On today’s show, we’ll hear about work stop actions -- that’s what they call strikes in Australia -- at B&D Doors in Victoria, on the Stick Together podcast. Then on the UFCW 3000 podcast, Meat cutter Amber Wise runs for office. We’ll meet Fran McLaughlin, the new Business Manager at Painters District Council 21 in Philadelphia, on The Labor Show . Labour Radio reports on the global crisis in nursing, and in our final segment, a school counselor discusses how she helps newly arrived families...
Oct 27, 2023•28 min•Ep 212•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, The Valley Labor Report talks to UAW Local 862’s Todd Dunn about the strike at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant. Then, news about the strike by Hollywood actors -- now in its fourth month-- is dominated by the big locals in Los Angeles and New York City. On The SAG-AFTRA Podcast , we’ll hear about how it’s also being supported by small and mid-size locals across the country. Is tech discrimination the new way we work? The Solidarity Center Podcast investigates how app workers are bei...
Oct 20, 2023•29 min•Ep 211•Transcript available on Metacast Clips from Labor Express Radio , America’s Workforce Radio , RadioLabour , Art and Labor , and The Docker Podcast . Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. 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 @AWFUnionPodcast @radiolabour @ArtandLaborPod Produced by Chris Garlock & Patrick Dixon; social medi...
Oct 13, 2023•31 min•Ep 210•Transcript available on Metacast Originally released October 8, 2022 On this week’s show: An update on the Case New Holland strike from the Work Stoppage podcast. Then, reports from two education-focused podcasts: from AFT In Action, a conversation highlighting the advantages that a strong labor-management relationship can have on working conditions and student learning; and, from CTU Speaks! co-hosts Andrea Parker and Jim Staros talk with Lauren Bianchi and Chuck Stark, two teachers at Washington High School that Chicago Mayor...
Oct 06, 2023•33 min•Ep 209•Transcript available on Metacast Originally released May 21, 2022 On today’s show: Organizer Clarence Thomas talks with Building Bridges Radio about the mobilization leading up to the 2004 Million Workers March…On The Check Out podcast, Bob Funk discusses how LaborLab tracks and communicates information about union busting…And winter may be a long way off, but it’s not too early to think about buying rock salt, specifically American Rock Salt; on the Union Strong podcast we hear about the importance of prioritizing Buy American...
Sep 29, 2023•37 min•Ep 208•Transcript available on Metacast Originally released April 7, 2023 This week, on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers, AFSCME, the union those sanitation workers belonged to, released the I AM STORY Podcast, which retells the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history. Episode 1 is available now on all major podcast platforms. Then, on Building Bridges Radio: Mike Honey on Dr. King and his last speech in ...
Sep 22, 2023•34 min•Ep 207•Transcript available on Metacast Organizing the South and why it matters, on Solidarity Works : A Podcast From The United Steelworkers. Then, from The Valley Labor Report , what labor councils are and why they're important, with Nashville Central Labor Council president Vonda McDaniel. Next, we go to Australia, where the Solidarity Breakfast podcast brings us a voice from the Melbourne Uni strike. And in our final segment today, Save WVU; the Working People podcast talks with students and organizers at West Virginia University,...
Sep 15, 2023•34 min•Ep 206•Transcript available on Metacast 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 South...
Sep 08, 2023•26 min•Ep 205•Transcript available on Metacast 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 o...
Sep 01, 2023•26 min•Ep 204•Transcript available on Metacast 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 . Build sonic solidarity, click on the share button below. 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 @sagaftra @WLUW @KNON893FM @checkoutrad...
Aug 25, 2023•38 min•Ep 203•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Help us build labor radio/podcast solidarity: click on the share button below! Samples of labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. Check them out, subscribe and spread the word! #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @LaborWeek @NALC...
Aug 19, 2023•34 min•Ep 202•Transcript available on Metacast 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 b...
Aug 12, 2023•20 sec•Ep 201•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 04, 2023•30 min•Ep 200•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 29, 2023•32 min•Ep 199•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Loca...
Jul 21, 2023•30 min•Ep 198•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jul 14, 2023•29 min•Ep 197•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jul 07, 2023•29 min•Ep 196•Transcript available on Metacast On today’s show, we wrap up Pride Month with a special episode of Union Talk , the podcast from the American Federation of Teachers, as AFT President Randi Weingarten talks with Brian Bond, the executive director of PFLAG, about the history and power of the LGBTQIA+ community and the current fight against hateful policies impacting students, teachers and families. Then, Episode 4 of the I AM STORY podcast looks at the impact the strike had on the lives of the people involved and the challenges w...
Jun 30, 2023•28 min•Ep 195•Transcript available on Metacast If 350,000 Teamsters strike UPS on August 1, they’ll be hitting the streets for millions of dispossessed working and middle-class Americans; the Working People podcast talks with Teamsters Local 705’s Sean Orr; then, the Solidarity Center Podcast celebrates 25 years of supporting Mexican workers; What does it mean to be a power lineman? Bryce Hubbard explains, on The Power Line Podcast . In our last segment, from Your Rights At Work , Professor Louie breaks down what it really means to be workin...
Jun 23, 2023•28 min•Ep 194•Transcript available on Metacast 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 pla...
Jun 17, 2023•31 min•Ep 193•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Wo...
Jun 09, 2023•29 min•Ep 192•Transcript available on Metacast 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 p...
Jun 02, 2023•31 min•Ep 191•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
May 26, 2023•31 min•Ep 190•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Wo...
May 19, 2023•32 min•Ep 189•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Please help us build sonic ...
May 12, 2023•28 min•Ep 188•Transcript available on Metacast 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, ...
May 05, 2023•28 min•Ep 187•Transcript available on Metacast 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 futur...
Apr 28, 2023•26 min•Ep 186•Transcript available on Metacast 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 r...
Apr 22, 2023•31 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast 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 monopo...
Apr 15, 2023•35 min•Ep 184•Transcript available on Metacast This week, on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers, AFSCME, the union those sanitation workers belonged to, released the I AM STORY Podcast , which retells the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history. Episode 1 is available now on all major podcast platforms. Then, on Building Bridges Radio : Mike Honey on Dr. King and his last speech in Memphis. On America’s Workforce ...
Apr 07, 2023•34 min•Ep 183•Transcript available on Metacast 
