The Labor Exchange on KGNU

The Labor Exchange teams up with Lynn Fields of the Resolved Labor Podcast to hear about Howard Wallace an activist from Denver that dared to marry LGBTQ rights and labor rights. 

KGNU Labor Exchange - Carl Smith SMART-TD talks about a bill to fund more safety inspectors in Colorado and we hear from the hearing on SB5 the Worker Protection Act - including Reps. Jennifer Bacon and Javier Mabry and Casa Bonita worker Michelle Mendenhall. 

KGNU Labor Exchange - Guest Host Ben Ullrich talks about the joy of organizing with Karli McClure & Nate Paer, SEIU 105 Mental Health Workers. Karli and Nate helped build the union at Mental Health Partners (now Clinica Family Health) and are negotiating a first contract. We hear the challenges and successes including how Colorado’s outdated labor laws slow down unionizing efforts.

The KGNU Labor Exchange talks with with union organizer Ryan Dineen on the organizing happening in Colorado and Utah's ski communities. Ryan is the President of the Breckenridge Professional Ski Patrol Union which is part of United Mountain Workers and CWA Local 7781. 

KGNU Labor Exchange - Colorado’s Union Radio - We talk to Ben Ullrich, a former craft distiller and current SEIU Local 105 organizer. We discuss Colorado's outdated labor laws and why more workers are choosing to organize. Tune In Tonight (2/3) at 6 PM on KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM! 📻and on your favorite podcast app

This weeks Labor Exchange is a special Martin Luther King Jr. Day episode. We hear from the AFL-CIO’s 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference held this week in Austin TX and a recent announcement of Climate Jobs Colorado, a new union-led coalition that will address the growing climate crisis through a pro-worker agenda that prioritizes good union jobs.

On this week’s Labor Exchange we finish our conversation with author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale about her book “Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine The 1927 - 1928 Colorado Coal Strike.” about the I.W.W. led strike in Serene, Colorado outside of Erie. In this episode we pick up the discussion about I.W.W. organizer Powers Hapgood, his wife Mary Donovan and the role protests around the scheduled execution Sacco and Vanzetti played in the strike.

Listen to the full and uncut conversation with author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale about her book “Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine The 1927 - 1928 Colorado Coal Strike.” about the I.W.W. led strike in Serene, Colorado outside of Erie.  

On this week’s Labor Exchange we continue our conversation with author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale about her book “Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine The 1927 - 1928 Colorado Coal Strike.” about the I.W.W. led strike in Serene, Colorado outside of Erie.

On this week’s Labor Exchange we talk to author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale about her book “Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine The 1927 - 1928 Colorado Coal Strike.” about the I.W.W. led strike in Serene, Colorado outside of Erie.  Join us for part two of our conversation in two weeks.