Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Your Rights At Work; Workers Beat Extra; Solidarity Center Podcast; Laborwave Radio; Tales from the Reuther Library; America's Workforce Radio; 141 Report; Blue Collar Gospel Hour

Is telework more productive? On Your Rights At Work, federal and DC workers say yes. Gene Lantz connects Independence Day and Bastille Day on the Workers Beat Extra, and on the Solidarity Center Podcast, host Shawna Bader-Blau talks with Phyo Sandar Soe, leader with the Confederation of Trade Unions, Myanmar, about the repression faced by trade unionists there and how workers are fighting back against the junta.
You say you want a general strike? Marianne Garneau discusses the challenges on Laborwave Radio. On Tales from the Reuther Library, Blaming Teachers: How America simultaneously professionalized and patronized education.
The Maritime Trades Dan Duncan talks about Buy American and the Jones Act on America's Workforce Radio and on The 141 Report, host Dave Lehigh talks shop with Darryl Currant, grievance committee chairperson at IAM Lodge 1725, about building a strong union in the South, and why it's important to organize as a team.
We wrap up this week’s show with poet Ed Werstein on the Blue Collar Gospel Hour.
Bonus track: Lumber Workers Put Down Their Axes on today’s Labor History in 2:00.

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, Melanie Smith and Chris Bangert-Drowns; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

The Teamsters Podcast; Belabored; The Voice of Oregon's Workers; CTU Speaks; Solidarity Breakfast; Trailblazers, Inc.; 3rd and Fairfax: The WGAW Podcast; Tales of the Resistance; LRPN Profiles

Joe Biden talks about building for the future on the Teamsters podcast; what rising U.S.-China tensions mean for workers and the labor movement in both countries, from the Belabored podcast; On The Voice of Oregon's Workers, a look at Oregon's growing union movement; CTU Speaks talks with longtime educator and activist Tara Stamps; the Solidarity Breakfast podcast reports on the lockout at the Collingwood Community Gardens; on Trailblazers, Inc. Kayla Vander Moler shares her experiences as a boilermaker; writer, actor, producer, and stand-up comic Iliza Schlesinger talks about the hard work of comedy with 3rd and Fairfax, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America West; from the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s new radio drama, we get a taste of Episode 1 of Tales of the Resistance. This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network profile from Empathy Media Lab is a visit with Maximillian Alvarez, host of the Working People podcast.
Bonus track: Organizing During Wartime on today’s Labor History in 2:00.

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 Melanie Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Talking SMART; Labor Radio on KBOO FM; My Labor Radio; Valley Labor Report; En Masse; The BCTGM Voices Project; On the Line: Stories of BC Workers; LRPN Profiles

Long trains, two-person crews and rail safety on Talking SMART…On Labor Radio on KBOO, Painters launch "Summer of Chaos"… My Labor Radio explores how money from the American Rescue Plan is being spent in Indiana… The Valley Labor Report exposes union busting at MSNBC…Liz Medina talks to Robert Ovetz, author of "Global Workers and Class Struggle" on En Masse…The BCTGM Voices Project features one of the Bakery Workers’ most enthusiastic young leaders…from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers, indigenous longshoremen and the IWW… Rick Smith on this week’s LRPN Profiles, from Empathy Media Lab.

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

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.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WorkingPod @WPFWMMQB @Heartland_Labor @dclabor @3CRsolidarity @sagaftra @librarycongress @empathymedialab

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

America's Workforce Radio; Union Dues; Solidarity Works; Labor Wave Radio; Labor History in Two

On America's Workforce Radio, David Van Deusen, president of the Vermont AFL-CIO, discusses the United Slate's approach to politics and the recent defeat of Right to Work legislation in New Hampshire.  In the latest episode of Union Dues, GMB National Organizer Martin Smith describes his union's historic deal with Uber.  On Solidarity Works, author and activist Anne Balay describes the research process behind her book Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers. On this week's Labor Wave Radio, Elizabeth Laycak imagines what it would be like to unionize Dunder Mifflin Paper Co., the fictional location of the popular television series The Office.  Finally, on Labor History in Two, Rick Smith revisits the wildcat strike at the Dodge Truck plant in Warren, Michigan on June 11, 1974.

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; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Building Bridges Radio; Belabored; My Labor Radio; The Rick Smith Show; The Teamsters Podcast; Educating From the Heart; Breaking Ground; On Writing

On Building Bridges Radio, 107-year old Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher makes the case for remembering, and for reparations. Then, on the Belabored podcast, Sara Jaffe calls out officials and the media after tennis star Naomi Osaka's job action at the French Open. And with the dust barely settled after the Amazon organizing drive in Alabama, My Labor Radio brings us an update on the now 10-week long strike between the United Mine Workers and Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama.
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has been catching a lot of flak lately for his stands on the filibuster, the PRO Act and voting rights; Hollywood producer and longtime friend of The Rick Smith Show Marshall Herskovitz says Manchin might not be quite as wrong as most believe him to be. On the latest edition of the Teamsters podcast, we hear how the union is flexing its muscles in D.C.’s corridors of power to make sure workers can join together and organize for better wages and safer workplaces. Then, a Florida teacher and school board member dissect the state's inability to properly fund schools over the last year on the Educating From the Heart podcast.
Operating Engineers Local 3 is the largest construction trades local in the U.S.; on the latest edition of Local 3’s podcast, Breaking Ground, Public Employee Director Tim Neep and Senior Business Agent Mike Eggener pull back the curtain on some of their day-to-day work for their members.
Our last report comes from On Writing, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America, East, as Zack Akers, writer and co-director of SHIPWORM, explains how the project is the first podcast to be covered on the Writers Guild Minimum Basic Agreement, and big shifts in the podcasting 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

Working to Live in SW Washington; AFT Connecticut; The State of Working America; Blue Collar Gospel Hour; Union Strong

Can your boss actually do that? What workplace legal protections do you have if you’re not covered by a union contract? On the Working to Live in SouthWest Washington podcast, hosts Shannon and Harold sat down with Diana Winter, attorney for IBEW Local 48…On the AFT In Action podcast we meet Connecticut State representative Josh Elliott who discusses the costs of higher education in the Nutmeg State…The Economic Policy Institute’s podcast, The State of Working America, is back, and none too soon, as EPI staffers fact-check the labor shortage hype…Then on The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, author and activist Sue Blaustein remembers her earliest days in the labor movement and the describes what it’s really like to be a food safety inspector. Finally, a touching story on the Union Strong podcast from the New York State AFL-CIO, as we meet fifth generation electrical worker Chris Erickson, who donated a kidney to his brother in 2017, and changed the way members of his local thought about live organ donation.

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 @SWWACLC @AFTCT @EconomicPolicy @nysaflcio

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

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.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @AWFUnionPodcast @DCLabor @duesunion @radiolabour @librarycongress @CtuSpeaks @GritNw @BC_LHC

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

Labor Radio on KBOO; 3rd and Fairfax; UComm Live; Heartland Labor Forum; LaborWave Radio; Laborlines

We talk with stage hands who have been out of work since November of last year…Saved by the Bell writer Tracey Wigfield on getting into show biz…The mine workers get on board with green energy jobs…Scabby the Rat is back, escaping the trap set by bad bosses and their friends in the Trump administration…And we talk union democracy and organizing with Marybeth Seitz-Brown.

We’ve got reports from Labor Radio on KBOO; 3rd and Fairfax; UComm Live; Heartland Labor Forum; LaborWave Radio; Laborlines.

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 @kboo @WGAWest @ucommblog @Heartland_Labor @laborlinejohn

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

Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast

Steel Workers union president Tom Conway on president Biden’s American Jobs Plan and the need to invest in the nation’s infrastructure…UNITE HERE Local 11 organizer and co-president Susan Minato talks about growing up as the daughter of working-class Japanese parents, and how the lessons her mother taught her helped shape UNITE HERE's training model…Professor Mel Simms from Glasgow University discusses the scarring effect of a recession on the career trajectories of young people and some possible solutions…Registered Nurse Leslie Egan describes nursing in Albany during the pandemic…We explore the problems of rampant wage theft and poor enforcement by the Department of Labor, with Center for Public Integrity Senior Reporter Alexia Fernandez Campbell and Terri Gerstein, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program.
Then, three union veterans discuss the connection between the military and the class system…and we wrap up with filmmaker Mark Street and longshoreman Maureen Gutierrez on Mark’s new film Work Songs.
PLUS: The Winnipeg General Strike Begins, on Labor History in 2:00.

We’ve got reports from Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast; Labor History in 2:00 

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 @steelworkers @LALabor @duesunion @nysaflcio @WPFWMMQB @WorkingPod @dockerpodcast @ILLaborHistory

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