Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Working to Live in SW Washington, The Rick Smith Show, Educating From the Heart, BCTGM Voices, Monday Morning QB and MyLaborRadio

PRO Act co-author Senator Patty Murray (D, WA) on why she created the bill and why she's fighting so hard to get it passed…Jesse Lee of the Center for American Progress on Biden's first 100 days…Florida’s private school voucher program and segregation…How one union turned a 531-member loss into a 370-member gain…The not-so-mysterious mystery of the missing unemployment benefits…Fort Wayne’s May Day rally for locked-out musicians.

We’ve got reports from Working to Live in SW Washington, The Rick Smith Show, Educating From the Heart, BCTGM Voices, Monday Morning QB and MyLaborRadio. 

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 @RickSmithShow @FloridaEA @BCTGM @WPFWMMQB @mgevaart

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

Rick Smith Show, America's Work Force Radio, Building Bridges, Laborwave Radio, the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, the Valley Labor Report, Union Dues, Talking SMART

John Logan on how the PRO Act could be a real game-changer…Honoring healthcare workers on Workers’ Memorial Day…Whatever happened to the 8-hour day? We ask immigrant woman home attendants doing 24-hour shifts…Is "salting" a workplace the answer to effective union organizing? Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez on the Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act…And what's in the report on the Huntsville Police Riot? Plus: a union strategy for fixing supply chains in the wake of the recent Suez Canal incident, and how the Illinois SMART union army delivered when disaster struck in Texas.

We’ve got reports from The Rick Smith Show, America's Work Force Radio, Building Bridges Radio, Laborwave Radio, the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, the Valley Labor Report, Union Dues and Talking SMART. 

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 @RickSmithShow @AWFUnionPodcast @bbridgesradio @sagaftra @LaborReporters @duesunion @smartunionworks

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

Heartland Labor Forum, Monday Morning QB, Activate L!VE, Your Rights At Work, Re:Work Radio, the 7th Street Chronicles, America's Workforce Radio, Grit NW, Labor History in 2:00

Longtime organizer Jane McAlevey on what happened at Amazon and how to defeat the union busters…Minority unionism with Susan Schurman, Professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations…IAM Safety and Health Project Coordinator Shaun Trude on how the union is fighting for more protections amid COVID-19…Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen reports on the latest efforts to enfranchise 700,000 American workers and voters in the District of Columbia…When we think about college, there’s a certain whimsical image, a time of self discovery and carefree fun before you step out into the “real” world. But now, with the rising costs of education and living expenses, most students work, and work a lot. Adolfo González shares his decades long journey to provide for his family while pursuing his education…The 7th Street Chronicles, the brand-new podcast from Charlotte Fire Fighters Association Local 660, celebrates National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week by recognizing the critical role dispatchers play in answering emergency calls…National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association President and CEO Michael Johnson on how an infrastructure plan will prioritize surface transportation and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected travel…Plus, is the American construction industry ready for self-driving screws and self-hammering nails? And, on Labor History in 2:00, The California Spinach Riot.

We’ve got reports from Heartland Labor Forum, Monday Morning QB, Activate L!VE, Your Rights At Work, Re:Work Radio, the 7th Street Chronicles, America's Workforce Radio, Grit NW and 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 @Heartland_Labor @WPFWMMQB @MachinistsUnion @dclabor @rework_radio @AWFUnionPodcast @GritNw @ILLaborHistory

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

Union Strong; Heartland Labor Forum; Valley Labor Report; SAG-AFTRA podcast; Working Class History

New York State AFL-CIO Chief of Staff Ryan Delgado on why the PRO Act is so important to working people…Workers at Google are forming the Alphabet Workers Union…How can media be used as an organizing tool? Plus, visits with Alexandra Grey and Ian Harvie, two performers who have overcome prejudice and risen to prominence while raising awareness of the trans community…and Jeon-Tae Il and Lee-So Sun, two South Korean garment worker organizers.

We’ve got reports from Union Strong, the Heartland Labor Forum, the Valley Labor Report, the SAG-AFTRA podcast and Working Class History.

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.

Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Heartland_Labor @nysaflcio @LaborReporters @sagaftra @wrkclasshistory

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

Heartland Labor Forum; Black Work Talk; Belabored; America's Workforce Radio; AFT in Action; The Voice of Oregon Workers; Talking SMART; Working to Live in Southwest Washington; On Writing; LH2

Flight Attendant president Sarah Nelson on how the PRO Act would have made a difference in this week’s union election at Amazon…Historian Robin DG Kelly on the long history of union suppression in Alabama…Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Executive Director Laura Penn reports on how the stage industry has been devastated by the pandemic, but is getting back on their feet…Doctor Saud Anwar, a pulmonologist at Manchester Memorial Hospital who also serves as a state senator in Connecticut’s General Assembly, talks about the effects of the pandemic on healthcare workers…And we hear from building trades leaders in Oregon about the state’s Prevailing Wage Rate law…Ronnie Hobbs is the Transportation Division legislative director for the Sheet Metal And Rail Transportation – or SMART – union; today he explains how the SMART Army is making a difference in the community…Patrick Town and Ross Wolf discuss financial stability in the COVID era…And we wrap up this week’s show with a visit with Eliza Hittman, the writer and director of the acclaimed 2020 film NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS..

We’ve got reports from Heartland Labor Forum, Black Work Talk, Belabored, America's Workforce Radio, AFT in Action, The Voice of Oregon Workers, Talking SMART, Working to Live in Southwest Washington and On Writing.
Bonus: Labor History in 2:00 on Explosion at Eddystone.

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.

Also, check out our livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Heartland_Labor @BlackWorkTalk @DissentMag @AWFUnionPodcast @AFTCT @smartunionworks @SWWACLC @WGAEast @ILLaborHistory

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