Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

We Rise Fighting; Work Stoppage; The Dig; Fed Up; The Labor Exchange

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:  From the We Rise Fighting podcast, reports on the UAW strike at Strand Bookstores and organizing at Newbury Comics…The Work Stoppage podcast takes a look back at the 2024 Year in Review…Assassin Nation with Patrick Blanchfield, on The Dig podcast…The Fed Up podcast talks with John Cruz, President of the Brooklyn-Staten Island NALC Merged Branch 41…And in our final segment, from The Labor Exchange, Author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale talks about her book “Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike.”

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Union Talk; Class Matters; The Teamster View; PFFA Pod; School Me

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On AFT’s Union Talk podcast, Randi talks to union members who supported Trump and searches for common ground…Adolph Reed and Mark Dimondstein discuss the 2024 election and its aftermath, on Class Matters…Then, on The  Teamster View, Zach Duke, who plays for the Inland Empire Strikers team at Toyota Arena….Laurent Picard talks about becoming a Licensed Psylocybin Facilitator, on the PFFA Pod…In our final segment, Read and rap across America with Dwayne Reed, on the School Me podcast. Plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

We Rise Fighting; Reinventing Solidarity; Art and Labor; What Do We Want?; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor History Today; Green and Red

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly… 
The We Rise Fighting podcast interviews Madeline Topf, co-president of the graduate workers union in Madison, Wisconsin, about Act 10 and its reversal last week…
It's been a new day in the United Auto Workers since the election of Shawn Fain as president in 2023, with the union carrying out an aggressive organizing and political program that has established the UAW as a major presence in American life. On the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, New Labor Forum's Micah Uetricht spoke to Jonah Furman, a top aide to Fain, about the union's strategy, its various wins and losses among nonunion auto manufacturers in the American South, its relationship to the Democratic Party under President Joe Biden, and the impact of a Donald Trump presidency on the union and labor as a whole…
The Art and Labor podcast folks have thoughts on the CEO shooter, Wicked, and seeing the Bidens in a bookstore…
Live, in front of a seductive studio audience, Sarah and Max bring to a climax the first intoxicating season of What Do We Want?, a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart…
Intimacy coordinators are an essential part of creating safe and professional working environments on movie sets, acting as advocates and liaisons between actors and production for scenes involving nudity, simulated sex and other intimate acts. Last month, intimacy coordinators unanimously agreed to join SAG-AFTRA in a National Labor Relations Board vote. To discuss why this matters and what it means for the future of the profession and the entertainment industry at large, the SAG-AFTRA Podcast is joined by intimacy coordinators Claire Warden and Erin Tillman, who were instrumental in the recent vote to unionize…
Labor History Today producer Patrick Dixon talks with historian Sarah McNamara about her book Ybor City, Crucible of the Latina South, which tells the story of immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas and Latinos who organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized U.S. foreign policy…
Alan Moore is one of the most important comic book and graphic novel creators in the business. The Green and Red podcast discusses how Moore’s work – including “The Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta,” -- has subverted literary and comic book genres and put radical ideas into the mainstream…Plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know!

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Continent of Resistance; What's Going On Labor Mondays; Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast; Apple Box Talks; Heartland Labor Forum; Labor Heritage Power Hour

On this week’s show:  Kevin and Kiang launch a new series of the Asian Labour Review's Continent of Resistance podcast that examines the wave of labor strikes across Asia in the late 2000s and early 2010s… Brian Schneck discusses the UAW’s big win for workers at NY car dealerships, while Ray Jensen and Nancy Erika Smith discuss the battle to end smoking in NJ casinos on What’s Going On Labor Monday…Don Unwin and Jackie Crawford discuss the work of FedEx ALPA’s Trip Services Committee to enhance pilots’ quality of life through hotel, catering, and transportation services on the Fly By Night podcast…Then, on Apple Box Talks, IATSE 891 member Julie McHaffie claims that her work in the Hair Department is "50% skill, 50% personality"…and in a show that originated on the Heartland Labor Forum last week, and then picked up for the Labor Heritage Power Hour this week, Mark Galus plays classics from Billy Bragg, Joe Glazer and Anne Feeney as well as some more obscure folk and punk tracks…plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Radio on KBOO FM; LabourStart; Mining & Energy Union Podcast; Concrete Gang; Power at Work; RadioLabour

On this week’s show:  From Labor Radio on KBOO FM, a discussion of the Democratic Party and unions' response to the election; Then, LabourStart brings us an interview with Tamar Ansiani, one of the striking gaming workers at Evolution Gaming, Georgia;

On the Mining & Energy Union Podcast, one of our new Network members, a discussion of Same Job, Same Pay laws; Campo and Sparrow talk about a recent death at a wind farm on the Golden Plains, on Concrete Gang, another new Network member; Next, on the Power at Work podcast, Painters' president Jimmy Williams has ideas about the Democratic party’s failure to elect Kamala Harris president, plus he shares his views on the current state of labor and how he envisions the future of the labor movement; In our final segment, is Amazon trying to Americanize Canadian labour law? Find out when RadioLabour looks into this question.

That’s all ahead – plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know -- on this week’s edition of The Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly…

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Work Stoppage; The Dig; The Valley Labor Report; The Radical Songbook; Workers Beat

On this week’s show: Taking a look at the fallout from the big election, Work Stoppage rounds up of statements from union leaders in response to the new era of organizing….on The Dig, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here….What will the Trump election will mean for southern and rural working folks and their unions? The Valley Labor Report talks to Joel Bleifuss of Barn Raiser…Bill Fletcher Jr. and Dave Zirin, on The Radical Songbook…Workers Beat host Gene Lantz reacts to last week’s results. Plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Payday Report; Working People; The State of Working America; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers; The Labor Heritage Power Hour; Solidarity Breakfast

On this week’s show: On the Payday Report, Steven Greenhouse discusses how NAFTA bred working class distrust in the Rust Belt…Workers take on Kaiser Permanente again in Southern California, on the Working People podcast…On the State of Working America Podcast, Naomi Walker and Chandra Childers discuss the Southern economic development model…Barbara Stevens, whose parents were both union activists in the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, tells her story in On The Line: Stories of BC Workers…Singer/songwriter Bev Grant tells the story behind her song We Can Move Mountains, on The Labor Heritage Power Hour. And, in our final segment, we go all the way to Melbourne, Australia, for the Solidarity Breakfast podcast’s report featuring a photo exhibition exploring Greek/Australian life, including work, culture, recreation, and politics.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

School Me; Working History; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; America’s Workforce Radio; What Do Workers Want?; Working Voices; Working People

On this week’s show: The NEA’s School Me podcast takes a peek into the exciting weekend of training hosted by NEA's See Educators Run team…Step Up Louisiana co-founder and co-director Maria Harmon joins the Working History podcast to talk about the group’s Freedom Summer-inspired voter turnout campaigns and grassroots mobilization efforts in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Jefferson Parish…on the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, Harold sits down with State Senate candidate Adrian Cortes and State House candidates John Zingale and Deken Letinich to find out the differences - and similarities - between the Federal Legislature and the State Legislature, the value of failure, and how you can change things in your state by talking to local legislators…Jason Lopes, Health Care Director for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a business agent for Teamsters Local 25, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the new national master agreement for workers at the American Red Cross…on What Do Workers Want? -- a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart -- Sarah and Max ask the tear-jerking questions about movement breakups, wounded hearts and petty revenge fantasies…and in our final segment, volunteer blood courier Larry Martin on That's My Job, from the Working Voices podcast.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

On Writing; Breaking Ground; 3rd & Fairfax; You Are The Current Resident; On The Workroom Floor

On this week’s show: "The Apprentice" screenwriter Gabe Sherman, on the On Writing podcast…Operating Engineers Local 3 House Counsel Gening Liao and Local 3 Political Director Chris Snyder join the Breaking Ground podcast to discuss the impact that presidential elections have on working people’s legal rights and the ability of unions like Operating Engineers Local 3 to defend or promote their memberships’ rights…Writers Guild of America West Senior Research and Public Policy Director Laura Blum-Smith joins Kristina Woo on the 3rd and Fairfax podcast to talk about the union’s policy priorities…Two takes on the tentative agreement between the Letter Carriers and the US Postal Service; first we’ll hear from Letter Carrier president Brian Renfroe on You Are The Current Resident, the Letter Carriers podcast, then the On The Workroom Floor podcast hosts a roundtable discussion on the proposed contract.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

The Valley Labor Report; Labor Jawn; Roswell Hub; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; My Labor Radio; Green and Red

On this week’s show: 30,000 Machinists at Boeing are on strike because of Jack Welch and the GE legacy, on The Valley Labor Report; American Jewish labor history with Caroline Luce, on Labor Jawn; Roswell Hub on the new uniform policy for UPS drivers; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month; Angie Moreno from Chicago JWJ, on My Labor Radio, and the Green and Red podcast remembers Kris Kristofferson and his politics.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.