Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Work Week Radio; Heartland Labor Forum; Roswell Hub; America Works; Labor History Today

Writers Guild members are still out on strike; the WorkWeek radio show brings us a report from their big June 5 rally at Apple's World Headquarters in Cupertino, California.

The Kansas City Labor Beacon is under new ownership – the Kansas City AFL-CIO. The Heartland Labor Forum radio show talks with Labor Beacon editor Tristen Amezcua-Hogan and publisher Abril Negrete about the paper’s past, present, and future. 

This week’s episode of the Roswell Hub podcast covers being harassed at the work place.

The America Works podcast features excerpts from a longer interview with independent professional wrestler Seymour Ray – better-known as “Ray Idol.”

And, in our last segment, from the Labor History Today podcast, Bill Fletcher Jr. on Resisting Tyranny Through a 21st Century Labor Movement from the 12th annual conference of the Labor Research and Action Network.

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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 and Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Stuck Nation Radio; PCTA FYRE; Voice of the People; Labor Radio WORT; Labor Exchange

Stuck Nation Radio reveals that the caring economy is on life support.

Abby Lawlor talks about her book, "Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations" on the PCTA FYRE podcast.

Voice of the People interviews Serena, who was evicted from the encampment under the Russell Street Bridge in Missoula, Montana.

From Labor Radio on WORT, CUNA Mutual workers vote to extend their strike.

And in our final segment, Ahmed White connects themes from his new book "Under The Iron Heel – The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" to modern day labor struggles on KGNU’s Labor Exchange.

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

The Workers’ Mic; Solidarity Breakfast; Work Week Radio; The Dig; Labor Jawn

Workers' Mic hosts Ken and Ed hit the streets of Chicago, talking to striking writers and their supporters.
Next we jump to Australia, where the Solidarity Breakfast podcast reports on Saving the McIvor Reserve.
Then to California, where Work Week Radio explores Harry Belafonte’s work on labor and race and how it connects to today.
On The Dig, Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.
In our final segment, Philadelphia-based Labor Jawn podcast remembers Mother Jones and the march of the mill children.

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

Labor Radio; America’s Workforce Radio; Million Dollar Organizer; WestJet MEC PIREP; Construction User 2.0; We Rise Fighting

From Labor Radio on KBOO FM Michael and Elliott discuss the Screen Writers strike; Teamsters Local 175 President Ken Hall discusses contract negotiations at Coca Cola Consolidated on America’s Workforce Radio; The impact of short form video for union organizing, on the Million Dollar Organizer podcast; And from one of our newest shows, the WestJet MEC PIREP Podcast, details on a new agreement with WestJet; then, Ironworkers General President Eric Dean on The Construction User 2.0; in our last segment from We Rise Fighting, Steve Babson, author of “Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy”.

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

Union Strong; The Director’s Cut; Union Talk; Belabored; The Valley Labor Report

With the television writers’ strike now in its third week, we hear from Writers Guild of America East Executive Director Lowell Peterson on the Union Strong podcast, from the NYS AFL-CIO.

Then, on The Director’s Cut, the podcast from the Directors Guild of America, a fascinating look inside moviemaking from a stellar panel of directors.

Actor Sheryl Lee Ralph star of ‘Abbott Elementary’ celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week on Union Talk, the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers.

Working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992; the Belabored podcast explores how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles

from the classrooms to the docks.

And in our final segment, The Valley Labor Report visits with the cast of a musical

about labor struggles in England in the 1800s.

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

Working People; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; The Dig; Labor Jawn

TV writer Sasha Stewart talks to the Working People podcast about the recent changes in the industry that have led to the ongoing strike.

And, on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, how SAG-AFTRA Is tackling the challenges of Generative AI.

Then, Philly’s Left Turn on The Dig podcast.

And we wrap up with a look at "the Forrest Gump of Activism"; gay rights, HIV/AIDS, anti-war, and civil rights activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya on the Labor Jawn podcast, one of our newest Network members.

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Edited by Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Writers walk, building worker power, May Day ‘23

From the Your Rights At Work radio show, The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson traces this week’s Hollywood writers' strike back to the roots of the Writers’ Guild’s founding in the 1930s. 

Then, on the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, a provocative assessment of independent unionism as a strategy for building worker power in the U.S. Erik Loomis talks with New Labor Forum Consulting Editor Joshua Freeman.

From the Workers Beat radio show, "May Day 2023 in Dallas".

Continuing our May Day theme, on the Green and Red podcast, Bob and Scott break down May Day with a little history of labor struggle from 1877 to 1937, current labor struggles, including unionization (and union busting) at REI, wins at the University of Minnesota and Stanford and past anti-nuclear actions on May Day. 

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

Grad students strike, AI organizing, I Am A Man

In our first segment today, from the Working People podcast, we’ll hear from one of the graduate student workers who’s been out on strike for over five weeks now at the University of Michigan.

Then, I AM Story’s Episode 2, I Am A Man.

From the Million Dollar Organizer podcast, AI and union organizing.

Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider on how the corporate theory of change has damaged public education, on The Dig podcast.

In our final segment today a Rutgers striker talks about wins and future hopes. That’s from The Valley Labor Report.

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Edited by Mel Smith, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Child labor, child strikes

When you hear the words “child labor,” your mind may go to the turn-of-the-century photographs taken by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine of the grim lives of tiny laborers toiling in mines and urban sweatshops. But recent news reports have revealed that child labor is alive and well in the United States in 2023. Jack Hodgson, a visiting professor in history at the University of Roehampton, joins the Belabored podcast to discuss child labor throughout U.S. history and in the context of labor and civil rights struggles that continue to this day.

Late last year, SAG-AFTRA introduced two new podcast contracts that make it easy for producers to be flexible and creative in covering their podcasts at all budgets. Sue-Anne Morrow, National Director/Contract Strategic Initiatives & Podcasts at SAG-AFTRA, walks us through the details of these new agreements on the SAG-AFTRA podcast.

From On The Line: Stories of BC Workers a remarkable but relatively unknown chapter of working-class solidarity. While waves of sympathy strikes to support the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike took place across Canada, the most pronounced of these was in Vancouver, B.C. Even after workers returned to their jobs, 325 women telephone operators stayed out for another two weeks.

Our final segment today is from Labor History Today. A few weeks in the little town of Windber, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and The Battle of Homestead Foundation were holding their “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” a daylong program on the United Mine Workers’ 1922-23 Windber strike for union recognition, discussions on “Women in Coal and Steel” and “John Brophy and Labor Education”.

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

Strikes and mergers, plus stories of Black midwives

Leading off this week's show we've got a collaboration between two figures who will be familiar to regular listeners of this show: Errol Schweizer of The Checkout Podcast and Maximilian Alvarez, who hosts the Working People podcast. In recent months Errol has been among the fiercest critics of the proposed merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertson's.  This past week Errol joined Max on the Working People podcast to talk about his own unique career path, the implications of growing monopolization within the grocery sector, and the pressures faced by retail workers in both the front and back of the shop.

Next, two strike updates, one from New Jersey, the second from northern Victoria. In New Brunswick, three unions representing 9,000 educators, clinicians and librarians walked out last week at Rutgers University in an unprecedented contract action. The We Rise Fighting podcast reviews the latest news and offers their take on what's going on. 

We then turn to the Stick Together podcast from Australia where we hear about the Shepparton cannery workers and their fight for fair pay. Tony Mavromatis, Victorian State Secretary for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union explains the broad implications of the strike to Annie McLaughlin.

What is the legislative conference and why should we care? We’ll find out
on the PFFA podcast.

Gene Lantz is concerned.  Successive crises in both the US and overseas have, the host of Workers Beat contends, left us at a historical fork in the road where both democracy and the larger international order face continued tumultuous times. 
Gene warns that we are just one crisis away from drastic change.

Finally, despite a long tradition of midwifery in the Black community, which predates the founding of the United States, less than 2% of midwives today are Black. The Re-Work podcast brings us the story of Kim Durdin, who found her calling in reclaiming midwifery and birthwork.

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