Episodes
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 from Mercedes in Vance about their campaigns after the huge win in Chattanooga; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast takes a look at the NO FAKES Act, which would protect all people's voices, images and likeness from unauthorized recreations from...
Published 05/04/24
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 labor organizer and activist Jonathan Melrod. This week’s featured shows are Work Stoppage, the podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class. They’re here to demolish corporate ladders and chew bubblegum. And they don't even like bubblegum....
Published 04/26/24
Published 04/26/24
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 hard day’s…night. Today we bring you another sound collage of the voices of activists at the Labor Notes conference. Let me paint you a quick picture of the scene: the Labor Radio Podcast Network set up a open studio in the vendor area, basically the lobby...
Published 04/21/24
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 in the hallways of the Hyatt Regency. Maybe the best way to think about today’s show is like music. It's voices from dozens of activists at Labor Notes, captured by some of the crew here from shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, who spent the...
Published 04/20/24
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 from Labor Notes over the next few days; today’s brief show is a conversation between Chris Garlock, Harold Phillips, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp, longtime Network organizers and show producers who organized a gathering of almost 20 Network...
Published 04/19/24
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 shows are Labor Exchange, Colorado's only labor-focused radio show on KGNU Community Radio; El Cafecito del Día; the podcast from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; LabourStart, the official podcast...
Published 04/12/24
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 week’s featured shows are Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; Chasing The Hook, a podcast about union ironworker stories, told by the old timers; Solidarity Breakfast, a rank and file worker and...
Published 04/05/24
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 in Humboldt County; and in our final segment; Jessica Breidinger, a Social Science instructor at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon,talks about the rural community college experience. This week’s featured shows are...
Published 03/29/24
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 Mammoth Cave National Park goes back to his enslaved ancestors…And in our final segment, "Changing Lives, Changing L.A.," a play featuring rank and file members of UNITE HERE Local 11. This week’s featured...
Published 03/23/24
  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 Jesse Armstrong tells the On Writing podcast about how he staffed and ran his writers’ room; and, from the Workers Rock podcast, an Upstate New York dairy worker who emigrated from Mexico talks about the Farm Laborers Fair Practice...
Published 03/16/24
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), and in honor of all the Hollywood folks who held the line last year, we wanted to give the Labor Oscars a bit more time than we can in the Weekly. So here they are (the envelope, please), the Labor Oscars, from the Power at Work podcast! Please help us build...
Published 03/09/24
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 freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. Then, a chat with Jamell Thrower, National Secretary of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus. Next, meet Ray Connor, the new president of the...
Published 03/08/24
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, Michael and Elliott discuss the lawsuit against the NLRB, and a dangerous mixture: booze and the workplace. This week’s featured shows: LabourStart, the official podcast of LabourStart, the news and...
Published 03/01/24
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 #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Published 02/24/24
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 Darren about attendance; Remembering the 1997 UPS Strike.This week’s featured shows are El Cafecito del Día, from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; The Construction User 2.0, the podcast from the Association...
Published 02/23/24
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 meet Damon Walker, a luthier from Durham, North Carolina. This week’s featured shows are America’s Workforce Radio, a clear and unfiltered voice for the working people of America; The Heartland Labor Forum, Radio That Talks Back to the Boss! It’s Time Live, the official podcast...
Published 02/17/24
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 weekly talk radio show airing on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville Alabama and on WGOL 920 AM in Russellville Alabama; Work Stoppage, a podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class; 3rd & Fairfax, news and information...
Published 02/10/24
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 are Work Week Radio, covering the voices of working people, unions and their struggles locally, nationally and internationally. IAM Delta,The official podcast for ramp, tower, and cargo...
Published 02/02/24
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, head of the AFL-CIO’s special projects division, talks about labor strikes over the past year; General Secretary of UNI Global Union Christy Hoffman on the benefits of being in a union in the age of AI; and writer and recording...
Published 01/26/24
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 The Rick Smith Show, “Where Working People Come to Talk!”; RadioLabour, Bringing Labour's Voices to the World; Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; Union or Bust, a podcast with two union activists discussing organizing, unions, and politics;...
Published 01/19/24
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 Hub, Stick Together, and Working Voices Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country,...
Published 01/12/24
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
Published 01/09/24
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 the National Education Association; The Bipartisan Buzz, the official podcast of the Colorado State Association of Letter Carriers; The Construction User 2.0, the podcast from The Association of Union...
Published 01/05/24
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 the Civil Rights Era.This week’s featured shows are Stick Together, Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues, distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network; the Power at...
Published 12/29/23