Working People; Monday Morning QB; Heartland Labor Forum; Your Rights At Work; Solidarity Breakfast; SAG-AFTRA podcast; America Works; LRPN Profiles

The Working People podcast returns to Asheville North Carolina,  where the union-busting No Evil Foods abruptly closed its plant, leaving employees out of work with no severance…On Monday Morning QB, researcher Brittany Scott of Partners for Dignity & Rights talks about their recent research uncovering discrimination in temp worker hiring in Chicago, and how to fight back…Next, the Heartland Labor Forum profiles two local women leaders, Alise Martiny at the Kansas City Building Trades and Toni Robinson, president of the Postal Workers KCMO local…Then a world premiere of “Scabby the Rat, and Fatty the Cat,” a brand-new song played on this week’s Your Rights At Work show…from Australia, we’ll hear about the Collingwood Community Gardeners being locked out of their garden on the Solidarity Breakfast podcast…And on the SAG-AFTRA podcast, Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett talks about his big break and his support for the labor movement.
We wrap up this week’s show with a pair of profiles: Mike Peabody talks about how he learned his trade as a Garbage Man on the America Works podcast; and you’ll get a look inside the Labor Radio Podcast Network in the first of a series of profiles put together by Network producer Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab. Evan’s been conducting these interviews of Network members over the last year and we’ll be featuring them in upcoming editions of the Weekly.

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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Edited/produced by Patrick Dixon & Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips