Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Exploits of Play; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Buwa Basebetsi Updates; AAUP Presents; Power at Work

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: how workers, artists, and activists are pushing back, telling their stories, and demanding change.

Over on Exploits of Play, hosts dig into video games and capitalism, exploring how play shapes the way we work and learn.
This week on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, veteran narrator Sean Pratt shares what it really takes to build a career in the booming world of audiobooks.
From South Africa, Buwa Basebetsi follows a factory worker named Happiness as she struggles to raise two kids on a national minimum wage that doesn’t cover the basics.
In the latest episode of AAUP Presents, lawyers and professors take on ideological deportations targeting pro-Palestinian voices, and what that means for free speech on campus.
Meanwhile, on Power at Work, we hear from college football players fighting to organize and claim their rights as workers in a multibillion-dollar industry..

Plus, of course, Harold with Shows You Should Know.

Find these—and dozens more—at laborradionetwork.org.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

The Rick Smith Show; The Labor Show; Work Stoppage; The Director’s Cut; Labor Exchange

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: we’re talking about solidarity, storytelling, and the ways workers are fighting back against power.

Over on The Rick Smith Show, Painters Union President Jimmy Williams Jr. calls out the Trump administration for canceling union jobs while claiming to put “American workers first.”

This week on The Labor Show, we’re on the picket line in South Philly, where Scabby the Rat is making an appearance and union members explain what real solidarity looks like.

From Work Stoppage, farmworkers in New York face ICE raids that expose the ugly alliance between bosses and the state to silence immigrant workers.

In the latest Director’s Cut from the DGA, filmmaker Adele Lim reveals the craft and complexity behind her body-swap comedy Freakier Friday with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Meanwhile, on The Labor Exchange from KGNU, Austin Sauerbrei talks about his new graphic novel Trouble at Coal Creek, which brings to life a forgotten East Tennessee miners’ uprising.

Plus, on Shows You Should Know, Labor Day was a big theme across the Network this past week; Harold gives us a roundup of how shows marked the holiday.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

WorkBites; Heartland Labor Forum; Engage: The Podcast for Delta Pilots; Boiling Point; Labor Heritage Power Hour

On this week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly:

• On WBAI’s What’s Going On, Liz Shuler talks with Bob Henley about the fight to defend collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
• The Heartland Labor Forum features former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, reflecting on her abrupt firing and what it reveals about presidential power.
• From the Engage Podcast, ALPA pilots explain why a simple union pin represents nearly a century of solidarity in the cockpit.
• On Boiling Point, campaign strategist Celeste Trees shares how grassroots organizing is powered by issues, not candidates.
• The Labor Heritage Power Hour welcomes National Book Award winner Martín Espada, who reads from his new collection, Jailbreak of Sparrows.

 

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Power at Work; Concrete Gang; The Alberta Worker Podcast; Workers Beat Extra; Machinists 141 Connections

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Power at Work explores why conservatives support unions; Australia’s Concrete Gang reports on a jobsite medical emergency and safety fight; The Alberta Worker covers Air Canada flight attendants’ battle over unpaid labor; Workers Beat Extra takes on Trump’s torrent of lies; the IAM’s Connections Podcast highlights shop-floor organizing and building member power; plus Harold’s Shows You Should Know.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Notes Podcast; The Green and Red Podcast; The Workers' Mic; The Valley Labor Report; Heartland Labor Forum

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: federal bargaining rights under fire, rank-and-file power rising, and one very odd ICE headline. The Labor Notes Podcast spotlights UAW Region 9A’s member-driven endorsements and field power; Green and Red digs into how to turn non-compliance into concrete action; The Workers Mic unpacks Dean Cain’s leap from Superman to ICE amid a recruitment blitz; The Valley Labor Report features AFGE’s Jessica LaPointe on SSA attrition and service delays; Heartland Labor Forum debunks “national security” claims behind canceling federal CBAs; and Harold’s Shows You Should Know. Find these—and dozens more—at laborradionetwork.org.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

America’s Workforce Radio; Tales from the Reuther Library; Labor Jawn; Solidarity Works; Labor Heritage Power Hour

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From America’s Workforce Radio, we revisit the Vietnam era’s “Hard Hat” protest and how labor’s stance on war split the movement. Tales from the Reuther Library explores rank-and-file reform in the Steelworkers with the story of “Oil Can Eddie.” Labor Jawn takes us inside Philadelphia’s once-every-40-years sanitation strikes. On Solidarity Works, the legacy of Cesar Chavez and the Delano grape strike is remembered as a call to action for today’s immigrant workers. And the Labor Heritage Power Hour uncovers the radical roots of the American West in the Great Cowboy Strike of 1883. Plus, Harold Phillips spotlights “Shows You Should Know” from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Notes Podcast; Pipe Up; The Alberta Worker Podcast; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; Boiling Point

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: What happens when union leadership tries to shut down support for women, LGBTQ members, Black and Latino caucuses—all in the name of “compliance”? On the Labor Notes Podcast, the rank and file are pushing back inside the building trades, and they’re not backing down.

Then: over in Boston, the Pipe Up podcast is thinking outside the pipe—literally. If electricians can represent blackjack dealers, why can’t plumbers organize chimney sweeps?

We’ll also hear from Working to Live in Southwest Washington, where delegates reflect on solidarity and strategy at the Washington State Labor Council convention. Why “everybody should be union”? Let’s just say it starts with healthcare—and ends with dignity.

From Cincinnati’s Boiling Point to labor YouTubers calling for collectivization over corporatization, this week’s shows aren’t afraid to tackle the deep questions:

Who gets a voice in our unions? What kind of future are we organizing for? And how do we fight disinformation at the hyperlocal level?

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From contract fights to community radio, you’ll hear the voices of working people telling their own stories—in their own words. This is the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: stories you won’t hear anywhere else.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Power at Work; Madison Labor Radio; Teamsters 1932's Worker Power Hour; Labor Heritage Power Hour

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From trash pick-up to the Vietnam War, from Inland Empire housing justice to Wisconsin healthcare strikes—this episode is full of grit, struggle, and solidarity.

We begin with Power at Work, where Victor Mineros of the Teamsters and Kathy Torres from Local 179 break down the nationwide strike against Republic Services. These essential sanitation workers aren’t just cleaning up your waste—they’re cleaning up corporate greed, one picket line at a time.

Then we head to Madison Labor Radio, where UAW Local 95's Enrique Castano is fighting for a fair contract at Mercy Health East Clinic. The stakes? Wages, safety, and keeping the only unionized unit in a sprawling non-profit hospital chain alive.

On Teamsters 1932's Worker Power Hour, Randy Corgan speaks with Shayla Bernard from the UCR Labor Center about worker organizing and vanishing middle-class opportunity in California’s vast Inland Empire. It’s a call for regional labor power and research that centers real workers’ voices.

Finally, on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, longtime activist Michael Ansara reflects on a life of organizing—from SDS and the Civil Rights movement to community empowerment and poetry—with a moving message on The Hard Work of Hope, also the title of his new memoir.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Green and Red; Art and Labor; Union or Bust; Labor Link Podcast; On Writing

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:

On Green and Red, Mike Elk reports from Brazil, where Trump’s tariffs have sparked backlash—and boosted Lula’s standing.

Art Labor returns with a new name—Pod Save Ridgewood—and a sharp take on affordable housing and class warfare in New York.

On Union or Bust, Mai Han of Borderlands for Equity talks student-led walkouts, protest training, and the faith-fueled fight for justice.

The Labor Link Podcast heads to Ghana, where former child laborer Eric Mawuko Atsiatorme shares what it’s really like organizing in the artisanal fishing sector.

And on On Writing, the head writers of Saturday Night Live take us behind the scenes of Season 50, from subway ads to last-minute rewrites.

Stories from the frontlines of the working class—one podcast at a time.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

The Valley Labor Report; The Labor Exchange; The Line; Heartland Labor Forum

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Valley Labor Report unpacks devastating Medicaid cuts with Chuck Corra. The Labor Exchange explores the ripple effects on rural healthcare in Colorado. The Line dives into AI-driven data center construction—and the electricians needed to build them. Rachel Kushner joins the Heartland Labor Forum to discuss her new novel about FBI infiltration. And Harold Phillips rounds things out with more Shows You Should Know.

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Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.