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Kayla discussed why white collar workers need unions, unionization efforts for nonprofit workers, and how organizing/bargaining is different during the pandemic.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

Tim discussed a new book called A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary and why publishing labor books and supporting labor centric writers is important in building collective solidarity.

Learn more at https://hardballpress.com.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

Veteran nurse and Hard Ball Press Publisher, Timothy Sheard, worked with Nurse T (alias used to protect her identity), to write an account of true stories about life and death in a New York City’s Intensive Care Unit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020.

To promote this powerful book, Empathy Media Lab and the Labor Radio Podcast Network interviewed Tim about this project and produced audio readings of essays to support emergency medical service workers who risked their lives in order to care for the frightened patients suffering from Covid-19 and their loved ones.

Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life 

For this holiday season support independent publishers focusing on labor issues and buy a book for yourself or a loved one that will celebrate working class writers, strengthen social justice solidarity, and combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the ruling class.

Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World.

Veteran nurse and Hard Ball Press Publisher, Timothy Sheard, worked with Nurse T (alias used to protect her identity), to write an account of true stories about life and death in a New York City’s Intensive Care Unit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020.

To promote this powerful book, Empathy Media Lab and the Labor Radio Podcast Network interviewed Tim about this project and produced audio readings of essays to support emergency medical service workers who risked their lives in order to care for the frightened patients suffering from Covid-19 and their loved ones.

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life 

For this holiday season support independent publishers focusing on labor issues and buy a book for yourself or a loved one that will celebrate working class writers, strengthen social justice solidarity, and combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the ruling class.

Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World.

Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

Pandemic Nurse’s Diary - A Tribute to Healthcare Workers Fighting Covid-19

Veteran nurse and Hard Ball Press Publisher, Timothy Sheard, worked with Nurse T (alias used to protect her identity), to write an account of true stories about life and death in a New York City’s Intensive Care Unit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020.

To promote this powerful book, Empathy Media Lab and the Labor Radio Podcast Network interviewed Tim about this project and produced audio readings of essays to support emergency medical service workers who risked their lives in order to care for the frightened patients suffering from Covid-19 and their loved ones.

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life 

For this holiday season support independent publishers focusing on labor issues and buy a book for yourself or a loved one that will celebrate working class writers, strengthen social justice solidarity, and combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the ruling class.

Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World.

Tim Sheard

Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. After writing 7 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, he launched Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories. Timothy believes that when workers write and tell their stories, they build rank and file solidarity and union power, as well strengthening the fight for social justice solidarity. Their stories help to combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the One Percent. Hard Ball Press is the premier publisher of working class life.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 11 focuses on the Purple Line and transportation policy with Maya Rosenberg based on her article, “The loss of the Purple Line is a tragedy for UMD.” Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11). 

Maya Rosenberg is currently a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studies multi-platform journalism and public policy at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism and the School of Public Policy. 

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

#PolicyMatters

#PoliticalEconomyMatters

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

On December 9th, hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown interviewed SMART Local 33 Organizing Director Eli Baccus (Ohio).

Music:

“None of Us are Free” by DC Labor Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PymAc3fog 

Credits:

Hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown

Executive Producer Chris Garlock of Union City Radio

Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

On December 9th, hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown interviewed AFL- CIO Georgia President Charlie Flemming on the upcoming Senate runoff.

Music:

“None of Us are Free” by DC Labor Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PymAc3fog 

Credits:

Hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown

Executive Producer Chris Garlock of Union City Radio

Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.