On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Teachers talk about the impact education cuts will have on kids, on the Union Talk podcast…Then, from Labor Radio on WORT , teachers and advocates rally in Madison…Organizing in Utah and Colorado's ski communities; the Labor Exchange reports…Meet the union reps keeping front line union members safe, on The SAG-AFTRA Podcast …On the Heartland Labor Forum , labor historian Julie Greene discusses who built the Panama Canal…And in our final segment, from La...
Mar 07, 2025•34 min•Ep. 287
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly : Fedrick Ingram, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, joins the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the AFT's role in civil rights, challenges in public education and the importance of organizing. On the Malmborg Report , Caleb Jerome Morales discusses the economic realities of independent music and the challenges of sustaining a creative career. On this week’s episode of Stick Together host James Brennan speaks with aut...
Feb 28, 2025•36 min•Ep. 286
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: National Treasury Employees Union President Doreen Greenwald, on the Power at Work podcast, talks about the attack on the rights of federal workers by the Trump administration and NTEU's strategies in defending its members; Tesla Fremont Assembly worker Branton Philipps, after working for years at the plant -- which has over 20,000 workers -- talked with Work Week Radio about why he quit in protest this week after opposing the union busting, racism and ...
Feb 21, 2025•31 min•Ep. 285
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the Boiling Point podcast, Michelle updates us on the trials and tribulations of AFGE, the American Federation of Government Employees; from El Cafecito del Día , the impact of Trump’s Executive Orders on DEI programs; New year, new legislative challenges, on the BCTGM Voices Project , the podcast from the bakery workers’ union; In the first of our Black History Month segments, from Stuck Nation , legendary labor leader A. Philip Randolph still speak...
Feb 14, 2025•34 min•Ep. 284
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the NEA’s School Me podcast, Mary Ellen goes shopping with one Florida educator to expose the reality of what it means to live on a teacher’s salary; On CUPE Cast , Moe and Brianna sit down with Brandon Hayes from CUPE Local 4948 and Nas Yadollahi from CUPE Local 79 to discuss their bargaining process as they return to the bargaining table with their employer; REEL Green Lead at Creative BC Justin Barnes discusses the organization’s efforts to move t...
Feb 08, 2025•36 min•Ep. 283
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the Union or Bust podcast , hosts Chris and Juan talk with Steve Gutierrez, National Business Representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees, about the LA fires, what his members go through, and what they are fighting for nationally; on The Manufacturing Report , Scott Paul and Scott Boos give you their take on the “America First” trade memo President Trump issued on January 20, and its implications for U.S. manufacturing; Pawel Gmy...
Jan 31, 2025•34 min•Ep. 282
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Rick Smith Show takes a look at dealing with the Trump administration; Jon Milton wonders Is the US a fascist country? on RadioLabour ; On the Real News Network Podcast. Mehdi Hasan and Francesca Fiorentina on Trump's political strategy; Work Week Radio investigates the threats of AI; The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights on Tales from the Reuther Library ; And in our final segment, we find out how airline workers cope with extreme cold, on Delta Wor...
Jan 25, 2025•33 min•Ep. 281
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Work Stoppage , SEIU – the Service Employees union – re-joins the AFL-CIO; Randy Korgan talks about the recent Amazon strike, on The Teamster View ; from Art and Labor , big tech and right wing politics; Dale Pierson from Operating Engineers Local 150 discusses Scabby the Rat on The Workers' Mic ; and in our final segment, author, researcher, screenwriter and activist Siddharth Kara, on The Labor And Energy Show ; from the Mining & Energy Union P...
Jan 18, 2025•36 min•Ep. 280
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: A labor law analysis of what could happen under the new Trump administration, on the Power at Work podcast. On the Voice of the People podcast, H1B or not 2B, that’s the visa question. Then, a master class in bladesmithing with Tony Bravo, on the Power Line Podcast . On The Director’s Cut , Barry Jenkins discusses Mufasa: The Lion King with Ben Affleck. And in our final segment, from Australia, the Stick Together podcast brings us the fascinating story ...
Jan 11, 2025•31 min•Ep. 279
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From the We Rise Fighting podcast, reports on the UAW strike at Strand Bookstores and organizing at Newbury Comics… The Work Stoppage podcast takes a look back at the 2024 Year in Review…Assassin Nation with Patrick Blanchfield, on The Dig podcast… The Fed Up podcast talks with John Cruz, President of the Brooklyn-Staten Island NALC Merged Branch 41…And in our final segment, from The Labor Exchange , Author and educator Leigh Campbell-Hale talks about h...
Jan 04, 2025•29 min•Ep. 278
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On AFT’s Union Talk podcast, Randi talks to union members who supported Trump and searches for common ground…Adolph Reed and Mark Dimondstein discuss the 2024 election and its aftermath, on Class Matters…Then, on The Teamster View, Zach Duke, who plays for the Inland Empire Strikers team at Toyota Arena….Laurent Picard talks about becoming a Licensed Psylocybin Facilitator, on the PFFA Pod…In our final segment, Read and rap across America with Dwayne Re...
Dec 20, 2024•30 min•Ep. 277
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly… The We Rise Fighting podcast interviews Madeline Topf, co-president of the graduate workers union in Madison, Wisconsin, about Act 10 and its reversal last week… It's been a new day in the United Auto Workers since the election of Shawn Fain as president in 2023, with the union carrying out an aggressive organizing and political program that has established the UAW as a major presence in American life. On the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, New Labor Fo...
Dec 13, 2024•40 min•Ep. 276
On this week’s show: Kevin and Kiang launch a new series of the Asian Labour Review's Continent of Resistance podcast that examines the wave of labor strikes across Asia in the late 2000s and early 2010s… Brian Schneck discusses the UAW’s big win for workers at NY car dealerships, while Ray Jensen and Nancy Erika Smith discuss the battle to end smoking in NJ casinos on What’s Going On Labor Monday …Don Unwin and Jackie Crawford discuss the work of FedEx ALPA’s Trip Services Committee to enhance ...
Dec 06, 2024•36 min•Ep. 275
On this week’s show: From Labor Radio on KBOO FM , a discussion of the Democratic Party and unions' response to the election; Then, LabourStart brings us an interview with Tamar Ansiani, one of the striking gaming workers at Evolution Gaming, Georgia; On the Mining & Energy Union Podcast , one of our new Network members, a discussion of Same Job, Same Pay laws; Campo and Sparrow talk about a recent death at a wind farm on the Golden Plains, on Concrete Gang , another new Network member; Next...
Nov 22, 2024•33 min•Ep. 274
On this week’s show: Taking a look at the fallout from the big election, Work Stoppage rounds up of statements from union leaders in response to the new era of organizing….on The Dig , Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here….What will the Trump election will mean for southern and rural working folks and their unions? The Valley Labor Report talks to Joel Bleifuss of Barn Raiser...
Nov 15, 2024•32 min•Ep. 273
On this week’s show: On the Payday Report , Steven Greenhouse discusses how NAFTA bred working class distrust in the Rust Belt…Workers take on Kaiser Permanente again in Southern California, on the Working People podcast…On the State of Working America Podcast , Naomi Walker and Chandra Childers discuss the Southern economic development model…Barbara Stevens, whose parents were both union activists in the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, tells her story in On The Line: Stories of BC Wo...
Nov 08, 2024•34 min•Ep. 272
On this week’s show: The NEA’s School Me podcast takes a peek into the exciting weekend of training hosted by NEA's See Educators Run team…Step Up Louisiana co-founder and co-director Maria Harmon joins the Working History podcast to talk about the group’s Freedom Summer-inspired voter turnout campaigns and grassroots mobilization efforts in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Jefferson Parish…on the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast, Harold sits down with State Senate candidate Adrian C...
Nov 01, 2024•31 min•Ep. 271
On this week’s show: "The Apprentice" screenwriter Gabe Sherman, on the On Writing podcast…Operating Engineers Local 3 House Counsel Gening Liao and Local 3 Political Director Chris Snyder join the Breaking Ground podcast to discuss the impact that presidential elections have on working people’s legal rights and the ability of unions like Operating Engineers Local 3 to defend or promote their memberships’ rights…Writers Guild of America West Senior Research and Public Policy Director Laura Blum-...
Oct 25, 2024•32 min•Ep. 270
On this week’s show: 30,000 Machinists at Boeing are on strike because of Jack Welch and the GE legacy, on The Valley Labor Report; American Jewish labor history with Caroline Luce, on Labor Jawn; Roswell Hub on the new uniform policy for UPS drivers; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month; Angie Moreno from Chicago JWJ, on My Labor Radio, and the Green and Red podcast remembers Kris Kristofferson and his politics. Please help us build sonic solidarity by...
Oct 19, 2024•32 min•Ep. 269
On this week’s show: Power at Work podcast host Seth Haris talks to Labor Secretary Julie Su about empowering workers and The State of Labor 2024…then, on Work Week Radio , Amazon workers in San Francisco demand recognition…The Building Bridges podcast talks with Rachel Ybarra from Starbucks Workers United…Next, David Van Pevenage, who worked at a WestRock paper mill in Washington state until it was shuttered, and Steel Workers Legislative Director Roy Houseman on fair trade, on Solidarity Works...
Oct 11, 2024•35 min•Ep. 268
On this week’s show: John, Dan, and Lina discuss the East Coast dockworker strike, on the Work Stoppage podcast…What is the Clark PUD? The Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast explains why you should care…Then, on the Heartland Labor Forum , Emily Guendelsberger, author of On the Clock…Allison Jones and Sherry Thomas from Teamsters Local 399’s Casting Department in Hollywood, on the WGA’s 3rd & Fairfax podcast. On the PFFA Pod -- the official podcast of the Portland Fire Fighters'...
Oct 04, 2024•38 min•Ep. 267
On this week’s show: From Madison Labor Radio , Wisconsin Teamsters endorse Harris-Walz; Bob looks at how workers get hurt when companies merge on the Million Dollar Organizer ; Adam Gattuso discusses the precision and planning necessary for a refinery turnover, on The Labor And Energy Show ; Script Supervisor Laura Collini talks shop on Apple Box Talks , and in our last segment, from Re:Work Radio , the UCLA Labor Center approaches it's 60th anniversary. PLUS: Harold’s Shows You Should Know! Pl...
Sep 27, 2024•27 min•Ep. 266
On this week’s show: Two reports on the strike by 32,000 workers at Boeing, one from the Work Stoppage podcast, the other from Labor Radio on KBOO FM , where Jamie Partridge interviews strikers in Portland, Oregon. Then, Casey and Eric Robinson discuss Thrift Savings Plan scams, on the NALC Branch 458 Podcast , the Resolved Labor Podcast explores how Joseph Caleb discovered the value of being in a union, and in our final segment, from the America Works podcast, we meet Emily Daniel, one of a sma...
Sep 20, 2024•30 min•Ep. 265
On this week’s show: We Rise Fighting’s Ric and Bryan look at the UNITE HERE hotel workers' strike; Power at Work attends the Labor Day Breakfast on the UNITE HERE picket line in Boston; On the Line visits with SAG-AFTRA video game workers who are on strike; Labor Jawn’s Sam and Gabe talk with two organizers behind Green 4 Falasteen, a coalition of AFSCME members and staffers organizing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and in our final segment, the Labor Vision Michigan podcast is back! Pleas...
Sep 13, 2024•29 min•Ep. 264
On this week’s show: The Future of Work podcast explores the challenges facing athletes with disabilities… Labor History Today takes a labor walk in Wheeling…Debbie Goldman discusses her new book Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age on the Heartland Labor Forum …then, on the CUPE Cast podcast, Brianna and Brittany discuss the recent Liquor Control Board of Ontario strike, and in our last segment, the Reinventing Solidarity podcast talks with Megan Svoboda from...
Sep 06, 2024•32 min•Ep. 263
On today’s show: The Green and Red podcast reports from the streets outside the DNC in Chicago…Rick talks about Project 2025 with historian Erik Loomis on The Rick Smith Show … The Wealthy Ironworker askes the question “What is a union?”… Phillip Toner and Mike Rafferty discuss their new book, “Press Captured: How Neoliberalism transformed the American State” on Solidarity Breakfast …and in our final segment, Sabrina Pitre talks about editing in a new episode from Apple Box Talks , the podcast f...
Aug 30, 2024•30 min•Ep. 262
On this week’s show: Bill Ayers talks with What's Going On Labor Mondays about the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in 1968 and today…from Labor Radio on WORT , Threatened job losses at Harley Davidson in Milwaukee… the Power at Work podcast explores Governor DeSantis' attacks on public employees…Keeping teachers ahead of the AI curve, that’s on the AFT’s Union Talk podcast…and, in our final segment, SAG-AFTRA recently secured a new agreement that marks a significant milestone in the u...
Aug 24, 2024•30 min•Ep. 261
On this week’s show: The RMIT Strike: 1000 days without an agreement, Stick Together reports from Australia. Then, on The Dig , a discussion of international solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and Laleh Khalili. Next, some podcast solidarity, as the Classes of Mail podcast features a conversation with Fred Woodley from the Delivering Solidarity Podcast. Then, of special interest to anyone who’s planning to catch a plane anytime soon; contractual fatigue rights and protections on the Fly By Night FDX ...
Aug 16, 2024•28 min•Ep. 260
On this week’s show: labor policy analyst Sophie Mariam, on The rise of union curious: Support for unionization among America’s frontline workers, on the Labor Exchange ; the UFCW 3000 podcast reports on Macy's unfair labor practice strikes; then, Is Stellantis planning to send jobs from Sterling Heights to a plant in Mexico? We find out, on the UAW 1700 podcast ; Mike and Committee members discuss new information they’ve received; In our final segment, from the BCTGM Voices Project , bakery wor...
Aug 09, 2024•29 min•Ep. 259
On this week’s show: the Art and Labor crew discuss Kamala Harris and Millenialism…From the Say Watt , podcast, the influence of technology on the electrical industry…Then, a couple of driver organizers from San Diego Drivers United talk with the Union or Bust podcast about their efforts to organize app-based drivers, including Uber and Lyft…Calgary-based disability advocate, karaoke enthusiast, and entertainment usher Dan Pederson, on The Alberta Worker Podcast …and in our final segment, Dr. Ja...
Aug 02, 2024•35 min•Ep. 258
