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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. Airs weekdays at 7:15a ET on WPFW 89.3FM #LaborRadioPod
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Green and Red; UAW 1700 Podcast; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; Union Dues; Red Dead Redemption
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. 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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Nov 24, 2023
Equal Rights and Justice; America Works; Labor History in 2:00; Labor Heritage Power Hour
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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Nov 17, 2023
Working Voices; Working People; Labor Jawn; Labor Force; Stick Together
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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Nov 10, 2023
Labor Radio; Labor Exchange; America’s Workforce Radio; Union Talk; RadioLabour
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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Nov 3, 2023
The strike edition!
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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Oct 27, 2023
A meat cutter runs for office
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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Oct 20, 2023
Strikes, tech discrimination and how to pack your bags
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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Oct 13, 2023
Breakthrough in UAW strike
Clips from Labor Express Radio, America’s Workforce Radio, RadioLabour, Art and Labor, and The Docker 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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Oct 6, 2023
Union-busting in America’s national parks (Encore)
Originally released October 8, 2022 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. 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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Sep 29, 2023
Mobilizing for the Million Workers March (Encore)
Originally released May 21, 2022 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.
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 @AFLCIO @AWFUnionPodcast @WorkingPod @bbridgesradio @checkoutradio @nysaflcio @duesunion @3CRsolidarity Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Sep 22, 2023
MLK and labor: his last speech (Encore)
Originally released April 7, 2023 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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Sep 15, 2023
Organizing the South
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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Sep 8, 2023
“My Boss Is a Robot”
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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Sep 1, 2023
California’s Labor Queen
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. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the c…
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Aug 25, 2023
What SAG-AFTRA’s Interim Agreement is (and isn’t)
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. Build sonic solidarity, click 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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Aug 18, 2023
Labor Week debuts
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; The Flight Deck Help us build labor radio/podcast solidarity: click on the share button below! Samples of 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. Check them out, subscribe and spread the word!
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Aug 12, 2023
Working Voices; The Workers’ Mic; Union Talk; Power Line Podcast
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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Aug 4, 2023
We Rise Fighting; Heartland Labor Forum; SAG-AFTRA Podcast; The Alberta Worker
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. 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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Jul 29, 2023
Work Week Radio; Green & Red; Labor Radio on KBOO; ILO Future of Work; The Radical Songbook
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. 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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Jul 21, 2023
Building Bridges Radio; Work Stoppage; Labor Heritage Power Hour; Heartland Labor Forum
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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Jul 14, 2023
Roswell Hub; Speaking of Work; OEA Grow; Working History
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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Jul 7, 2023
The Upsurge; Work Week Radio; BCTGM Voices Project; Working to Live In Southwest Washington
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 sav…
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Jun 30, 2023
Union Talk; I AM Story; Union Dues; Stick Together; Tales from the Reuther Library
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 i…
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Jun 23, 2023
Working People; Solidarity Center Podcast; Power Line Podcast; Your Rights At Work
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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Jun 17, 2023
Work Week Radio; Heartland Labor Forum; Roswell Hub; America Works; Labor History Today
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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Jun 9, 2023
Stuck Nation Radio; PCTA FYRE; Voice of the People; Labor Radio WORT; Labor Exchange
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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Jun 2, 2023
The Workers’ Mic; Solidarity Breakfast; Work Week Radio; The Dig; Labor Jawn
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. 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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May 26, 2023
Labor Radio; America’s Workforce Radio; Million Dollar Organizer; WestJet MEC PIREP; Construction User 2.0; We Rise Fighting
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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May 19, 2023
Union Strong; The Director’s Cut; Union Talk; Belabored; The Valley Labor Report
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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May 12, 2023
Working People; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; The Dig; Labor Jawn
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. 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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May 5, 2023
Writers walk, building worker power, May Day ‘23
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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Apr 28, 2023
Grad students strike, AI organizing, I Am A Man
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. 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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Apr 22, 2023
Child labor, child strikes
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. Wh…
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Apr 15, 2023
Strikes and mergers, plus stories of Black midwives
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 po…
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Apr 7, 2023
MLK and labor: his last speech
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…
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Mar 31, 2023
I AM Story; Memphis ‘68
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…
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Mar 25, 2023
Labor Power & Strategy
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. 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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Mar 17, 2023
Elon Musk’s company town
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, Pennsylvania 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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Mar 11, 2023
Extremism in Topeka
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 nation…
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Mar 3, 2023
The Tractor Princess and The Cake Lady
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 far…
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Feb 25, 2023
“A Hell of Wall Street’s Making”
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…
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Feb 18, 2023
Black History Month at work
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…
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Feb 10, 2023
Three from the UK
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…
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Feb 3, 2023
Elections matter
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 butt…
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Jan 27, 2023
Remembering Myrtle Witboii; Fordham strike, plus labor music and movies
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 p…
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Jan 20, 2023
YouTubers get a union
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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Jan 13, 2023
Nurses strike coast to coast
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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Jan 7, 2023
Labor’s 2023 Crystal Ball
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…
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Dec 30, 2022
OK, Tommy
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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Dec 23, 2022
A barista speaks out
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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Dec 16, 2022
”Organize, Fight, Win”
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…
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Dec 10, 2022
Rail strike, World Cup and Fight Like Hell
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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Dec 3, 2022
”Capital’s Terrorists”
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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Nov 25, 2022
Ending gender-based violence at work
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. 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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Nov 18, 2022
Labor got out the vote
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 Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor r…
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Nov 11, 2022
Veterans are workers, too
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…
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Nov 4, 2022
Starbucks fires award-winning barista
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. 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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Oct 28, 2022
Why labor needs to vote
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. 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 worki…
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Oct 21, 2022
Games workers of the world, unite!
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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Oct 14, 2022
Organizing the friendly skies
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. 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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Oct 8, 2022
Union-busting in America’s national parks
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 b…
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Oct 1, 2022
Yelling at Starbucks
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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Sep 28, 2022
WireWomen & Organizing under the radar
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. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @hardballpress @jacobin @chrismartin100 Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Sep 23, 2022
Putting the greed in Ingredion
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.
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Sep 16, 2022
Nurses strike, rail workers don’t
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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Sep 14, 2022
Why 15,000 nurses struck this week
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. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @mnnurses #SupportNurses #RNStrike #family #solidarity #patientsbeforeprofits Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Sep 10, 2022
Support your local union candidate
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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#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @DCLabor @SWWACLC @DissentMag @ReutherLibrary @WGAEast Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phi…
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Sep 7, 2022
“Working Nine to Five”
“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. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @ellencassedy @9to5org Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Sep 2, 2022
10 for Labor Day
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 Dí…
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Sep 1, 2022
Bacon, LeRoy and Union Yes
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! #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Aug 26, 2022
”If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Keep Working”
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 ran…
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Aug 20, 2022
“March on the Boss” videos
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. This is your Network, and we’re building it like a union organizing campaign, one show and one listener at a time; please help us build sonic solidarity by sharing this show; just click on the share button below. Thanks so much! 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 @AFLCIO @BCTGM @kboo @boboedy Edited by Patrick Dixon, pro…
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Aug 12, 2022
In Midst of War, Ukrainian Parliament Attacks Worker Rights
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. This is your Network, and we’re building it like a union organizing campaign, one show and one listener at a time; please help us build sonic solidarity by sharing this show; just click on the share button below. Thanks so much! Highlights from labor r…
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Aug 5, 2022
Live from the UAW convention
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.
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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Jul 29, 2022
Organizing in Medieval Times
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.” This is your Network, and we’re building it like a union organizing campaign, one show and one listener at a time; please help us build sonic solidarity by sharing this show; just click on the share button below. Thanks so much! Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working…
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Jul 23, 2022
Selma James: “Our time is now”
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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Jul 15, 2022
Amazon and the legacy of bloody Harlan
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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Jul 8, 2022
More labor takes on over-ruling Roe v. Wade
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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Jul 1, 2022
Labor after Roe v. Wade
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. This is your…
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Jun 25, 2022
Amazing-Man and the All-Star Squadron
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…
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Jun 21, 2022
Labor On The Airwaves at Labor Notes
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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Jun 19, 2022
“Billionaires have got to go! F—k Jeff Bezos!”
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, 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. #LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #canlab #1u @amazonlabor @SBWorkersUnited @Shut_downAmazon #Troublemakers #LosDeliveristasUnidos #starbucksunion @Teams…
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Jun 18, 2022
Voices from the 2022 Labor Notes conference
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. #LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #canlab #1u Editing by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.
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Jun 17, 2022
LIVE from the Great Labor Arts Exchange!
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. #LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #canlab #1u Editing by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.
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Jun 16, 2022
The Labor Radio Podcast Network team takes a road trip!
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!
#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @labornotes
Recording/editing by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Jun 15, 2022
Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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 Philadelp…
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Jun 14, 2022
Biden: “America’s always counted on union workers”
Reactions from delegates to President Joe Biden’s speech at the convention this morning. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @POTUS @WhiteHouse @staceyabrams @TeamAbrams Editing by Mel Smith, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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Jun 13, 2022
Shuler: “We are a workers movement”
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 k…
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Jun 12, 2022
Spiritual and global solidarity
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 talke…
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Jun 11, 2022
LIVE from the AFL-CIO convention!
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 tr…
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Jun 10, 2022
Pride At Work!
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 A…
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Jun 3, 2022
June 18 March on Washington
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.
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 @AFLCIO @DCLabor @LCLAA @boboedy @empathymedialab Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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May 27, 2022
Alabama Starbucks workers organize
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. 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 @AFLCIO @AWFUnionPodcast @WorkingPod @LaborReporters @aflbobby @WGAWest @ReutherLibrary Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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May 21, 2022
Mobilizing for the Million Workers March
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.
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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May 14, 2022
Strikes, rights and non-violent resistance
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 h…
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May 6, 2022
The voice of an imprisoned Belarus union leader
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.
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 @AFLCIO @SolidarityCntr @BCTGM @sagaftra Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Transcription coming soon; please check back!
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Apr 30, 2022
Blood, guts, and organizing
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.
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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Apr 23, 2022
Of union busters, bombs and white papers
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. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part…
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Apr 15, 2022
Solidarity 3X
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. 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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Apr 9, 2022
“The Future We Need” (No foolin’)
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. 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 @AFLCIO @WorkStoppagePod @CUPEOntario @empathymedialab @GritNw @DCLabor @librarycongress Edited by Patrick Dixon and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phi…
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