Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Building Bridges; Brain Labor Report; Breaktime Breakdown; Heartland Labor Forum; Radio Labour

Election 2020 Special: “Which Of The 2020 Candidates Is A Friend Of The Workers?”; Terrie Martin, candidate for Jackson County commissioner in Southern Oregon; SMART Local 2 member Aaron Mais, running for State Representative in Missouri’s 53rd District; Vic Abundis, running in Missouri’s 13th House District; the human cost of policies enacted by anti-worker politicians, plus a stirring rendition of Joe Hill’s classic labor song, “Rebel Girl.”

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

Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

RadioLabour; We Do The Work; America’s Work Force; Laborlines

Labour calls for a new social contract; “Grand Theft Paycheck”; NFLPA’s JC Tretter on renegotiating collective bargaining agreements for player safety during the pandemic; an interview with NYC Restaurant Workers Council organizers. 

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

Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

America's Work Force; Willamette Wake Up; Working to Live in Southwest Washington; Heartland Labor Forum

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

Rachel Cohen on “How Trump Could Dismantle Workers’ Rights with Another Four Years”; Getting ballots to displaced voters; Essential workers voices; global unions call for COVID-19 to be declared an occupational disease; Mother Jones’ monuments & museums

Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

America’s Work Force; RadioLabour; Heartland Labor Forum; Union City Radio; Labor Lines; The Break Time Breakdown

Highlights from the national Labor Radio Podcast Network's shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

AFM Local 4 president Len DiCosimo on the political divides in America today; unionbusting at nonprofits; “A perfect illustration of why public services should not be entrusted to for-profit companies like Transdev”; Stephen Lerner on Bargaining for the Common Good; first-year apprentice Kasey Mathias shares her experiences.

Edited by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Thoroughbred Teamsters; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers; Crimes of Capital; RadioLabour

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

RadioLabour on labor’s calls for reform of post-pandemic corporations, plus singing "Hold That Line"; Thoroughbred Teamsters’ update on the story of J’s Teamster cousin and his family losing their home in Oregon fire; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers catches up with Lamar Wise, a Political Coordinator with Oregon AFSCME and an organizer on the frontlines of the Black Lives Matter movement with Rose City Justice; Crimes Of Capital on The Cochabamba Water Wars and its lessons for U.S. activists. Plus Labor History in 2 on “The End of My Sweet Jennie.”

Edited & produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Radio Labour; Union Yes Iowa; Union City Radio; The IAFF Podcast; Working To Live In Southwest Washington; Tales of the Resistance

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

Radio Labour on how Covid hits US workers of colour hardest; Union Yes Iowa explains The Importance of Labor Day; Union City Radio's Labor Day with the Labor Radio/Podcast Network; The IAFF Podcast on The Situation in Atlanta; a sneak preview of Working To Live In Southwest Washington, and "The Case of the Wrinkled Egg" from Tales of the Resistance.

Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

America Works; Building Bridges; Union Dues; The Gig; En Masse; Willamette Wake Up; Heartland Labor Forum

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. #LaborRadioPod

Labor History in 2’s report on the very first Labor Day parade; America Works, the new podcast from the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress;  Howard Bryant says "Walkouts Jolt Pro Sports As Players Take a Stand Against Police Shootings" on the Building Bridges radio show; UnionDues, the UK’s only all-things-union podcast; The Gig looks at the future of work as it wraps up its first season; En Masse on trying to right what is wrong; Willamette WakeUp tackles the issue of corporate blanket immunity, and the Heartland Labor Forum on whether there really is a plot to privatize the U.S. mail.

Edited by Evan Papp of the Empathy Media Lab; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips

Working People; Break Time Breakdown; In The Gap; Talking SMART; Solidarity Works; The Docker Podcast

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

If you are going through a union drive and you find that your boss is using some of these tactics, record everything. Put your phone in your pocket, record what they're saying to you, record your conversations with management because that's pretty much the only reason that we have this story is because we documented everything.
This audio is from the Working People podcast, which took an inside look at unionbusting in North Carolina, and then became a target themselves. After the podcast featured recordings of the captive-audience meetings held by management at No Evil Foods, a vegan meat producer in North Carolina, the company threatened to sue and got the podcast host to pull down the show.

It's hard to change your views on anything that, like, shocks your core belief, man. Yeah. And I mean, that is hard and I've definitely been there myself. Yeah. Part of it, part of it is admitting that you were wrong. Or that you were just taught wrong.
On The Breaktime Breakdown podcast, host Jeremy Waugh and SMART Local 110 member Matt Gross get up close and personal in the current national debate over social justice, protests and overcoming their own inherent racism.

Women, especially black women, have been a part of organizing together for many, many years, even though there were times post the civil rights movement, women, especially black women, were excluded from labor organizations generally.
In 2020, Black women still only make 62 cents on the dollar compared to white, non-Hispanic men. In The Gap is a 12-episode podcast series presented by In These Times in recognition of these ongoing disparities. It’s a gripping podcast – a new addition to the Labor Radio Podcast Network -- “about how and why Black women aren’t getting their green.”

When I first announced that I was going to run for business manager, I was told by some of the members, ‘You know, we respect you for wanting to run for this, but, respectfully, we need a man in there.’
The women at work theme continues in this centennial year of women’s suffrage on the latest edition of Talking SMART, with a conversation with female leaders and activists in the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union who have taken the lead in creating new opportunities for women in the building trades.

I can't separate being Black from being a woman; I have to do both of these things at the same time. And so now that's part of the work that we have to do is recognize that racism still exists. In the best of hearts, the progressive left, White people have to, like, look at themselves and examine how we played into the system and contributed or sustain racism and sexism within our union.
That’s Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant, on the Solidarity Works podcast, on Women, Work, and Wielding Power in 2020.

I guess this could be a lot like 1934; what was happening with the Great Depression and everything that was going on, and struggle was built out of hard times.
Willie Adams, president of the International Longshore Workers Union, takes the long view on the current crisis, on The Docker Podcast, another new member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

And on Labor History in 2: 
Did you know that one of the main organizers for the march was a man by the name of Bayard Rustin? 
Rick Smith on "The Man You’ve Never Heard Of, But Probably Should Have."

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

Rick Smith Show; Union Strong; Labor Radio on KBOO; Building Bridges; Workers Beat; Postal Views Podcast

This week’s show focuses on the attacks on one of the most popular institutions in America: the U.S. Postal Service:

But Trump understands that the people want to vote him out of office, so he's doing everything he can to suppress the mail. They've already removed countless amounts of voting machines from districts that would vote Democratic in the upcoming elections, but now they're suppressing votes through the mail. They’re sabotaging the delivery of the mail, they know exactly what you're doing, and this is calculated.
That’s Cindy Heyward, Legislative Director for APWU Local 89 on The Rick Smith show this week.

You know, the old saying goes, don't put off tomorrow what you can do today because it's not like the mail goes away.
Bill Cook, President of the Northeastern New York Branch 358 of the National Association of Letter Carriers sets the record straight on Union Strong, the podcast from the New York State AFL-CIO.

Not only is the USPS going to deliver all the absentee and the voting by mail in the general in November but it also delivers things like prescriptions and other really key things to areas that might not be as profitable for a more traditional for-profit delivery company like a FedEx.
On Labor Radio on KBOO, hosts Michael Cathcart and Elliott Gilliland explain how president Trump's authoritarian attack on mail-in voting and the Post Office is, at its core, an attack on working people.

The same person that's complaining about mail-in ballots is the same person that admits that he mails in his own ballot. Then it only becomes corrupt when it's everybody else's ballot or when things don't look good for him in the polls.
On the Building Bridges radio show, New York Metro Area Postal Union president Jonathan Smith says our right to vote was enshrined in blood and we can’t let Trump kill the postal service and sabotage our election by taking away our right to vote by mail.

Congress must provide $25 billion and immediate COVID related relief. Postal management service cuts must be stopped and reversed. The postal service must work with us to reassure the public that vote by mail is a safe and secure way to vote in November elections.
Postal workers’ demands, on the Worker’s Beat radio show.

Plus, we’ve got two postal service-related labor history items:
There's going to be a lot of mail on the workroom floor before this beat is through.
The Postal Views podcast remembers the Great Postal Strike of 1970…and on Labor History in 2:  
It's been the most dramatic confrontation between industry and organized labor in two decades.
Rick Smith remembers the Teamsters’ successful strike against UPS in 1997.

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

Labor Express Radio; AFT in Action; America's Work Force Radio; Working People; Solidarity Works

On this week’s show…

I think the pandemic really takes a cover off of all the faults in our society.
On Labor Express Radio, excerpts from Haymarket Books recent webinar “Racism is a Public Health Crisis.”

Employers quickly forgot about the sacrifices that those they called heroes made…
The impact of COVID-19 on public employees is the topic on the latest episode of AFT in Action, the podcast from the Connecticut American Federation of Teachers.

I'm driving into work and I'm listening to a local news radio station; Tina Thomas Manning at the time was the superintendent and she was on there being interviewed. She was ticked off because she got up that morning to go into the office and there was this giant rat outside her house, outside the front yard.
From America's Work Force Radio, we hear the latest adventures of Scabby The Rat.

On these stations, they never hear the word union in a positive context.
In a nice bit of Labor radio/Podcast Network synergy, the Working People podcast recently caught up with the Valley Labor Report, a weekly talk radio show airing in Huntsville and Russellville, Alabama.

We have to use our collective power to fight and to fight for these things that are essential, not just for our members, but really for all workers.
the latest Solidarity Works episode connects the 1965 civil rights struggles with today’s battle for the ballot.

We close the show this week with a special treat, Old School Mechanic, the latest song from Spudwrench, "the singing union elevator constructor."

Plus, Labor History in 2: “Run Down Like A Dog”

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