Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Working People; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; The Dig; Labor Jawn

TV writer Sasha Stewart talks to the Working People podcast about the recent changes in the industry that have led to the ongoing strike.

And, on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, how SAG-AFTRA Is tackling the challenges of Generative AI.

Then, Philly’s Left Turn on The Dig podcast.

And we wrap up with a look at "the Forrest Gump of Activism"; gay rights, HIV/AIDS, anti-war, and civil rights activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya on the Labor Jawn podcast, one of our newest Network members.

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Edited by Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Writers walk, building worker power, May Day ‘23

From the Your Rights At Work radio show, The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson traces this week’s Hollywood writers' strike back to the roots of the Writers’ Guild’s founding in the 1930s. 

Then, on the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, a provocative assessment of independent unionism as a strategy for building worker power in the U.S. Erik Loomis talks with New Labor Forum Consulting Editor Joshua Freeman.

From the Workers Beat radio show, "May Day 2023 in Dallas".

Continuing our May Day theme, on the Green and Red podcast, Bob and Scott break down May Day with a little history of labor struggle from 1877 to 1937, current labor struggles, including unionization (and union busting) at REI, wins at the University of Minnesota and Stanford and past anti-nuclear actions on May Day. 

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

Grad students strike, AI organizing, I Am A Man

In our first segment today, from the Working People podcast, we’ll hear from one of the graduate student workers who’s been out on strike for over five weeks now at the University of Michigan.

Then, I AM Story’s Episode 2, I Am A Man.

From the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, AI and union organizing.

Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider on how the corporate theory of change has damaged public education, on The Dig podcast.

In our final segment today a Rutgers striker talks about wins and future hopes. That’s from The Valley Labor Report.

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Edited by Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Child labor, child strikes

When you hear the words “child labor,” your mind may go to the turn-of-the-century photographs taken by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine of the grim lives of tiny laborers toiling in mines and urban sweatshops. But recent news reports have revealed that child labor is alive and well in the United States in 2023. Jack Hodgson, a visiting professor in history at the University of Roehampton, joins the Belabored podcast to discuss child labor throughout U.S. history and in the context of labor and civil rights struggles that continue to this day.

Late last year, SAG-AFTRA introduced two new podcast contracts that make it easy for producers to be flexible and creative in covering their podcasts at all budgets. Sue-Anne Morrow, National Director/Contract Strategic Initiatives & Podcasts at SAG-AFTRA, walks us through the details of these new agreements on the SAG-AFTRA podcast.

From On The Line: Stories of BC Workers a remarkable but relatively unknown chapter of working-class solidarity. While waves of sympathy strikes to support the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike took place across Canada, the most pronounced of these was in Vancouver, B.C. Even after workers returned to their jobs, 325 women telephone operators stayed out for another two weeks.

Our final segment today is from Labor History Today. A few weeks in the little town of Windber, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and The Battle of Homestead Foundation were holding their “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” a daylong program on the United Mine Workers’ 1922-23 Windber strike for union recognition, discussions on “Women in Coal and Steel” and “John Brophy and Labor Education”.

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

Strikes and mergers, plus stories of Black midwives

Leading off this week's show we've got a collaboration between two figures who will be familiar to regular listeners of this show: Errol Schweizer of The Checkout Podcast and Maximilian Alvarez, who hosts the Working People podcast. In recent months Errol has been among the fiercest critics of the proposed merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertson's.  This past week Errol joined Max on the Working People podcast to talk about his own unique career path, the implications of growing monopolization within the grocery sector, and the pressures faced by retail workers in both the front and back of the shop.

Next, two strike updates, one from New Jersey, the second from northern Victoria. In New Brunswick, three unions representing 9,000 educators, clinicians and librarians walked out last week at Rutgers University in an unprecedented contract action. The We Rise Fighting podcast reviews the latest news and offers their take on what's going on. 

We then turn to the Stick Together podcast from Australia where we hear about the Shepparton cannery workers and their fight for fair pay. Tony Mavromatis, Victorian State Secretary for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union explains the broad implications of the strike to Annie McLaughlin.

What is the legislative conference and why should we care? We’ll find out
on the PFFA podcast.

Gene Lantz is concerned.  Successive crises in both the US and overseas have, the host of Workers Beat contends, left us at a historical fork in the road where both democracy and the larger international order face continued tumultuous times. 
Gene warns that we are just one crisis away from drastic change.

Finally, despite a long tradition of midwifery in the Black community, which predates the founding of the United States, less than 2% of midwives today are Black. The Re-Work podcast brings us the story of Kim Durdin, who found her calling in reclaiming midwifery and birthwork.

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

MLK and labor: his last speech

This week, on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers, AFSCME, the union those sanitation workers belonged to, released the I AM STORY Podcast, which retells the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history. Episode 1 is available now on all major podcast platforms.

Then, on Building Bridges Radio: Mike Honey on Dr. King and his last speech in Memphis.

On America’s Workforce Radio, Michigan State Senator Darrin Camilleri discusses his successful Right to Work repeal bill.

Then, we’ll hear about green jobs for Rhode Island on the Labor Vision podcast.

Roswell Hub is a podcast from a Teamster in Roswell, Georgia; today we feature an episode exploring Why must you work as instructed?

Then, on the Valley Labor Report, Max Fraser talks about his book Hillbilly Highway.

Our last segment today is from the America Works podcast, from the Library of Congress, and we’ll hear from Dairy Farm Herdsperson Joyce Godbout.

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

I AM Story; Memphis ‘68

A discussion of the continuing Pittsburgh Gazette strike on Today in Pittsburgh Labor.

The Union Strong podcast reports on a healthcare worker rally in Albany, New York.

Then, a discussion of education and training programs with Matthew Clark on the BCTGM Voices Project.

A win for unions and indigenous communities in Brazil, on the Solidarity Center Podcast.

And in our final segment, Cam Juarez talks about growing up as one of "Cesar's kids" on Words and Work.

We’ve got a special bonus track today, from a brand-new podcast that launches next Tuesday, April 4: The I AM Story Podcast follows the history of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike as told by those who experienced it first-hand. Produced by AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the I AM Story Podcast builds a narrative that envelops listeners, transporting them back to the streets of Memphis, the sanctuary of Mason Temple, the homes of the workers and the union hall where these American heroes decided to take a stand against injustice.

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

Labor Power & Strategy

From We Rise Fighting, a report on the strikes in France over increasing the retirement age.

On the ILO Future of Work podcast, Janine Berg and Iván Williams Jiménez discuss why key workers are undervalued.

From the Heartland Labor Forum, authors from the new book Labor Power & Strategy, which focuses on how organized labor can build its power to take on corporate America and win.

On El Cafecito del Día, a conversation on book bans with Noel Candelaria, Secretary Treasurer of the NEA.

On Stick Together, stories of working women in Australia.

And in our final segment, from the SAG-AFTRA podcast, producers of the SAG-AFTRA awards explain what went on behind the scenes of this year's show.

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

Elon Musk’s company town

Elon Musk plans to set up a company town; The Rick Smith Show reminds us of the dark history of company towns.

Then, on America’s Workforce Radio, Tim Burga, President of the Ohio AFL-CIO, tells us about new legislation to improve safety on the railroads.

Next we go to Brazil, for a report on 39 workers rescued from modern slavery on the Solidarity Center Podcast.

From the FairWork podcast, a discussion with Heather Berg about how the internet has changed sex work.

Our final segment today is from the new season of the America Works podcast, which introduces us to Jude Bejarano, a cement plant worker in Evansville, Pennsylvania

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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Extremism in Topeka

The Kansas Reflector’s Sherman Smith reports on extremism in Topeka on theHeartland Labor Forum.

Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson discuss Rutgers workers' industrial unionism strategy on The Dig.

The Oscars are this Sunday; actor and podcaster Harold Phillips highlights some of the more labor-focused movies and TV shows on Labor Goes To The Movies.

After a 2-year hiatus, we’re very pleased to welcome back the Working History podcast, which spotlights the work of leading labor historians, activists, and practitioners focusing especially on the U.S. and global South; today we’ll hear Jefferson Cowie on his new book Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.

We wrap up this week’s show with The Radical Songbook podcast and a 1996 song about striking hospital workers that’s still very relevant today.

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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.