Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

LIVE from the Great Labor Arts Exchange!

The annual Great Labor Arts Exchange is being held this year at the Labor Notes conference, billed as “the biggest gathering out there of grassroots union activists, worker center leaders, and all-around troublemakers,” which runs through Sunday here in Chicago, Illinois. We’ve got music today from Thursday night's Arts Exchange session.
On today’s show, we also visit with Gladys Igbo, a nurse from St Paul, Minnesota, Allen Rouse, a longshoreman from Charleston, South Carolina, and Chantal Ide and Frederic Collin, Canadian unionists from Montreal.

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

The Labor Radio Podcast Network team takes a road trip!

Patrick, Chris and Evan hit the road for Chicago and the Labor Notes conference. On the way, they share impressions of the just-concluded AFL-CIO convention and break some exciting news about next steps for the Labor Radio Podcast Network!

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @labornotes

Recording/editing by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art

On today’s show Patrick Dixon talks with WILL EMPOWER's Sherri Davis-Faulkner and Lane Windham about the AFL-CIO convention’s diversity, as well as how it has addressed many women's issues.

Longtime labor talk show host Rick Smith dropped by the Labor Radio Podcast Network studio yesterday and we prevailed on him to interview the president of the AFL-CIO's Metal Trades Department, who talked about change and his views on President Biden.

Next, Chris Garlock talks with Erica Stewart about her courageous struggle and triumph as a young Black woman in the Boilermakers union who was the first female African American international rep in the union's history.

Chris also talks with American Income Life's Susan Fuldauer about AIL's pro-labor policies and the history of the company's working class consciousness.

We wrap up today’s show with an audio postcard from Tuesday afternoon’s rally by hundreds of AFL-CIO convention delegates supporting the fight for a contract by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union, led by AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond and AFSCME president Lee Saunders.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @PMA_Union @PHLafscmeDC47 #FairContractNow @philamuseum @LizShuler

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

Biden: “America’s always counted on union workers”

Reactions from delegates to President Joe Biden’s speech at the convention this morning. 

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @POTUS  @WhiteHouse  @staceyabrams  @TeamAbrams

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

Shuler: “We are a workers movement”

On today’s show, newly-elected AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond talk about their plans to “leverage the resources of the labor movement” to support workers who are rising up across the country, organizing and striking for their rights.

Then, National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo on how healthcare workers are still battling to hold together a broken healthcare system as the pandemic continues to rage.

Next, Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants,
talks about how American workers are rediscovering the power they have in their own hands when they strike.

We’ll also visit with Vinnie Alvarez, longtime president of the New York City Central Labor Council, where workers who survived the pandemic are standing up, fighting back, and winning.

Our last report comes from Karen Nussbaum, who spent the last couple of days interviewing a wide array of international visitors to the AFL-CIO convention, providing a kaleidoscopic view of the global labor movement.

And we have a special treat for you today; as we were working on today’s edition of the show, the gorgeous sounds of a capella rose above the hum of convention conversation. It was the voices of Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan who perform together as Windborne. We think you’re going to really love their version of an old favorite labor song.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @nlcnig  @mtucMV @MadhurangaKalpa  @CUT_Brasil

Editing by Mel Smith, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips. Special thanks to Karen Nussbaum for her interviews of international visitors.

Spiritual and global solidarity

The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is coming to you from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hundreds gathered for an interfaith breakfast Sunday morning before the convention officially opened at noon, so our show begins with Father Clete Kiley and Clayton Sinyai; Father Kiley is chaplain to the Chicago Federation of Labor and senior adviser to Unite Here, while Clayton Sinyai is the Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network.
Our other guests today hail from across the country and around the world,
from April Lott, president of the Charleston South Carolina Labor Council,
to Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota AFL-CIO. Fathimath Zimna (photo) is General Secretary of the Maldives Health Professionals Union and we wrap up today’s show with Laxman Basnet, General Secretary of the South Asian Regional Trade Union Council.

We’ve got a lot more already lined up for tomorrow’s show, including an exclusive sitdown with Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond, who talked with the Labor Radio Podcast Network just hours after being elected President and Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Also, Karen Nussbaum interviewed a number of international trade unionists which we’ll be featuring in tomorrow’s report.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv

Interviews and editing by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

LIVE from the AFL-CIO convention!

Welcome to the Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly. We’re here in Philadelphia at the AFL-CIO Convention, where thousands of union leaders and members
have gathered to celebrate the strength of the federation’s 56 affiliated unions and 12.5 million members, honor the souls lost and renew the movement’s commitment to build back better with unions.
Hosted by American Income Life, the Labor Radio Podcast Network
will be interviewing convention attendees about the opportunities and challenges ahead for the American labor movement.
On today’s show, highlights from tonight’s moving tribute to Richard Trumka, the fiery Mine Workers president who led his union to victory in the 1989 Pittston strike, and went on to lead the AFL-CIO, serving as president from 2009 until his untimely death on August 5, 2021.
PLUS: interviews with Brian Griffin, executive secretary treasurer for the Cincinnati AFL CIO labor council, Leonard Aguilar, secretary treasurer of the Texas AFL CIO, and Alicia Page, business development officer for the Bank of Labor.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @CincyAFLCIO @AguilarLeonard

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

Pride At Work!

June is Pride Month, so we start off with Pride at Work Executive Director Jerame Davis on YALL Cast, a podcast that looks at Young Active Labor Leaders in the great state of Texas.         
Then the Talking SMART podcast talks with Matt Cherry and Dan O’Connell. Matt is a Local 33 sheet metal member from Toledo, Ohio, who serves as the president of the Toledo City Council, Dan is a long-time member of the SMART Transportation Division who served as New Jersey State Legislative Director for 20 years, until his retirement in 2018.
On the Canadian Union Podcast For Employees, Rory Gill, president of CUPE Alberta discusses Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta and the leader of the United Conservative Party who recently announced his intentions to step down.
Next we go to New Zealand, where Justine answers all your questions about bad managers, Christmas leave, and dreaded team bonding activities, on the Red Dead Redemption podcast.
We wrap up this week with the On Writing podcast’s chat with Amy Schumer, creator and star of the comedy-drama series LIFE & BETH, with her advice to writers, why she loves writing in bed and the differences between writing a sketch show like INSIDE AMY SCHUMER versus a scripted show like LIFE & BETH.

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.

June 18 March on Washington

Previewing the June 18 March on Washington on the Your Rights At Work radio show; the El Desvio podcast explores what the current attack on women’s health means for women in the labor force; on the Workplace Matters podcast, anthropologist Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi explains that the way we look at global labor inequality is backwards; then, from the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, the hierarchy of seating in the boardroom and the classroom; and we wrap up this week with poet Asnia Asim exploring the differences in the consumption of art in the United States and her home country of Pakistan; that’s from the Empathy Media Labs podcast.

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.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @DCLabor @LCLAA @boboedy @empathymedialab

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

Alabama Starbucks workers organize

Members of Alabama Starbucks Workers United talk with the Valley Labor Report about why they’re organizing…On the Labor Exchange,
a conversation with Colorado AFL-CIO president Josette Jaramillo…
Executive producer and show runner Robin Veith talks with the 3rd & Fairfax podcast about making the ‘80s crime drama Candy for Hulu…
and Tales from the Reuther Library literally digs into local history
as Dr. Krysta Ryzewksi discusses archaeological digs at famous locations in Detroit.

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.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AWFUnionPodcast @WorkingPod @LaborReporters @aflbobby @WGAWest @ReutherLibrary

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