Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

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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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Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly episodes:

05.17.2024
Work Stoppage; SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor Radio on KBOO; My Labor Radio; Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast
Mercedes UAW election this week, on Work Stoppage; on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Tik-Tok star embraces the influencer agreement; from Labor Radio on KBOO, Vincent Blanco Jr discusses transitioning the Oregon political process to address the concerns of communities of color;...
05.12.2024
Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights
Who is Jon Melrod? College students mobilize; “We don't have time to wait”; No FakesToday’s labor quote: Donna ReedToday’s labor history: 400 immigrant workers arrested@wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
05.10.2024
AAUP Presents; Power at Work; PFFA Pod; Union or Bust
Political interference in higher ed, from the AAUP Presents podcast; on thePower at Work podcast, Stadium battles: how to beat a billionaire; we meet Fire fighter Audrey Tollefson on the Air Line Pilot Podcast, and on Union or Bust, Paul...
05.04.2024
Art and Labor; The Valley Labor Report; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Air Line Pilot Podcast; SayWatt; Labor History in 2:00
On today’s show, the Art and Labor podcast discusses the demands of the campus protests, and potential strategies for coordination and escalation; The Valley Labor Report talks with Alabama auto workers Quichelle Liggins from Hyundai in Montgomery and Jacob Ryan...
04.26.2024
Work Stoppage; BCTGM Voices Project; America’s Workforce Radio; Solidarity Works; Resolved Labor Podcast
VW workers in Chattanooga win a historic union vote to join the UAW; Workers file for election in London, Kentucky; Roland "Rex" Rexha on the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident; Health and safety wins in Washington, and a profile of...
04.21.2024
Labor Notes speaks!
Chris Garlock here, back with another special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, live from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. It’s late again, or, since it’s two o’clock Sunday morning, early. Like the Beatles said, it’s been a...
04.20.2024
(Many) Voices from Labor Notes
Hey, it’s Chris Garlock. It’s after midnight Friday night, so really Saturday morning here at the Labor Notes conference. The late-night jam here at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is winding down, but folks are still deep in intense conversations...
04.19.2024
Live from Labor Notes with the Labor Radio Podcast Network
The Labor Radio Network is back at the Labor Notes conference! The biannual event, being held April 18-21 in Chicago, Illinois, attracts over 4,000 grassroots labor activists from across the country and around the world. We’ll be bringing you voices...
04.12.2024
Labor Exchange; El Cafecito del Día; LabourStart; Green and Red; We Rise Fighting
Union organizing and Colorado House Bill 1230; Books for our community; An interview with Egyptian trade union activist Ahmad Badawy; Capitalism is dead...welcome to technofeudalism; and former Vermont AFL-CIO president David van Deusen talks about his new book. This week’s featured...
04.05.2024
Union Talk; Chasing The Hook; Solidarity Breakfast; ALPA Canada Podcast; Art and Labor
This week: Randi talks with the co-chairs of Standing Together about Palestine/Israel; Tom Owens talks bridges; Victoria Police use explosive weapons at the Web Dock picket; Plus, discussions on the current status of ALPA Canada, United Musicians and Allied Workers.This...
03.29.2024
Work Week Radio; Valley Labor Report; RadioLabour; Breaking Ground; OEA Grow
This week: A report from East Palestine; the UAW's Brandon Mancilla talks about why peace is a labor issue; What's next for Canadian labor journalism? IUOE Legislative and Political Director Seth Toth discusses the Biden administration and offshore wind energy...
03.23.2024
Workers Beat; Communicating with You, the Member; The Labor Show; America Works; Re:Work
On today’s show: A visit with striking Teamsters at Coors-Molson in Ft. Worth, Texas…American Postal Workers Union Organization Director Anna Smith talks about the union’s 2024 organizing campaign…JDoc and Krausey speak with Philly labor leaders…Park Ranger Jerry Bransford’s connection to...
03.16.2024
Labor Express Radio; Resolved Labor Podcast; LabourStart; On Writing; Workers Rock
On this week's show: Labor Express Radio celebrates 30 years on the air; The Resolved Labor Podcast highlights past leaders of the Worker's Rights Movement; Kazem Nik-Khah talks about workers in Iran on the LabourStart podcast; Succession creator and showrunner...
03.09.2024
SPECIAL EDITION: The Labor Oscars!
The 96th Academy Awards – the Oscars -- are tomorrow night, and one of our shows, Power at Work, put together their own Labor Oscars contest (they’re probably gonna get a cease-and-desist letter from the Academy’s lawyers any day now),...
03.08.2024
Union or Bust; AAUP Presents; SayWatt; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers
On this week’s show: Members of IATSE Local 122 discuss their contract fight in San Diego; Fighting political interference in higher ed: From Florida to Texas, Ohio to Indiana, politicians are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational...
03.01.2024
Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: LabourStart; Labor Link; It’s Time Live; 3rd & Fairfax; Labor Radio on KBOO FM; Union Days
On this week’s show: Carolina Dantas, Project Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Building and Wood Worker’s International, Jon Hartough discusses migrant fishers in Thailand, Sara Nelson takes questions from SkyWest flight attendants, Second City educators discuss tentative deal,...
02.24.2024
Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights
Liberia Firestone workers’ 2006 strike; Forward for justice; Organized labor and the Civil Rights Movement; American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson; “Our union is us”Today’s labor quote: Joe GlazerToday’s labor history: Cops beat textile strikers@wrkclasshistory @AWFUnionPodcast @AFTunion @Heartland_Labor @OOItsTime @wpfwdc #1u #unions...
02.23.2024
El Cafecito del Día; Construction User 2.0; Stick Together; Roswell Hub; UAW 1700 Podcast; Labor Jawn
On this week’s show: Labor Secretary Julie Su; Joelle Salerno and Danielle Harshman from the National Association of Women in Construction; Catarina Cinnani discusses allegations of sexual harassment at Perfection Fresh; Did the mob control the Teamsters?; Mike talks with...
02.17.2024
America’s Workforce Radio; Heartland Labor Forum; It’s Time Live; Labor Force; America Works
On this week’s show: AFT's Fedrick Ingram on his experience with unions and how he got to his current position; Unions and the Civil Rights Movement; How to get it done in 2024; Disneyland actors seek a union; and we...
02.10.2024
The Valley Labor Report; Work Stoppage; 3rd & Fairfax; On This Day in Working Class History; Labor History in 2:00
Hyundai Workers sign union cards; More on UAW organizing; Cord Jefferson and USC adjunct professors fight for a union; and, Remembering the 2006 Liberia Firestone Strike. Plus, Labor History in 2:00. This week’s featured shows are The Valley Labor Report, a...
02.02.2024
Work Week Radio; IAM Delta; PFFA Pod; OEA Grow; El Cafecito del Día
On today’s show: Teamsters protest Donald Trump’s invitation to union headquarters; Delta workers discuss the need for union representation; Veteran firefighter Chris Fukai; The importance of family engagement in schools; and LCLAA's Annual Report on Latino Workers and Unions. This week’s featured shows...
01.26.2024
The State of Working America; Union Strong; Black Work Talk; RadioLabour; Labor Heritage Power Hour
Economic Policy Institute president Heidi Shierholz, on what the latest surge in labor actions means for workers and the fight for racial and economic justice; New York State AFL-CIO Legislative Director Mike Neidl on legislative priorities for 2024; Carlos Jimenez,...
01.19.2024
The Rick Smith Show; RadioLabour; Union Talk; Union or Bust; The Check Out
Rick Smith remembers Martin Luther King; will 2024 be the Year of the Fascist?; How to Preserve Democracy in 2024; Bill Fletcher Jr on a ceasefire in Gaza; and a COP28 Recap with Lauren Baker. This week’s featured shows are...
01.12.2024
Labor Radio (WORT), Work Stoppage, America’s Workforce Radio, Roswell Hub, Stick Together, Working Voices
Organizing at Marquette University Starbucks, Wells Fargo workers in Albuquerque win their election, three types of office visits, extra-judicial killings of unionists in the Philippines, and remembering the Coors boycott.Shows featured include Labor Radio (WORT), Work Stoppage, America’s Workforce Radio, Roswell...
01.09.2024
The altar of the testing god
The toll of stress on educators, on the School Me podcastToday’s labor history: The Missouri Highway sit-downToday’s labor quote: WWI Mediation Commission@NEAToday @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network
01.05.2024
School Me; The Bipartisan Buzz, The Construction User 2.0; It’s Time! Live!; The Workers’ Speculative Society
On today’s show: Battling educator stress; kicking off 2024; innovation and ConTech; flight attendants raise the bar, and…extrapolation, speculation, fabulation; Steven Shaviro on the work of science fiction. This week’s featured shows are School Me, a podcast fueled by educators from...
12.29.2023
Stick Together; Power at Work; Heartland Labor Forum; Tales from the Reuther Library
On today’s show: The spontaneous uprising of Bangladeshi garment workers; an end-of-year labor roundup with Kim Kelly, Michael Sainato and Jordan Zakarin; the Heartland Labor Forum’s annual Crystal Ball show; and Matthew Lassiter on police violence and racial justice in...
12.22.2023
Communicating with You, the Member; You Are The Current Resident; Madison Labor Radio; Labor Radio on KBOO; Heartland Labor Forum
On today’s show: postal workers deliver during the holidays, letter carriers speak out; labor joins a Palestine solidarity rally in Madison (WI); Educators push for a ceasefire in Gaza; and, in our final segment, what’s it like to be a...
12.15.2023
Work Week Radio; Working Voices; Bridging The Iron; El Cafecito del Día; AAUP Presents
On today’s show: a 24-hour strike at the Washington Post, Medieval Times workers stand up for their animals, talking about mental health and addiction in the trades, la victoria de los trabajadores in the entertainment industry, and political interference in...
12.09.2023
Black Work Talk; Heartland Labor Forum; On The Line; Solidarity Works; Solidarity Breakfast
On today’s show: The Black Work Talk podcast explores where the Writers' Guild goes next to support marginalized workers…Then, find out “How Jane McAlevey Transformed the Labor Movement” when Judy Ancel interviews organizer and journalist Eleni Schirmer on The Heartland...
12.02.2023
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...
11.24.2023
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...
11.17.2023
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,...
11.10.2023
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...
11.04.2023
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...
10.27.2023
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....
10.20.2023
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...
10.13.2023
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...
10.06.2023
Union-busting in America’s national parks (Encore)
Originally released October 8, 2022On this week’s show: An update on the Case New Holland strike from the Work Stoppage podcast. Then, reports from two education-focused podcasts: from AFT In Action, a conversation highlighting the advantages that a strong labor-management...
09.29.2023
Mobilizing for the Million Workers March (Encore)
Originally released May 21, 2022On today’s show: Organizer Clarence Thomas talks with Building Bridges Radio about the mobilization leading up to the 2004 Million Workers March…On The Check Out podcast, Bob Funk discusses how LaborLab tracks and communicates information about union busting…And winter may...
09.22.2023
MLK and labor: his last speech (Encore)
Originally released April 7, 2023This week, on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers, AFSCME, the union those sanitation workers belonged to, released the I AM...
09.15.2023
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...
09.08.2023
“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...
09.01.2023
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...
08.25.2023
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...
08.19.2023
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 DeckHelp us build labor radio/podcast solidarity: click on the share button below!Samples of labor...
08.12.2023
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...
08.04.2023
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,...
07.29.2023
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...
07.21.2023
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...

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Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly episodes:

Work Stoppage; SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor Radio on KBOO; My Labor Radio; Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast

Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights

AAUP Presents; Power at Work; PFFA Pod; Union or Bust

Art and Labor; The Valley Labor Report; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Air Line Pilot Podcast; SayWatt; Labor History in 2:00

Work Stoppage; BCTGM Voices Project; America’s Workforce Radio; Solidarity Works; Resolved Labor Podcast

Labor Notes speaks!

(Many) Voices from Labor Notes

Live from Labor Notes with the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Exchange; El Cafecito del Día; LabourStart; Green and Red; We Rise Fighting

Union Talk; Chasing The Hook; Solidarity Breakfast; ALPA Canada Podcast; Art and Labor

Work Week Radio; Valley Labor Report; RadioLabour; Breaking Ground; OEA Grow

Workers Beat; Communicating with You, the Member; The Labor Show; America Works; Re:Work

Labor Express Radio; Resolved Labor Podcast; LabourStart; On Writing; Workers Rock

SPECIAL EDITION: The Labor Oscars!

Union or Bust; AAUP Presents; SayWatt; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: LabourStart; Labor Link; It’s Time Live; 3rd & Fairfax; Labor Radio on KBOO FM; Union Days

Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights

El Cafecito del Día; Construction User 2.0; Stick Together; Roswell Hub; UAW 1700 Podcast; Labor Jawn

America’s Workforce Radio; Heartland Labor Forum; It’s Time Live; Labor Force; America Works

The Valley Labor Report; Work Stoppage; 3rd & Fairfax; On This Day in Working Class History; Labor History in 2:00

Work Week Radio; IAM Delta; PFFA Pod; OEA Grow; El Cafecito del Día

The State of Working America; Union Strong; Black Work Talk; RadioLabour; Labor Heritage Power Hour

The Rick Smith Show; RadioLabour; Union Talk; Union or Bust; The Check Out

Labor Radio (WORT), Work Stoppage, America’s Workforce Radio, Roswell Hub, Stick Together, Working Voices

The altar of the testing god

School Me; The Bipartisan Buzz, The Construction User 2.0; It’s Time! Live!; The Workers’ Speculative Society

Stick Together; Power at Work; Heartland Labor Forum; Tales from the Reuther Library

Communicating with You, the Member; You Are The Current Resident; Madison Labor Radio; Labor Radio on KBOO; Heartland Labor Forum

Work Week Radio; Working Voices; Bridging The Iron; El Cafecito del Día; AAUP Presents

Black Work Talk; Heartland Labor Forum; On The Line; Solidarity Works; Solidarity Breakfast

Green and Red; UAW 1700 Podcast; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; Union Dues; Red Dead Redemption

Equal Rights and Justice; America Works; Labor History in 2:00; Labor Heritage Power Hour

Working Voices; Working People; Labor Jawn; Labor Force; Stick Together

Labor Radio; Labor Exchange; America’s Workforce Radio; Union Talk; RadioLabour

The strike edition!

A meat cutter runs for office

Strikes, tech discrimination and how to pack your bags

Breakthrough in UAW strike

Union-busting in America’s national parks (Encore)

Mobilizing for the Million Workers March (Encore)

MLK and labor: his last speech (Encore)

Organizing the South

“My Boss Is a Robot”

California’s Labor Queen

What SAG-AFTRA’s Interim Agreement is (and isn’t)

Labor Week debuts

Working Voices; The Workers’ Mic; Union Talk; Power Line Podcast

We Rise Fighting; Heartland Labor Forum; SAG-AFTRA Podcast; The Alberta Worker

Work Week Radio; Green & Red; Labor Radio on KBOO; ILO Future of Work; The Radical Songbook

Building Bridges Radio; Work Stoppage; Labor Heritage Power Hour; Heartland Labor Forum

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