WorkWeek Radio; America’s Workforce Radio; Your Rights At Work; UnionDues; RadioLabour; America Works; CTU Speaks; Grit NorthWest; On the Line: Stories of BC Workers

Teamsters Local 808 President Chris Rivera discusses the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, on Work Week Radio…AFL-CIO Director of Government Affairs Bill Samuel reports on the status of the PRO Act on America’s Workforce Radio…Then, from Your Rights At Work, Scabby the Rat and The Fat Cat team up to save jobs at the Strathmore Music Center just outside Washington, DC…We'll find out how community solidarity in Glasgow, Scotland stopped a forcible deportation, on the UnionDues podcast.
From RadioLabour, we’ll hear about the Bangladeshi garment workers fight for jobs and a living wage, and America Works returns for a second season with underwater marine diver Jim Mercer describing his year-round job checking, maintaining, and repairing commercial fishing boats in and around the port of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
On CTU Speaks, we find out about the special challenges deaf students face…and from Grit NorthWest, we get insight into the role of union delegates. Our last report comes from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers, with their story of uniting Asian workers in the lumber industry.

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