60.6K
Downloads
337
Episodes
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
Episodes
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
On this week’s show…
"We are tired of hearing about all the jobs that are being re-shored. When we know our members are out of work, when we know their jobs are still going to China, when we know their jobs are still going to Mexico and what we really need are real solutions that are going to put U.S. workers back to work and put our economy back together."
Owen Herrnstadt, Chief of Staff at the Machinists union, takes a look at Joe Biden's new manufacturing proposal on the latest Activate LIVE podcast…
"Our specialty is fire. We don't go out and look for pulling people over for DUI’s. We don't look for domestic violence, but when we do show up on scene, it's, it's incredible because we have the knowledge of being a fireman and we're able to see the fire for what it is."
Arson investigator Captain Ramon Martinez, on the Firefighter Kingdom podcast…
"I've been mentioning on our recent programs how excited I am that Labor Express Radio is now a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, a network of now over 50, and it keeps growing labor movement orientated radio programs or podcasts from across the USA. I never knew that there were so many of us out there, and that is one of the network's goals; to make all of us more visible to all of you out there. So to celebrate this new partnership, I thought I would provide you a small sample of what the network has to offer, a sort of coast-to-coast tour."
Labor Express Radio host Jerry Mead-Lucero highlights reports from the Work Week podcast on the West Coast, the Heartland Labor Forum in Kansas City, and the Building Bridges radio show in New York City.
You're paying $120 a month to make $2,000. I said 'Go to any non-union company and get that $2,000 from him and h"ave health insurance and have a pension.'"
Mark and Jeremy talk union dues on The Break Time Breakdown podcast…
"This board has overturned well over a dozen precedents. And in every single case -- every single case -- it's been in favor of an employer and against workers in their unions."
Labor lawyer Joyce Goldstein, on the Trump National Labor Relations Board, on America’s Work Force Radio
Plus: Labor History in 2; Chicago Stockyards Workers Kick Off Historic 1919 Strike
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
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
On this week’s show…
“We really just felt like our voices weren't being heard and worse, sort of actually being told to be quiet.”
Gabi DiDonna of the United Museum Workers union, on the Belabored podcast…
“Normally, we tour all over the world doing shows, but now that’s too difficult. So we decided instead it was like, well, what can we do? And so I was like, well, why don't we do radio plays?”
WorkWeek Radio talks with playwright and actor Michael Sullivan about the new San Francisco Mime Troupe production "Tales of Resistance"…
“We don't need a hospital employers to help us ‘poor little nurses,’ help us learn how to vote.”
On The Valley Labor Report, a nurse talks about unionizing her hospital and the process of bargaining the first contract…
“Back in the day, I didn't see myself, you know, a little beige curly haired girl on television, and I needed to make sure that I put myself on TV so that other kids that look like me would see themselves represented.”
On The SAG-AFTRA podcast, actors Michelle Hurd and Jason George continue the discussion of race and media in a time of social transformation and cultural reform…
On We Do The Work, an interview – and songs – from singer George Mann…Plus: Labor History in 2, and sneak previews of The Gig and Labor History Today.
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. Social media guru: Harold Phillips. Produced by Chris Garlock; chris@laborradionetwork.org
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
On this week’s show, we’ve got a little bit of everything….
Organized labor in the United States has a very checkered history when it comes to issues of race and gender.”
Racial justice, labor and international activist Bill Fletcher on The Heartland Labor Forum…
“If it's in the air, it's in the air, so we all need to work together to make sure that we're all going home as good as we came in in the morning.”
Shaun Trude, Safety and Health Project Coordinator for the Machinists, on how workers can protect themselves and how the union is fighting for even more protections amid COVID-19 on the Activate Live podcast…
“In the rest of the industrialized world, you just have a right to your job.”
Shaun Richman, author of "Tell The Bosses We're Coming,” on the My Labor Radio podcast…
“I do not believe basic income or a guaranteed income is a replacement for the safety net, I believe it's an addition to it.”
Labor Express Radio explores whether Universal Basic Income is a solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy or a distraction from real solutions…
“The government of South Dakota is anti union, and South Dakota was one of the first Right to Work states.”
Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO on the Working People podcast…
“Workers shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a business model that works only when they are exploited.”
On a special extra edition of The Gig podcast, updates on the legal battles by gig workers around the world…
“The train master goes, ‘You're doing kind of a fast there, so what's going on? He goes, ‘I see your sons are running the engine here. Yeah, you might want to slow that down. That's totally a 10-mile-an-hour yard; you're doing already doing 40.”
That’s from a brand-new Labor Radio-Podcast Network member, the Tales from Two Blue Collar Workers podcast.
Plus, Frederick Douglass on "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" on Union City Radio.
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
Saturday Jun 27, 2020
Saturday Jun 27, 2020
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
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
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
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
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
Saturday Jun 06, 2020
Saturday Jun 06, 2020
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
Saturday May 30, 2020
Saturday May 30, 2020
“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
Saturday May 23, 2020
Saturday May 23, 2020
“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
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
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