This week, Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig talks with theUnion Strong podcast about Operation Union Veterans Day…On the Working People podcast, 35,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente are ready to walk off the job November 15; two nurses explain why…Then, on Your Rights At Work, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith on "Why the Media Loves Labor Now"…From The Rick Smith Show, David Pepper, author of "Laboratories of Autocracy" exposes the extreme levels of corruption that have somehow become normal in GOP politics, and how it gets even worse as we move from DC into the states. And we wrap up this week’s show with National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers presidents Becky Pringle and Randi Weingarten on the Educating From the Heart podcast, discussing the dynamic power that comes when there is alignment between the national, state, and local unions and rank-and-file members.

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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