists in the Philippines, and remembering the Coors boycott.
Shows featured include Labor Radio (WORT), Work Stoppage, America’s Workforce Radio, Roswell Hub, Stick Together, and Working Voices
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The toll of stress on educators, on the School Me podcast
Today’s labor history: The Missouri Highway sit-down
Today’s labor quote: WWI Mediation Commission
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On today’s show: Battling educator stress; kicking off 2024; innovation and ConTech; flight attendants raise the bar, and…extrapolation, speculation, fabulation; Steven Shaviro on the work of science fiction.
This week’s featured shows are School Me, a podcast fueled by educators from the National Education Association; The Bipartisan Buzz, the official podcast of the Colorado State Association of Letter Carriers; The Construction User 2.0, the podcast from The Association of Union Constructors; It’s Time! Live!, the official podcast of SkyWest Flight Attendants, and The Workers' Speculative Society, the podcast for RiVAL, the ReImagining Value Action Lab, a research and creativity workshop for the radical imagination active around the world and locally in Thunder Bay, Canada.
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On today’s show: The spontaneous uprising of Bangladeshi garment workers; an end-of-year labor roundup with Kim Kelly, Michael Sainato and Jordan Zakarin; the Heartland Labor Forum’s annual Crystal Ball show; and Matthew Lassiter on police violence and racial justice in the Civil Rights Era.
This week’s featured shows are Stick Together, Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues, distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network; the Power at Work Podcast, from the Power At Work Blog, produced by the Burnes Center for Social Change; Heartland Labor Forum, which comes to us from KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio; Tales from the Reuther Library, the labor history podcast from the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.
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On today’s show: postal workers deliver during the holidays, letter carriers speak out; labor joins a Palestine solidarity rally in Madison (WI); Educators push for a ceasefire in Gaza; and, in our final segment, what’s it like to be a progressive in charge of a traditionally conservative union for prison guards.
This week’s featured shows are Communicating with You, the Member, the podcast from the APWU, the American Postal Workers Union; You Are The Current Resident, from the National Association of Letter Carriers; Labor Radio, a weekly show on WORT in Madison, Wisconsin; Labor Radio on KBOO FM, radio of the working class, by the working class and for the working class from Portland, Oregon; and the Heartland Labor Forum, which airs weekly on KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio.
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On today’s show: a 24-hour strike at the Washington Post, Medieval Times workers stand up for their animals, talking about mental health and addiction in the trades, la victoria de los trabajadores in the entertainment industry, and political interference in Florida higher ed.
This week’s featured shows are Work Week Radio, which airs Thursday afternoons from 12 to 2 PST on San Francisco KPOO.com 89.5 FM; Working Voices, airing weekly on KPFK 90.7, also in San Francisco; Bridging The Iron, the podcast from Portland Oregon's Ironworkers Local 29; El Cafecito del Día, the podcast from LCLAA, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, and AAUP Presents, a podcast produced by the American Association of University Professors on issues related to academic freedom, shared governance, and higher education.
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On today’s show: The Black Work Talk podcast explores where the Writers' Guild goes next to support marginalized workers…Then, find out “How Jane McAlevey Transformed the Labor Movement” when Judy Ancel interviews organizer and journalist Eleni Schirmer on The Heartland Forum.
We continue in that vein with our next report, from On The Line, which presents the compelling tale of Diana Kilmury, British Columbia's bold and fearless truck driver who became immersed in the murky male dominated world of the Teamsters Union. Then we’re off to Australia, where the Solidarity Breakfast podcast takes a look at A People's History of Alcohol in Australia.
Our final segment today, from Solidarity Works, the podcast from the United Steel Workers, is just in time to help you buy union when you’re holiday shopping. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.
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Shut down APEC, on the Green and Red podcast; the UAW 1700 Podcast with a post-contract ratification panel discussion; this year's educator strikes, on Working to Live In Southwest Washington; Union Dues with StrikeMap’s slam-dunk success; To drink or not to drink? Red Dead Redemption’s Justine answers union and employment questions.
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Our shows today are themed around the holiday the nation just celebrated yesterday; but Thanksgiving looks a bit different depending on where you stand, so from Equal Rights and Justice, Building Bridges host Mimi Rosenberg connects the struggles of native peoples both here in the U.S. and in Palestine.
And from America Works, an interview with Mike Williams, a dirt track auto racer at the famed Ransomville Speedway in western New York, interviewed at his home on the Tuscarora Nation reservation.
Today’s Labor History in 2:00 is actually from July 11, 1968, the day that the American Indian Movement began at a meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a group of 200 Native Americans gathered together to discuss a response to the US governments’ history of broken treaties and the devastating consequences on Native peoples.
We wrap up with the Labor Heritage Power Hour, which talked with Kevin Cummings, a member of the Machinists Union for 35 years; Kevin is also a Native American who traces his lineage to both the Lumbee and Cherokee peoples, which means that he’s spent his life fighting for rights, whether it was his fellow workers or his Native brothers and sisters. We end the show with Kevin’s powerful song Stolen Angels, about the many indigenous women who are still missing.
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What did Hollywood actors win? We’ve got a report from KPFK’s Working Voices.
Then, the Working People podcast’s Maximilian Alvarez reports from the Teamsters picket-line at Amazon's BWI5 Warehouse in Baltimore.
From the Labor Jawn podcast, the history of Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and the American labor movement.
The Labor Force podcast reports that injuries are soaring at SpaceX, victims of Elon’s Musk’s rush to Mars.
Earlier this month, Australia Asia Worker Leagues reported a victory for sacked SSRI Lankan union leaders after 11 years of court action against Australian-based multinational Ansel; the Stick Together podcast reports.
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WORT’s Labor Radio show takes a look at what auto workers won in their new contracts at the Big Three automakers. Then, there’s been an alarming rise in crimes against postal workers; letter carrier Doug Jaynes tells the Labor Exchange radio show that “Enough is Enough”.
From America’s Workforce Radio, we’ll hear why workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art have joined the wave of museum workers organizing unions.
And our final segment comes from Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; this week’s topic is “How to rescue teachers from ‘beyond burnout’".
Bonus track: “Every Stitch” from this week’s RadioLabour World Report.
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On today’s special strike edition:
From the BCTGM Voices Project, an update on the five-month-old strike against International Flavors and Fragrances by Local 390G of the Bakery Workers in Memphis.
Then, Portland teachers walked out on Wednesday, the first time they’ve ever struck, so we’re bringing OEA Grow -- the podcast from the Oregon Education Association -- back for the second week in a row, with their special bonus episode talking with educators from the Portland Association of Teachers about the conditions that led to the Portland walkout.
Next up we have two reports on the historic win at the “Big 3” automakers by the United Auto Workers: first we’ll hear about life on the picket line on the UAW 1700 Podcast. Then, what’s in the new auto contracts? We find out on the Heartland Labor Forum.
Our last segment from Labor History in 2:00, is about yet another strike, this one from 1921, when striking milk drivers dumped thousands of gallons of milk on the streets of New York City. Our bonus segment is another Labor History in 2:00, this one about America first general strike.
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On today’s show, we’ll hear about work stop actions -- that’s what they call strikes in Australia -- at B&D Doors in Victoria, on the Stick Together podcast.
Then on the UFCW 3000 podcast, Meat cutter Amber Wise runs for office. We’ll meet Fran McLaughlin, the new Business Manager at Painters District Council 21 in Philadelphia, on The Labor Show.
Labour Radio reports on the global crisis in nursing, and in our final segment, a school counselor discusses how she helps newly arrived families, on OEA Grow, the podcast from the Oregon Education Association.
Plus, on Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1825; that was the day the construction of the Erie Canal was completed.
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On today’s show, The Valley Labor Report talks to UAW Local 862’s Todd Dunn about the strike at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant.
Then, news about the strike by Hollywood actors -- now in its fourth month-- is dominated by the big locals in Los Angeles and New York City. On The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, we’ll hear about how it’s also being supported by small and mid-size locals across the country.
Is tech discrimination the new way we work? The Solidarity Center Podcast investigates how app workers are being exploited.
From the Million Dollar Organizer: tips union organizers use to improve their travel experience.
Union Dues host Simon Sapper sits down in a London pub with Labor Radio Podcast Network founder Chris Garlock to talk about the Network’s origins and future.
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Clips from Labor Express Radio, America’s Workforce Radio, RadioLabour, Art and Labor, and The Docker Podcast.
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Originally released October 8, 2022On this week’s show: An update on the Case New Holland strike from the Work Stoppage podcast. Then, reports from two education-focused podcasts: from AFT In Action, a conversation highlighting the advantages that a strong labor-management relationship can have on working conditions and student learning; and, from CTU Speaks! co-hosts Andrea Parker and Jim Staros talk with Lauren Bianchi and Chuck Stark, two teachers at Washington High School that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to fire this past summer. Their crime? Teaching their students about the city’s plan to move the toxic metal shredding corporation General Iron from wealthy Lincoln Park to the Southeast Side, which has already suffered more pollution and toxic industry than almost any other region of Chicago.
Do you get lost in all the mumbo jumbo of incentives for developers and wonder what they cost taxpayers, local government, school districts and even the public library? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, the basics of TIFS and Star Bonds and other ways we subsidize builders.
Our last segment comes from 43-15: A Labor Lab Podcast: when tour guides at Yellowstone National Park started unionizing to bargain for higher wages, a consistent work schedule, and better housing conditions, they were quickly fired. We’ll hear from Ty Wheeler, one of the fired tour guides.
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Originally released May 21, 2022On today’s show: Organizer Clarence Thomas talks with Building Bridges Radio about the mobilization leading up to the 2004 Million Workers March…On The Check Out podcast, Bob Funk discusses how LaborLab tracks and communicates information about union busting…And winter may be a long way off, but it’s not too early to think about buying rock salt, specifically American Rock Salt; on the Union Strong podcast we hear about the importance of prioritizing Buy American legislation…Then, on the new podcast Union Days, Simon Sapper takes us on a wild ride from Glasgow's abattoir to Kew Gardens…We wrap up with the Solidarity Breakfast radio show from Melbourne, which this week brings us a report on speeches from a rally defending native rights in Australia.
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Originally released April 7, 2023This week, on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers, AFSCME, the union those sanitation workers belonged to, released the I AM STORY Podcast, which retells the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history. Episode 1 is available now on all major podcast platforms.
Then, on Building Bridges Radio: Mike Honey on Dr. King and his last speech in Memphis.
On America’s Workforce Radio, Michigan State Senator Darrin Camilleri discusses his successful Right to Work repeal bill.
Then, we’ll hear about green jobs for Rhode Island on the Labor Vision podcast.
Roswell Hub is a podcast from a Teamster in Roswell, Georgia; today we feature an episode exploring Why must you work as instructed?
Then, on the Valley Labor Report, Max Fraser talks about his book Hillbilly Highway.
Our last segment today is from the America Works podcast, from the Library of Congress, and we’ll hear from Dairy Farm Herdsperson Joyce Godbout.
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Organizing the South and why it matters, on Solidarity Works: A Podcast From The United Steelworkers.
Then, from The Valley Labor Report, what labor councils are and why they're important, with Nashville Central Labor Council president Vonda McDaniel.
Next, we go to Australia, where the Solidarity Breakfast podcast brings us a voice from the Melbourne Uni strike.
And in our final segment today, Save WVU; the Working People podcast talks with students and organizers at West Virginia University, which recently announced plans to dramatically cut academic programs and jobs in the coming year.
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If you work seven days a week, 12 hours a day and don’t make enough money to pay the bills, you can talk to your boss, right? Not if your boss is an app. The global impact of app-controlled working conditions on “My Boss Is a Robot,” the new Solidarity Center Podcast series.
Work Stoppage reports on the end of strikes at Wabtec and Leinenkugel, where workers have ratified new contracts after hard fought battles.
What is a union convention and why do unions have them? The Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast explains.
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Union or Bust welcomes the Labor Queen herself, Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation. They talk shop on unionism, what solidarity means to Gonzalez-Fletcher, and what work needs to be done to get out of this hole the country is in.
David, Greg and Richard talk about the UPS contract ratification and what is to come, on the Roswell Hub podcast.
From the PCTA FYRE podcast, the history and concept of striking in Florida.
In the seventh episode of the Alberta Worker Podcast’s second season, Kim Siever interviews Jordan Wilkie, a firefighter in the Edmonton area and the leader of the Green Party of Alberta. Jordan talks about working as a float plane pilot, becoming a firefighter, choosing to lead the Green Party, and the importance of class solidarity. A few times, he tries to switch roles with Kim.
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Clips from The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor Express Radio; Workers Beat; The Check Out; Solidarity Breakfast; All Who Labor; UFCW 3000 Podcast; Labor Wave Radio; Green and Red; Building Bridges Radio.
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Clips from: Labor Week; You Are The Current Resident; America’s Workforce Radio; The Rick Smith Show; Voice of the People; Union or Bust; Union Strong; All Who Labor; The Flight Deck
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The Teamsters deal, WGA rallies in Chicago, education bridges the divide between Jews and Arabs, and a female lineman in Canada: reports from the Working Voices radio show, which airs weekly on KPFK in Los Angeles; The Workers' Mic, a live, weekly radio show from WGN in Chicago; the Union Talk podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; and from Power Line Podcast, a collection of stories from line workers around the world. Our final segment is from Labor History in 2:00, a partnership between the Illinois Labor History Society and The Rick Smith Show, a labor-themed radio show out of Pennsylvania
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Reports on the tentative contract at UPS from the We Rise Fighting podcast and the Heartland Labor Forum radio show.
Then, Fran Drescher explains in very personal terms, why Hollywood actors are striking, on the SAG-AFTRA podcast.
In our final segment, the Alberta Worker Podcast returns for its second season with a fascinating conversation with Juan Estevez, about his journey from Bogota, Colombia, emigrating to Canada as a child, trying to unionize his workplace, and then running for political office.
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On today’s show, UPS workers in San Francisco talk to WorkWeek Radio about their contract issues. On the Green & Red podcast: Summertime rolls, it’s too damn hot and the bosses are ripping us off! Bob and Scott riff and rant on strikes galore. Then on Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Michael is joined by his mother Ruth Bennett to discuss the WGA strike. On the ILO Future of Work podcast: Does AI threaten decent work? And in our final segment The Radical Songbook host Michael Funke makes the most of his chance to ask Nike founder Phil Knight about child labor.
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Four reports on the week-old strike by 160,000 actors: First up, from Building Bridges Radio, writers and actors fight back against AI. On the Work Stoppage podcast, class struggle in Hollywood. Then we have two local reports: on the Labor Heritage Power Hour -- formerly Your Rights At Work -- we’ll hear from Elliott Bales a striking SAG-AFTRA member in the metro DC area; then we’ll head to the Midwest, where the Heartland Labor Forum talks with Shelley Waggener, President of the SAG-AFTRA Local in Missouri. Bonus track: The Crazy Eights, on Labor History in 2:00.
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With just days left before the expiration of the contract covering some 340,000 UPS workers, the Roswell Hub podcast reports on what’s going on and what to do if the Teamsters strike
The Speaking of Work podcast has been on an extended hiatus but it’s on the way back, reports host and producer John McKerley. Today we’ve got a clip from a short podcast he did on the picket line at Starbucks in Iowa City.
What are the unique challenges of children in the foster system and how can we support these students in our schools? A deep dive by the OEA Grow podcast, from the Oregon Education Association.
In our final segment, Thomas Castillo discusses his book Working in the Magic City on the Working History podcast; Castillo’s book traces Miami's working-class history from World War I to the mid-1930s.
Our bonus track today is from Labor History in 2:00, where we’ll hear about the day municipal workers in Cleveland, Louisville and Philadelphia walked off the job.
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Contract talks covering hundreds of thousands of UPS workers broke down on Wednesday and Teamsters are now staging practice pickets across the country; on The Upsurge podcast, we find out where UPS fits into the Logistics Revolution in global capitalism and what it might mean for building worker power.
Next, we go to San Francisco, where Work Week Radio reports on a rally that united taxi drivers, Uber and Lyft drivers; they’re all worried about robot taxi cabs, which they warn pose a threat to safety and jobs.
Memphis is our next stop, as workers at IFF, International Flavors and Fragrances, talk to the BCTGM Voices Project about why they’ve been on strike since June 4. BCTGM Voices is the podcast from the Bakery Workers union.
Your email inbox is probably crammed with messages asking you to sign an online petition, write a letter or show up at an event. Does it really matter? On the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, we find out how messages like these helped save jobs at Clark College, and why the smallest actions can make a BIG difference.
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On today’s show, we wrap up Pride Month with a special episode of Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers, as AFT President Randi Weingarten talks with Brian Bond, the executive director of PFLAG, about the history and power of the LGBTQIA+ community and the current fight against hateful policies impacting students, teachers and families.
Then, Episode 4 of the I AM STORY podcast looks at the impact the strike had on the lives of the people involved and the challenges workers have faced in the years since.
On the Union Dues podcast, which comes to us from the UK, we step into the fray of sexual harassment. Guided by Andrea Oates, author of an excellent new publication on sexual harassment, the podcast drills down into questions of definitions, legal remedies, and effective union campaigns – on awareness, prevention, reporting, monitoring and, of course, representation.
Next stop Australia, as the Stick Together podcast goes outside Victoria Trades Hall in Melbourne, where a very large crowd gathered for the unveiling of a statue of workers' hero Zelda D’prano, a fighter for women's equality and a mighty union woman.
In our final segment, Dr. Josiah Rector tells the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast about how more than a century of unregulated industrial capitalism and racist practices in housing and employment in Detroit have created pollution and environmental disasters disproportionately affecting the poor, the working class, and particularly African Americans.
BONUS TRACK: The year was 1928; that was the day the state of Alabama outlawed the convict lease system, in practice for decades. From Labor History in 2:00.
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If 350,000 Teamsters strike UPS on August 1, they’ll be hitting the streets for millions of dispossessed working and middle-class Americans; the Working People podcast talks with Teamsters Local 705’s Sean Orr; then, the Solidarity Center Podcast celebrates 25 years of supporting Mexican workers; What does it mean to be a power lineman? Bryce Hubbard explains, on The Power Line Podcast. In our last segment, from Your Rights At Work, Professor Louie breaks down what it really means to be working class.
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Writers Guild members are still out on strike; the WorkWeek radio show brings us a report from their big June 5 rally at Apple's World Headquarters in Cupertino, California.
The Kansas City Labor Beacon is under new ownership – the Kansas City AFL-CIO. The Heartland Labor Forum radio show talks with Labor Beacon editor Tristen Amezcua-Hogan and publisher Abril Negrete about the paper’s past, present, and future.
This week’s episode of the Roswell Hub podcast covers being harassed at the work place.
The America Works podcast features excerpts from a longer interview with independent professional wrestler Seymour Ray – better-known as “Ray Idol.”
And, in our last segment, from the Labor History Today podcast, Bill Fletcher Jr. on Resisting Tyranny Through a 21st Century Labor Movement from the 12th annual conference of the Labor Research and Action Network.
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Stuck Nation Radio reveals that the caring economy is on life support.
Abby Lawlor talks about her book, "Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations" on the PCTA FYRE podcast.
Voice of the People interviews Serena, who was evicted from the encampment under the Russell Street Bridge in Missoula, Montana.
From Labor Radio on WORT, CUNA Mutual workers vote to extend their strike.
And in our final segment, Ahmed White connects themes from his new book "Under The Iron Heel – The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" to modern day labor struggles on KGNU’s Labor Exchange.
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Workers' Mic hosts Ken and Ed hit the streets of Chicago, talking to striking writers and their supporters.
Next we jump to Australia, where the Solidarity Breakfast podcast reports on Saving the McIvor Reserve.
Then to California, where Work Week Radio explores Harry Belafonte’s work on labor and race and how it connects to today.
On The Dig, Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.
In our final segment, Philadelphia-based Labor Jawn podcast remembers Mother Jones and the march of the mill children.
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From Labor Radio on KBOO FM Michael and Elliott discuss the Screen Writers strike; Teamsters Local 175 President Ken Hall discusses contract negotiations at Coca Cola Consolidated on America’s Workforce Radio; The impact of short form video for union organizing, on the Million Dollar Organizer podcast; And from one of our newest shows, the WestJet MEC PIREP Podcast, details on a new agreement with WestJet; then, Ironworkers General President Eric Dean on The Construction User 2.0; in our last segment from We Rise Fighting, Steve Babson, author of “Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy”.
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With the television writers’ strike now in its third week, we hear from Writers Guild of America East Executive Director Lowell Peterson on the Union Strong podcast, from the NYS AFL-CIO.
Then, on The Director’s Cut, the podcast from the Directors Guild of America, a fascinating look inside moviemaking from a stellar panel of directors.
Actor Sheryl Lee Ralph star of ‘Abbott Elementary’ celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week on Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers.
Working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992; the Belabored podcast explores how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles
from the classrooms to the docks.
And in our final segment, The Valley Labor Report visits with the cast of a musical
about labor struggles in England in the 1800s.
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TV writer Sasha Stewart talks to the Working People podcast about the recent changes in the industry that have led to the ongoing strike.
And, on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, how SAG-AFTRA Is tackling the challenges of Generative AI.
Then, Philly’s Left Turn on The Dig podcast.
And we wrap up with a look at "the Forrest Gump of Activism"; gay rights, HIV/AIDS, anti-war, and civil rights activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya on the Labor Jawn podcast, one of our newest Network members.
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From the Your Rights At Work radio show, The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson traces this week’s Hollywood writers' strike back to the roots of the Writers’ Guild’s founding in the 1930s.
Then, on the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, a provocative assessment of independent unionism as a strategy for building worker power in the U.S. Erik Loomis talks with New Labor Forum Consulting Editor Joshua Freeman.
From the Workers Beat radio show, "May Day 2023 in Dallas".
Continuing our May Day theme, on the Green and Red podcast, Bob and Scott break down May Day with a little history of labor struggle from 1877 to 1937, current labor struggles, including unionization (and union busting) at REI, wins at the University of Minnesota and Stanford and past anti-nuclear actions on May Day.
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In our first segment today, from the Working People podcast, we’ll hear from one of the graduate student workers who’s been out on strike for over five weeks now at the University of Michigan.
Then, I AM Story’s Episode 2, I Am A Man.
From the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, AI and union organizing.
Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider on how the corporate theory of change has damaged public education, on The Dig podcast.
In our final segment today a Rutgers striker talks about wins and future hopes. That’s from The Valley Labor Report.
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When you hear the words “child labor,” your mind may go to the turn-of-the-century photographs taken by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine of the grim lives of tiny laborers toiling in mines and urban sweatshops. But recent news reports have revealed that child labor is alive and well in the United States in 2023. Jack Hodgson, a visiting professor in history at the University of Roehampton, joins the Belabored podcast to discuss child labor throughout U.S. history and in the context of labor and civil rights struggles that continue to this day.
Late last year, SAG-AFTRA introduced two new podcast contracts that make it easy for producers to be flexible and creative in covering their podcasts at all budgets. Sue-Anne Morrow, National Director/Contract Strategic Initiatives & Podcasts at SAG-AFTRA, walks us through the details of these new agreements on the SAG-AFTRA podcast.
From On The Line: Stories of BC Workers a remarkable but relatively unknown chapter of working-class solidarity. While waves of sympathy strikes to support the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike took place across Canada, the most pronounced of these was in Vancouver, B.C. Even after workers returned to their jobs, 325 women telephone operators stayed out for another two weeks.
Our final segment today is from Labor History Today. A few weeks in the little town of Windber, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and The Battle of Homestead Foundation were holding their “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” a daylong program on the United Mine Workers’ 1922-23 Windber strike for union recognition, discussions on “Women in Coal and Steel” and “John Brophy and Labor Education”.
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Leading off this week's show we've got a collaboration between two figures who will be familiar to regular listeners of this show: Errol Schweizer of The Checkout Podcast and Maximilian Alvarez, who hosts the Working People podcast. In recent months Errol has been among the fiercest critics of the proposed merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertson's. This past week Errol joined Max on the Working People podcast to talk about his own unique career path, the implications of growing monopolization within the grocery sector, and the pressures faced by retail workers in both the front and back of the shop.
Next, two strike updates, one from New Jersey, the second from northern Victoria. In New Brunswick, three unions representing 9,000 educators, clinicians and librarians walked out last week at Rutgers University in an unprecedented contract action. The We Rise Fighting podcast reviews the latest news and offers their take on what's going on.
We then turn to the Stick Together podcast from Australia where we hear about the Shepparton cannery workers and their fight for fair pay. Tony Mavromatis, Victorian State Secretary for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union explains the broad implications of the strike to Annie McLaughlin.
What is the legislative conference and why should we care? We’ll find out
on the PFFA podcast.
Gene Lantz is concerned. Successive crises in both the US and overseas have, the host of Workers Beat contends, left us at a historical fork in the road where both democracy and the larger international order face continued tumultuous times.
Gene warns that we are just one crisis away from drastic change.
Finally, despite a long tradition of midwifery in the Black community, which predates the founding of the United States, less than 2% of midwives today are Black. The Re-Work podcast brings us the story of Kim Durdin, who found her calling in reclaiming midwifery and birthwork.
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This week, on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers, AFSCME, the union those sanitation workers belonged to, released the I AM STORY Podcast, which retells the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history. Episode 1 is available now on all major podcast platforms.
Then, on Building Bridges Radio: Mike Honey on Dr. King and his last speech in Memphis.
On America’s Workforce Radio, Michigan State Senator Darrin Camilleri discusses his successful Right to Work repeal bill.
Then, we’ll hear about green jobs for Rhode Island on the Labor Vision podcast.
Roswell Hub is a podcast from a Teamster in Roswell, Georgia; today we feature an episode exploring Why must you work as instructed?
Then, on the Valley Labor Report, Max Fraser talks about his book Hillbilly Highway.
Our last segment today is from the America Works podcast, from the Library of Congress, and we’ll hear from Dairy Farm Herdsperson Joyce Godbout. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.
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A discussion of the continuing Pittsburgh Gazette strike on Today in Pittsburgh Labor.
The Union Strong podcast reports on a healthcare worker rally in Albany, New York.
Then, a discussion of education and training programs with Matthew Clark on the BCTGM Voices Project.
A win for unions and indigenous communities in Brazil, on the Solidarity Center Podcast.
And in our final segment, Cam Juarez talks about growing up as one of "Cesar's kids" on Words and Work.
We’ve got a special bonus track today, from a brand-new podcast that launches next Tuesday, April 4: The I AM Story Podcast follows the history of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike as told by those who experienced it first-hand. Produced by AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the I AM Story Podcast builds a narrative that envelops listeners, transporting them back to the streets of Memphis, the sanctuary of Mason Temple, the homes of the workers and the union hall where these American heroes decided to take a stand against injustice.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.
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From We Rise Fighting, a report on the strikes in France over increasing the retirement age.
On the ILO Future of Work podcast, Janine Berg and Iván Williams Jiménez discuss why key workers are undervalued.
From the Heartland Labor Forum, authors from the new book Labor Power & Strategy, which focuses on how organized labor can build its power to take on corporate America and win.
On El Cafecito del Día, a conversation on book bans with Noel Candelaria, Secretary Treasurer of the NEA.
On Stick Together, stories of working women in Australia.
And in our final segment, from the SAG-AFTRA podcast, producers of the SAG-AFTRA awards explain what went on behind the scenes of this year's show. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.
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Elon Musk plans to set up a company town; The Rick Smith Show reminds us of the dark history of company towns.
Then, on America’s Workforce Radio, Tim Burga, President of the Ohio AFL-CIO, tells us about new legislation to improve safety on the railroads.
Next we go to Brazil, for a report on 39 workers rescued from modern slavery on the Solidarity Center Podcast.
From the FairWork podcast, a discussion with Heather Berg about how the internet has changed sex work.
Our final segment today is from the new season of the America Works podcast, which introduces us to Jude Bejarano, a cement plant worker in Evansville, PennsylvaniaPlease help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.
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The Kansas Reflector’s Sherman Smith reports on extremism in Topeka on theHeartland Labor Forum.
Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson discuss Rutgers workers' industrial unionism strategy on The Dig.
The Oscars are this Sunday; actor and podcaster Harold Phillips highlights some of the more labor-focused movies and TV shows on Labor Goes To The Movies.
After a 2-year hiatus, we’re very pleased to welcome back the Working History podcast, which spotlights the work of leading labor historians, activists, and practitioners focusing especially on the U.S. and global South; today we’ll hear Jefferson Cowie on his new book Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.We wrap up this week’s show with The Radical Songbook podcast and a 1996 song about striking hospital workers that’s still very relevant today.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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April Lott, Vice President of the South Carolina AFL-CIO and President of AFGE Local 3627, joins the America’s Work Force Union podcast to talk about the uphill battle she faces, not just from the anti-labor rhetoric but also as a black female in a union in South Carolina, the state with the lowest labor density.
In the latest episode of Solidarity Works: A Podcast From The United Steelworkers, Vice President of Human Affairs Kevin Mapp and Pride at Work Co-President Brittani Murray talk about uniting workers across race, class, and gender to build a labor coalition that lasts.Then, on the Green and Red podcast, Scott talks with Truthout’s Candice Bernd about her latest article “Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists.”Valerie Watson Johnson is better known as The Cake Lady; we hear more from the Lunch with Labor show.
In the latest episode of Re:Work, Antoinette Yvonne DeOcampo-Lechtenberg paints a picture of growing up in a rural farming community in the 1960s and 1970s, as the daughter of a Filipino immigrant from the Manong generation. “The Tractor Princess” draws on excerpts from an oral history interview that’s a part of a community archive and research initiative called Watsonville is in the Heart, which highlights the stories of Filipino families from the greater Pajaro Valley region in California.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Two reports focusing on the recent train derailments:Jeff Kurtz of Railroad Workers United talks with the We Rise Fighting podcast about the roots of the problem, and then on the Working People podcast, rail worker Matt Weaver says East Palestine was “A Hell of Wall Street's Making.”Then, “Teasing the tech,” things teachers should know about the impact of education technologies; that’s from the EdVoices podcast, put out by Education International, the voice of teachers and other education employees across the globe.Next, why not riot? The Green and Red podcast talks with Ben Case, author of a provocative new book, “Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence,” which challenges the strategy of non-violent and often non-aggressive protest and makes a case that riots are another tactic to be used by the Left.
Our final segment today is from the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, which toured the show floors at the CES tech show last month and brings us a closer look at AI and the future of film, the latest trends and innovations that might affect the entertainment industry in the years ahead.In a related note, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are tomorrow night and you can check out actor and labor podcaster Harold Phillips’ labor picks on today’s Labor Goes to the Movies podcast.
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February marks Black History Month in the United States and that’s definitely been reflected this last week on the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
On El Cafecito del Día, Janella Hinds from the United Federation of Teachers in New York discussed the importance of centering Afro-Latina voices within the contemporary labor movement, and the need to address the continued under-representation of black members within positions of union leadership.
The following two shows are really a tale of two different states:On the OEA Grow Podcast, Natika Samuels interviewed Kevin Adams, a Colorado social studies teacher and the host of the Two Dope Teachers podcast. Adams discusses the full gamut of activities that are on offer to students during black history month and how to create a positive environment where students feel free to explore questions of culture, politics and heritage in a lively and meaningful way.By contrast is a new report on the stifling environment that teachers are facing in the Sunshine State on Educating From the Heart, from the Florida Education Association. Tina and Luke spoke to Raegan Miller, Jabari Hosey, and Jen Cousins, - not professional educators themselves but rather parent advocates and activists – who describe some of the classroom realities faced by teachers when they’re attempting to teach black history, and how parents can respond in productive ways that avoid the shouting and hectoring of adversarial school board meetings.
In the second half of today’s show we go to the Heartland Labor Forum where Bloomberg News’ labor reporter Robert Lafolla brings us an update from the National Labor Relations Board.
We stay in the Midwest where WORT community radio in Madison, Wisconsin, reports on recent charges of a hostile work environment at the Henry Vilas Zoo. It has nothing to do with the animals.
Then we visit New Zealand where Auckland union representative Justine Sachs digs into the mailbag on Red Dead Redemption and addresses the age old question of what to do when your workplace has a moldy carpet.
We began with Black History Month and that’s where we end today's show, with a trailer for AFSCME’s new I AM Podcast, a forthcoming series that explores the legacy of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Hundreds of thousands of nurses, teachers, and transit workers have taken to the streets in the UK for living wages and against privatization of public services; we’ll hear a report from WorkWeek Radio.Then, the secret art of negotiation -- why is it an art and not a science? -- on the latest UnionDays, a UK-based podcast that’s returning from hiatus. From the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, despite Walmart’s decade-long effort at reforms, the average full-time worker there earns just under $32,000 a year. Author Rick Wartzman explores what this suggests about the systemic failures of capitalism in the 21st century.On Writing podcast host Greg Iwinski talks to screenwriter Tony Gilroy who’s currently the showrunner and executive producer of the Star Wars series ANDOR. Gilroy talks about how his music career influenced his work as a screenwriter, why empathy is the key to imagination, and the similarities between being a showrunner and a dairy farmer.We wrap up this week’s show with a poem by Kathryn Poulsen Wood from The Radical Songbook podcast, and, from Labor History in 2:00, the day known in Great Britain as the Battle of Saltley Gate.
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From Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten talks to governors Michelle Lujan and J.B. Pritzker about how they've turned election wins into gains for public employees.
On America’s Workforce Radio, the daily union podcast dedicated to union news and issues, Joey Combs from SEIU Local 517M on a plan to repeal Michigan's Right to Work Law.
Next, on From A to Arbitration, the podcast that aims to provide a union rep's in-depth guide to the dispute resolution process, how do we break the cycle?
On our last show today, Workers Beat host Gene Lantz poses the big question: is it time for a revolution?
We’ve got a bonus track today, in honor of the five hundred thousand workers who struck this week in in the UK: on Labor History in 2:00, we hear about the day a half a million African American and Puerto Rican students in New York City participated in a one-day school boycott. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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The Solidarity Center Podcast remembers Myrtle Witboii, general secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union, and president of the International Domestic Workers Federation.Then we’ll hear about the strike at Fordham University from My Labor Radio: Interviews and information about working Americans broadcast weekly on WELT 95.7 FM in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Next, Evan Tuohy, the newly elected vice president of AFM Local 33, which represents musicians in Tucson, Arizona, talks with the Words and Work podcast, about what AFM can do for independent musicians. Words and Work is produced by the Tucson Chapter of the National Writers Union and Downtown Radio.
Then we have two reports involving workers and the movies: from Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Portland's Living Room Theater workers strike and unionize, forming the Cinema Workers Union. And, from the Labor Goes to the Movies podcast, a deep dive into the films “Blonde” and “Elvis” with Carnegie Mellon professor Kathy Newman, who wrote “Marilyn and Elvis: Dead Labor in the Age of Streaming.”Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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From the FairWork podcast, YouTubers get a union. Then, Stephen Schima on the National Environmental Policy Act on El Cafecito del Día; Bo Lindell talks about being a lineman on the Power Line Podcast; Shaun Gundert, the new president of the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council shares his vision for the labor council on the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast. And our final segment this week comes from the Art and Labor podcast team, which offers their take on director James Cameron and Avatar.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Two reports on striking nurses, the first from RadioLabour, on the 7,000 nurses who walked out in New York City this week, and the second, from Work Week Radio, on the nurses who struck in California.
Then, on The Solidarity Podcast, from Teamsters Local 769, the threat Amazon poses to transportation workers.
On The Workers' Mic, a weekly show out of Chicago, Operating Engineers Local 150 General Counsel Dale Pierson talks about arbitration as a means of achieving a first contract.
Our last report comes to us from the We Rise Fighting podcast, which goes beyond Martin Luther King’s usual "I have a dream" speech to look at Dr. King's legacy with regards to unions, labor and the antiwar movements.
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On the Heartland Labor Forum, labor radio programmers and podcasters from around the country, from Kansas City and from as far away as England get out their union-made crystal balls and tell us what 2023 will bring for those who work and for the labor movement.
Then, from the Green and Red Podcast, Bob and Scott discuss America's failing infrastructure and how the Southwest Airlines meltdown is a metaphor for our times.
From Labor Radio on KBOO FM, two UAW 2865 stewards, Cyn Huang and Keith Brower Brown, lay out the power and complexities of the recent five-week strike by 48,000 academic workers at the ten University of California campuses.
ILO Future of Work podcast, a new Network member, brings us a discussion on labor migration and diverse gender identities.
And, from the GRIT Nation podcast, Dan Kerrigan talks to Joe about how to maximize your output on the job no matter your trade.Plus: The Tragic Youngstown Massacre, from Labor History in 2:00. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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On America’s Workforce Radio, North Alabama Area Labor Council Secretary-Treasurer (and Valley Labor Report radio/podcast host) Jacob Morrison rebukes former Auburn football coach and current Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville for criticizing Millennials’ work ethic.From PFFA Pod, the official podcast of the Portland Fire Fighters' Association (IAFF Local 43) a chat with new Behavioral Health Coordinator Tara Stein.And on the Solidarity Center podcast, the rights of workers in the informal waste and recovery sector, who help recycle almost 60 percent of the world’s plastic waste.Bonus: The Fight for Better Wages, Hours and Working Conditions on Labor History in 2:00.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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San Francisco barista Kyle Trainer speaks out, on Work Week Radio. Then, Workers Beat’s Gene Lantz discusses what we'll be fighting for in 2023. On Labour Radio, Lisa Skeete, President of the CUPE Toronto District Council, reports on the historic education workers struggle in Ontario during the months of November and December. From Black Work Talk, Carroll Fife, former director of the Oakland chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and now a Councilmember at the City of Oakland, talks about what it means to bring a Movement perspective to an elected position. What is live-action dubbing? You’ll find out, on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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From The Valley Labor Report, railroader Matt Weaver on the fallout, next steps, and lessons learned from the rail dispute. On the Heartland Labor Forum, Teamsters Local 955 President Jerry Wood talks about the women in trucking and the importance of warehouses.From The Labor Show, Senator Chris Koons joins JDoc to talk about the renewable fuel standard.On WORT’s Labor Radio, University of Wisconsin unions are reaching out to students and fellow workers to make sure they know they have rights on the job.From the On The Job podcast, Emma Hartley and Kleo Cruse talk about "woke-washing."And, from We Rise Fighting, an interview with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor and co-editor of "Organize, Fight, Win - Black Communist Women's Political Writings".Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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On this week’s show: The Workers' Mic on the rail strike, not strike. On Voice of the People, Jim and Mark look at how the World Cup should make us look at human rights differently. El Cafecito del Día calculates The Cost of the World Cup: A Discussion on Labor Rights Now and in the Future. From Building Bridges Radio: Kim Kelly and Hamilton Nolan: Fight like Hell: the history of american labor’s uprisings for workers today taking up the challenge. On The Line: Stories of BC Workers: Rod Mickleburgh tells the tale of BC’s Fraser Valley farmworkers who toiled in dreadful, unregulated conditions in the 1970s and ‘80s. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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From The Valley Labor Report, Paul Lindsay makes the case for rail nationalization; Walmart and Kroger workers discuss the added stress of working during the holidays on the latest episode of Dissent Magazine's Belabored podcast; From We Rise Fighting, a report on UAW Locals 180 and 807, on strike in Racine, Wisconsin. And we wrap up this week with author Chad Pearson discussing his new book "Capital's Terrorists" on the Workers Beat podcast.Bonus track: The 1946 Oakland General Strike on Labor History in 2:00.Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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On the Solidarity Center Podcast, union women are key to ending gender-based violence at work.
The UK-based UnionDues podcast talks with newly-elected Trades Union Council President Maria Exall about activism, faith and sexuality.
Mental health in schools is the topic on OEA Grow, the podcast from the Oregon Education Association.
Plus two bonus tracks: the 1946 St. Paul teacher’s strike, on Labor History in 2:00, and a song by the Seattle Labor Chorus for the recent nationwide Starbucks strike.
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Labor Radio volunteer Carol Weidel is also an election official in Madison, Wisconsin; check out her Election Day report from Labor Radio on WORT.FM.
On the Your Rights At Work radio show which airs weekly on WPFW in Washington, DC, Mia Dell, Deputy Director of Advocacy at the AFL-CIO, discusses the Labor 2022 efforts and what’s next for organized labor’s Get Out The Vote efforts.
Philadelphia Labor Council president Pat Eiding discusses labor’s critical election work in Pennsylvania on The Labor Show.
Election pro tip: Signs, don't vote, but a person with a sign in their yard probably will. That’s from the latest episode of The Million Dollar Organizer.
So you want to start a TikTok account? Union Strong, the weekly podcast from the New York State AFL-CIO, provides some useful do’s and don’ts.
And, on Labor History in 2:00: Atlanta GM Workers Kick Off a Wave of Sit-Downs
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On the Your Rights At Work radio show, Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig on how the UVC mobilized against a lawsuit seeking to block counting of military ballots in Wisconsin.
On the TWU Local 513 Podcast, Local 513 Veterans Committee Chairman Sean Deeks joins Brian Parker to talk about the Veterans Committee's mission, and why it's so important for our veterans to get involved.
The Rick Smith Show’s Working Class Heroes’ Tour comes to Rick’s hometown, Cleveland, Ohio.
Phones down, fists up: a report from the strike by call center workers at Maximus, from the Working People podcast.
On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, Alianza Americas and Lawyers for Civil Rights discuss their lawsuit targeting Republican politicians responsible for the fraudulent transportation of migrants under false pretenses.
And in our final segment, from the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, a candid look at the challenges and opportunities with self-taping and what the union is doing to address these concerns.
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From The Checkout podcast, a bitter brew, as Starbucks fires an award-winning barista. Then, on Work Week Radio, Sao Paulo transit worker Fabio Bosco reports on the results of last weekend’s victory by Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil. From El Cafecito Del Dia: everything you need to know about the Illinois Workers Rights Amendment. Then, a report on the effects of the 2020 Beirut Port blast on workers in that city; it comes to us from Labour Radio, which covers the workers movement across Quebec, Turtle Island and the globe and can be heard every 3rd Thursday from 5 to 6 pm on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, Canada. In our final report, from the Heartland Labor Forum, we find out why zookeepers in Salinas, Kansas organized a union.
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From Labor Radio on WORT.FM, community radio in Madison, Wisconsin: Why labor needs to turn out for the mid-term elections.
On the El Desvio podcast, produced by the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement: the role of Latino votes in the upcoming elections.
From Solidarity Works, a podcast from the United Steelworkers, JoJo Burgess from Steelworkers Local 1557 on election season in Pennsylvania.
Arguments for/against election activism, on Workers Beat, KNON radio in Dallas Texas.
How the OE3 Political Action Committee works, on Breaking Ground, the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3, the largest construction trades local in the U.S., representing over 38,000 members across a four-state jurisdiction of Northern California, Northern Nevada, Utah and Hawaii.
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On this week’s show: Stick Together, Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues, talks with an organizer from the Games Workers Union. Then, from Talking SMART, the podcast of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, B4ALL, the Belonging and Excellence for All Project. Next, "Town Destroyers"; Work Week Radio looks at an important new documentary film about the Victor Arnautoff murals and the ongoing battles over history in our schools. Our last piece today comes from OEA Grow, the podcast from the Oregon Education Association; today they share advice from veteran educator Rob Hillhouse.
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Flight attendant Jonnie Lane talks with the Working People podcast about how an English major became a flight attendant, working conditions in the not-so-friendly skies, and why she and her colleagues are unionizing at Delta.
Then, on America’s Workforce Radio, National Farmers Union President Rob Larew discusses the need to enforce livestock and agriculture anti-trust laws.
This week, from new Network member Labor Radio on WORT: the Minnesota Nurses Association announces the first successful defeat of anti-union efforts.
And, in in our last segment, Hostess Local 84 Rep Darrell Copeland tells the BCTGM Voices Project podcast about how he became a union activist and leader.
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On this week’s show: An update on the Case New Holland strike from the Work Stoppage podcast. Then, reports from two education-focused podcasts: from AFT In Action, a conversation highlighting the advantages that a strong labor-management relationship can have on working conditions and student learning; and, from CTU Speaks! co-hosts Andrea Parker and Jim Staros talk with Lauren Bianchi and Chuck Stark, two teachers at Washington High School that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to fire this past summer. Their crime? Teaching their students about the city’s plan to move the toxic metal shredding corporation General Iron from wealthy Lincoln Park to the Southeast Side, which has already suffered more pollution and toxic industry than almost any other region of Chicago. Do you get lost in all the mumbo jumbo of incentives for developers and wonder what they cost taxpayers, local government, school districts and even the public library? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, the basics of TIFS and Star Bonds and other ways we subsidize builders. Our last segment comes from 43-15: A Labor Lab Podcast: when tour guides at Yellowstone National Park started unionizing to bargain for higher wages, a consistent work schedule, and better housing conditions, they were quickly fired. We’ll hear from Ty Wheeler, one of the fired tour guides.
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On this week’s show: Sasha Anisimova, Starbucks organizer from Ann Arbor MI, on Labor Vision; Bruce Allan, residential school survivor, on Apple Box Talks; Shutting down the ports with Steve Gerrard and Liverpool dockworkers on Belabored; Michael and Elliott discuss the underlying causes behind the recently averted rail strike on Labor Radio on KBOO FM; Selma City workers on strike and Alabama prison workers thinking about it on The Valley Labor Report; Liberate Westchester on Art and Labor.
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Our guests at this week’s meeting of the Labor Radio Podcast Network: Timothy Sheard, editor of Hard Ball Press, which just released "WireWomen: Lighting It Up" by Professor Sharon Szymanski, is "a vivid portrait of courageous, creative women working in a non-traditional occupation.” Christopher Martin, Professor of Digital Journalism in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa; his article “Workers at Big Brands Like Starbucks Aren’t the Only Ones Unionizing” recently appeared in Jacobin.
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Mill workers have now been out on strike for over a month in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; The Checkout Radio talks with Bakery Workers International Rep Jason Davis to find out why.
Union construction workers and members of the fire and police departments in New York City developed a strong bond working together
on New York’s 9/11 recovery mission. Years later, many of them are now retired, and they’re putting their knowledge and skills to work to help those in need. On the latest Union Strong podcast, Bill Keegan, founder and president of HEART 9/11 talks about the mission of the organization and what drives workers to pay it forward.
In June of this year, more than 100 Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, making it the first Apple store to unionize. Their union is called the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (or AppleCORE), and The Empathy Media Lab podcast talks with Apple Core Union’s Billy Jarboe.
From El Cafecito del Día, “organizing while undocumented”; how undocumented workers can benefit from the higher wages, benefits and protections that come with a union contract.
Next, we go to Australia for Solidarity Breakfast’s interview with Forest Defenders against VicForests, and find out why ordinary people need to take radical action to defend nature.
Our final segment takes us to Colombia, where union activist and labor lawyer Mery Laura Perdomo told the Solidarity Center Podcast how a vibrant labor movement is the key to thriving democracies because unions reduce economic inequality, strengthen the social safety net and unite diverse groups.
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The strike that wasn’t, and one that was: from The Rick Smith Show and America’s Workforce Radio, we have two reports on the issues that nearly forced tens of thousands of rail workers out on strike this week. Early Thursday morning, the Biden administration brokered a tentative agreement that, at least for now, has averted a nationwide rail strike. On Your Rights At Work, we hear from one of the 15,000 nurses in Minnesota who struck for three days this week over patient safety issues. And RadioLabour is back from its summer break with an interview with Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization. Our final show this week, Educating from the Heart, takes a look at how even art classes are not immune from the ongoing culture wars.
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On Monday, 15,000 Minnesota nurses walked out on strike, in the largest private-sector nurses’ strike in U.S. history. The walkout came after nurses – members of the Minnesota Nurses Association -- had negotiated with hospital executives for more than five months and had worked without contracts for the last several months. Our guest was Chris Rubesch, striking Minnesota RN and MNA First VP.
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On the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, Why are so many union members running for office?
Strippers seek justice at work; Belabored talks with Velveeta.
On the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast, Louise Milone discusses how the Steelworkers pushed for an investigation into dangerous smog in the Monongahela Valley
David Jenkins discusses the new HBO series Our Flag Means Death, on the On Writing podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
“We inspired Jane Fonda to make her movie and Dolly Parton to write her song. And we made countless bosses get their own coffee.” Labor Radio Podcast Network hosts chat with Ellen Cassedy, co-founder of 9 to 5, and author of a brand new book, “Working Nine to Five, A Women's Movement, A Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie,” with a forward by Jane Fonda.
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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
NOTE: We’re pleased to feature ten of the Network’s shows this week for our Labor Day special show; you can also catch it on WPFW 89.3 FM’s 2022 Labor Day show at 4p ET (streaming online here) on Monday, September 5.
Essential Workers of the Pandemic were inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor on Thursday; Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh talked with Your Rights At Work about honoring these workers, and about the 71% union approval rating – the highest in nearly 50 years – reported in a Gallup poll this week.
From the BCTGM Voices Project, Bakery Workers Local 85 and the Corn Nuts Strike in California. And in another California strike, therapists walked out on Kaiser Permanente over a month ago; Building Bridges Radio talks to two of the strikers.
In the first of two reports on Starbucks organizing, the Heartland Labor Forum reports on Starbucks shutting down the only store in Kansas City to vote in a union. Our second Starbucks report this week is from the El Cafecito del Día podcast, which brings us “No Contract, No Coffee!”, a conversation with Starbucks workers -- and union organizers -- Sam Amato and Christian Miranda.
From the Solidarity Works podcast, “The Battle of Bay City”; bus drivers fight back privatization. And on Red Dead Redemption, Justine chats about the epidemic of 'Quiet Quitting'.
The New York State cannabis industry is creating tens of thousands of union jobs; America’s Workforce Radio finds out how. From the Power Line Podcast: the history of Milwaukee Tool and the things Milwaukee has done to put itself on top of the tooling industry.
Our last segment comes to us from On The Job, and it’s titled “Give us a break, Maccas”. That’s what they call McDonalds in Australia, where the podcast originates: a quarter of a million current and former McDonalds workers in Australia are suing the fast-food giant for $250 million, over alleged denial of paid breaks.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Garlock, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Our very first pod extra! Members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network meet online every Wednesday to share information about upcoming shows, and get advice from other labor podcasters and radio producers. Often we feature special guests who we think our fellow broadcasters might want to book on their shows. We decided to go ahead a record these sessions and share excerpts of them with our listeners, both as a preview of some of the shows in the Network, and as a behind-the-scenes look at how podcast and radio producers put together the shows you listen to. Our guests this week are longtime photo journalist David Bacon and Good Jobs First Executive Director Greg LeRoy. Plus we’ve got a very special blast from the union communications past!
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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On the Working People podcast -- a podcast by, for, and about the working class today, produced in partnership with In These Times magazine -- three UPS drivers talk about 150 degree heat conditions and what their demands are.
From the TWU Air Division Podcast -- updates and current news about what’s happening in the Transport Workers Union Airline Division -- Brian and Gary Peterson discuss the Jetblue-Spirit acquisition.
On Empathy Media Labs’ Labor Solidarity Podcast: Organizing the newsroom with labor journalist Hamilton Nolan. Empathy Media Labs is a publishing house, an artist studio, and an event space, focusing on labor, political economy, art and culture.
And on The Solidarity Podcast -- the official podcast of Teamsters Local 769 in Miami, Florida -- Bez shares news about contract ratifications, a steward training seminar, a UPS day of action, and the Local 769 Scholarship Fund.
On the CTU Speaks podcast, from the Chicago Teachers Union: Andrea and Jim talk to two rank and filers, Lori Torres and Tammie Vinson, about the recent AFT National Convention.
And on 3rd & Fairfax, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America West: Amy Schumer discusses her writing process and how she got her new show, Life & Beth, on the air.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On the BCTGM Voices Project from the Bakery Workers union, Ryan Hocke discusses wage and job elimination issues surrounding the Ingredion strike. From the Union Yes Iowa podcast, Iowa Federation of Labor Secretary Treasurer Pete Hird interviews Peter Fisher about the impact inflation has on workers. And on Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Michael and Elliott discuss the CHIPS and Science Act and what it means for working people. We wrap up this week with March on the boss videos, from the Million Dollar Organizer podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On the Solidarity Center Podcast; in the midst of war, the Ukrainian parliament attacks worker rights. Kim Siever interviews Des Bissonnette, a retail worker and activist located in Lloydminster, on the Alberta Worker Podcast. From Empathy Media Lab, Jim Key, President of the Atomic Energy Workers Council, USW, talks about how nuclear energy is both good for the country's energy infrastructure, as well as creating more high-paying union jobs. And on El Cafecito del Día, Evelin Urrutia, Executive Director of Tenants and Workers United, discusses housing issues faced by working class Latino communities in Northern Virginia. On the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast, Grosse Point's post-war discriminatory points-based housing system.
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Edited by Mel Smith and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Two from the recent 2022 United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention in Detroit: on My Labor Radio, Mark Gervaart gets into the weeds of this year’s convention to explain changes to the election process; then, on the Trucked Up podcast, members from Locals 2209 and 14 discuss the different feel this convention has had, compared to past years.
On AFT in Action, Richard Bensinger talks about his involvement in the Starbucks unionization movement and how the workers got their initial momentum to begin organizing.
Lastly, author Matt Christman joins The Dig to explain how the United States’ history has led to our present economic situation.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips
On the Work Stoppage podcast: Hyundai is violating child labor laws with migrant children in an Alabama metal stamping plant. The latest southern labor news from The Valley Labor Report. On the Belabored podcast,
why performers at the Medieval Times in Lindhurst, New Jersey have voted to unionize. Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, in Australia recently to talk with unions, workers and the newly elected Labor government, sat down with the On The Job podcast in Melbourne. Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan talks to the Labor Radio Podcast Network about why “labor media is a vital part of a thriving labor movement.”
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Edited by Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On the Black Work Talk podcast, Erica Iheme, Deputy Director for Jobs to Move America talks about organizing and burnout…Sandy Burch and Carol Wald discuss the overturning of Roe v. Wade on the Voice of The People podcast…On the latest podcast of The Voice, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten offers some pointed opinions on the Supreme Court's ruling striking down Roe v. Wade...In the final episode of the Union Days podcast series; the role sex plays in misconduct at work…Writer, feminist and social activist Selma James talks with the Your Rights At Work radio show about the International Wages for Housework Campaign, which she co-founded fifty years ago…
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
From the Work Stoppage podcast, we hear from Matt, a worker-organizer at Amazon’s SDF1 facility in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Then we find out why some people are trying to censor The Valley Labor Report. Jerome Almon talks with My Labor Radio about his plan to unify workers behind an app that publishes crucial information on the realities of corporate America. On El Cafecito del Día, advocates for undocumented students explain DC Achieves, a program that grants scholarships for undocumented students in higher education. Hosts Charles and James kick back and talk about life, labor and living on LaborVision, the podcast from the Michigan AFL-CIO. Finally, from the European Trade Union Institute – ETUI—podcast, what are psychosocial risks, or PSRs? They’re increasingly affecting workers in industries across Europe, with effects that can be long-lasting and have both physical and psychological impacts on workers’ lives, including depression, musculoskeletal disorders or burnout.
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Edited by Mel Smith and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Three reports on the effect of the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade: On Your Rights At Work, labor historian Joe McCartin reminds us that counting on the Supreme Court to uphold key rights was always a mistake; then the Heartland Labor Forum hosts a round table of legal experts and academics discuss how the decision will affect working folks; and for our last report on this issue, we go Down Under for the Solidarity Breakfast podcast’s coverage of a pro-abortion rally in Australia.
Then we completely shift gears with the Alberta Workers Podcast’s interview with Dominic Shaw who rappelled down the Calgary Tower in a wheelchair. We wrap up the show with two activists from the Bayard Rustin Center discussing the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin on the Solidarity Works podcast.
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Edited by Mel Smith and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
From The Rick Smith Show, Robin Marty of the West Alabama Women's Center clarifies the reality of the post-Roe v Wade aftermath and what can happen next...Then, what unions should be doing to protect their workers: on The Valley Labor Report, Jacob and Adam discuss the loss of Roe v Wade and the implications other recent Supreme Court rulings have on our rights...The Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation’s Linda Morales talks with the Lone Star Labor Pod about the intersection of the LGBTQIA+ and labor movements, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and what union members can do about it. Then, Pride Month is in June, so why is Vancouver USA Pride held in July? Find out on the Working To Live In Southwest Washington podcast. In our final report, Belarus union leaders are under attack; Rudy Porter, Solidarity Center Regional Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, briefed members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network at our weekly meeting. Click here for the LabourStart petition.
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Edited by Mel Smith and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Anti-labour rule in Asia Pacific: RadioLabour reports on how unions are fighting back as exemplified by Fiji's labour movement. On the Power Line Podcast, Kaycee Field talks about how important the trades are and why ranch and rodeo kids are a perfect fit for those types of jobs. Then, Kamal Bell, owner of Sankofa Farms, talks with The Check Out about how he uses agricultural practices rooted in his African heritage to address modern problems like food deserts that disproportionately affect Black communities. On GRIT Nation, logger, blacksmith, carpenter, and internet sensation Scott Wadsworth talks about how the trades can be a more viable route than college and how he started his YouTube channel. We wrap up with a really fun and interesting episode of Tales from the Reuther Library, as Dr. Vincent Haddad joins the show to talk about how Black DC Comic heroes such as Amazing-Man dismantled urban stereotypes about Detroit while also reflecting the city's history with race.
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Edited by Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
The Labor On The Airwaves panel attracted an overflow audience at this year'sLabor Notes conference. A show of hands revealed that about a third of those in attendance already had shows while another third was interested in finding out how to start their own shows, many of whom stopped by the Network's booth after the panel. Working People's Maximillian Alvarez hosted a panel that included BeLabored hosts Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, Heartland Labor Forum's Judy Ancel (thanks for the Network shoutout!) and Jamie Partridge from Labor Radio on KBOO FM. Here are highlights from their discussion. photo (l-r): Jamie, Max, Judy, Sarah and Michelle.
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Produced/edited by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.
Friday night’s all-star program at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago featured Chris Smalls from the Amazon Labor Union, Bernie Sanders and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who fired up an already-fired-up crowd. We’ve got highlights from the program on today’s show, including music from Dilson Hernandez, along with more voices from the folks who stopped by the Labor Radio Podcast Network booth here at the conference: Carmen Velasquez, Naomi Martinez, Arsal Asif, Anecia Ventura, Eris Derrickson, Jackie Serrato, Martin Unzueta, Jose Carlos, Janette Corcelius, Robert Hughes, Michael Harrington, Jamie Simpson, Zach Young, Jessica Buttermore, Jessica Thornton, Nate Wendt, Nicole McCormick, Joe Jencks, Ben Grosscup and Maggie Hansford. NOTE: Here’s video of the complete Friday night Labor Notes program.
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Editing by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.
There are over 4,000 folks at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and the Labor Radio Podcast Network team talked to almost all of them today…Liz Medina, Will Westlake, Michael Brennan, Robert Ovetz, Jeff Eagan, Noah Strang, John Courtney, Jordan Fisher, Mitchell Jones, Howard Stewart, Sam Sprole, Lynn Fields, Lakeisha Lloyd, Dan Kask and Bobby Lynn Negron. OK, maybe not all 4,000, but a terrific cross-section of the activists and self-proclaimed “troublemakers” gathered here in Chicago. The music you’ll hear is from the Great Labor Arts Exchange.
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Editing by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.
The annual Great Labor Arts Exchange is being held this year at the Labor Notes conference, billed as “the biggest gathering out there of grassroots union activists, worker center leaders, and all-around troublemakers,” which runs through Sunday here in Chicago, Illinois. We’ve got music today from Thursday night's Arts Exchange session. On today’s show, we also visit with Gladys Igbo, a nurse from St Paul, Minnesota, Allen Rouse, a longshoreman from Charleston, South Carolina, and Chantal Ide and Frederic Collin, Canadian unionists from Montreal.
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Editing by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.
Patrick, Chris and Evan hit the road for Chicago and the Labor Notes conference. On the way, they share impressions of the just-concluded AFL-CIO convention and break some exciting news about next steps for the Labor Radio Podcast Network!
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Recording/editing by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show Patrick Dixon talks with WILL EMPOWER's Sherri Davis-Faulkner and Lane Windham about the AFL-CIO convention’s diversity, as well as how it has addressed many women's issues.
Longtime labor talk show host Rick Smith dropped by the Labor Radio Podcast Network studio yesterday and we prevailed on him to interview the president of the AFL-CIO's Metal Trades Department, who talked about change and his views on President Biden.
Next, Chris Garlock talks with Erica Stewart about her courageous struggle and triumph as a young Black woman in the Boilermakers union who was the first female African American international rep in the union's history.
Chris also talks with American Income Life's Susan Fuldauer about AIL's pro-labor policies and the history of the company's working class consciousness.
We wrap up today’s show with an audio postcard from Tuesday afternoon’s rally by hundreds of AFL-CIO convention delegates supporting the fight for a contract by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union, led by AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond and AFSCME president Lee Saunders.
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Editing by Mel Smith, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Reactions from delegates to President Joe Biden’s speech at the convention this morning.
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Editing by Mel Smith, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show, newly-elected AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond talk about their plans to “leverage the resources of the labor movement” to support workers who are rising up across the country, organizing and striking for their rights.
Then, National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo on how healthcare workers are still battling to hold together a broken healthcare system as the pandemic continues to rage.
Next, Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, talks about how American workers are rediscovering the power they have in their own hands when they strike.
We’ll also visit with Vinnie Alvarez, longtime president of the New York City Central Labor Council, where workers who survived the pandemic are standing up, fighting back, and winning.
Our last report comes from Karen Nussbaum, who spent the last couple of days interviewing a wide array of international visitors to the AFL-CIO convention, providing a kaleidoscopic view of the global labor movement.
And we have a special treat for you today; as we were working on today’s edition of the show, the gorgeous sounds of a capella rose above the hum of convention conversation. It was the voices of Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan who perform together as Windborne. We think you’re going to really love their version of an old favorite labor song.
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Editing by Mel Smith, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips. Special thanks to Karen Nussbaum for her interviews of international visitors.
The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is coming to you from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hundreds gathered for an interfaith breakfast Sunday morning before the convention officially opened at noon, so our show begins with Father Clete Kiley and Clayton Sinyai; Father Kiley is chaplain to the Chicago Federation of Labor and senior adviser to Unite Here, while Clayton Sinyai is the Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network. Our other guests today hail from across the country and around the world, from April Lott, president of the Charleston South Carolina Labor Council, to Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota AFL-CIO. Fathimath Zimna (photo) is General Secretary of the Maldives Health Professionals Union and we wrap up today’s show with Laxman Basnet, General Secretary of the South Asian Regional Trade Union Council.
We’ve got a lot more already lined up for tomorrow’s show, including an exclusive sitdown with Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond, who talked with the Labor Radio Podcast Network just hours after being elected President and Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Also, Karen Nussbaum interviewed a number of international trade unionists which we’ll be featuring in tomorrow’s report.
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Interviews and editing by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Welcome to the Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly. We’re here in Philadelphia at the AFL-CIO Convention, where thousands of union leaders and members have gathered to celebrate the strength of the federation’s 56 affiliated unions and 12.5 million members, honor the souls lost and renew the movement’s commitment to build back better with unions. Hosted by American Income Life, the Labor Radio Podcast Network will be interviewing convention attendees about the opportunities and challenges ahead for the American labor movement. On today’s show, highlights from tonight’s moving tribute to Richard Trumka, the fiery Mine Workers president who led his union to victory in the 1989 Pittston strike, and went on to lead the AFL-CIO, serving as president from 2009 until his untimely death on August 5, 2021. PLUS: interviews with Brian Griffin, executive secretary treasurer for the Cincinnati AFL CIO labor council, Leonard Aguilar, secretary treasurer of the Texas AFL CIO, and Alicia Page, business development officer for the Bank of Labor.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
June is Pride Month, so we start off with Pride at Work Executive Director Jerame Davis on YALL Cast, a podcast that looks at Young Active Labor Leaders in the great state of Texas. Then the Talking SMART podcast talks with Matt Cherry and Dan O’Connell. Matt is a Local 33 sheet metal member from Toledo, Ohio, who serves as the president of the Toledo City Council, Dan is a long-time member of the SMART Transportation Division who served as New Jersey State Legislative Director for 20 years, until his retirement in 2018. On the Canadian Union Podcast For Employees, Rory Gill, president of CUPE Alberta discusses Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta and the leader of the United Conservative Party who recently announced his intentions to step down. Next we go to New Zealand, where Justine answers all your questions about bad managers, Christmas leave, and dreaded team bonding activities, on the Red Dead Redemption podcast. We wrap up this week with the On Writing podcast’s chat with Amy Schumer, creator and star of the comedy-drama series LIFE & BETH, with her advice to writers, why she loves writing in bed and the differences between writing a sketch show like INSIDE AMY SCHUMER versus a scripted show like LIFE & BETH.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Previewing the June 18 March on Washington on the Your Rights At Work radio show; the El Desvio podcast explores what the current attack on women’s health means for women in the labor force; on the Workplace Matters podcast, anthropologist Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi explains that the way we look at global labor inequality is backwards; then, from the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, the hierarchy of seating in the boardroom and the classroom; and we wrap up this week with poet Asnia Asim exploring the differences in the consumption of art in the United States and her home country of Pakistan; that’s from the Empathy Media Labs podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Members of Alabama Starbucks Workers United talk with the Valley Labor Report about why they’re organizing…On the Labor Exchange, a conversation with Colorado AFL-CIO president Josette Jaramillo… Executive producer and show runner Robin Veith talks with the 3rd & Fairfax podcast about making the ‘80s crime drama Candy for Hulu… and Tales from the Reuther Library literally digs into local history as Dr. Krysta Ryzewksi discusses archaeological digs at famous locations in Detroit.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Organizer Clarence Thomas talks with Building Bridges Radio about the mobilization leading up to the 2004 Million Workers March…On The Check Out podcast, Bob Funk discusses how LaborLab tracks and communicates information about union busting…And winter may be a long way off, but it’s not too early to think about buying rock salt, specifically American Rock Salt; on the Union Strong podcast we hear about the importance of prioritizing Buy American legislation…Then, on the new podcast Union Days, Simon Sapper takes us on a wild ride from Glasgow's abattoir to Kew Gardens…We wrap up with the Solidarity Breakfast radio show from Melbourne, which this week brings us a report on speeches from a rally defending native rights in Australia.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Two strike reports; UNITE HERE Local 6 President Carlos Aramayo talks to America’s Workforce Radio about why hotel workers are on strike, and on the Working People podcast, Indiana University grad workers on why they are on strike. From Your Rights At Work, labor journalist Kim Kelly on why abortion is a labor issue and the history of the fight for women worker rights. And from We Work Europe, a brand-new member of the Network, we get a look at how European workers see Amazon as a threat, not just to worker rights, but to democracy in their countries. On Labor Wave Radio, Graham Kovich, running for the role of Communications Officer for the IWW, discusses media strategies for increasing union power. On the AFGE Y.O.U.N.G. podcast, a fascinating discussion on solidarity. Costume department member Soroush Matoor talks being a newcomer in IATSE on the Apple Box Talks podcast. And from the Re:Work Radio podcast, Reverend James Lawson shares stories from his youth and his path to non-violent resistance. Plus: PSA on NALC’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive today, and “The Day the Beer Stopped Flowing” on Labor History in 2:00.
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Edited by Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: The voice of a Belarus union leader who is now imprisoned, but who spoke with the Solidarity Center podcast just over a year ago…also this week, unions rarely like to talk about their failures but the BCTGM Voices Project – from the Bakery Workers union – brings us a fascinating and honest report on an unsuccessful organizing campaign at Hershey's in Stuart's Draft, Virginia…Our final report today is about how content streaming has affected workers in the entertainment business from the SAG-AFTRA podcast. Spoiler alert, it’s a very mixed bag.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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On today’s show: The Canadian Union Podcast for Employees on “Day of Mourning - When a Product Fails”. The APWU’s Vince Tarducci talks about post office reform on The Labor Show. On Black Work Talk, Steven and Sheri talk to Beverly Guy-Sheftall about Black feminism and labor. From Class Matters, Adolphe Reed, Jr. on public schools. On the Live Event Workers Podcast, a discussion of mental health. Blood, guts, and organizing with Rich Rowe and Charlie McCollester on the Ironworkers Rising Podcast. Mark Gevaart talks EVs on UAW 2209 Trucked Up. On The Dig, Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City. Poet Kerry Trautman on The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, and on America Works, Popcorn the Circus Clown.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Mel Buer of The Morning Riot podcast joins The Valley Labor Report to talk about a wild white paper from a union busting group that compares union organizers to IEDs in Iraq. On the latest Solidarity Center Podcast, Carmen Foro, secretary-general of the Central Union of Workers in Brazil, describes how an Amazon community is standing up to plans for a river project that would destroy their livelihoods. While education should not be partisan, it is most definitely political. On Educating from the Heart sits down with three members of the Florida Education Association’s Republican Cadre to discuss their challenges and successes. On Labor Vision, James and Charles talk unions, coalition building, broadband infrastructure and more. We wrap up this week with Working to Live In Southwest Washington, which returns this week to explain why the Evergreen Schools Replacement Levy is important to everyone.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
This week’s show starts with The Solidarity Podcast from Teamsters Local 769, which recently passed a resolution in support of the Ukrainian people. The Belabored podcast talks with Michelle Valentin Nieves from the Amazon Labor Union. The Solidarity Center Podcast travels to Palestine for a report on the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions’ campaign to raise the minimum wage. From the Squatters and Unwaged Workers (SUWA) show, the Seven Circles of Migrant Worker Hell. On Reinventing Solidarity, Ants Among Elephants, a fascinating bottom-up view of life within India’s caste system. We end with a quick trip to Motor City where veteran trombonist George Troia talks with America’s Workforce Radio about the alarming trend of using backing tracks to accompany live stage performances.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Work Stoppage podcast gets down to the nitty gritty of how a handful of Amazon workers defeated the world’s richest man. And on the CUPE Cast from our friends north of the border, organizing news from PetSmart and Staples. Empathy Media Labs talks with Sarita Gupta and Erica Smiley about their new book “The Future We Need.” Then two pieces, one from GRIT Nation, the other from Union City Radio, prove that the labor movement does indeed have a sense of humor. We wrap up this week with the voice of Kira Fobbs, an elementary school teacher in Madison, Wisconsin, on the America Works podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Labor Express Radio brings us Voices from the Ukrainian Left…on Work Week Radio, wars and oligarchs…two reports on Amazon, from the Valley Labor Report and the Rick Smith Show…then, inside the successful organizing effort at REI, on the Belabored podcast…from En Masse, longtime organizer Daisy Pitkin on her new book “On The Line”, and we wrap up with Justine answering all your work and union questions with a little help from Jorts the Cat on Red Dead Redemption.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: listen in as GRIT Nation discusses shortcomings in the global garment industry with the CEO of union shop Image Pointe and finds out just what it takes to run a company that can truly change people’s lives.
Then, Talking SMART is back with their most popular episode yet, as SMART TD President Jeremy Ferguson talks about a subject that’s foremost on the minds of many members: a new draconian attendance policy BNSF has imposed on the very members who have kept the company operational through the pandemic, and who earned BNSF record profits in 2021.
Last year, 1,500 steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania went out on strike for four long months. Filmmaker Samuel George embedded himself and his camera in the strike and he talks about the resulting film, Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike, on the Labor Goes to the Movies podcast.
And, on Work Week Radio, labor troubadour and internationalist David Rovics talks about his life and work as a musician in the international struggle for justice.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: Director Kenneth Branagh discusses his new film Belfast with fellow director Christopher Nolan on The Director’s Cut, the podcast from the Directors Guild of America.
And on The Live Event Workers Podcast, what’s ahead for workers in the Live Event Industry, following the extended industry-wide shutdown due to COVID-19?
Then we’ll hear from working barista Ky Fireside about Starbucks union efforts in Eugene, Oregon, on The Brain Labor Report.
From the On The Job podcast, Slaying the Inflation Myth.
We wrap up today’s show with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, editor of The Black Agenda, discussing the need for Black expertise across policy, industry, and academia, on the State of Working America Podcast.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On today’s show: a different voice from the nearly year-long Warrior Met Coal strike; that of a six-year-old miner’s daughter, on the Heartland Labor Forum.
Next up we hear from a couple of new Network members: on the Baltimore Labor Report, REI workers in New York City organize, and on the AFGE Y.O.U.N.G. podcast, how being a federal employee affects AFGE members politically, what they can and cannot do.
Then, Crispin Hernandez of Workers' Central of Central New York updates For a Better World about the campaign to lower the threshold for overtime for farmers.
We have two international labor reports today: from the Solidarity Center podcast, how workers defied the odds to form a democratic union at the GM plant in Silao, Mexico, and on Work Stoppage, the difficulties of labor organizing in Colombia.
Where did the idea of a Human Resources department originate and why does it seem to always favor the employer? We find out from the Million Dollar Organizer podcast.
We wrap up this week’s show with a fascinating interview from the 3rd & Fairfax podcast, as Weakest Link head writer Ann Slichter and writer Scott Saltzburg talk about what it takes to put together a primetime network game show.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Talking Smart returns after a brief hiatus; Steve Dodd and Greg Hynes offer their verdict on the first year of the Biden administration and what it’s meant to the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers. Then, meet Tina Turner Morfitt, Dr. Audrey Terrell, and Debra Hall, the new hosts of Holla for Labor on KMUZ’s Willamette Wake Up show in Oregon. Next, two episodes focus on Detroit: from Working Class History, Herb Boyd on the formation of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and on America Works, Henrietta Ivey’s description of the pain and pride involved in her work as a home healthcare professional is amazingly poignant and affecting. Finally, the ever brilliantly original Art and Labor podcast’s discussion of how art worker organizing fits into an unorthodox place within the broader sphere of labor organizing.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Patrick Dixon and Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
A special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, featuring coverage of the war in Ukraine.
On The Rick Smith Show, Olga Lautman shares stories from Ukraine; the Workin 4 A Livin hosts establish a personal connection with Ukrainian workers under fire, and on The Dig, Tony Wood returns to discuss the current discourse in the United States surrounding the invasion of Ukraine.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On Thursday, as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, we talked with longtime labor and antiwar activist Gene Bruskin on Your Rights At Work about a working-class analysis of the crisis in Ukraine. Then, on The Check Out, Bakery Workers in Minnesota take on Cub Foods. From The Labor Show -- our newest Network member -- Tommy McKiernan, 1st Vice President of Fire Fighters Local 22 in Philadelphia, explains the presumption law and how it’s preventing access to medical care for firefighters who have cancer. On the latest episode of Trucked Up – the podcast from UAW Local 2209 in Fort Wayne Indiana -- we hear from James Dixon, an amputee who’s become an inspiration to his fellow workers at the auto plant. The Gig podcast dropped Season Two last week, and in Episode 1 -- The World’s Oldest Profession -- we learn more about what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery. We wrap up this week’s show with On The Line: Stories of BC Workers; this episode examines the so-called "Dirty Thirties" during the Great Depression and the forced labour relief camps the Federal Government of Canada set up in response. Bonus track: Labor History in 2:00 for February 25: Remembering E.D. Nixon.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
The United Steelworkers has scheduled a vote for this coming Monday, February 21, on ExxonMobil’s latest ultimatum to locked out workers at its oil refinery and processing plant in Beaumont, Texas. On today’s show, we dip into the archives of the Workers Beat podcast for a report on this lockout, which started on May 1st, 2021. Then, from the 141 Report, an update on the new contract at Hawaiian Airlines. Aung Kyaw, co-founder of Thailand’s Migrant Worker Rights Network, is featured on the latest Labor Link podcast from Empathy Media Lab, and, from the On Writing podcast, a producer, correspondent, and two writers talk about what their typical day looks like working on the set of the Daily Show. And in our final segment, Misti Rainwater-Lites talks about being an online tarot card reader, on the Blue Collar Gospel Hour. Bonus track: Labor History in 2:00 for February 18: The Royal Indian Navy Revolt
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Starbucks abruptly fired seven union supporters at a store in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday in what the union says is a retaliatory purge of the organizing committee. The firings mark a significant escalation in the battle between the world’s largest coffee chain and the fast-growing Starbucks Workers United campaign. Our show today features reports on that campaign from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network. We begin with The Check Out, which back in October featured an interview with two of the Starbucks baristas who started this whole movement in Buffalo, New York. On yesterday’s Your Rights At Work, we talked with Virginia Starbucks organizer Kat Wiggers about why that state has suddenly become a hotbed of union organizing. Then, Work Stoppage, which covered the campaign back in January, when it had spread to two dozen locations, and then did an update in Thursday’s show after last week’s firings. And, on America’s Workforce Radio, labor lawyer Joyce Goldstein provides some insight into recent changes at the National Labor Relations Board that have facilitated the Starbucks organizing drive.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, economist Richard Wolff talks with The Heartland Labor Forum about who’s really to blame for inflation (hint, it's not the usual suspects)…What happens when teachers are out sick or on quarantine and there’s a dire shortage of subs? We find out from the CTU Speaks podcast…On the Belabored podcast, Steve Viscelli discusses his new book The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream…RadioLabour reports on women’s use of WhatsApp to fight abuse…From the Union Dues podcast, author of “The Great Post Office Scandal” Nick Wallis explains the Horizon IT scandal and its’ ramifications for the future.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, on the first episode of the Class Matters podcast, Adolph Reed Jr., Gordon Lafer, and Samir Sonti define the working class and discuss the eroding trust in government among workers in the United States…Black Work Talk launches Season Two with Bert Bayou, DC Chapter Director of African Communities Together (ACT) and Vice President of UNITE HERE Local 23…In August 2019, 300 workers across 19 branches of the historic Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh voted enthusiastically to join the United Steelworkers union; earlier this month, they officially became members as they ratified their first agreement. On the latest episode of Solidarity Works, two library workers talk about their monumental organizing campaign and about their roles as pillars of the community….Mario Cervantes, a skilled factory worker who makes the tools that make the planes for Boeing aircraft in Wichita, Kansas, talks with the America Works podcast – which just launched their latest season -- about his pride in his trade and his pride in working for Boeing.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
BCTGM Local 37’s Cristina Lujan talks to The Check Out podcast about the working conditions that led to the strike at Rich Products frozen foods facility… On America's Work Force Radio, labor lawyer Joyce Goldstein discussed the NLRB's role in efforts by Starbucks workers to organize… From Work Week Radio, SEIU Local 1021 members reflect on the avoidable death of Ludwig Leota and what to do to prevent similar situations in the future…Workers Beat brings us a brief but illuminating overview of Emile Burn's history of capitalism… On the Labor History Today podcast, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic, newly-digitized 1961 speech to the AFL-CIO convention at the Americana hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, longtime labor activist, author and commentator Bill Fletcher, Jr. talks about January 6 and the ongoing threat to democracy by right-wing terrorism on the Black Work Talk podcast…Sharon Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, takes a global view on the challenges ahead for unions on RadioLabour… Bill Samuel, director of government affairs at the AFL-CIO, on the racist roots of the Senate filibuster on the Your Rights At Work radio show…AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond has been out walking picket lines across the country and he reported on those strikes on the America’s WorkForce Radio podcast…on the Educating from the Heart podcast, Representative Geraldine Thompson discussed her new legislation that will enforce laws requiring Florida schools to include Black history in their curriculum instead of just once a year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day… A former child worker and labor activist from Bangladesh, Kalpona Akter is the founder and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity. You’ll hear more from her on The Labor Link podcast…on the latest episode of The Gig Podcast, we learn what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery…Judy Ancel is the host of the Heartland Labor Forum, one of the longest-running labor radio shows in the country. She talked with Empathy Media Labs about her origins as a rank-and-file union member, organizer, and troublemaker and her work as a labor educator and radio producer
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, Building Bridges Radio reports from a late December rally for Amazon workers in New York City…On the Belabored podcast, a discussion on the so-called Great Resignation, Striketober, and other developments in the labor movement in the pandemic era… Then we take you to the ground level of the American labor movement with four brief excerpts from podcasts that either feature a guest from a local union or podcasts produced by local unions: UFCW Local 152 Assistant Director of Organizing Hugh Giordano talks with host Ed “Flash” Ferrence on America’s Work Force Radio Podcast; we find out about challenges facing the leaders and members of UAW Local 2209 in Fort Wayne, Indiana on the local’s podcast, Trucked Up; on the 141 Report, Machinist union leaders try out different communication tools to build membership participation; the construction industry has one of the highest rates of suicide of any occupation, yet the stigma of admitting mental health issues keeps many from getting the help they need: Breaking Ground, the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3, explores the issue. The AFT’s Union Talk podcast explores how the right wing has used Critical Race Theory and the pandemic to drive a wedge between parents and teachers and how to rehabilitate that relationship; Heather McGhee, author of “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone” on “Racism in our politics and in our policy making is why all of us can’t have nice things,” on the Heartland Labor Forum. Heather Berg talks about sex, labor, and late capitalism on the Reinventing Solidarity podcast…The Art and Labor podcast tackles NFTs, DAOs, crypto currency and teleology, and, from the On The Job podcast, we find out about the historic Australian female labor activist who chained herself to a building in downtown Melbourne in 1969.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, Jamie McCallum, author of "Worked Over" tells Grit Nation about the only strike that has occurred off the Earth and how it represents a lot of issues workers on this planet face today. Then, on the Heartland Labor Forum, we hear a lot about the working class, but who’s really in it, who isn’t and why does it matter? Special bonus on the show this week: a new labor song feature with a song by Billy Bragg. After many years, Bob Rossi is transitioning out of producing The Willamette WakeUp Labor Report: we wish Bob well and bring you his final show, in which Reverend David Wheeler and Joe Rastatter discuss the faith-labor connection and the role of clergy in union activism. My Labor Radio visits with Detroit labor activist Frank Hammer and on Working to Live in Southwest Washington, Shannon and Harold sit down with two veteran labor reporters to discuss the gains working people made in 2021, and look ahead to what's in store for 2022. Finally, on Labor History in 2:00, on January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, but did you know that the emancipation proclamation did not actually free enslaved people in the U.S.?
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, excerpts from some of the Network shows that focused on AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, who died on August 5. In a year when we lost so many, it’s still hard to believe that Rich – who walked so many picket lines, who thundered forth at so many rallies -- is really no longer with us. So it was a special honor to listen through the labor radio shows and podcasts that paid tribute to Rich Trumka, to hear the old stories and some new ones, and to hear his voice once again. We begin with the AFL-CIO’s own podcast, State of the Unions, which talked with a characteristically optimistic Trumka in 2018, followed by a 2020 Labor Day interview on America's Work Force Radio. Then labor historian Joe McCartin, who been invited onto the August 5 Your Rights At Work show to discuss the 40th anniversary of the PATCO strike, reacts to Trumka’s death that morning. We go back to the State of the Unions podcast and America's Work Force Radio for thoughts on Trumka’s life and legacy from Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and The Nation’s John Nichols. Then it’s out to the Northwest for reactions on the ground on the Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast, and on Labor Express Radio, labor educator Steven Ashby casts a critical eye on Trumka’s legacy. Finally, we wrap up with the Labor History Today podcast, where Rich Trumka – who rose to national prominence when he led the 1988 Pittston strike – recounts how the mine workers won that historic strike.
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Edited and produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips.
On this week’s show, hosts Michael Cathcart and Elliott Gilliland discuss the tragic workplace disasters that took place when tornadoes destroyed an Amazon warehouse in Illinois and a non-union candle factory in Kentucky on Labor Radio on KBOO. Work Week Radio interviews New Orleans ATU 1560 president Valerie Jefferson who was fired after standing up for her members during the hurricanes and dangerous conditions for their members. On America's Workforce Radio, Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper discusses the difficulties faced by teachers attempting to unionize at Menlo Park in northeast Ohio and some of the successes of neighborhood programming in Cincinnati schools. Then, on For a Better World, Shefali Sharma of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy discusses the role of Big Dairy in fueling the climate crisis and hollowing out rural communities. Plus, How the bosses stole Christmas, on Union City Radio; the San Francisco Mime Troupe's “A Red Carol” on Your Rights At Work and, on Labor History Today, Striketober and The Great Resignation: Take this job and shove it!
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Edited by Mel Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips.
The year may be coming to an end but worker’s struggles continue and those fights are reflected in many of this week’s shows. On the Work Stoppage podcast, the crew are joined by Charlie, a striking PhD student from Columbia University who talks about what their union's demands are and recounts a walkout involving the president of the university and his class on free speech. Then, Alex Bazeley and Bobby Wagner discuss the Major League Baseball lockout on the Working People podcast. On The Rick Smith Show, David Pepper reports on the slow death of democracy in the states, while we hear about the fight for healthcare heroes at Kaiser Permanente on the Solidarity Works podcast. During the lockdown, millions of migrant workers were sent home unpaid, and many were forced to pay their own way back after already being in debt to get a job in their destination country. But wage theft started long before the pandemic. This week's episode of The Solidarity Center Podcast highlights the struggles of migrant workers for decent working conditions and comes a few days before International Migrants Day today, December 18. Then, on Working Class History, we learn about the forces and events leading up to the Bread Intifada in Egypt in 1977. We wrap up this week’s show with some of last Sunday’s Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs concert by the DC Labor Chorus, which aired on the Your Rights At Work radio show.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips.
Striking Kellogg’s workers rejected a contract settlement earlier this week; one of those strikers, Todd Menousos from the Bakery Workers’ union in Battle Creek, Michigan, explains why on The Rick Smith Show… Then, on Building Bridges Radio, Teamsters for a Democratic Union national organizer Ken Paff celebrates a new era of union democracy and militance… Dennis Hughes has a plan to create fair working conditions for farmworkers; the former New York State AFL-CIO president explains how on the latest episode of the Union Strong podcast… On AFT In Action: protecting teachers "freedom to teach" with Connecticut Education Association President Kate Dias and US Senator Chris Murphy… Wage theft is a global problem: The Labor Link podcast tells us how an NGO is helping Cambodian workers fight back… On the For A Better World podcast; what the push to “get big or get out” means for dairy farmers, workers, and consumers--and some ways to challenge that growing corporate power… A fictional workplace campaign to unionize the hotel workers at the illustrious White Lotus is the subject of the latest Labor Wave Radio show… And, from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers: The Battle of Blubber Bay; an epic confrontation just before World War Two between mine workers fighting for justice and an arrogant company with authorities in their hip pocket.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips.
This week’s show starts with the AFL-CIO's State of the Unions podcast where this week AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler is asking the questions in conversation with Laphonza Butler, the past president of SEIU Local 2015 in California and the new president of EMILY’s List. Schuler and Butler discuss the importance of recruiting working class candidates and union members to run for political office.
On Your Rights at Work, hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith talked with David Story (one of the founders of the Valley Labor Report) about his provocative recent article in The Nation, “I’m a Defense Industry Worker. It’s Time to Cut the Pentagon Budget".
On Labor Express Radio Jerry Mead-Lucero met with Jorge Mujica from Arise Chicago and learned about a series of recent wins for workers at the El Milagro tortilla factory.
Then we catch up with the latest goings on at Machinists Local 141 in two segments, the first in My Labor Radio where President Mike Klemm spoke with Mark Gevaert about the importance of surveying members in advance of collective bargaining negotiations, and then in the 141 Report, where Dave Lehive spoke with Regional Representative Belinda Hawkins about some of the challenges members are facing over the holiday season and what she’s doing to help.
Finally, Black Work Talk is back for Season 2 with a four-part mini-series on Black Labor. In this segment Steven Pitts and guests put the challenges of 2022 in perspective.
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This week’s show starts in Thailand with Sawit Kaewwan, the secretary general of the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC) on the Labor Link Podcast. Sawit has worked tirelessly to build solidarity between migrant workers and union workers in Thailand to improve workers’ rights.
UnionDues is back with special guest Tom Grinyer, Chief Executive of the British Medical Association—the UK’s doctors’ union. Tom discusses their goal to balance the doctors’ needs with those of their patients and how that mission has helped them throughout the pandemic.
For our last international show, the Solidarity Center’s Podcast, features Rita Goyit from the Nigeria Labor Council. She talks about some of their creative and inspirational initiatives designed to fight against gender-based harassment in workplaces in Nigeria.
Back in the states, worker John Yougstun joins The Checkout and talks about the working conditions at his employer HelloFresh, as well as his and his colleagues’ attempt to form a union, and the company's latest response to their efforts.
The AFL-CIO’s State of the Unions podcast welcomes the new president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Jimmy Williams Jr. He highlights some of the pushback he has received for his advocacy of undocumented workers and the importance of a strong connected membership.
In honor of Latina Pay Gap Day, El Desvío features Irasema Garza, Attorney and Co-Author of a report on the pandemic's impact on Latina workers. She explains the invisibility of Latinas in the workplace, and the link between childcare and their wage gap.
And finally, with a Wisconsin dairy farmer who has lived through it all, A Better World Podcast traces the historical relationship between small dairy farms and government policies starting with Reaganomics and ending on Trump’s USMCA deal.
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This week, Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig talks with theUnion Strong podcast about Operation Union Veterans Day…On the Working People podcast, 35,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente are ready to walk off the job November 15; two nurses explain why…Then, on Your Rights At Work, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith on "Why the Media Loves Labor Now"…From The Rick Smith Show, David Pepper, author of "Laboratories of Autocracy" exposes the extreme levels of corruption that have somehow become normal in GOP politics, and how it gets even worse as we move from DC into the states. And we wrap up this week’s show with National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers presidents Becky Pringle and Randi Weingarten on the Educating From the Heart podcast, discussing the dynamic power that comes when there is alignment between the national, state, and local unions and rank-and-file members.
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This week, RadioLabour on what labor wants from the UN's climate change conference…the intersection of the decarbonizing industry and labor in Scotland on Reinventing Solidarity…two striking Kellogg’s workers tell the AFL-CIO’s State of the Unions podcast how the company has become a “shitshow”… Bill Fletcher Jr. on Janus v. AFSCME on Labor Wave Radio …from the For a Better World podcast, how the Milk with Dignity program empowers dairy workers in Vermont…D’Jon Greer tells the Powerline Podcast about his experience as a Black journeyman lineman…on Tales from the Reuther Library, how the Communist Party and labor activists worked together in post-WWII Detroit…SAG-AFTRA's podcast explores what it takes to narrate an audiobook.
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This week, Labor reporter Dave Jamieson discusses Striketober on The Rick Smith Show…On Labor Express Radio, Shailly Gupta Barnes of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses their new study, Waking the Sleeping Giant : Poor and Low-Income Voters in the 2020 Elections…Organizer Chris Smalls talks about unionizing Amazon on The Checkout…And, from new Network member The SUWA Show -- Squatters and Unwaged Workers Airwaves, a weekly program from Melbourne, Australia, we hear from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union…On Solidarity Works, a conversation with Pitt faculty activists and from Black Work Talk, a preview of Season Two. We wrap up this week’s show with A frighteningly brief history of Hallowe'en on the Grit NorthWest podcast, and, from Labor History Today, Tim Strangleman brings us Voices of Guinness workers in London.
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This week, From the BCTGM Voices Project, more voices from the ongoing strike by Kellogg's workers…on the Working People podcast, Max talks to striker Dan Osborn, who’s worked at Kellogg's Omaha plant for 18 years…and on Laborlines, labor researcher and organizer Eric Dirnbach says 'Millions are quitting their jobs but need to organize instead'…Then, from the For A Better World podcast, No blood for milk; Workers call on Chobani for justice. On Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Michael and Elliott discuss the federal eviction moratorium. And we wrap up with the On Writing podcast, where Lang Fisher describes her writing process and how it’s changed, as well as what success means in her industry. Bonus track: Labor history in 2:00. The year was 1934; that was the day that the bank robber known as Pretty Boy Floyd was gunned down by federal agents in Ohio.
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This week, we feature two reports on the strike by Kellogg’s workers, members of the BCTGM -- that’s the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union – the first comes to us from the BCTGM Voices Project, the second is from The Checkout, which takes us right to the Kellogg's picket lines. Then, on the Union Talk podcast, a conversation with nurses on vaccine hesitancy within their patient communities and their own nursing community. This week on the Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast, Shannon and Harold talk with April Sims about redistricting and how it will affect working people. Next up we have two reports from the classroom: on Educating From the Heart, a new rule by the State Board of Education restricts teachers' ability to teach critical thinking, and, from the Solidarity Breakfast podcast, safety in schools in Victoria. And on the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, travel perks and the difference between a union organizer and a union representative. How can actors avoid ending up on the cutting room floor? We’ll find out on The SAG-AFTRA podcast. We wrap up with the voice of the legendary Mother Jones at the recent Blair Mountain Battle Centennial, from Empathy Media Lab. Bonus track: Labor history in 2:00. The year was 1979; that was the day that the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights took place in Washington D.C.
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This week we are starting with news fresh off the picket line. BCTGM’s Bakery Workers Local 3G president Trevor Bidelman called into Your Rights at Work from Battle Creek, Michigan. He reports on the strike against Kellogg’s, the demands of the workers, and also builds some solidarity with people calling into the show.
Then, we have Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers on The State of the Unions. Weingarten discusses what’s going on at Capitol Hill and what it means for the labor movement.
Next up, we hear from the New York AFL-CIO’s Union Strong, where the Commissioner of the NY Department of Labor, Roberta Reardon, discusses unemployment as well as how the DOL has been addressing workers safety concerns as more people are going back to work.
For the next two shows we’re going to have to zoom out a bit and look at two different countries and their own informal economies. On the Solidarity Center’s Podcast Brother Gbenga, one of the founders of the Federation of the Informal Workers Organizations of Nigeria speaks from the capital Lagos. Gbenga explains the Nigerian informal economy, its problems, and how his organization helps those who work within it.
A continent away, the Fairwork Podcast, contextualizes Ukraine’s informal economy with regards to its Soviet history and where its labor movement fits in with its political movements.
Lastly, we are following up with the second part of The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street from Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast. Guests Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit continue the conversation on the labor movement’s relationship with Occupy and its lasting impacts on social movements today.
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We start this week’s show with the threat of a looming strike in Hollywood where members of IATSE are protesting ridiculous hours and inadequate pay. Business agent C. David Cottrill joined Kris LaGrange on UCOMM Live to offer the lowdown.
The nationwide Nabisco strike may be over, but there are still lessons to be learned from the experience. On the BCTGM Voices Project Michelle Ellis met with Darlene Carpenter from Local 358 in Richmond who shared her experiences of the picket line.
Are manufacturing jobs returning to the US? Scott Paul from the Alliance for Manufacturing visited the Rick Smith Show to discuss the Ford Motor Company’s plans to invest in new facilities.
Radio Labour considers the fate of international seafarers during the pandemic. Rarely afforded the status of essential workers in spite of playing a central role in global supply chains, many simply been abandoned on vessels at sea or in ports, ineligible to leave because of quarantine restrictions. Steven Cotton from the International Transport Workers Federation offers details.
Cam Smith joined Solidarity Breakfast this week to discuss marauding right wing mobs on the streets of Melbourne and the ways in which anti-vax and extremist forces are coming together in Australia.
On the Blue Collar Gospel hour Jack Henry joined the show to read a couple of poems from his recently published collection Driving W/ Crazy, living with madness.
We return to the Art and Labor Podcast, where the crew is joined by Jessalyn Aaland, a bargaining committee member at the SFMOMA union. They discussed, among other things, the dubious privilege of working at MOMA, negotiating rent with your landlord, and, if the question of if you were to be a train, what type of train would you be?
Then lastly you will not have read in The New York Times about tech workers there walking off the job in protest of Times management’s aggressive efforts to resist unionization. Product manager Nora Keller spoke to Mimi Rosenberg on Building Bridges Radio.
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On this week’s show… Vermont-based Equal Time Radio bills itself as “a podcast for people who want to understand the world in order to change it.”
Work Stoppage is a podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class. “We're here to demolish corporate ladders and chew bubblegum, they say. “And we don't even like bubblegum.”
ILCA Insider is the podcast of the International Labor Communicators Association, which works to amplify labor’s voice.
Laborlines comes to us from Moscow, Idaho, and features interviews, music, news and commentary related to the labor struggle.
Apple Box Talks is put together by IATSE local 891, the largest IATSE local in Canada, and features interviews with their member Artists and Technicians, from prep to post and everything in between. Apple boxes, by the way, are wooden boxes or crates of varying sizes with holes on each end used chiefly in film production.
Breaking Ground is the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3, the largest construction trades local in the United States, representing over 38,000 members across a four-state jurisdiction, Northern California, Northern Nevada, Utah and Hawaii, including the mid-Pacific Islands.
Flying the Line recounts the beginnings of the Air Line Pilots Association, the world’s largest pilot union and nongovernmental air safety organization, through an abridged retelling of George Hopkins book “Flying the Line.”
We’re really excited to bring you these new voices at the Network, some are brand new shows and some have been around for a while, but they’re all committed to showcasing the lives of working people.
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On this week’s show… From the Stick Together podcast, a report on the fracking in the Northern Territory boondoggle in which the government spent $50 milllion to create a handful of jobs… On Red Dead Redemption, one of our new Network shows out of Aukland, host Justine Sachs answers people’s work woes about COVID now that they are in Level 3… On Activate Live, Machinists’ Organizing Director Vinny Addeo discusses the PRO Act… From The Solidarity Center Podcast, Francisco Maltés, president of the Unitary Workers Center, the largest union confederation in Colombia, discusses a major victory against state oppression with a diverse coalition… The Belabored podcast marks the 10-year anniversary of the Occupy movement with Stephen Lerner and Jonathan Westin on what Occupy meant to labor then and now, and how it's changed organizing… From Working Class History, the first part of their podcast miniseries about the May 18 1980 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea against the US-backed military dictatorship. And we wrap up Grit NW host Joe Cadwell, offering his take on critics. Bonus track: Labor History in 2:00: The Southern Differential
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On this week’s show, a special selection of Labor Day shows from Network members celebrating American workers!
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On this week’s show, school is back in session and, most importantly, in-person. Andrea and Jim from CTU Speaks interview the Chicago Teachers Union’s President Jesse Sharkey and Vice President Stacy Davis Gates on how they are feeling about the return of students to school as both CTU union members and CPS parents.
From The Florida Education Association’s Educating from the Heart podcast we hear from Elizabeth Rasmussen, a high-school history teacher of fourteen years. She touches on how the pandemic and political climate has changed the way she thinks about teaching and her own pedagogy.
In union news on America’s Workforce Radio, UAW Local 2110 President Maida Rosenstein talks about her work with unionizing museums and other cultural institutions within the context of the pandemic.
Another exemplary union leader from the latest AFT in Action, is Leah Ralls. Currently, she serves as president of the Windham NAACP, but in this interview, Leah recounts her efforts to organize her community against the closure of the Hartford Healthcare’s maternity ward last year.
Showcasing one of our newer shows is On the Job from Australia. On this episode hosts Francis and Sally, with journalist Kristine Ziwica examine the phenomenon of how when a job that has historically been worked by women shifts to be dominated by men, pay tends to go up and vice versa. Welcome guys from down under!
We then will take a quick break to hear a short promo on the Grit NW’s paintball battle line up. Next, Labor Express Radio where Jerry chats with another Labor Radio Podcast Network host, Avery Bernard from The Amazon. They touch briefly on Avery’s experience with Amazon and how to handle its influence on the labor movement in the future.
From the Archives of the Heartland Labor Forum, is an interview with the actor Ed Asner, most noted for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died earlier this week. In this archived episode from 2013, he talks to Judy Ancel about the real reason Lou Grant got cancelled and his connection to the labor movement in the US and Latin America.
Finally, director Tom McCarthy is featured on the Director’s Cut. His new film, Stillwater, stars Matt Damon as an oil-rigger from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille, France to help exonerate his daughter who is accused of killing her roommate. On the podcast McCarhty discusses how he tried to authentically capture a working class experience in the movie.
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On this week’s show, we feature three reports on the strike by Nabisco workers, which spread this week to five states across the country. We’ll hear from The Rick Smith Show, The Checkout Radio, which is a brand-new member of the Network, and Your Rights At Work.
Then, from the For A Better World podcast, another new Network member, we’ll hear about the importance and benefits of having fair trade in Cote d'Ivoire cacao farms as they deal with Nestle.
On My Labor Radio, UAW member Damicko Stockard talks about partisanship between union members and the current state of organizing, and we’ll meet Fred Redmond, the new Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, on America's Workforce Radio.
We wrap up the show with the story of how the musical Pins and Needles came to Vancouver BC in September, 1938, from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers.
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On Labor Radio KBOO, Michael and Elliot discuss the NLRB recommendation that the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama should hold a new election after finding that Amazon violated workers’ rights and engaged in misconduct.
Next we travel across the pond to Union Dues where we hear about the latest UK supreme court ruling on Uber drivers’ employment rights and how it's not the end of the ACDU’s fight against the rideshare company.
Back in Alabama, the Working People podcast talks with labor journalist Kim Kelly, who’s been covering the Warrior Met Coal strike in Brookwood where 1,100 members have been out on strike for over five months. Kelly discusses the current status of the coal workers and her own career in journalism.
Then, a quick teaser from the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s upcoming episode of Tales of Resistance called “Hobos in Space.” As the title indicates, you won’t want to miss it.
Moving on to some history, folks at the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast speak with author Dr. Edward McClellan whose new book explores the fascinating story of the Flint Sit Down Strike and its lessons for the modern labor movement.
Next, from the Vatican to the metaverse, Empathy Media Lab’s Faith and Labor podcast touches on Pope John Paul II’s encyclical “Laborem Exercens” or Through Work and how it relates to work in the past, present, and future.
And last but certainly not least is the 3rd & Fairfax podcast which features writer Michael Waldron, known for the film Doctor Strange, the adult cartoon Rick and Morty, and most recently, the newest Marvel show: Loki. Waldron talks about his unexpected origins as a writer (spoiler alert: it’s playing softball) and how it resembles his current work.
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On Monday Morning QB, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, offers her critical take on the conservative culture war over the idea of critical race theory in schools.
On Belabored, Sarah and Michelle talked to Anna Canning, campaigns manager for the Fair World Project, about the limitations of corporate social responsibility and ethical certification.
Should policy makers look to the New Deal as the gold standard for progressive reform? Historian Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America joins Laborwave Radio in Philadelphia.
Nina Banks discusses the scholarship and ideas of Sadie Alexander, the nation’s first black economist on the State of Working America podcast.
In the Working People podcast Max talks to Professor Richard Wolff about how to understand COVID 19 within the context of American capitalism and its development since the 1970s.
The Brazilian Olympic team put in an impressive showing in Tokyo, finishing first among Latin American countries, but the Brazil Workers Podcast puts out a call for better funding for the countries athletes who are getting the short end of the stick when compared to more profitable sports.
Finally, bad lighting, extraneous noises, and messy bedrooms. For actors, casting calls have been transferred from an in-person to a self recorded format within the past eight-months. Casting director Kim Williams discusses the new rules of the road on the SAG-AFTRA podcast.
AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka died last Thursday. A heart attack did what no boss could: stilled the voice of a relentless champion of workers' rights. On today’s show, we’re highlighting a few of the Network’s shows that featured Rich Trumka.
On the State of the Unions podcast, from an episode released in late November 2018, Trumka talks about the midterm elections and a lot more, including an incredibly touching and revealing story about one of his first exposures to racism as a young boy.
Then, on the America’s Work Force Radio podcast’s Labor Day show from last year, Trumka tackles a raft of issues, from the effect of the pandemic on workers to the PRO Act, worker safety, the National Labor Relations Board and a whole lot more.
Finally, on Your Rights At Work, broadcast last Thursday, just an hour after learning about Trumka’s death, labor historian Joe McCartin discusses Trumka’s life and his legacy.
As you’ll hear from Joe, Richard Trumka loved history, and labor history especially. So, brother Trumka, on today’s Labor History in 2:00…the year was 1890. That was the day that one of the heroines of the US labor movement, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, was born in Concord, New Hampshire.
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We’ve got eight different excerpts to share with you this week, some from shows that are new to the network and others that will be familiar to regular listeners.
We begin with the Million Dollar Organizer podcast where host Bob Oedy offers some thoughts on the global employment crisis.
Next we introduce you to the Speaking of Work podcast from the Iowa Labor History Society. In this episode we learn about Keokuk Senior High School, site of an illegal strike in 1970 that changed the trajectory of education in all of Iowa, through the voices of teachers themselves.
Randy Corrigan from the Teamsters Union joins Kris LaGrange on UCOMM Live to discuss organizing the world’s most evil corporation (That’s Amazon, by the way). From one colossal warehouse to another, we cross the Atlantic to the FairWork podcast and hear from delivery drivers who participated in a recent wildcat strike against Gorillas Corporation in Berlin.
On Council 4 Unplugged -- that’s the podcast of AFSCME Council 4 in Connecticut -- we learn about a new project that’s focused on addressing some of the mental health challenges faced by workers in correctional facilities. And Denise Berkley joins the latest episode of Union Strong to discuss the New York State AFL-CIO’s Social Justice Task Force.
We then journey a bit further north to Montreal where this month’s episode of Labour Radio focused on the history and legacy of the Greek Workers Association of Quebec. Finally, the Art and Labor crew raise concerns about the United Federation of Teachers’ position on the New York Health Act.
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This week, three strike reports. The first two are on the 3-week-old FritoLay strike in Topeka, Kansas, where the strike issues include forced overtime that’s so bad the workers call them “suicide shifts.” On the BCTGM Voices Project, we’ll hear from the picket line at FritoLay with Local 218 Chief Steward Paul Klemme in Topeka, and then the Working People podcast talks with Cheri Renfro, who’s worked at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka for 9 years.
Then on The Valley Labor Report: Why did the UAW go on strike at Volvo in Dublin, Virginia?
From The Rick Smith Show, Jamie Martin discusses a scheme to limit access to college in Pennsylvania, and on Solidarity Works, Steel Workers Vice President Leeann Foster discusses safety and sustainability in the paper and forestry industries.
The UK-based Union Dues podcast features an in-depth discussion with Zita Holbourne, co-founder of Black Activists Rising Against the Cuts and co-chair of the Artists Union of England.
On the Heartland Labor Forum, Thomas Frank talks about populism and science and we wrap up this week with an interview on the 7th Street Chronicles podcast that will really open your eyes and hearts as Charlotte firefighters go deep on trauma and mental health. Bonus tracks: The 1913 Michigan Copper Miners Strike Begins, on Labor History in 2:00, and a teaser for the latest episode of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance: Persistence.
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Is telework more productive? On Your Rights At Work, federal and DC workers say yes. Gene Lantz connects Independence Day and Bastille Day on the Workers Beat Extra, and on the Solidarity Center Podcast, host Shawna Bader-Blau talks with Phyo Sandar Soe, leader with the Confederation of Trade Unions, Myanmar, about the repression faced by trade unionists there and how workers are fighting back against the junta. You say you want a general strike? Marianne Garneau discusses the challenges on Laborwave Radio. On Tales from the Reuther Library, Blaming Teachers: How America simultaneously professionalized and patronized education. The Maritime Trades Dan Duncan talks about Buy American and the Jones Act on America's Workforce Radio and on The 141 Report, host Dave Lehigh talks shop with Darryl Currant, grievance committee chairperson at IAM Lodge 1725, about building a strong union in the South, and why it's important to organize as a team. We wrap up this week’s show with poet Ed Werstein on the Blue Collar Gospel Hour. Bonus track: Lumber Workers Put Down Their Axes on today’s Labor History in 2:00.
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Joe Biden talks about building for the future on the Teamsters podcast; what rising U.S.-China tensions mean for workers and the labor movement in both countries, from the Belabored podcast; On The Voice of Oregon's Workers, a look at Oregon's growing union movement; CTU Speaks talks with longtime educator and activist Tara Stamps; the Solidarity Breakfast podcast reports on the lockout at the Collingwood Community Gardens; on Trailblazers, Inc. Kayla Vander Moler shares her experiences as a boilermaker; writer, actor, producer, and stand-up comic Iliza Schlesinger talks about the hard work of comedy with 3rd and Fairfax, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America West; from the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s new radio drama, we get a taste of Episode 1 of Tales of the Resistance. This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network profile from Empathy Media Lab is a visit with Maximillian Alvarez, host of the Working People podcast. Bonus track: Organizing During Wartime on today’s Labor History in 2:00.
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Long trains, two-person crews and rail safety on Talking SMART…On Labor Radio on KBOO, Painters launch "Summer of Chaos"… My Labor Radio explores how money from the American Rescue Plan is being spent in Indiana… The Valley Labor Report exposes union busting at MSNBC…Liz Medina talks to Robert Ovetz, author of "Global Workers and Class Struggle" on En Masse…The BCTGM Voices Project features one of the Bakery Workers’ most enthusiastic young leaders…from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers, indigenous longshoremen and the IWW… Rick Smith on this week’s LRPN Profiles, from Empathy Media Lab.
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Edited/produced by Patrick Dixon and Melanie Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
The Working People podcast returns to Asheville North Carolina, where the union-busting No Evil Foods abruptly closed its plant, leaving employees out of work with no severance…On Monday Morning QB, researcher Brittany Scott of Partners for Dignity & Rights talks about their recent research uncovering discrimination in temp worker hiring in Chicago, and how to fight back…Next, the Heartland Labor Forum profiles two local women leaders, Alise Martiny at the Kansas City Building Trades and Toni Robinson, president of the Postal Workers KCMO local…Then a world premiere of “Scabby the Rat, and Fatty the Cat,” a brand-new song played on this week’s Your Rights At Work show…from Australia, we’ll hear about the Collingwood Community Gardeners being locked out of their garden on the Solidarity Breakfast podcast…And on the SAG-AFTRA podcast, Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett talks about his big break and his support for the labor movement. We wrap up this week’s show with a pair of profiles: Mike Peabody talks about how he learned his trade as a Garbage Man on the America Works podcast; and you’ll get a look inside the Labor Radio Podcast Network in the first of a series of profiles put together by Network producer Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab. Evan’s been conducting these interviews of Network members over the last year and we’ll be featuring them in upcoming editions of the Weekly.
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Edited/produced by Patrick Dixon & Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On America's Workforce Radio, David Van Deusen, president of the Vermont AFL-CIO, discusses the United Slate's approach to politics and the recent defeat of Right to Work legislation in New Hampshire. In the latest episode of Union Dues, GMB National Organizer Martin Smith describes his union's historic deal with Uber. On Solidarity Works, author and activist Anne Balay describes the research process behind her book Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers. On this week's Labor Wave Radio, Elizabeth Laycak imagines what it would be like to unionize Dunder Mifflin Paper Co., the fictional location of the popular television series The Office. Finally, on Labor History in Two, Rick Smith revisits the wildcat strike at the Dodge Truck plant in Warren, Michigan on June 11, 1974.
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Edited/produced by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On Building Bridges Radio, 107-year old Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher makes the case for remembering, and for reparations. Then, on the Belabored podcast, Sara Jaffe calls out officials and the media after tennis star Naomi Osaka's job action at the French Open. And with the dust barely settled after the Amazon organizing drive in Alabama, My Labor Radio brings us an update on the now 10-week long strike between the United Mine Workers and Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama. West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has been catching a lot of flak lately for his stands on the filibuster, the PRO Act and voting rights; Hollywood producer and longtime friend of The Rick Smith Show Marshall Herskovitz says Manchin might not be quite as wrong as most believe him to be. On the latest edition of the Teamsters podcast, we hear how the union is flexing its muscles in D.C.’s corridors of power to make sure workers can join together and organize for better wages and safer workplaces. Then, a Florida teacher and school board member dissect the state's inability to properly fund schools over the last year on the Educating From the Heart podcast. Operating Engineers Local 3 is the largest construction trades local in the U.S.; on the latest edition of Local 3’s podcast, Breaking Ground, Public Employee Director Tim Neep and Senior Business Agent Mike Eggener pull back the curtain on some of their day-to-day work for their members. Our last report comes from On Writing, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America, East, as Zack Akers, writer and co-director of SHIPWORM, explains how the project is the first podcast to be covered on the Writers Guild Minimum Basic Agreement, and big shifts in the podcasting industry.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Chris Bangert-Drowns & Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Can your boss actually do that? What workplace legal protections do you have if you’re not covered by a union contract? On the Working to Live in SouthWest Washington podcast, hosts Shannon and Harold sat down with Diana Winter, attorney for IBEW Local 48…On the AFT In Action podcast we meet Connecticut State representative Josh Elliott who discusses the costs of higher education in the Nutmeg State…The Economic Policy Institute’s podcast, The State of Working America, is back, and none too soon, as EPI staffers fact-check the labor shortage hype…Then on The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, author and activist Sue Blaustein remembers her earliest days in the labor movement and the describes what it’s really like to be a food safety inspector. Finally, a touching story on the Union Strong podcast from the New York State AFL-CIO, as we meet fifth generation electrical worker Chris Erickson, who donated a kidney to his brother in 2017, and changed the way members of his local thought about live organ donation.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Teamsters Local 808 President Chris Rivera discusses the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, on Work Week Radio…AFL-CIO Director of Government Affairs Bill Samuel reports on the status of the PRO Act on America’s Workforce Radio…Then, from Your Rights At Work, Scabby the Rat and The Fat Cat team up to save jobs at the Strathmore Music Center just outside Washington, DC…We'll find out how community solidarity in Glasgow, Scotland stopped a forcible deportation, on the UnionDues podcast. From RadioLabour, we’ll hear about the Bangladeshi garment workers fight for jobs and a living wage, and America Works returns for a second season with underwater marine diver Jim Mercer describing his year-round job checking, maintaining, and repairing commercial fishing boats in and around the port of New Bedford, Massachusetts. On CTU Speaks, we find out about the special challenges deaf students face…and from Grit NorthWest, we get insight into the role of union delegates. Our last report comes from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers, with their story of uniting Asian workers in the lumber industry.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, Chris Bangert-Drowns & Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
We talk with stage hands who have been out of work since November of last year…Saved by the Bell writer Tracey Wigfield on getting into show biz…The mine workers get on board with green energy jobs…Scabby the Rat is back, escaping the trap set by bad bosses and their friends in the Trump administration…And we talk union democracy and organizing with Marybeth Seitz-Brown.
We’ve got reports from Labor Radio on KBOO; 3rd and Fairfax; UComm Live; Heartland Labor Forum; LaborWave Radio; Laborlines.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Chris Garlock & Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Steel Workers union president Tom Conway on president Biden’s American Jobs Plan and the need to invest in the nation’s infrastructure…UNITE HERE Local 11 organizer and co-president Susan Minato talks about growing up as the daughter of working-class Japanese parents, and how the lessons her mother taught her helped shape UNITE HERE's training model…Professor Mel Simms from Glasgow University discusses the scarring effect of a recession on the career trajectories of young people and some possible solutions…Registered Nurse Leslie Egan describes nursing in Albany during the pandemic…We explore the problems of rampant wage theft and poor enforcement by the Department of Labor, with Center for Public Integrity Senior Reporter Alexia Fernandez Campbell and Terri Gerstein, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program. Then, three union veterans discuss the connection between the military and the class system…and we wrap up with filmmaker Mark Street and longshoreman Maureen Gutierrez on Mark’s new film Work Songs. PLUS: The Winnipeg General Strike Begins, on Labor History in 2:00.
We’ve got reports from Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast; Labor History in 2:00
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
PRO Act co-author Senator Patty Murray (D, WA) on why she created the bill and why she's fighting so hard to get it passed…Jesse Lee of the Center for American Progress on Biden's first 100 days…Florida’s private school voucher program and segregation…How one union turned a 531-member loss into a 370-member gain…The not-so-mysterious mystery of the missing unemployment benefits…Fort Wayne’s May Day rally for locked-out musicians.
We’ve got reports from Working to Live in SW Washington, The Rick Smith Show, Educating From the Heart, BCTGM Voices, Monday Morning QB and MyLaborRadio.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
John Logan on how the PRO Act could be a real game-changer…Honoring healthcare workers on Workers’ Memorial Day…Whatever happened to the 8-hour day? We ask immigrant woman home attendants doing 24-hour shifts…Is "salting" a workplace the answer to effective union organizing? Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez on the Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act…And what's in the report on the Huntsville Police Riot? Plus: a union strategy for fixing supply chains in the wake of the recent Suez Canal incident, and how the Illinois SMART union army delivered when disaster struck in Texas.
We’ve got reports from The Rick Smith Show, America's Work Force Radio, Building Bridges Radio, Laborwave Radio, the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, the Valley Labor Report, Union Dues and Talking SMART.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Longtime organizer Jane McAlevey on what happened at Amazon and how to defeat the union busters…Minority unionism with Susan Schurman, Professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations…IAM Safety and Health Project Coordinator Shaun Trude on how the union is fighting for more protections amid COVID-19…Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen reports on the latest efforts to enfranchise 700,000 American workers and voters in the District of Columbia…When we think about college, there’s a certain whimsical image, a time of self discovery and carefree fun before you step out into the “real” world. But now, with the rising costs of education and living expenses, most students work, and work a lot. Adolfo González shares his decades long journey to provide for his family while pursuing his education…The 7th Street Chronicles, the brand-new podcast from Charlotte Fire Fighters Association Local 660, celebrates National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week by recognizing the critical role dispatchers play in answering emergency calls…National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association President and CEO Michael Johnson on how an infrastructure plan will prioritize surface transportation and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected travel…Plus, is the American construction industry ready for self-driving screws and self-hammering nails? And, on Labor History in 2:00, The California Spinach Riot.
We’ve got reports from Heartland Labor Forum, Monday Morning QB, Activate L!VE, Your Rights At Work, Re:Work Radio, the 7th Street Chronicles, America's Workforce Radio, Grit NW and Labor History in 2:00.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
New York State AFL-CIO Chief of Staff Ryan Delgado on why the PRO Act is so important to working people…Workers at Google are forming the Alphabet Workers Union…How can media be used as an organizing tool? Plus, visits with Alexandra Grey and Ian Harvie, two performers who have overcome prejudice and risen to prominence while raising awareness of the trans community…and Jeon-Tae Il and Lee-So Sun, two South Korean garment worker organizers.
We’ve got reports from Union Strong, the Heartland Labor Forum, the Valley Labor Report, the SAG-AFTRA podcast and Working Class History.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Flight Attendant president Sarah Nelson on how the PRO Act would have made a difference in this week’s union election at Amazon…Historian Robin DG Kelly on the long history of union suppression in Alabama…Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Executive Director Laura Penn reports on how the stage industry has been devastated by the pandemic, but is getting back on their feet…Doctor Saud Anwar, a pulmonologist at Manchester Memorial Hospital who also serves as a state senator in Connecticut’s General Assembly, talks about the effects of the pandemic on healthcare workers…And we hear from building trades leaders in Oregon about the state’s Prevailing Wage Rate law…Ronnie Hobbs is the Transportation Division legislative director for the Sheet Metal And Rail Transportation – or SMART – union; today he explains how the SMART Army is making a difference in the community…Patrick Town and Ross Wolf discuss financial stability in the COVID era…And we wrap up this week’s show with a visit with Eliza Hittman, the writer and director of the acclaimed 2020 film NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS..
We’ve got reports from Heartland Labor Forum, Black Work Talk, Belabored, America's Workforce Radio, AFT in Action, The Voice of Oregon Workers, Talking SMART, Working to Live in Southwest Washington and On Writing. Bonus: Labor History in 2:00 on Explosion at Eddystone.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Inside the Amazon union vote count…a report from the striking Colombia University Academic Workers…Plus we’ve got two stories about newspaper workers organizing, and a special report on privatization and outsourcing at Golden Gate Park.
We’ve got reports from Working Life; Working People, Heartland Labor Forum; America’s Work Force & Work Week Radio.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
A chat with Instagram sensation "Ya Fav Trashman"; how women remain the most economically impacted by the pandemic, and why it’s hit migrant workers especially hard; a Teamster takes on UPS for allowing a congressman to pose as a driver; we’ll also find out about why the Cedar Point Nursery case has broader implications for the entire labor movement; and we’ll hear about organizing workers at Anchor Steam Brewing, as well as check in with Richard Lipsitz, the longest serving president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation, who’s stepping aside after nearly five decades fighting for the working class.
We’ve got reports from Working People, Solidarity Works, The Solidarity Center Podcast, My Labor Radio, Monday Morning QB, The Docker Podcast, Union Strong and Labor History in 2:00. Plus a bonus music track from Your Rights At Work commemorating the 110 anniversary of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
LRPN Livestream, broadcast March 24, 2021
Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Livestream show interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.
Today's guests: Dora Cervantes (General Secretary Treasurer of the Machinists Union) and Mark Torres (author, “Long Island Migrant Camps: Dust for Blood,” Teamster, and labor lawyer).
LRPN Co-Hosts: Tanya Hutchins (Activate L!VE and Machinists Union) and Andrea Arenas (El Desvio and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement - LCLAA).
Topics: Women’s History Month; the Machinists Union; the history of Long Island migrant labor camps.
Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).
Labor History in 2 by the Rick Smith Show.
Music by DC Labor Chorus Song “None of Us Are Free" written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Brenda Russell. Album Hail to the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back! Learn more at Labor Heritage Foundation.
Labor reacts to the murders of Asian women workers in Atlanta, an unlikely union supporter surfaces in Florida, how the America Rescue Plan will cut child poverty, and is "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" a myth or reality? We’ve got reports from Your Rights At Work, We Educate Miami, America's Workforce Radio and The Rick Smith Show. Plus: we continue our Women’s History Month focus with reports from El Desvio and Tales from the Reuther Archives, and a performance of UPPER CASE WOMAN on Labor History Today.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Union City Radio on the passage of the PRO Act in the U.S. House of Representatives…three International Women’s Day reports, from Radio Labour, KBOO Labor Radio and, from the brand-new Solidarity Center podcast, ending gender-based violence at work…the Heartland Labor Forum this week talked to members of the Bamazon Community Organizing Team, who’ve been working hard to support the Amazon workers organizing drive…and on Monday Morning QB, a report on efforts to organize a union by fitness instructors in Washington, DC…we wrap up this week’s show with a report on something most of would probably rather not think about but we all need, and that’s plumbing. America’s Workforce Radio celebrates World Plumbing Day with the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters.
Plus: from Labor History in 2:00, Ending Jim Crow on the Job.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
LRPN Livestream, broadcast March 10, 2021
Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.
Guests: Yaseen Aslam (Uber BV v Aslam and President of the App Drivers & Couriers Union), Willy Solis (Gig Worker Collective), and Maria C. Figueroa (Cornell University-School of Industrial and Labor Relations).
LRPN Co-Hosts: Bama Athreya (The Gig Podcast) and Maximilian Alvarez (Working People Podcast and The Real News Network).
Topics: The UK Uber vs. Aslam; Organizing against Prop 22; How to build solidarity in the fight for Global Rights of Gig Workers
Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).
Additional Links Episode 3 of The Gig Podcast: Uber vs. Alsam in Judgement Day Overview: James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam decided to challenge the premise that they were not Uber’s workers. In the UK we follow their precedent-setting lawsuit as it rises to the UK Supreme Court. In the US we talk to drivers and organizers on the eve of their historic victory in California, the passage of Assembly Bill 5 that set a standard for all gig workers to be classified as workers.
Labor History in 2 by the Rick Smith Show: March 10, 1925 The Radium Girls
Music by DC Labor Chorus Song “None of Us Are Free" written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Brenda Russell. Album Hail to the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back! Learn more at Labor Heritage Festival.
On Your Rights At Work, Pete Seeger sings Solidarity Forever with…Joe Biden? From the Rick Smith Show, New Republic columnist Timothy Noah discusses President Biden's strong statement earlier this week supporting the right to organize…Then we head down to Alabama with the Working People podcast, as special guest Danny Glover and Amazon worker Jennifer Bates discuss the organizing drive there…On BCGTM Voices, the podcast of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers, Jasmine White, a rank and file member of Local 149 from the Blues City Brewing Company in Memphis, discusses their recent organizing victory…And, from AFT in Action, Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes joins the show to talk about the PRO Act and the National Labor Relations Board…We wrap up with a special report from Belabored, as Rita Pasarell, former Albany legislative staffer and co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, discusses recent accusations against New York State governor Andrew Cuomo… Plus: from Labor History in 2:00, International Unemployed Day.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Radio Labour’s report on the ruling by the UK Supreme Court that Uber drivers are Uber workers…AFL-CIO Government Affairs Director Bill Samuel talks with America’s Work Force Radio Podcast about President Biden's early pro-labor actions…From Grit NorthWest: Carpenter Stories with journeyman carpenter Laurie Gonar…The SAG-AFTRA Podcast explores becoming a successful session singer…On Welcome to Uniontown, a visit with Reverend James Lawson, a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights movement…And Labor Radio Express mourns the passing of Karen Lewis, the legendary former president of the Chicago Teacher’s Union. Plus: from Labor History in 2:00, the 1937 Woolworth Sit-Down. Music this week: Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It from the Chicago Teachers Union Members and Their Hilarious Signs video.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On today’s show, a report from the frozen ground in Texas as Rick Levy, president of the Texas AFL-CIO, talks with The Rick Smith Show about the real reason the power grid failed there this week. Then we’ve got two reports from Australia: in the first, Radio Labour on challenges facing workers in Australia’s energy sector, and then on Solidarity Breakfast we’ll hear about a new report on the health of truck drivers. It may not be that surprising but it’s certainly shocking. Next up, we go to the UK for the UnionDues podcast, which features a fascinating Thought for the Day on employee surveillance in an age of home-working. Back in the States, Labor Radio on KBOO explores the issue of hero pay for grocery store workers and from Building Bridges Radio, a Black History Month Special as Nikole Hannah-Jones from the “1619 Project” reminds us that there’s little that defines the United States that doesn’t somehow have the legacy of slavery at its foundation. We wrap up this week’s show with the latest Labor Radio Podcast Network member profile from Empathy Media, this time with Tanya Hutchins, host of Activate L!VE from the Machinists union. We start off with a couple of very short clips from the latest Belabored podcast; in the first you’ll hear Celine McNicholas of the Economic Policy Institute on Joe Biden’s labor agenda and then we’ll hear Karen Lewis of the Chicago Teachers Union, who we lost recently. Plus: from Labor History in 2:00, Angelina Grimke is Born.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.
Guests for February 17th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Josh Brewer (Lead organizer for RWDSU, BAmazonUnion) and Wayne Blanchard (UAW 2B Ohio and Indiana Regional Director).
LRPN Co-Hosts: Mark Gevaart (My Labor Radio) and David Story (Valley Labor Report)
Topics Discussed:
Organizing Amazon in Alabama The size of the UAW in the US & Region 2B The diversity of UAW represented workers Why are politics so important for Union members to be involved in? Why do we give back to our communities, donating time serving, mentoring, fundraising?
This is an excerpt of the full show.
Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).
Additional Links Labor History in 2 - February 17, 1936 Rubber workers sat down in Akron, Ohio
Your weekly guide to labor radio and podcasts: highlights from some of the more than eighty shows that make up the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
On today’s show, we start off with two takes on labor and politics that in some ways come from very different places and in other ways come from very much the same place. On the Blue Collar Gospel Hour host Dan Denton and his fellow autoworker Trey Garcia react to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month with frustration over the failure of both parties to speak to or for working people. And on Building Bridges Radio, Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams – who’s been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize -- talks about how the American working class has consistently relied on people of color and women to push for improved status for workers but has been slow to include them in the movement’s victories. Next up, Jessie Sage interviews sex worker, activist, writer, undocumented migrant, and DACA recipient Maya Morena on the Working People podcast, about the politics of the sex industry and the history of vice. On My Labor Radio, Indiana teacher Tim Barr discusses life in school for both teachers and students during a pandemic. As New York State faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, the Union Strong podcast explores how Adult-Use Cannabis offers an opportunity to building a new industry from the ground up in a way that will raise revenue, create good union jobs, and address social, racial, and economic equity. And, from the Black Work Talk podcast, we’ll hear about the relationship between Black unionists, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, and the labor movement from longtime labor organizer and leader Bill Lucy, co-founder of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.
Guests for February 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Lori Wallach (Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Eric Gottwald (AFL-CIO Trade Specialist), Alejandro Villamar (Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade), and Rick Arnold (Canada’s Common Frontiers).
LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum).
This is an excerpt of the full show.
The LRPN Livestream pod extra is produced and edited by Evan Matthew Papp and Chris Garlock.
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The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.
Guests for the February 3rd, 2021 edition of the LRPN Livestream included David Van Deusen (President, Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO), Trent Willis, (ILWU Local 10), Carol Lang (CUNY Professor), Mehmet Bayram (Pacifica Media Workers Guild in SF).
LRPN Hosts: Steve Zeltzer (Work Week Radio) and Chris Garlock (Union City Radio).
This is an excerpt of the full show, which is available here.
The LRPN Livestream pod extra is produced and edited by Evan Matthew Papp and Chris Garlock.
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We lost two giants of the labor movement this week, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and labor folksinger and activist Anne Feeney; on today’s pod extra we remember them both. In our first segment, on this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show (WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC), Stephen Lerner, Marilyn Sneiderman, Harold Meyerson and Joe McCartin talked with hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith about Sweeney’s legacy as a visionary labor leader. Stephen and Marilyn both worked closely with Sweeney, Harold covered him as a journalist and Joe, as our resident labor historian, provides the historical context for Sweeney’s life and work in the movement. Click here for Sweeney tributes. On that same show, Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant told us about the free online screening by the DC Labor FilmFest of the new documentary, 9to5: The Story of A Movement, coming up this Tuesday at 7pm Eastern Standard Time. The brand-new film captures the real-life fight that inspired a hit by Dolly Parton and changed the American workplace. Get your free tickets here. Elise also shared her memories of Anne Feeney, the labor folksinger and activist who died on Wednesday, and in our second segment, we’ve got an excerpt from the interview the We Do The Work radio show did with Anne recently. We’ll conclude with a medley of a few of Anne Feeney’s songs. You can find and order Anne’s music here.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Weekly podcast extra edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On today’s show, former Beverly Hills 90210 star Gabrielle Carteris talks with the America’s Work Force Union Podcast about how she got involved in her union, SAG-AFTRA, where she’s now president. On the Working People podcast, we hear about how staff at the American Civil Liberties Union are the latest non-profit employees to organize. Steelworkers in Boston know which side Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh is on; we’ll hear about it on their Solidarity Works podcast. Our mini-theme this week is voices of workers…On the Educating from the Heart podcast, we hear from an anonymous teacher about the culture of fear and intimidation in Florida schools. The BCTGM Voices Project – the podcast from the Baker’s union – talks with International Rep Lisa Gregory about growing up union, holding office at Baker’s Local 58G and what she’s learned about organizing and negotiating along the way. On GRIT Northwest, we meet Penny Painter, the supportive services coordinator for construction industry apprentices in the state of Oregon. And the Unify podcast visits with Bradley Parker, a young IBEW Local 105 member from Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada.
Finally, we lost two giants of the labor movement this week, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and labor folksinger and activist Anne Feeney (check out the medley of her songs on today's podcast); we’ll have a special edition of the Weekly out tomorrow honoring their memories.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On today’s show, we welcome a new member of the Network from Down Under, as Solidarity Breakfast, based in Melbourne, Australia, reports on workers at an ice cream shop fighting for their rights. On this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show, labor journalist Sarah Jaffe told us why Work Won’t Love You Back. Then, the OnWriting podcast talks with award-winning screenwriter Lena Waithe, creator and writer on the BET comedy series TWENTIES. We’ve got a mini-theme on plant closings as the Heartland Labor Forum features Mike Stout on his new book The Homestead Steel Mill: The Final 10 Years and on My Labor Radio we hear about an auto supply plant that’s closing down later this year in Auburn Indiana. On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network Livestream, the topic was what a progressive, pro-labor migration policy might look like. Our final segment today is a special presentation of the final edition of We Do The Work, which is ending an amazing 8-year run on KSVR-FM in Washington state’s Skagit Valley. They go out with a lovely interview with Anne Feeney, one of the finest labor singers in the country, and several of her favorite songs. We’re playing the entire program in tribute to a show that’s been such a great resource for that community’s workers. They really did the work, on We Do The Work!
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On today’s show, Labor Radio on KBOO and Building Bridges on WBAI explore and celebrate Martin Luther King Junior’s struggles for labor rights and economic justice… Then, labor news headlines of the week, including Talking SMART’s report on insurrectionists on trains, Your Rights At Work on President Biden firing the anti-union general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board, and, from the other Washington, the upcoming legislative session in Olympia, on the Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast. We get ultra-local with The 141 Report, a brand-new member of the Network, which visits with Wendy Goodell, President of Machinists’ Local 1782, and then we zoom back out for historical overviews: Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas, talks with the Heartland Labor Forum about his new book about American populism and the long trail of elites who hate it, And from the Empathy Media Lab, Harvey J. Kaye talks about another moment of great crisis in American history and the effect on working people.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On today’s show, we’ve got reactions to Joe Biden’s nomination of longtime union leader Marty Walsh to be Secretary of Labor. From RadioLabour, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka weighs in, as does Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale on America's Workforce Radio, and Laborers political director Josh Slaughter on UCOMM Live. Then we’ve got some highlights from this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network livestream show, including American Prospect Editor Harold Meyerson and Working-Class Perspectives Associate Editor John Russo on the Trump impeachment, Nonprofit Employees Union president Kayla Blado reports on a huge organizing victory, and Nicholas Juravich, Assistant Professor of History and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston College provides a local perspective on the Marty Walsh nomination. If you like labor movies, you’ll not only want to check out Union Strong’s interview with the composer and producer behind Stand! -- the new labor musical that’s been described as Norma Rae meets Hamilton – but sign up for the DC Labor FilmFest’s free online screening this coming Tuesday night at 7pm Eastern Standard Time. The focus of this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network Member Spotlight is Steve Zeltzer, host of Work Week Radio on KPFA. And, on Labor History in 2:00, Johnny Cash Plays Folsom Prison
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available at on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly joins AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers on this week’s Labor Radio Podcast livestream show for a lively discussion – from a worker perspective -- about the Trump attack on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday. Labor folksinger/songwriter George Mann was also our guest on the show this week; be sure to stick around at the end of the podcast for a bonus track from his latest CD, "The Coronavirus Sessions." UCOMM Live host Kris LaGrange talked about his super-PAC and the recent elections on the America’s Work Force show this week, and on The BCTGM Voices Project – the brand-new podcast from the Baker’s union, Director of Organization John Price discusses hopes for the National Labor Relations Board under Joe Biden, along with recent organizing campaigns. Nationally, construction workers account for as much as 25% of overdose fatalities and in Rhode Island, one in five of those who have overdosed worked in the construction industry. Labor Vision takes a look at how the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council is working to address this deadly issue. And this week we start a new feature, the Labor Radio Podcast Network Member Spotlight. Network producer Evan Papp has been conducting a series of fascinating interviews with members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and this week we meet RadioLabour's Marc Bélanger. On Labor History in 2:00, Courts Stand Against Workers.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available at on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
For this week’s show, we’ve got an interview with actor – and strong union member -- Alan Alda, from the SAG-AFTRA podcast. Then, Georgetown University professor and Working-Class Perspectives contributor Sherry Linkon talks with America’s Work Force Radio about how the working class has been affected by the pandemic. No end-of-year show would be complete without, well, an end-of-year show, so, from the Breaktime Breakdown, Jeremy, Mark, Jason and Richard get together to chat about all things 2020 at Sheet Metal Workers Local 110. From Black Work Talk, one of the newest members of the Network, host Steven Pitts welcomes Greg Kelley, President of SEIU Health Care Illinois, who discusses how COVID has affected union members, efforts to build racial solidarity within the union and linking the work of the union with the mission of Black freedom. This is also traditionally a time when we look to the year ahead, and on Union Strong, the New York State AFL-CIO’s Legislative Director reviews labor’s 2021 legislative agenda in that state, including protections for essential workers and support for all workers who continue to suffer as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. One of our favorite things about the Labor Radio Podcast Network is the chance it gives us to learn about local struggles we probably wouldn’t otherwise know about. Thanks to the My Labor Radio podcast, we’ll literally go to the streets of Fort Wayne, Indiana to hear about the ongoing battle by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic musicians for respect and a contract. Throughout today’s show you’ll hear poems from novelist, poet and singer/songwriter A.S. Coomer, who’s brought to us by The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, a podcast hosted by union autoworker and activist Dan Denton, who’s also a poet.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On the Belabored podcast, Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen gather three of their favorite thinkers on labor and unions, Jane McAlevey, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Rebecca Dixon, for a no-holds-barred look back on 2020, a truly tumultuous year for workers. Then, on Your Rights At Work, Kathy Newman talks about the workers who make your favorite holiday movies possible. We stay with the workers behind the movies as OnWriting, a screenwriting podcast from the Writers Guild of America, East, talks with Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, and Peter Baynham — the co-writers of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — about why they decided to revisit the iconic character, how intense it was to film that now-infamous Rudy Giuliani scene, and the reality of filming in very dangerous situations. And since this is Christmas week, we’ve got a special treat for you, the first part of A Red Carol, from the San Francisco Mime Troupe. This brand-new radio drama returns to the working-class roots of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story of greed and redemption, along with a few labor songs. Speaking of which, our bonus tracks this week are Rudolph the Union Reindeer and Organize Organize Organize, both sung by Ariana Eakle Blockmon, a member of IBEW Local 124. Thanks to Judy Ancel and the Heartland Labor Forum -- their latest show is The Truth about Santa's Workshop -- for sharing these, as well as The Year the Elves Went Out on Strike by Barry Rabin.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. Also, check out our new weekly livestream show, available at on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
On Friday, as we’re putting this week’s show together, Congress continues to flirt with yet another government shutdown as the debate drags on over stimulus funding, making the recent conversation with Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson on Your Rights At Work radio show even more relevant.
On the Organizing Work podcast, author Peter Cole talks about his new book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly.
We’re excited to be able to finally bring you some of In The Gap, the terrific 12-episode podcast series from In These Times, featuring everyday Black women and experts alike sharing their personal experiences and insights on how the gender pay gap, pay discrimination and systemic inequality affects the lives and livelihoods of Black women in the American workforce. In The Gap is hosted and produced by award-winning veteran Black journalist Chandra Thomas Whitfield.
On the Grit Northwest podcast Michael Burch from Carpenters Local 1503 talks about diversity outreach in the construction industry
And on Union Strong, the podcast produced by the New York State AFL-CIO, we hear from Tim Dymond, the new president of the union that represents New York State Police Investigators.
We stay in New York state as the El Desvio podcast from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement hosts New York Attorney General Letitia James, who talks about the Trump administration’s attempts to terminate the Obama-era program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – DACA -- which shields undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children.
We’ll also hear a promo from the San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose new radio drama, A Red Carol, takes a different approach to the Charles Dickens classic, and on Labor History in 2:00 we hear about how prohibition was really about tightening social control of working people.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our new weekly livestream show, available at on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
This week, we start off with none other than actor Robert DeNiro, star of dozens of great movies, from Taxi Driver to Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter and, more recently, Joker and The Irishman. DeNiro appeared on The SAG-AFTRA podcast after receiving that union’s highest tribute: the SAG Life Achievement Award.
Then, from The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, a visit with poet, artist, community organizer, activist and farm worker Jonie McIntire.
We’re also really pleased to bring you a piece from The Valley Labor Report, which recently released an incredible series of in-depth interviews focused on Bolivia and why what happened there with redistribution of wealth, a coup and resistance by the labor movement, matters to us here in the U.S.
On Labor History in 2:00 we learn about the “Cordiner Doctrine,” released at the height of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare.
Then, from Labor Vision, how two organizing drives in Rhode Island turned into victories.
Our final segment this week is from the CTU Speaks podcast, and focuses on fighting for clerks and techs in Chicago public schools.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our new weekly livestream show, available at on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
This week, on Black Work Talk, one of our newest Network members, host Steven Pitts welcomes Dorian Warren, President of Community Change, who discusses efforts around the country to build the collective power of black workers.
On the Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast, Vancouver School District classified employees have been furloughed for months, and they're struggling. Barb Plymate, president of the Vancouver Association of Educational Support Professionals joins hosts Shannon and Harold to talk about the district's justification for these furloughs... and the fact that it has the money to put these people back to work!
On Willamette Wake Up, Rebecca Salinas-Oliveros talks about her leap into local politics in Oregon. She started as an activist in the Black Lives Matter movement, then ran for Monmouth City Council. She was the top vote-getter in the recent city council election despite opposition from a political action committee that supported a slate of conservative candidates.
Labor Express Radio talks with Stroger Hospital nurse Elizabeth Lalish -- a member of National Nurses United who works with COVID patients -- about the likely effects of cuts in the Cook County hospital system on Black and Brown working-class communities on the Southside of Chicago and how nurses are organizing to fight for safe workplaces and patient centered care.
On Laborlines, organizers for the Restaurant Workers Council report on their efforts to organize restaurant workers in New York City.
The holidays are coming up soon and on the Breaktime Breakdown, Jeremy Waugh and Richard Roth talk about a new effort led by members of the SMART Local 110 Executive Board to help members in need for what will be a holiday season unlike any that have come before.
Then, on Belabored, Renewing Unions in the Age of Finance. Elections come and go, but some major problems continue to plague labor unions on both sides of the Atlantic, and many of those problems have their roots in the financialization of our economy. Yet unions are often stuck in a playbook that was written in a different period of capitalist development, and it shows in their struggles. How do unions adapt to a financialized world? Alice Martin and Annie Quick have some suggestions
And on Grit Northwest, we meet the President of the Northwest Carpenters Union and Grit writer, producer and host Joe Cadwell, who reveals the secret to a successful podcast.
We wrap up with a promo for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s upcoming production of A Red Carol! A Working-Class Take on the Dickens' Holiday Classic.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced and hosted by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
This week, on Unify, A Young Worker’s Podcast, the IBEW’s Cheryl Paron talks about diversity, inclusion and women in the trades.
Then on UCOMM LIVE, the building trades secure a deal to build offshore wind plants.
And what happens when workers at a community non-profit join a union and try to negotiate a first contract? Labor Radio on KBOO finds out during a visit with CWA organizer Coya Crespin.
On Union City Radio, a kid’s group releases a brand-new song dedicated to the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
With entertainment venues shut down across the country, how are union musicians doing these days? American Federation of Musicians Local 4 President Leonard DiCosimo discusses how musicians are faring during the pandemic on America’s Work Force Union Podcast.
On We Do the Work, Jon Komorowski, Retired Chief Public Defender of Whatcom County, Washington, explains why public defenders are so important to the justice system.
Keri Steneck, campaign manager for recent races for both the Federal House and state senate in Idaho provides her insights into the Idaho and national political landscape on the Laborlines show.
We wrap up this week’s show with an excerpt from a recent podcast extra from the En Masse podcast, as host Liz Medina, who’s also acting director of the Vermont AFL CIO, joined other speakers – and singer Heidi Ann Wilson -- during a “Protect the Results” vigil in front of Vermont’s State House on November 4th.
PLUS: Be sure to stay tuned after the show credits for an extra-special bonus track!
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced and hosted by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Labor Radio examines the unprecedented corporate misinformation campaign that led California voters to approve a landmark anti-worker ballot measure.
On Building Bridges, Black Voters Matter Fund cofounder Cliff Albright on how to "increase power in our communities."
Grit NorthWest is a Carpenters Union podcast and one of the newest members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network; this week they answer the question “Dude, Where's our reps?”
In the wake of the horrific devastation of the Almeda Fire, the Brain Labor Report visits with contractor Anthony Kirtz about plans to clean up and rebuild with an emphasis on local jobs in Oregon’s Rogue Valley.
And CTU Speaks! looks back at the 2019 Chicago teachers strike, not just all that the teachers won, but all that they have yet to realize. We wrap up with two shows that feature inspiring music this week:
Activate L!ve interviewed the producer and director of “Stand!”, the movie musical which premieres December 1 in 46 states across the country; and the San Francisco Mime Troupe recently wrapped up their great radio drama Tales of the Resistance: Will the Resistance become a Revolution, or will the fascist corporate overlords maintain their control over the workers?
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced and hosted by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
What’s next for working people under a Biden/Harris administration? We’ve got excellent reports from Belabored, Union Strong, America’s Workforce Radio and RadioLabour. This week’s show also features a brand-new Network member, The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, where union autoworker, poet, and activist Dan Denton hosts "a podcast for the 99%" – featuring entertainment, news, music, poetry, art and interviews with interesting people. This week Dan visits with co-worker Gerri Edwards, an LGBTG+ activist and pioneer who also hosts a popular, award winning Star Trek original story podcast series.
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Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant, racial justice, labor and international activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. and AFL-CIO policy director Damon Silvers share their perspectives on the 2020 election from labor’s point of view on last week’s first-ever livestream broadcasts by the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Liz Shuler, American Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson and former CWA president Larry Cohen share their unique and unfiltered points of view on the first-ever livestream broadcasts earlier this week by the Labor Radio Podcast Network as we covered the 2020 election from labor’s point of view.
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Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
James Baldwin on The Fire This Time; SMART 88’s Jeff Proffitt runs for school board in Las Vegas; unions on two coasts fight for fair, progressive taxation; Insulators’ Pete IIelmini on getting out the union vote; the Foley Sisters on the limitations of political parties and elections; and what will labor do if Trump tries to steal the election?
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Election 2020 Podcast Extra: Visits with Indiana candidates Chip Coldiron (Indiana 3rd CD) and Marty Lemert (Indiana State House District 52). Uber and Lyft drivers speak out at a recent protest against Proposition 22 in San Francisco. History professor Donna Sinclair – and candidate for Washington state's 18th Legislative District in Olympia – on how historians play a role in determining what's fake and what's real. Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper on why Joe Biden is a better candidate for public schools.
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Election 2020 Podcast Extra: Working-Class Perspectives Co-Editor John Russo discusses whether union members will vote for President Trump again. Why California’s Proposition 22 ballot initiative is opposed by drivers and gig workers in both California and Nigeria. Catching up with two members of California's Labor Slate. Matt Little on how his family coped in rural Washington state during the recent wildfires, and about his run for Clark County Council District 4.
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Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Election 2020 Special: Rochester Labor Council president Dan Maloney on their recent resolution calling for a general strike if president Trump ignores the results of the upcoming elections. Professor Veena Dubal explains why everyone who’s a worker or who cares about workers should be paying close attention to Proposition 22 in California. A visit with Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Deb Patterson, a homecare worker running in Oregon’s state Senate District 10.
WorkWeek broadcasts Mondays at 3:30 PM Pacific Time on KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California. Working People is a podcast by, for, and about the working class today, put out in partnership with In These Times magazine. Stronger Together is a podcast from SEIU Local 503 in Oregon.
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Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Election 2020 Podcast Extra: AFL-CIO Director of Government Affairs Bill Samuel on the current political climate in Washington; Washington State Representative Monica Stonier on how she balances being a working educator with serving in the state legislature; Westchester/Putnam Central Labor Council Director Jenn Puja talks about the power behind labor’s endorsement.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Edited by Evan Papp and Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Election 2020 Special: “Which Of The 2020 Candidates Is A Friend Of The Workers?”; Terrie Martin, candidate for Jackson County commissioner in Southern Oregon; SMART Local 2 member Aaron Mais, running for State Representative in Missouri’s 53rd District; Vic Abundis, running in Missouri’s 13th House District; the human cost of policies enacted by anti-worker politicians, plus a stirring rendition of Joe Hill’s classic labor song, “Rebel Girl.”
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Labour calls for a new social contract; “Grand Theft Paycheck”; NFLPA’s JC Tretter on renegotiating collective bargaining agreements for player safety during the pandemic; an interview with NYC Restaurant Workers Council organizers.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Rachel Cohen on “How Trump Could Dismantle Workers’ Rights with Another Four Years”; Getting ballots to displaced voters; Essential workers voices; global unions call for COVID-19 to be declared an occupational disease; Mother Jones’ monuments & museums
Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Highlights from the national Labor Radio Podcast Network's shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
AFM Local 4 president Len DiCosimo on the political divides in America today; unionbusting at nonprofits; “A perfect illustration of why public services should not be entrusted to for-profit companies like Transdev”; Stephen Lerner on Bargaining for the Common Good; first-year apprentice Kasey Mathias shares her experiences.
Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
RadioLabour on labor’s calls for reform of post-pandemic corporations, plus singing "Hold That Line"; Thoroughbred Teamsters’ update on the story of J’s Teamster cousin and his family losing their home in Oregon fire; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers catches up with Lamar Wise, a Political Coordinator with Oregon AFSCME and an organizer on the frontlines of the Black Lives Matter movement with Rose City Justice; Crimes Of Capital on The Cochabamba Water Wars and its lessons for U.S. activists. Plus Labor History in 2 on “The End of My Sweet Jennie.”
Edited & produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Radio Labour on how Covid hits US workers of colour hardest; Union Yes Iowa explains The Importance of Labor Day; Union City Radio's Labor Day with the Labor Radio/Podcast Network; The IAFF Podcast on The Situation in Atlanta; a sneak preview of Working To Live In Southwest Washington, and "The Case of the Wrinkled Egg" from Tales of the Resistance.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
Labor History in 2’s report on the very first Labor Day parade; America Works, the new podcast from the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress; Howard Bryant says "Walkouts Jolt Pro Sports As Players Take a Stand Against Police Shootings" on the Building Bridges radio show; UnionDues, the UK’s only all-things-union podcast; The Gig looks at the future of work as it wraps up its first season; En Masse on trying to right what is wrong; Willamette WakeUp tackles the issue of corporate blanket immunity, and the Heartland Labor Forum on whether there really is a plot to privatize the U.S. mail.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod
If you are going through a union drive and you find that your boss is using some of these tactics, record everything. Put your phone in your pocket, record what they're saying to you, record your conversations with management because that's pretty much the only reason that we have this story is because we documented everything.This audio is from the Working People podcast, which took an inside look at unionbusting in North Carolina, and then became a target themselves. After the podcast featured recordings of the captive-audience meetings held by management at No Evil Foods, a vegan meat producer in North Carolina, the company threatened to sue and got the podcast host to pull down the show.
It's hard to change your views on anything that, like, shocks your core belief, man. Yeah. And I mean, that is hard and I've definitely been there myself. Yeah. Part of it, part of it is admitting that you were wrong. Or that you were just taught wrong.On The Breaktime Breakdown podcast, host Jeremy Waugh and SMART Local 110 member Matt Gross get up close and personal in the current national debate over social justice, protests and overcoming their own inherent racism.
Women, especially black women, have been a part of organizing together for many, many years, even though there were times post the civil rights movement, women, especially black women, were excluded from labor organizations generally.In 2020, Black women still only make 62 cents on the dollar compared to white, non-Hispanic men. In The Gap is a 12-episode podcast series presented by In These Times in recognition of these ongoing disparities. It’s a gripping podcast – a new addition to the Labor Radio Podcast Network -- “about how and why Black women aren’t getting their green.”
When I first announced that I was going to run for business manager, I was told by some of the members, ‘You know, we respect you for wanting to run for this, but, respectfully, we need a man in there.’ The women at work theme continues in this centennial year of women’s suffrage on the latest edition of Talking SMART, with a conversation with female leaders and activists in the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union who have taken the lead in creating new opportunities for women in the building trades.
I can't separate being Black from being a woman; I have to do both of these things at the same time. And so now that's part of the work that we have to do is recognize that racism still exists. In the best of hearts, the progressive left, White people have to, like, look at themselves and examine how we played into the system and contributed or sustain racism and sexism within our union.That’s Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant, on the Solidarity Works podcast, on Women, Work, and Wielding Power in 2020.
I guess this could be a lot like 1934; what was happening with the Great Depression and everything that was going on, and struggle was built out of hard times.Willie Adams, president of the International Longshore Workers Union, takes the long view on the current crisis, on The Docker Podcast, another new member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
And on Labor History in 2: Did you know that one of the main organizers for the march was a man by the name of Bayard Rustin? Rick Smith on "The Man You’ve Never Heard Of, But Probably Should Have."
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips
This week’s show focuses on the attacks on one of the most popular institutions in America: the U.S. Postal Service:
But Trump understands that the people want to vote him out of office, so he's doing everything he can to suppress the mail. They've already removed countless amounts of voting machines from districts that would vote Democratic in the upcoming elections, but now they're suppressing votes through the mail. They’re sabotaging the delivery of the mail, they know exactly what you're doing, and this is calculated.That’s Cindy Heyward, Legislative Director for APWU Local 89 on The Rick Smith show this week.
You know, the old saying goes, don't put off tomorrow what you can do today because it's not like the mail goes away.Bill Cook, President of the Northeastern New York Branch 358 of the National Association of Letter Carriers sets the record straight on Union Strong, the podcast from the New York State AFL-CIO.
Not only is the USPS going to deliver all the absentee and the voting by mail in the general in November but it also delivers things like prescriptions and other really key things to areas that might not be as profitable for a more traditional for-profit delivery company like a FedEx.On Labor Radio on KBOO, hosts Michael Cathcart and Elliott Gilliland explain how president Trump's authoritarian attack on mail-in voting and the Post Office is, at its core, an attack on working people. The same person that's complaining about mail-in ballots is the same person that admits that he mails in his own ballot. Then it only becomes corrupt when it's everybody else's ballot or when things don't look good for him in the polls. On the Building Bridges radio show, New York Metro Area Postal Union president Jonathan Smith says our right to vote was enshrined in blood and we can’t let Trump kill the postal service and sabotage our election by taking away our right to vote by mail.
Congress must provide $25 billion and immediate COVID related relief. Postal management service cuts must be stopped and reversed. The postal service must work with us to reassure the public that vote by mail is a safe and secure way to vote in November elections.Postal workers’ demands, on the Worker’s Beat radio show.
Plus, we’ve got two postal service-related labor history items: There's going to be a lot of mail on the workroom floor before this beat is through.The Postal Views podcast remembers the Great Postal Strike of 1970…and on Labor History in 2: It's been the most dramatic confrontation between industry and organized labor in two decades.Rick Smith remembers the Teamsters’ successful strike against UPS in 1997.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show…
I think the pandemic really takes a cover off of all the faults in our society.On Labor Express Radio, excerpts from Haymarket Books recent webinar “Racism is a Public Health Crisis.”
Employers quickly forgot about the sacrifices that those they called heroes made…The impact of COVID-19 on public employees is the topic on the latest episode of AFT in Action, the podcast from the Connecticut American Federation of Teachers.
I'm driving into work and I'm listening to a local news radio station; Tina Thomas Manning at the time was the superintendent and she was on there being interviewed. She was ticked off because she got up that morning to go into the office and there was this giant rat outside her house, outside the front yard.From America's Work Force Radio, we hear the latest adventures of Scabby The Rat.
On these stations, they never hear the word union in a positive context.In a nice bit of Labor radio/Podcast Network synergy, the Working People podcast recently caught up with the Valley Labor Report, a weekly talk radio show airing in Huntsville and Russellville, Alabama.
We have to use our collective power to fight and to fight for these things that are essential, not just for our members, but really for all workers.the latest Solidarity Works episode connects the 1965 civil rights struggles with today’s battle for the ballot.
We close the show this week with a special treat, Old School Mechanic, the latest song from Spudwrench, "the singing union elevator constructor."
Plus, Labor History in 2: “Run Down Like A Dog”
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show…
If we tell the people that Amazon doesn't care about black lives and they should stop buying from Amazon, how is Jeff Bezos going to make his $13 billion in a day?WorkWeek Radio covers the August 1 caravan and shutdown of the Amazon warehouse in San Leandro, California over health and wage issues.
Learning is absolutely critical, but we needed to make sure our students and staff are safe.Kansas City Federation of Teachers’ union president Andrea Flinders talks with the Heartland Labor Forum about going back to school during the pandemic.
I said, let's start bringing the hammer down to show the company that we are paying attention this time and that we are standing together and that we're not willing to go without a fight.Maine native and shipbuilder Jami Bellefleur talks with the Working People podcast about her life and work, and about the ongoing strike at Bath Iron Works.
Unions have played a big role in producing a sort of interracial solidarity based labor movement and we try to show this statistically.On the Valley Labor Report, researcher Jake Grumbach discusses a new study about the effects of union membership on racial resentment.
We could be in a situation now where a lot of people are going to have to upgrade their skills because the sector that they relied on, maybe won't come back or it's not going to come back for a very long time.Dave Megenhardt, Executive Director for the United Labor Agency in Cleveland, Ohio, talked with America’s Work Force Radio this week about the virtual job training fair it hosted recently.
The factory closed down, the boss moved it to some other country. Now pop is cranky all the time, him and mom fight, and pop says it's all because of capitalism.Little Jimmy finds out what cookies have to do with capitalism in the latest episode of Tales of the Resistance from the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Plus, Labor History in 2: “Murdered for Standing Up.”
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show…
What's evil about privatization is that privatization destroys what belongs to all of us.Author and historian Diane Ravitch talks about her new book, “Slaying Goliath” on CTU Speaks.
The new postmaster general is actively working to destroy the product, the service and the integrity of the United States postal service.That’s from the latest My Labor Radio podcast, out of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Workers are losing rights, are losing jobs, are losing lives. One thousand Brazilians have been dying every day, due to coronavirus for the last three weeks; 40 million Brazilians have no jobs.That’s from the Brazil Worker’s Podcast, one of the Labor Radio Podcast Network’s newest members. The Brazil Worker’s Podcast is an English language broadcast on labor news and current affairs in Brazil, Latin America and opinions on the struggle of the working class around the world.
I believe there's power in numbers. And when you got the numbers, you can do a lot of things.Reverend Edward Pinkney, on another brand-new Network member, Hero Americana, from Empathy Media Lab. Hero Americana focuses on the eternal struggle between labor, capital, race, and political economy.
I was coming across particular workers, in our neighborhood, in the grocery store and I just wondered, well, what would it look like to hear directly from them?That’s from Speaking of Dignity, Workers on the Front Lines and the Common Good, the new podcast from The Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. This podcast aims to listen to the voices of those workers whose labor we recognize as essential but who rarely get an opportunity to be heard in a public forum.
You need to be dependable and inclusive and people have to be able to trust you.Micki Varney, Chief Steward for SEIU 503 in Oregon, talks about what it takes to be a union steward, on the latest episode of Stronger Together.
Plus: Labor History in 2; Another Working Class Martyr
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show…
If we want students back in school learning, we have to have all that testing and tracing and other pieces done, so we know what the situation is and we can figure out how to deal with it.Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper talking with America’s Work Force Radio about how difficult it has been for teachers and schools to renegotiate their re-openings in the fall.
Six feet doesn't necessarily mean you're all okay. You know, the virus doesn't come up to the six foot and go ‘Stop right there.’Geraldine Stella, Health & Safety Specialist at the New York State Public Employees Federation, discusses workplace safety in the office setting on Union Strong, the official podcast of the New York State AFL-CIO.
My biggest thing is just having a voice and a safe environment to have that voice.If our local healthcare workers really are so essential, why are the bosses trampling on their rights as workers? Find out how workers in the Midwest are fighting back, on The Heartland Labor Forum, Kansas City's only program about the workplace.
We’re siblings that love podcasts and hate capitalism.Crimes of Capital – one of the newest members of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network -- is a weekly podcast dedicated to uncovering the real reason behind many of the world’s biggest crimes being committed against humanity.
And this monstrosity is created to enshrine the concept of the Lost Cause and to say to white workers, who are moving in the direction of class consciousness and interracial solidarity, to say to them, ‘Hang with the powerful white people. The powerful white people will look after you, you will have access to privilege and advantage, cut loose those black people that you have been working with.’Historian Peter Rachleff on WorkWeek Radio, on the Robert E. Lee memorial and the history of the Knights of Labor in Richmond Virginia.
Plus: Labor History in 2; The Beginning of ‘Our’ Interests.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show…
"We are tired of hearing about all the jobs that are being re-shored. When we know our members are out of work, when we know their jobs are still going to China, when we know their jobs are still going to Mexico and what we really need are real solutions that are going to put U.S. workers back to work and put our economy back together."Owen Herrnstadt, Chief of Staff at the Machinists union, takes a look at Joe Biden's new manufacturing proposal on the latest Activate LIVE podcast…
"Our specialty is fire. We don't go out and look for pulling people over for DUI’s. We don't look for domestic violence, but when we do show up on scene, it's, it's incredible because we have the knowledge of being a fireman and we're able to see the fire for what it is."Arson investigator Captain Ramon Martinez, on the Firefighter Kingdom podcast…
"I've been mentioning on our recent programs how excited I am that Labor Express Radio is now a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, a network of now over 50, and it keeps growing labor movement orientated radio programs or podcasts from across the USA. I never knew that there were so many of us out there, and that is one of the network's goals; to make all of us more visible to all of you out there. So to celebrate this new partnership, I thought I would provide you a small sample of what the network has to offer, a sort of coast-to-coast tour."Labor Express Radio host Jerry Mead-Lucero highlights reports from the Work Week podcast on the West Coast, the Heartland Labor Forum in Kansas City, and the Building Bridges radio show in New York City.
You're paying $120 a month to make $2,000. I said 'Go to any non-union company and get that $2,000 from him and h"ave health insurance and have a pension.'"Mark and Jeremy talk union dues on The Break Time Breakdown podcast…
"This board has overturned well over a dozen precedents. And in every single case -- every single case -- it's been in favor of an employer and against workers in their unions."Labor lawyer Joyce Goldstein, on the Trump National Labor Relations Board, on America’s Work Force Radio
Plus: Labor History in 2; Chicago Stockyards Workers Kick Off Historic 1919 Strike
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org; Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show…
“We really just felt like our voices weren't being heard and worse, sort of actually being told to be quiet.” Gabi DiDonna of the United Museum Workers union, on the Belabored podcast…
“Normally, we tour all over the world doing shows, but now that’s too difficult. So we decided instead it was like, well, what can we do? And so I was like, well, why don't we do radio plays?”WorkWeek Radio talks with playwright and actor Michael Sullivan about the new San Francisco Mime Troupe production "Tales of Resistance"…
“We don't need a hospital employers to help us ‘poor little nurses,’ help us learn how to vote.”On The Valley Labor Report, a nurse talks about unionizing her hospital and the process of bargaining the first contract…
“Back in the day, I didn't see myself, you know, a little beige curly haired girl on television, and I needed to make sure that I put myself on TV so that other kids that look like me would see themselves represented.”On The SAG-AFTRA podcast, actors Michelle Hurd and Jason George continue the discussion of race and media in a time of social transformation and cultural reform…
On We Do The Work, an interview – and songs – from singer George Mann…Plus: Labor History in 2, and sneak previews of The Gig and Labor History Today.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Social media guru: Harold Phillips. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
On this week’s show, we’ve got a little bit of everything….
Organized labor in the United States has a very checkered history when it comes to issues of race and gender.”Racial justice, labor and international activist Bill Fletcher on The Heartland Labor Forum… “If it's in the air, it's in the air, so we all need to work together to make sure that we're all going home as good as we came in in the morning.”Shaun Trude, Safety and Health Project Coordinator for the Machinists, on how workers can protect themselves and how the union is fighting for even more protections amid COVID-19 on the Activate Live podcast…
“In the rest of the industrialized world, you just have a right to your job.”Shaun Richman, author of "Tell The Bosses We're Coming,” on the My Labor Radio podcast…
“I do not believe basic income or a guaranteed income is a replacement for the safety net, I believe it's an addition to it.”Labor Express Radio explores whether Universal Basic Income is a solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy or a distraction from real solutions…
“The government of South Dakota is anti union, and South Dakota was one of the first Right to Work states.”Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO on the Working People podcast…
“Workers shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a business model that works only when they are exploited.”On a special extra edition of The Gig podcast, updates on the legal battles by gig workers around the world…“The train master goes, ‘You're doing kind of a fast there, so what's going on? He goes, ‘I see your sons are running the engine here. Yeah, you might want to slow that down. That's totally a 10-mile-an-hour yard; you're doing already doing 40.”That’s from a brand-new Labor Radio-Podcast Network member, the Tales from Two Blue Collar Workers podcast.
Plus, Frederick Douglass on "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" on Union City Radio.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org. Social media guru: Harold Phillips
On this week’s show we feature six shows that have recently joined the Network, which now has almost 50 members. “I feel that I was destined to cut this film.” Sidney Levin, who edited the classic labor film "Norma Rae" on Post, Coast To Coast, the podcast from IATSE Local 700, the Motion Picture Editors Guild. “The company needs to figure out how to help us. Because you can't make money if your workers ain't healthy.” J. Rich from Northern California’s Teamsters Local 315, on the Thoroughbred Teamsters podcast. “We need to protect families and frontline workers from cuts that make the current recession longer and more painful.” That’s from Stronger Together, a podcast from SEIU Local 503 in Oregon. “Members are like ‘you guys can hold meetings online too?’” Unify: A Young Workers Podcast, is based out of Toronto in Canada, which means our network is now international! “I'll have people say ‘Hey, I've been in for 30 years, I haven't gotten a pin.’” On The Break Time Breakdown, a podcast from Union Sheet Metal Workers SMART Local 110, we get the inside story on service pins. “I thought we talk a little bit about the recent strike and the gains we made in the video game world.” The UnionWorking Podcast provides a fascinating insider’s view of unions and workers in the entertainment business.
Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org. Social media guru: Harold Phillips
Workers Beat interviews a young protester: “I'm very optimistic in the way that people are moving forward.” On RadioLabour, the International Trade Union Confederation releases the 2020 GLobal Rights Index: “I hate to tell you, but things are going from bad to worse.” UCOMM Live talks with an up-and-coming politician in Staten Island: “I know what it's like to be in a union household; it put food on my table, a roof over my head, gave me my first car to go to my first job. And on the Heartland Labor Forum, Angie Williams talks about two huge decisions that came down from the Supreme Court this week that affect working people around the country. We wrap up with the story of high school librarian Christine Smith, from the latest episode of En Masse: “I worked at a couple of women's clothing stores. I worked at a pizza joint and then I got really sick of that. Plus a promo for We Do The Work.
Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
A new, millennial version of “Solidarity Forever” from the RadioLabour podcast. WorkWeek Radio talks with a Chicago bus driver: We have at least four dead bus operators in Chicago from COVID-19; I was one of many dozens who have gotten COVID-19.On the latest SAG-AFTRA podcast, president Gabrielle Carteris and National Executive Director David White discuss their personal journeys and the union's role in the fight for equality and justice: “We are going to bring this around to the issue of police brutality, social inequality, the organization's role on that.”Plus Labor History in 2 and a teaser for the latest episode of The Gig podcast.
Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
The labor movement is awoke right now. And you are going to see things from us. I call on every American to get into the streets in a safe manner to lead from the front, lead by example… Another black man was tortured and murdered in broad daylight in the custody of four police officers. This while COVID-19 is snatching away our jobs and loved ones… The reality is we all bleed red and no longer can we sit idly by and continue to let innocent people be murdered, especially black men.Urgent voices from the streets on UCOMM Live, LaborShift and Working Life…Plus, Mine owners riot in Cripple Creek on Labor History in 2.
Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
“We will keep the lights on in Las Vegas. Our community needs us. They need to see the big white truck.” Shannon Skinner, a utility worker in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Union City Radio.
“The number one demand is to arrest these cops. Arrest these cops. They fired them, and that's a victory. But arresting them, that's what we want to see.” Minneapolis teacher Loretta VanPelt on UCOMM Live.
“Just kind of keeping track of your mental to do list…is this really distressing to me? And is it getting in the way of how I am functioning? Is it interfering at home? Is it interfering at work, is interfering in my relationships?” Clinical therapist Bethany Getchan on Solidarity Works.
Plus, Workers Beat on the AFL-CIO’s national “Workers First” Day of Action, The Gig podcast, and The Memorial Day Massacre on Labor History in 2:00. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
“You know, I'm not just the epithet that they give me, we shape history every day and collective actions here could shape history in a new way.”Cristobal Cavazos of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage on Labor Express Radio, Chicago's only English-language labor news and current affairs radio program.
“My Pietro. He worked in the sheds for 15 years. Always he was not satisfied. Always, he said someday he would find other work. But no other work he found.”That’s from the latest episode of En Masse, where interdisciplinary artist, labor activist, and political educator Liz Medina brings together oral histories and social theory with stories of struggle and hope from the working class.
Plus, Sheet Metal sisters share their stories on Talking SMART, Workers Beat votes by mail, UCOMM LIVE reports on unemployment claims in New Jersey and, on Labor History in 2:00, Chicago’s first teachers’ strike. Bonus: The Labor Radio-Podcast Network's first PSA, from the My Labor Radio podcast! Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org