Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

The Labor Link; Union Dues; Solidarity Center Podcast; The Checkout; State of the Unions; El Desvio; A Better World

This week’s show starts in Thailand with Sawit Kaewwan, the secretary general of the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC) on the Labor Link Podcast. Sawit has worked tirelessly to build solidarity between migrant workers and union workers in Thailand to improve workers’ rights.

UnionDues is back with special guest Tom Grinyer, Chief Executive of the British Medical Association—the UK’s doctors’ union. Tom discusses their goal to balance the doctors’ needs with those of their patients and how that mission has helped them throughout the pandemic.

For our last international show, the Solidarity Center’s Podcast, features Rita Goyit from the Nigeria Labor Council. She talks about some of their creative and inspirational initiatives designed to fight against gender-based harassment in workplaces in Nigeria.

Back in the states, worker John Yougstun joins The Checkout and talks about the working conditions at his employer HelloFresh, as well as his and his colleagues’ attempt to form a union, and the company's latest response to their efforts.

The AFL-CIO’s State of the Unions podcast welcomes the new president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Jimmy Williams Jr. He highlights some of the pushback he has received for his advocacy of undocumented workers and the importance of a strong connected membership.

In honor of Latina Pay Gap Day, El Desvío features Irasema Garza, Attorney and Co-Author of a report on the pandemic's impact on Latina workers. She explains the invisibility of Latinas in the workplace, and the link between childcare and their wage gap.

And finally, with a Wisconsin dairy farmer who has lived through it all, A Better World Podcast traces the historical relationship between small dairy farms and government policies starting with Reaganomics and ending on Trump’s USMCA deal. 

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 Patrick Dixon and Chris Garlock; social media guru Harold Phillips.

Union Strong; Working People; Your Rights At Work; The Rick Smith Show; Educating From the Heart

This week, Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig talks with theUnion Strong podcast about Operation Union Veterans Day…On the Working People podcast, 35,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente are ready to walk off the job November 15; two nurses explain why…Then, on Your Rights At Work, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith on "Why the Media Loves Labor Now"…From The Rick Smith Show, David Pepper, author of "Laboratories of Autocracy" exposes the extreme levels of corruption that have somehow become normal in GOP politics, and how it gets even worse as we move from DC into the states. And we wrap up this week’s show with National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers presidents Becky Pringle and Randi Weingarten on the Educating From the Heart podcast, discussing the dynamic power that comes when there is alignment between the national, state, and local unions and rank-and-file members.

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 with Mel Smith.

RadioLabour; Reinventing Solidarity; State of the Unions; Labor Wave Radio; For A Better World; Powerline Podcast; Tales from the Reuther Library; SAG-AFTRA

This week, RadioLabour on what labor wants from the UN's climate change conference…the intersection of the decarbonizing industry and labor in Scotland on Reinventing Solidarity…two striking Kellogg’s workers tell the AFL-CIO’s State of the Unions podcast how the company has become a “shitshow”… Bill Fletcher Jr. on Janus v. AFSCME on Labor Wave Radio …from the For a Better World podcast, how the Milk with Dignity program empowers dairy workers in Vermont…D’Jon Greer tells the Powerline Podcast about his experience as a Black journeyman lineman…on Tales from the Reuther Library, how the Communist Party and labor activists worked together in post-WWII Detroit…SAG-AFTRA's podcast explores what it takes to narrate an audiobook.

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 @radiolabour @CunySLU @LaborwaveRadio @fairworldprj @powerlinepodcast @ReutherLibrary @sagaftra

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

Rick Smith Show; Labor Express Radio; The Checkout; The SUWA Show; Solidarity Works; Black Work Talk; Labor History Today; Grit NW

This week, Labor reporter Dave Jamieson discusses Striketober on The Rick Smith Show…On Labor Express Radio, Shailly Gupta Barnes of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses their new study, Waking the Sleeping Giant : Poor and Low-Income Voters in the 2020 Elections…Organizer Chris Smalls talks about unionizing Amazon on The Checkout…And, from new Network member The SUWA Show    -- Squatters and Unwaged Workers Airwaves, a weekly program from Melbourne, Australia, we hear from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union…On Solidarity Works, a conversation with Pitt faculty activists and  from Black Work Talk, a preview of Season Two. We wrap up this week’s show with A frighteningly brief history of Hallowe'en on the Grit NorthWest podcast, and, from Labor History Today, Tim Strangleman brings us Voices of Guinness workers in London.

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 with Mel Smith.

BCTGM Voices Project; Working People; For A Better World; Laborlines; Labor Radio on KBOO; On Writing

This week, From the BCTGM Voices Project, more voices from the ongoing strike by Kellogg's workers…on the Working People podcast, Max talks to striker Dan Osborn,  who’s worked at Kellogg's Omaha plant for 18 years…and on Laborlines, labor researcher and organizer Eric Dirnbach says 'Millions are quitting their jobs but need to organize instead'…Then, from the For A Better World podcast, No blood for milk;  Workers call on Chobani for justice. On Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Michael and Elliott discuss the federal eviction moratorium. And we wrap up with the On Writing podcast, where Lang Fisher describes her writing process and how it’s changed, as well as what success means in her industry.
Bonus track: Labor history in 2:00. The year was 1934; that was the day that the bank robber known as Pretty Boy Floyd was gunned down by federal agents in Ohio.

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 with Mel Smith.

BCTGM Voices; The Checkout; Union Talk; Working to Live in SW Washington; Educating From the Heart; Solidarity Breakfast; Million Dollar Organizer; The SAG-AFTRA podcast; Empathy Media Lab

This week, we feature two reports on the strike by Kellogg’s workers, members of the BCTGM -- that’s the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union – the first comes to us from the BCTGM Voices Project, the second is from The Checkout, which takes us right to the Kellogg's picket lines.
Then, on the Union Talk podcast, a conversation with nurses on vaccine hesitancy within their patient communities and their own nursing community.
This week on the Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast, Shannon and Harold talk with April Sims about redistricting and how it will affect working people.
Next up we have two reports from the classroom: on Educating From the Heart, a new rule by the State Board of Education restricts teachers' ability to teach critical thinking, and, from the Solidarity Breakfast podcast, safety in schools in Victoria.
And on the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, travel perks and the difference between a union organizer and a union representative.
How can actors avoid ending up on the cutting room floor? We’ll find out on The SAG-AFTRA podcast. We wrap up with the voice of the legendary Mother Jones at the recent Blair Mountain Battle Centennial, from Empathy Media Lab.
Bonus track: Labor history in 2:00. The year was 1979; that was the day that the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights took place in Washington D.C.

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 @BCTGM @checkoutradio @FloridaEA @empathymedialab @ILLaborHistory @sagaftra @3CRsolidarity @SWWACLC

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

Your Rights At Work; State of the Unions; Union Strong; Solidarity Center Podcast; Fairwork; Belabored

This week we are starting with news fresh off the picket line. BCTGM’s Bakery Workers Local 3G president Trevor Bidelman called into Your Rights at Work from Battle Creek, Michigan. He reports on the strike against Kellogg’s, the demands of the workers, and also builds some solidarity with people calling into the show.

Then, we have Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers on The State of the Unions. Weingarten discusses what’s going on at Capitol Hill and what it means for the labor movement.

Next up, we hear from the New York AFL-CIO’s Union Strong, where the Commissioner of the NY Department of Labor, Roberta Reardon, discusses unemployment as well as how the DOL has been addressing workers safety concerns as more people are going back to work.

For the next two shows we’re going to have to zoom out a bit and look at two different countries and their own informal economies. On the Solidarity Center’s Podcast Brother Gbenga, one of the founders of the Federation of the Informal Workers Organizations of Nigeria speaks from the capital Lagos. Gbenga explains the Nigerian informal economy, its problems, and how his organization helps those who work within it. 

A continent away, the Fairwork Podcast, contextualizes Ukraine’s informal economy with regards to its Soviet history and where its labor movement fits in with its political movements.

Lastly, we are following up with the second part of The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street from Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast. Guests Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit continue the conversation on the labor movement’s relationship with Occupy and its lasting impacts on social movements today.

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 with Mel Smith.

UComm Live; BCTGM Voices; The Rick Smith Show; RadioLabour; Solidarity Breakfast; Blue Collar Gospel Hour; Art and Labor; Building Bridges

We start this week’s show with the threat of a looming strike in Hollywood where members of IATSE are protesting ridiculous hours and inadequate pay. Business agent C. David Cottrill joined Kris LaGrange on UCOMM Live to offer the lowdown.

The nationwide Nabisco strike may be over, but there are still lessons to be learned from the experience.  On the BCTGM Voices Project Michelle Ellis met with Darlene Carpenter from Local 358 in Richmond who shared her experiences of the picket line.

Are manufacturing jobs returning to the US? Scott Paul from the Alliance for Manufacturing visited the Rick Smith Show to discuss the Ford Motor Company’s plans to invest in new facilities.

Radio Labour considers the fate of international seafarers during the pandemic.  Rarely afforded the status of essential workers in spite of playing a central role in global supply chains, many simply been abandoned on vessels at sea or in ports, ineligible to leave because of quarantine restrictions.  Steven Cotton from the International Transport Workers Federation offers details.

Cam Smith joined Solidarity Breakfast this week to discuss marauding right wing mobs on the streets of Melbourne and the ways in which anti-vax and extremist forces are coming together in Australia.

On the Blue Collar Gospel hour Jack Henry joined the show to read a couple of poems from his recently published collection Driving W/ Crazy, living with madness.

We return to the Art and Labor Podcast, where the crew is joined by Jessalyn Aaland, a bargaining committee member at the SFMOMA union. They discussed, among other things, the dubious privilege of working at MOMA, negotiating rent with your landlord, and, if the question of if you were to be a train, what type of train would you be?

Then lastly you will not have read in The New York Times about tech workers there walking off the job in protest of Times management’s aggressive efforts to resist unionization. Product manager Nora Keller spoke to Mimi Rosenberg on Building Bridges Radio.

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 with Mel Smith.

7 new Network shows!

On this week’s show…
Vermont-based Equal Time Radio bills itself as “a podcast for people who want to understand the world in order to change it.”

Work Stoppage is a podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class. “We're here to demolish corporate ladders and chew bubblegum, they say. “And we don't even like bubblegum.”

ILCA Insider is the podcast of the International Labor Communicators Association, which works to amplify labor’s voice.

Laborlines comes to us from Moscow, Idaho, and features interviews, music, news and commentary related to the labor struggle.

Apple Box Talks is put together by IATSE local 891, the largest IATSE local in Canada, and features interviews with their member Artists and Technicians, from prep to post and everything in between. Apple boxes, by the way, are wooden boxes or crates of varying sizes with holes on each end used chiefly in film production.

Breaking Ground is the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3, the largest construction trades local in the United States, representing over 38,000 members across a four-state jurisdiction, Northern California, Northern Nevada, Utah and Hawaii, including the mid-Pacific Islands.

Flying the Line recounts the beginnings of the Air Line Pilots Association, the world’s largest pilot union and nongovernmental air safety organization, through an abridged retelling of George Hopkins book “Flying the Line.”

We’re really excited to bring you these new voices at the Network, some are brand new shows and some have been around for a while, but they’re all committed to showcasing the lives of working people.

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 @duesunion @WorkingPod @alpapilots @WorkStoppagePod @equaltimeradio @laborlinejohn @iatse891

Edited by Melanie Smith and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips with Mel Smith.

Stick Together; Red Dead Redemption; Activate Live; The Solidarity Center Podcast; Belabored; Working Class History; Grit NW

On this week’s show…
From the Stick Together podcast, a report on the fracking in the Northern Territory boondoggle in which the government spent $50 milllion to create a handful of jobs…
On Red Dead Redemption, one of our new Network shows out of Aukland, host Justine Sachs answers people’s work woes about COVID now that they are in Level 3…
On Activate Live, Machinists’ Organizing Director Vinny Addeo discusses the PRO Act…
From The Solidarity Center Podcast, Francisco Maltés, president of the Unitary Workers Center, the largest union confederation in Colombia, discusses a major victory against state oppression with a diverse coalition…
The Belabored podcast marks the 10-year anniversary of the Occupy movement with Stephen Lerner and Jonathan Westin on what Occupy meant to labor then and now, and how it's changed organizing…
From Working Class History, the first part of their podcast miniseries about the May 18 1980 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea against the US-backed military dictatorship.
And we wrap up Grit NW host Joe Cadwell, offering his take on critics.
Bonus track: Labor History in 2:00: The Southern Differential

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 @duesunion @WorkingPod
@stick__together @95bFM @MachinistsUnion @SolidarityCntr @DissentMag @wrkclasshistory @GritNw @ILLaborHistory

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