Episodes

Saturday Apr 20, 2024
(Many) Voices from Labor Notes
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
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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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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; production and social media by Mr. Harold Phillips.

Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Live from Labor Notes with the Labor Radio Podcast Network
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
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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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 @AFLCIO
Produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
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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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.
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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.

Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
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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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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Friday Mar 29, 2024
Work Week Radio; Valley Labor Report; RadioLabour; Breaking Ground; OEA Grow
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
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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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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
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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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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
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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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 @AFLCIO @WLUW @labourstart
Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Saturday Mar 09, 2024
SPECIAL EDITION: The Labor Oscars!
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
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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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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
On this week’s show: Members of IATSE Local 122 discuss their contract fight in San Diego; Fighting political interference in higher ed: From Florida to Texas, Ohio to Indiana, politicians are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. Then, a chat with Jamell Thrower, National Secretary of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus. Next, meet Ray Connor, the new president of the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council. And in our final segment, Paul Robeson sings at Peace Arch Park.
This week’s featured shows: Union or Bust, two union activists discuss organizing, unions, and politics; AAUP Presents, the podcast produced by the American Association of University Professors, on issues related to academic freedom, shared governance, and higher education; SayWatt, which covers what’s going on in the world of electrical apprenticeship; Working to Live In Southwest Washington, the podcast from the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council; and On The Line: Stories of BC Workers, a Canadian labour history storytelling podcast, produced by volunteers & staff of the BC Labour Heritage Centre.
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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.
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Edited by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
On this week’s show: Carolina Dantas, Project Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Building and Wood Worker’s International, Jon Hartough discusses migrant fishers in Thailand, Sara Nelson takes questions from SkyWest flight attendants, Second City educators discuss tentative deal, Michael and Elliott discuss the lawsuit against the NLRB, and a dangerous mixture: booze and the workplace.
This week’s featured shows: LabourStart, the official podcast of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, a brand-new podcast and a brand-new member of the Network; Labor Link, the podcast cast is about the brave individuals organizing the workers who make our stuff; It’s Time Live, the official podcast of SkyWest Flight Attendants; 3rd & Fairfax, news and information about the Writers Guild of America West; Labor Radio on KBOO FM, radio of the working class, by the working class and for the working class, from Portland, Oregon; and our final segment is from Union Days, longtime trade unionist Simon Sapper’s stories of people, places, scraps and scrapes. Heroes and villains. Tall tales and low blows. It’s the stuff of life itself.
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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.
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