Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

10 for Labor Day

NOTE: We’re pleased to feature ten of the Network’s shows this week for our Labor Day special show; you can also catch it on WPFW 89.3 FM’s 2022 Labor Day show at 4p ET (streaming online here) on Monday, September 5.

Essential Workers of the Pandemic were inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor on Thursday; Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh talked with Your Rights At Work about honoring these workers, and about the 71% union approval rating – the highest in nearly 50 years – reported in a Gallup poll this week.

From the BCTGM Voices Project, Bakery Workers Local 85 and the Corn Nuts Strike in California. And in another California strike, therapists walked out on Kaiser Permanente over a month ago; Building Bridges Radio talks to two of the strikers.

In the first of two reports on Starbucks organizing, the Heartland Labor Forum reports on Starbucks shutting down the only store in Kansas City to vote in a union. Our second Starbucks report this week is from the El Cafecito del Día podcast, which brings us “No Contract, No Coffee!”, a conversation with Starbucks workers -- and union organizers -- Sam Amato and Christian Miranda.

From the Solidarity Works podcast, “The Battle of Bay City”; bus drivers fight back privatization. And on Red Dead Redemption, Justine chats about the epidemic of 'Quiet Quitting'.

The New York State cannabis industry is creating tens of thousands of union jobs; America’s Workforce Radio finds out how. From the Power Line Podcast: the history of Milwaukee Tool and the things Milwaukee has done to put itself on top of the tooling industry.

Our last segment comes to us from On The Job, and it’s titled “Give us a break, Maccas”. That’s what they call McDonalds in Australia, where the podcast originates: a quarter of a million current and former McDonalds workers in Australia are suing the fast-food giant for $250 million, over alleged denial of paid breaks.

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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 and Chris Garlock, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Bacon, LeRoy and Union Yes

Our very first pod extra! Members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network meet online every Wednesday to share information about upcoming shows, and get advice from other labor podcasters and radio producers. Often we feature special guests who we think our fellow broadcasters might want to book on their shows.
We decided to go ahead a record these sessions and share excerpts of them with our listeners, both as a preview of some of the shows in the Network, and as a behind-the-scenes look at how podcast and radio producers put together the shows you listen to.
Our guests this week are longtime photo journalist David Bacon and Good Jobs First Executive Director Greg LeRoy. Plus we’ve got a very special blast from the union communications past!

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

”If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Keep Working”

On the Working People podcast -- a podcast by, for, and about the working class today, produced in partnership with In These Times magazine -- three UPS drivers talk about 150 degree heat conditions and what their demands are.

From the TWU Air Division Podcast -- updates and current news about what’s happening in the Transport Workers Union Airline Division -- Brian and Gary Peterson discuss the Jetblue-Spirit acquisition.

On Empathy Media Labs’ Labor Solidarity Podcast: Organizing the newsroom with labor journalist Hamilton Nolan. Empathy Media Labs is a publishing house, an artist studio, and an event space, focusing on labor, political economy, art and culture.

And on The Solidarity Podcast -- the official podcast of Teamsters Local 769 in Miami, Florida -- Bez shares news about contract ratifications, a steward training seminar, a UPS day of action, and the Local 769 Scholarship Fund.

On the CTU Speaks podcast, from the Chicago Teachers Union: Andrea and Jim talk to two rank and filers, Lori Torres and Tammie Vinson, about the recent AFT National Convention.

And on 3rd & Fairfax, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America West: Amy Schumer discusses her writing process and how she got her new show, Life & Beth, on the air.

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

“March on the Boss” videos

On the BCTGM Voices Project from the Bakery Workers union, Ryan Hocke discusses wage and job elimination issues surrounding the Ingredion strike. From the Union Yes Iowa podcast, Iowa Federation of Labor Secretary Treasurer Pete Hird interviews Peter Fisher about the impact inflation has on workers. And on Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Michael and Elliott discuss the CHIPS and Science Act and what it means for working people. We wrap up this week with March on the boss videos, from the Million Dollar Organizer podcast.

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

In Midst of War, Ukrainian Parliament Attacks Worker Rights

On the Solidarity Center Podcast; in the midst of war, the Ukrainian parliament attacks worker rights. Kim Siever interviews Des Bissonnette, a retail worker and activist located in Lloydminster, on the Alberta Worker Podcast. From Empathy Media Lab, Jim Key, President of the Atomic Energy Workers Council, USW, talks about how nuclear energy is both good for the country's energy infrastructure, as well as creating more high-paying union jobs. And on El Cafecito del Día, Evelin Urrutia, Executive Director of Tenants and Workers United, discusses housing issues faced by working class Latino communities in Northern Virginia. On the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast, Grosse Point's post-war discriminatory points-based housing system.

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

Live from the UAW convention

Two from the recent 2022 United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention in Detroit: on My Labor Radio, Mark Gervaart gets into the weeds of this year’s convention to explain changes to the election process; then, on the Trucked Up podcast, members from Locals 2209 and 14 discuss the different feel this convention has had, compared to past years.

On AFT in Action, Richard Bensinger talks about his involvement in the Starbucks unionization movement and how the workers got their initial momentum to begin organizing. 

Lastly, author Matt Christman joins The Dig to explain how the United States’ history has led to our present economic situation.

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 and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips

Organizing in Medieval Times

On the Work Stoppage podcast: Hyundai is violating child labor laws with migrant children in an Alabama metal stamping plant. The latest southern labor news from The Valley Labor Report. On the Belabored podcast,

why performers at the Medieval Times in Lindhurst, New Jersey have voted to unionize. Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, in Australia recently to talk with unions, workers and the newly elected Labor government, sat down with the On The Job podcast in Melbourne. Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan talks to the Labor Radio Podcast Network about why “labor media is a vital part of a thriving labor movement.”

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

Selma James: “Our time is now”

On the Black Work Talk podcast, Erica Iheme, Deputy Director for Jobs to Move America talks about organizing and burnout…Sandy Burch and Carol Wald discuss the overturning of Roe v. Wade on the Voice of The People podcast…On the latest podcast of The Voice, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten offers some pointed opinions on the Supreme Court's ruling striking down Roe v. Wade...In the final episode of the Union Days podcast series; the role sex plays in misconduct at work…Writer, feminist and social activist Selma James talks with the Your Rights At Work radio show about the International Wages for Housework Campaign, which she co-founded fifty years ago…

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

Amazon and the legacy of bloody Harlan

From the Work Stoppage podcast, we hear from Matt, a worker-organizer at Amazon’s SDF1 facility in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Then we find out why some people are trying to censor The Valley Labor Report. Jerome Almon talks with My Labor Radio about his plan to unify workers behind an app that publishes crucial information on the realities of corporate America.
On El Cafecito del Día, advocates for undocumented students explain DC Achieves, a program that grants scholarships for undocumented students in higher education.
Hosts Charles and James kick back and talk about life, labor and living on LaborVision, the podcast from the Michigan AFL-CIO.
Finally, from the European Trade Union Institute – ETUI—podcast, what are psychosocial risks, or PSRs? They’re increasingly affecting workers in industries across Europe, with effects that can be long-lasting and have both physical and psychological impacts on workers’ lives, including depression, musculoskeletal disorders or burnout.

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

More labor takes on over-ruling Roe v. Wade

Three reports on the effect of the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade: On Your Rights At Work, labor historian Joe McCartin reminds us that counting on the Supreme Court to uphold key rights was always a mistake; then the Heartland Labor Forum hosts a round table of legal experts and academics discuss how the decision will affect working folks; and for our last report on this issue, we go Down Under for the Solidarity Breakfast podcast’s coverage of a pro-abortion rally in Australia.

Then we completely shift gears with the Alberta Workers Podcast’s interview with Dominic Shaw who rappelled down the Calgary Tower in a wheelchair. We wrap up the show with two activists from the Bayard Rustin Center discussing the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin on the Solidarity Works podcast.

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