Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Post, Coast To Coast; Thoroughbred Teamsters; Stronger Together; Unify: A Young Workers Podcast; The Break Time Breakdown; The UnionWorking Podcast

On this week’s show we feature six shows that have recently joined the Network, which now has almost 50 members.
“I feel that I was destined to cut this film.” Sidney Levin, who edited the classic labor film "Norma Rae" on Post, Coast To Coast, the podcast from IATSE Local 700, the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
“The company needs to figure out how to help us. Because you can't make money if your workers ain't healthy.” J. Rich from Northern California’s Teamsters Local 315, on the Thoroughbred Teamsters podcast.
“We need to protect families and frontline workers from cuts that make the current recession longer and more painful.” That’s from Stronger Together, a podcast from SEIU Local 503 in Oregon.
“Members are like ‘you guys can hold meetings online too?’” Unify: A Young Workers Podcast, is based out of Toronto in Canada, which means our network is now international!
“I'll have people say ‘Hey, I've been in for 30 years, I haven't gotten a pin.’” On The Break Time Breakdown, a podcast from Union Sheet Metal Workers SMART Local 110, we get the inside story on service pins.
“I thought we talk a little bit about the recent strike and the gains we made in the video game world.” The UnionWorking Podcast provides a fascinating insider’s view of unions and workers in the entertainment business.

Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab, a production house, artist's studio and an event space in Washington DC with a focus on labor, political economy, and art & culture. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org. Social media guru: Harold Phillips

Workers Beat, RadioLabour, UCOMM Live, Heartland Labor Forum, En Masse

Workers Beat interviews a young protester: “I'm very optimistic in the way that people are moving forward.”
On RadioLabour, the International Trade Union Confederation releases the 2020 GLobal Rights Index: “I hate to tell you, but things are going from bad to worse.”
UCOMM Live talks with an up-and-coming politician in Staten Island: “I know what it's like to be in a union household; it put food on my table, a roof over my head, gave me my first car to go to my first job.
And on the Heartland Labor Forum, Angie Williams talks about two huge decisions that came down from the Supreme Court this week that affect working people around the country.
We wrap up with the story of high school librarian Christine Smith, from the latest episode of En Masse: “I worked at a couple of women's clothing stores. I worked at a pizza joint and then I got really sick of that.
Plus a promo for We Do The Work.

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

RadioLabour, WorkWeek Radio, The SAG-AFTRA Podcast

A new, millennial version of “Solidarity Forever” from the RadioLabour podcast.
WorkWeek Radio talks with a Chicago bus driver: We have at least four dead bus operators  in Chicago from COVID-19; I was one of many dozens who have gotten COVID-19.
On the latest SAG-AFTRA podcast, president  Gabrielle Carteris and National Executive Director David White discuss their personal journeys and the union's role in the fight for equality and justice: “We are going to bring this around to the issue of police brutality, social inequality, the organization's role on that.”
Plus Labor History in 2 and a teaser for the latest episode of The Gig podcast.

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

LaborShift, Working Life and UCOMM Live

The labor movement is awoke right now. And you are going to see things from us. I call on every American to get into the streets in a safe manner to lead from the front, lead by example…
Another black man was tortured and murdered in broad daylight in the custody of four police officers. This while COVID-19 is snatching away our jobs and loved ones…
The reality is we all bleed red and no longer can we sit idly by and continue to let innocent people be murdered, especially black men.
Urgent voices from the streets on UCOMM Live, LaborShift and Working Life…Plus, Mine owners riot in Cripple Creek on Labor History in 2.

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

Solidarity Works; Union City Radio; UCOMM Live; The Gig & Workers Beat

“We will keep the lights on in Las Vegas. Our community needs us. They need to see the big white truck.” Shannon Skinner, a utility worker in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Union City Radio.

“The number one demand is to arrest these cops. Arrest these cops. They fired them, and that's a victory. But arresting them, that's what we want to see.” Minneapolis teacher Loretta VanPelt on UCOMM Live.

“Just kind of keeping track of your mental to do list…is this really distressing to me? And is it getting in the way of how I am functioning? Is it interfering at home? Is it interfering at work, is interfering in my relationships?” Clinical therapist Bethany Getchan on Solidarity Works.

Plus, Workers Beat on the AFL-CIO’s national “Workers First” Day of Action, The Gig podcast, and The Memorial Day Massacre on Labor History in 2:00.

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

Labor Express Radio; En Masse; Talking SMART; Workers Beat & UCOMM Live

“You know, I'm not just the epithet that they give me, we shape history every day and collective actions here could shape history in a new way.” Cristobal Cavazos of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage on Labor Express Radio, Chicago's only English-language labor news and current affairs radio program.

“My Pietro. He worked in the sheds for 15 years. Always he was not satisfied. Always, he said someday he would find other work. But no other work he found.” That’s from the latest episode of En Masse, where interdisciplinary artist, labor activist, and political educator Liz Medina brings together oral histories and social theory with stories of struggle and hope from the working class.

Plus, Sheet Metal sisters share their stories on Talking SMART, Workers Beat votes by mail, UCOMM LIVE reports on unemployment claims in New Jersey and, on Labor History in 2:00, Chicago’s first teachers’ strike. 
Bonus: The Labor Radio-Podcast Network's first PSA, from the My Labor Radio podcast!  

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

Belabored; Stronger Together; Workers Beat Radio

On the latest Belabored podcast, Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen report on school employees in Minnesota fighting for safety on the job and an attempt to pass an Essential Workers Bill of Rights in New York City; we get really local on Stronger Together, the SEIU Local 503 podcast, where the latest episode focuses on the upcoming Oregon political primary, which has both union members and strong union supporters running for office; on Workers Beat Radio, host Gene Lantz talks with Sioux Falls central labor council president Kooper Caraway, one of the youngest, most hopeful and most outspoken labor leaders in the country. Plus: In Labor History in 2:00, Brown v. Board of Education, the day the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public education. 

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

The Fire Fighters Podcast; Working People

This week, in The IAFF Podcast, hosts Mark Treglio and Doug Stern talk with members of the Fire Fighters Health and Safety Division about how their members are dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Our firefighters and paramedics are used to risking their lives and safety every day when they go to work, but the sheer scope of the virus combined with the lack of PPE in some communities creates a very anxiety-provoking situation.
On the Working People podcast, track laborer and writer John Tormey interviews working-class Kentucky artist, writer, and radio host Terry Tapp about his latest book, “A Serf's Journal: The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike.”
PLUS: A teaser from our very latest Network member, an exciting new podcast called En Masse that’s dedicated to telling “Stories of struggle and hope from the working class,” and a short clip from UCOMM LIVE, where the Texas AFL-CIO’s Ed Sills talked about whether COVID-19 will result in more organizing for workers in Texas. And on Labor History in 2:00, we find out about the day in 1972 when employees at the Farah Manufacturing Company went out on strike, launching one of the iconic boycotts of the era.

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

UCOMM Live; CTU Speaks; Labor History in 2:00

This week, IBEW Local 3’s Chris Erikson Jr talks to UCOMM Live about the daily salute to frontline workers in Electchester, a New York City community built in the 1950's by Local 3 to house their members: The windows open up, people start banging pots and pans and whooping and hollering. Actor Harold Phillips talks about the financial impact union TV shows have on the community: There were a lot of different unions that benefited from that one production being based in Portland, Oregon. On CTU Speaks, the podcast of the Chicago Teachers Union, it’s pretty clear that teachers don’t like remote learning, and students like it even less, but what about the parents? CTU Speaks talks with CPS parents Andrea Mosley and Valerie Nelson: I was so confused, and I'm like, well, how do you start remote learning? But we don't have the tools in order to make that first week successful. Plus, Labor History in 2:00 on labor pioneer Richard Trevellick, one of the early leaders of the US labor movement and the fight for the eight-hour work day. #LaborRadioPod

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org

Work Week Radio (KPOO); Labor Radio (KBOO); Labor History in 2:00

This week, actor and activist Danny Glover says “”We need to fight a fight for the new future” on Work Week Radio (KPOO), and Jamie Partridge of Communities and Postal Workers United says “This pandemic is life and death, if not for you, for your coworker, for your family, for their family, for our customers” on Labor Radio (KBOO), which included an excerpt from this year’s online Labor Notes conference. Plus “The Fight for Equality” from Labor History in 2:00.

Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org