Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Work Stoppage; BCTGM Voices Project; America’s Workforce Radio; Solidarity Works; Resolved Labor Podcast

VW workers in Chattanooga win a historic union vote to join the UAW; Workers file for election in London, Kentucky; Roland "Rex" Rexha on the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident; Health and safety wins in Washington, and a profile of labor organizer and activist Jonathan Melrod.

This week’s featured shows are Work Stoppage, the podcast that only talks about what can be done for the working class. They’re here to demolish corporate ladders and chew bubblegum. And they don't even like bubblegum. BCTGM Voices Project, the podcast from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union.

America’s Workforce Radio,  a clear and unfiltered voice for the working people of America. Solidarity Works: a podcast from the United Steelworkers. And the Resolved Labor Podcast, highlighting labor leaders who we definitely should have learned about in school. This podcast is for union activists, history buffs, and any human who just wants to learn something new.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Notes speaks!

Chris Garlock here, back with another special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, live from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. It’s late again, or, since it’s two o’clock Sunday morning, early. Like the Beatles said, it’s been a hard day’s…night.

Today we bring you another sound collage of the voices of activists at the Labor Notes conference. Let me paint you a quick picture of the scene: the Labor Radio Podcast Network set up a open studio in the vendor area, basically the lobby of the Hyatt Regency, where everyone else is hawking labor books, shirts, buttons, literature and the like. So when they come to us they’re kind of curious, but not exactly sure what this Labor Radio Podcast Network thing is; so one of us explains the Network is this loose confederation of labor radio shows and podcasts, all working to bring out and raise up the issues and voices of working people. That sounds great, the people usually say; how’d you like to tell us about why you’re here, what you’re working on, we say. Almost no-one says no. And that’s why we have so many voices to share with you. Hope you enjoy.

Our interviews were conducted by members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Lynn Fields from the Resolve podcast, Carmen Rodriguez, from El Cafecito del Dia, Jerry Mead Lucero, from Labor Express Radio, Mark Gevaart from My Labor Radio, Judy Ancel, from the Heartland Labor Forum, Harold Phillips, from Working to Live in Southwest Washington, and Patrick Dixon, co-producer here on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, Harold and Patrick co-produced today’s show.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; production and social media by Mr. Harold Phillips.

(Many) Voices from Labor Notes

Hey, it’s Chris Garlock. It’s after midnight Friday night, so really Saturday morning here at the Labor Notes conference. The late-night jam here at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is winding down, but folks are still deep in intense conversations in the hallways of the Hyatt Regency. Maybe the best way to think about today’s show is like music. It's voices from dozens of activists at Labor Notes, captured by some of the crew here from shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, who spent the entire day recording interviews, many of them at the Network’s open-air studio in the vendor area, others caught in the hallways, on the run from one session to the next. We’ve taken bits and pieces of those interviews and woven them into the fabric that makes up today’s show. Hope you enjoy it!

Our interviews were conducted by members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Lynn Fields from the Resolve podcast, Carmen Rodriguez, from El Cafecito del Dia, Jerry Mead Lucero, from Labor Express Radio, Mark Gevaart from My Labor Radio, Harold Phillips, from Working to Live in Southwest Washington, and Patrick Dixon, co-producer here on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, Harold and Patrick co-produced today’s show, doing all the heavy lifting processing the dozens of interviews the rest of the crew did, with a special shoutout to Lynn Fields (in action here with Patrick producing), who really set the blistering pace for us all.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; production and social media by Mr. Harold Phillips.

Live from Labor Notes with the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Network is back at the Labor Notes conference! The biannual event, being held April 18-21 in Chicago, Illinois, attracts over 4,000 grassroots labor activists from across the country and around the world. We’ll be bringing you voices from Labor Notes over the next few days; today’s brief show is a conversation between Chris Garlock, Harold Phillips, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp, longtime Network organizers and show producers who organized a gathering of almost 20 Network members on April 18 at Labor Notes, the first official in-person such gathering. Here are their immediate reactions to the historic gathering.  

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Produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Exchange; El Cafecito del Día; LabourStart; Green and Red; We Rise Fighting

Union organizing and Colorado House Bill 1230; Books for our community; An interview with Egyptian trade union activist Ahmad Badawy; Capitalism is dead...welcome to technofeudalism; and former Vermont AFL-CIO president David van Deusen talks about his new book.

This week’s featured shows are Labor Exchange, Colorado's only labor-focused radio show on KGNU Community Radio; El Cafecito del Día; the podcast from the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; LabourStart, the official podcast of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement; Green and Red; organizers, academics, artists discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics; and We Rise Fighting; Labor theory, news, history and analysis.

Look for us at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago next week and keep an ear out for special daily reports as we bring you the voices of today’s labor movement!

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips. This podcast recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Union Talk; Chasing The Hook; Solidarity Breakfast; ALPA Canada Podcast; Art and Labor

This week: Randi talks with the co-chairs of Standing Together about Palestine/Israel; Tom Owens talks bridges; Victoria Police use explosive weapons at the Web Dock picket; Plus, discussions on the current status of ALPA Canada, United Musicians and Allied Workers.

This week’s featured shows are Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; Chasing The Hook, a podcast about union ironworker stories, told by the old timers; Solidarity Breakfast, a rank and file worker and trade union show covering current affairs, progressive issues and news and events from the Australian labour movement; ALPA Canada Podcast, the official podcast for ALPA Canada, the segment of the Air Line Pilots Association that manages all things Canadian; Art and Labor, a podcast for art workers trying understand their place in the brutal capitalist systems of power. 

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Work Week Radio; Valley Labor Report; RadioLabour; Breaking Ground; OEA Grow

This week: A report from East Palestine; the UAW's Brandon Mancilla talks about why peace is a labor issue; What's next for Canadian labor journalism? IUOE Legislative and Political Director Seth Toth discusses the Biden administration and offshore wind energy in Humboldt County; and in our final segment; Jessica Breidinger, a Social Science instructor
at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon,
talks about the rural community college experience.

This week’s featured shows are Work Week Radio, which broadcasts Thursdays on San Francisco’s KPOO 89.5 FM; The Valley Labor Report, a weekly talk radio show airing Saturdays on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville, Alabama and Sundays on WGOL 920 AM in Russellville, Alabama; RadioLabour, the global news service; Breaking Ground, the podcast from Operating Engineers Local 3 in the Western U.S.: OEA Grow, the weekly podcast from the Oregon Education Association.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Workers Beat; Communicating with You, the Member; The Labor Show; America Works; Re:Work

On today’s show: A visit with striking Teamsters at Coors-Molson in Ft. Worth, Texas…American Postal Workers Union Organization Director Anna Smith talks about the union’s 2024 organizing campaign…JDoc and Krausey speak with Philly labor leaders…Park Ranger Jerry Bransford’s connection to Mammoth Cave National Park goes back to his enslaved ancestors…And in our final segment, "Changing Lives, Changing L.A.," a play featuring rank and file members of UNITE HERE Local 11.

This week’s featured shows are Workers Beat, which airs at 9:00 AM Saturdays Central Time on KNON in Dallas Texas…Communicating With You, The Member, the podcast from APWU, the American Postal Workers Union…The Labor Show, the radio voice of Philly’s Labor Movement, airs every Saturday at 7 pm on WPHT 1210 AM…America Works, an ongoing podcast series from the Library of Congress, featuring the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States…Re:Work Radio is a women-led radio show and podcast from the UCLA Labor Center that spotlights the voices of workers, immigrants, and people of color.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Express Radio; Resolved Labor Podcast; LabourStart; On Writing; Workers Rock

 

On this week's show: Labor Express Radio celebrates 30 years on the air; The Resolved Labor Podcast highlights past leaders of the Worker's Rights Movement; Kazem Nik-Khah talks about workers in Iran on the LabourStart podcast; Succession creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong tells the On Writing podcast about how he staffed and ran his writers’ room; and, from the Workers Rock podcast, an Upstate New York dairy worker who emigrated from Mexico talks about the Farm Laborers Fair Practice Act.

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

 

SPECIAL EDITION: The Labor Oscars!

The 96th Academy Awards – the Oscars -- are tomorrow night, and one of our shows, Power at Work, put together their own Labor Oscars contest (they’re probably gonna get a cease-and-desist letter from the Academy’s lawyers any day now), and in honor of all the Hollywood folks who held the line last year, we wanted to give the Labor Oscars a bit more time than we can in the Weekly. So here they are (the envelope, please), the Labor Oscars, from the Power at Work podcast!

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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.