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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. Airs weekdays at 7:15a ET on WPFW 89.3FM #LaborRadioPod
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Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
This week, Union Strong (NYS AFL-CIO) talks with a flight attendant who’s lost co-workers to the COVID-19 pandemic and says “the main message is don't fly right now.” And on the labor segment of Willamette Wake-Up, Andrea Haverkamp of the Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State University explains why grad students are workers: “We are researchers. We are teachers. We develop courses. We are the real lifeblood of the modern university system.”
The Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly podcast features highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
Saturday Apr 11, 2020
Saturday Apr 11, 2020
This week, the Talking SMART podcast explores the impact the COVID-19 crisis is having on members and their jobs; the latest Teamster Nation podcast focuses on UPS Teamsters on the Frontlines; on the Heartland Labor Forum, labor lawyer Mark Galus talks about how Trump’s National Labor Relations Board is eroding worker rights to organize and bargain; last Thursday’s Opening Day for the World Champion Nationals in Washington, DC was canceled, but that had an effect on some very special workers, as Margaret Sharp, DC organizing director for UNITE HERE Local 23, tells us on this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work; plus a sound collage from Union City Radio, and the Labor History Today podcast brings us the story of the last days at work for a local bookseller as the nation’s capital shut down.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network of more than two dozen shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
This week, America’s Work Force talks with retired painter Bob Swanson about mental health and the construction trades, while on Your Rights At Work, retired nurse and novelist Tim Sheard visits a New York City hospital, and historian Steve Fraser discusses the pandemic, workers and the current state of capitalism.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network of more than two dozen shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
This week, America’s Work Force talks with Dr. Gil Mobley about the coronavirus, Workers Beat talks about why it’s important to get online, Union City Radio hears from DC hotel workers, fire fighters and transit workers about how they’re coping with COVID-19, the Heartland Labor Forum takes a look at who really benefits from property tax abatements, and UCOMM Live chats with JC Tretter, the new president of the National Football League Players Association.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio/Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock; cgarlock@dclabor.org