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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 Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Radio Labour’s report on the ruling by the UK Supreme Court that Uber drivers
are Uber workers…AFL-CIO Government Affairs Director Bill Samuel talks with America’s Work Force Radio Podcast about President Biden's early pro-labor actions…From Grit NorthWest: Carpenter Stories with journeyman carpenter Laurie Gonar…The SAG-AFTRA Podcast explores becoming a successful session singer…On Welcome to Uniontown, a visit with Reverend James Lawson, a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights movement…And Labor Radio Express mourns the passing of Karen Lewis, the legendary former president of the Chicago Teacher’s Union.
Plus: from Labor History in 2:00, the 1937 Woolworth Sit-Down.
Music this week: Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It from the Chicago Teachers Union Members and Their Hilarious Signs video.
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 weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
#LaborRadioPod @radiolabour @AWFUnionPodcast @GritNw @ILLaborHistory @radiolabour @sagaftra @LALabor
Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
On today’s show, a report from the frozen ground in Texas as Rick Levy, president of the Texas AFL-CIO, talks with The Rick Smith Show about the real reason the power grid failed there this week.
Then we’ve got two reports from Australia: in the first, Radio Labour on challenges facing workers in Australia’s energy sector, and then on Solidarity Breakfast we’ll hear about a new report on the health of truck drivers. It may not be that surprising but it’s certainly shocking.
Next up, we go to the UK for the UnionDues podcast, which features a fascinating Thought for the Day on employee surveillance in an age of home-working.
Back in the States, Labor Radio on KBOO explores the issue of hero pay for grocery store workers and from Building Bridges Radio, a Black History Month Special as Nikole Hannah-Jones from the “1619 Project” reminds us that there’s little that defines the United States that doesn’t somehow have the legacy of slavery at its foundation.
We wrap up this week’s show with the latest Labor Radio Podcast Network member profile from Empathy Media, this time with Tanya Hutchins, host of Activate L!VE from the Machinists union.
We start off with a couple of very short clips from the latest Belabored podcast; in the first you’ll hear Celine McNicholas of the Economic Policy Institute on Joe Biden’s labor agenda and then we’ll hear Karen Lewis of the Chicago Teachers Union, who we lost recently.
Plus: from Labor History in 2:00, Angelina Grimke is Born.
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 @bbridgesradio @RickSmithShow @radiolabour @3CRsolidarity @duesunion @kboo @MachinistsUnion @ILLaborHistory @DissentMag
Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.
Guests for February 17th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Josh Brewer (Lead organizer for RWDSU, BAmazonUnion) and Wayne Blanchard (UAW 2B Ohio and Indiana Regional Director).
LRPN Co-Hosts: Mark Gevaart (My Labor Radio) and David Story (Valley Labor Report)
Topics Discussed:
Organizing Amazon in Alabama
The size of the UAW in the US & Region 2B
The diversity of UAW represented workers
Why are politics so important for Union members to be involved in?
Why do we give back to our communities, donating time serving, mentoring, fundraising?
This is an excerpt of the full show.
Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).
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Labor History in 2 - February 17, 1936 Rubber workers sat down in Akron, Ohio
Saturday Feb 13, 2021
Saturday Feb 13, 2021
Your weekly guide to labor radio and podcasts: highlights from some of the more than eighty shows that make up the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
On today’s show, we start off with two takes on labor and politics that in some ways come from very different places and in other ways come from very much the same place. On the Blue Collar Gospel Hour host Dan Denton and his fellow autoworker Trey Garcia react to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month with frustration over the failure of both parties to speak to or for working people. And on Building Bridges Radio, Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams – who’s been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize -- talks about how the American working class has consistently relied on people of color and women to push for improved status for workers but has been slow to include them in the movement’s victories.
Next up, Jessie Sage interviews sex worker, activist, writer, undocumented migrant, and DACA recipient Maya Morena on the Working People podcast, about the politics of the sex industry and the history of vice.
On My Labor Radio, Indiana teacher Tim Barr discusses life in school for both teachers and students during a pandemic.
As New York State faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, the Union Strong podcast explores how Adult-Use Cannabis offers an opportunity to building a new industry from the ground up in a way that will raise revenue, create good union jobs, and address social, racial, and economic equity.
And, from the Black Work Talk podcast, we’ll hear about the relationship between Black unionists, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, and the labor movement from longtime labor organizer and leader Bill Lucy, co-founder of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
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 weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
#LaborRadioPod @bbridgesradio @WorkingPod @mgevaart @nysaflcio @BlackWorkTalk
Edited by Patrick Dixon; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.
Guests for February 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Lori Wallach (Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Eric Gottwald (AFL-CIO Trade Specialist), Alejandro Villamar (Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade), and Rick Arnold (Canada’s Common Frontiers).
LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum).
This is an excerpt of the full show.
The LRPN Livestream pod extra is produced and edited by Evan Matthew Papp and Chris Garlock.
#LaborRadioPod
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.
Guests for the February 3rd, 2021 edition of the LRPN Livestream included David Van Deusen (President, Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO), Trent Willis, (ILWU Local 10), Carol Lang (CUNY Professor), Mehmet Bayram (Pacifica Media Workers Guild in SF).
LRPN Hosts: Steve Zeltzer (Work Week Radio) and Chris Garlock (Union City Radio).
This is an excerpt of the full show, which is available here.
The LRPN Livestream pod extra is produced and edited by Evan Matthew Papp and Chris Garlock.
#LaborRadioPod
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
We lost two giants of the labor movement this week, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and labor folksinger and activist Anne Feeney; on today’s pod extra we remember them both.
In our first segment, on this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show (WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC), Stephen Lerner, Marilyn Sneiderman, Harold Meyerson and Joe McCartin talked with hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith about Sweeney’s legacy as a visionary labor leader.
Stephen and Marilyn both worked closely with Sweeney, Harold covered him as a journalist and Joe, as our resident labor historian, provides the historical context for Sweeney’s life and work in the movement. Click here for Sweeney tributes.
On that same show, Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant told us about the free online screening by the DC Labor FilmFest of the new documentary, 9to5: The Story of A Movement, coming up this Tuesday at 7pm Eastern Standard Time.
The brand-new film captures the real-life fight that inspired a hit by Dolly Parton and changed the American workplace. Get your free tickets here.
Elise also shared her memories of Anne Feeney, the labor folksinger and activist who died on Wednesday, and in our second segment, we’ve got an excerpt from the interview the We Do The Work radio show did with Anne recently.
We’ll conclude with a medley of a few of Anne Feeney’s songs. You can find and order Anne’s music here.
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 weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
#LaborRadioPod @aflcio @annefeeney
Weekly podcast extra edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
On today’s show, former Beverly Hills 90210 star Gabrielle Carteris talks with the America’s Work Force Union Podcast about how she got involved in her union, SAG-AFTRA, where she’s now president.
On the Working People podcast, we hear about how staff at the American Civil Liberties Union are the latest non-profit employees to organize.
Steelworkers in Boston know which side Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh is on; we’ll hear about it on their Solidarity Works podcast.
Our mini-theme this week is voices of workers…On the Educating from the Heart podcast, we hear from an anonymous teacher about the culture of fear and intimidation in Florida schools. The BCTGM Voices Project – the podcast from the Baker’s union – talks with International Rep Lisa Gregory about growing up union, holding office at Baker’s Local 58G and what she’s learned about organizing and negotiating along the way. On GRIT Northwest, we meet Penny Painter, the supportive services coordinator for construction industry apprentices in the state of Oregon. And the Unify podcast visits with Bradley Parker, a young IBEW Local 105 member from Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada.
Finally, we lost two giants of the labor movement this week, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and labor folksinger and activist Anne Feeney (check out the medley of her songs on today's podcast); we’ll have a special edition of the Weekly out tomorrow honoring their memories.
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 weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
#LaborRadioPod @WorkingPod @AWFUnionPodcast @steelworkers @FloridaEA @BCTGM @GritNw @Unifypodcast
Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
On today’s show, we welcome a new member of the Network from Down Under, as Solidarity Breakfast, based in Melbourne, Australia, reports on workers at an ice cream shop fighting for their rights.
On this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show, labor journalist Sarah Jaffe told us why Work Won’t Love You Back.
Then, the OnWriting podcast talks with award-winning screenwriter Lena Waithe, creator and writer on the BET comedy series TWENTIES.
We’ve got a mini-theme on plant closings as the Heartland Labor Forum features Mike Stout on his new book The Homestead Steel Mill: The Final 10 Years and on My Labor Radio we hear about an auto supply plant that’s closing down later this year in Auburn Indiana.
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network Livestream, the topic was what a progressive, pro-labor migration policy might look like.
Our final segment today is a special presentation of the final edition of We Do The Work, which is ending an amazing 8-year run on KSVR-FM in Washington state’s Skagit Valley. They go out with a lovely interview with Anne Feeney, one of the finest labor singers in the country, and several of her favorite songs. We’re playing the entire program in tribute to a show that’s been such a great resource for that community’s workers. They really did the work, on We Do The Work!
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 weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
#LaborRadioPod
Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
On today’s show, Labor Radio on KBOO and Building Bridges on WBAI explore and celebrate Martin Luther King Junior’s struggles for labor rights and economic justice…
Then, labor news headlines of the week, including Talking SMART’s report on insurrectionists on trains, Your Rights At Work on President Biden firing the anti-union general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board, and, from the other Washington, the upcoming legislative session in Olympia, on the Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast.
We get ultra-local with The 141 Report, a brand-new member of the Network, which visits with Wendy Goodell, President of Machinists’ Local 1782, and then we zoom back out for historical overviews:
Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas, talks with the Heartland Labor Forum about his new book about American populism and the long trail of elites who hate it,
And from the Empathy Media Lab, Harvey J. Kaye talks about another moment of great crisis in American history and the effect on working people.
Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the international Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Also, check out our weekly livestream show, available on Facebook and YouTube, where you’ll also find profiles of members of the Network.
#LaborRadioPod @bbridgesradio @smartunionworks @dclabor @SWWACLC @Heartland_Labor @empathymedialab
Edited by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips