Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

“My Boss Is a Robot”

If you work seven days a week, 12 hours a day and don’t make enough money to pay the bills, you can talk to your boss, right? Not if your boss is an app. The global impact of app-controlled working conditions on “My Boss Is a Robot,” the new Solidarity Center Podcast series.

Work Stoppage reports on the end of strikes at Wabtec and Leinenkugel, where workers have ratified new contracts after hard fought battles.

What is a union convention and why do unions have them? The Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast explains.

 

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

California’s Labor Queen

Union or Bust welcomes the Labor Queen herself, Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation. They talk shop on unionism, what solidarity means to Gonzalez-Fletcher, and what work needs to be done to get out of this hole the country is in.

David, Greg and Richard talk about the UPS contract ratification and what is to come, on the Roswell Hub podcast.

From the PCTA FYRE podcast, the history and concept of striking in Florida.

In the seventh episode of the Alberta Worker Podcast’s second season, Kim Siever interviews Jordan Wilkie, a firefighter in the Edmonton area and the leader of the Green Party of Alberta. Jordan talks about working as a float plane pilot, becoming a firefighter, choosing to lead the Green Party, and the importance of class solidarity. A few times, he tries to switch roles with Kim.

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

What SAG-AFTRA’s Interim Agreement is (and isn’t)

Clips from The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor Express Radio; Workers Beat; The Check Out; Solidarity Breakfast; All Who Labor; UFCW 3000 Podcast; Labor Wave Radio; Green and Red; Building Bridges Radio.  

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

Labor Week debuts

Clips from: Labor Week; You Are The Current Resident; America’s Workforce Radio;The Rick Smith Show; Voice of the People; Union or Bust; Union Strong; The Flight Deck

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

Working Voices; The Workers’ Mic; Union Talk; Power Line Podcast

The Teamsters deal, WGA rallies in Chicago, education bridges the divide between Jews and Arabs, and a female lineman in Canada: reports from the Working Voices radio show, which airs weekly on KPFK in Los Angeles; The Workers' Mic, a live, weekly radio show from WGN in Chicago; the Union Talk podcast from the American Federation of Teachers; and from Power Line Podcast, a collection of stories from line workers around the world.
Our final segment is from Labor History in 2:00, a partnership between the Illinois Labor History Society and The Rick Smith Show, a labor-themed radio show out of Pennsylvania

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Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

We Rise Fighting; Heartland Labor Forum; SAG-AFTRA Podcast; The Alberta Worker

Reports on the tentative contract at UPS from the We Rise Fighting podcast and the Heartland Labor Forum radio show.

Then, Fran Drescher explains in very personal terms, why Hollywood actors are striking, on the SAG-AFTRA podcast.

In our final segment, the Alberta Worker Podcast returns for its second season with a fascinating conversation with Juan Estevez, about his journey from Bogota, Colombia, emigrating to Canada as a child, trying to unionize his workplace, and then running for political office.

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

Work Week Radio; Green & Red; Labor Radio on KBOO; ILO Future of Work; The Radical Songbook

On today’s show, UPS workers in San Francisco talk to WorkWeek Radio about their contract issues. On the Green & Red podcast: Summertime rolls, it’s too damn hot and the bosses are ripping us off! Bob and Scott riff and rant on strikes galore. Then on Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Michael is joined by his mother Ruth Bennett to discuss the WGA strike. On the ILO Future of Work podcast: Does AI threaten decent work? And in our final segment The Radical Songbook host Michael Funke makes the most of his chance to ask Nike founder Phil Knight about child labor.

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

Building Bridges Radio; Work Stoppage; Labor Heritage Power Hour; Heartland Labor Forum

Four reports on the week-old strike by 160,000 actors: First up, from Building Bridges Radio, writers and actors fight back against AI. On the Work Stoppage podcast, class struggle in Hollywood. Then we have two local reports: on the Labor Heritage Power Hour -- formerly Your Rights At Work -- we’ll hear from Elliott Bales a striking SAG-AFTRA member in the metro DC area; then we’ll head to the Midwest, where the Heartland Labor Forum talks with Shelley Waggener, President of the SAG-AFTRA Local in Missouri.
Bonus track: The Crazy Eights, on Labor History in 2:00.

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

Roswell Hub; Speaking of Work; OEA Grow; Working History

With just days left before the expiration of the contract covering some 340,000 UPS workers, the Roswell Hub podcast reports on what’s going on and what to do if the Teamsters strike

The Speaking of Work podcast has been on an extended hiatus but it’s on the way back, reports host and producer John McKerley. Today we’ve got a clip from a short podcast he did on the picket line at Starbucks in Iowa City.

What are the unique challenges of children in the foster system and how can we support these students in our schools? A deep dive by the OEA Grow podcast, from the Oregon Education Association.

In our final segment, Thomas Castillo discusses his book Working in the Magic City on the Working History podcast; Castillo’s book traces Miami's working-class history from World War I to the mid-1930s.

Our bonus track today is from Labor History in 2:00, where we’ll hear about the day municipal workers in Cleveland, Louisville and Philadelphia walked off the job.

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

The Upsurge; Work Week Radio; BCTGM Voices Project; Working to Live In Southwest Washington

Contract talks covering hundreds of thousands of UPS workers broke down on Wednesday and Teamsters are now staging practice pickets across the country; on The Upsurge podcast, we find out where UPS fits into the Logistics Revolution in global capitalism and what it might mean for building worker power.

Next, we go to San Francisco, where Work Week Radio reports on a rally that united taxi drivers, Uber and Lyft drivers; they’re all worried about robot taxi cabs, which they warn pose a threat to safety and jobs.

Memphis is our next stop, as workers at IFF, International Flavors and Fragrances, talk to the BCTGM Voices Project about why they’ve been on strike since June 4. BCTGM Voices is the podcast from the Bakery Workers union.

Your email inbox is probably crammed with messages asking you to sign an online petition, write a letter or show up at an event. Does it really matter? On the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, we find out how messages like these helped save jobs at Clark College, and why the smallest actions can make a BIG difference.

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