Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Sean Astin and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler discuss the state of America’s labor movement. Engage explores how labor history shaped the piloting profession and why Delta pilots are determined to protect their hard-won contract rights. Green and Red talks with 9to5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum about organizing women office workers and the movement that inspired Dolly Parton’s classic film and song.

Then, The Heartland Labor Forum speaks with author Elaine Weiss about the Highlander Center and the underground schools that helped build the civil rights movement. Appl...

On this special Labor Day edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, working people share stories of skill, struggle and power—from an Asbury Park beach to a nuclear-waste facility more than 2,000 feet underground.

Project Labor meets veteran lifeguard Joe Bongiovanni, who explains why saving lives begins long before anyone needs rescuing. On The Alberta Worker Podcast, journalist Ximena Gonzalez recalls the all-night architecture job that showed her exactly why workers organize.

Australia’s Concrete Gang responds to police raids targeting CFMEU officials and their families, while Solidarity Works visits the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in N...

On this week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Labor Force and Labor Notes report on federal surveillance and investigations targeting Minnesota union members resisting immigration raids—and the workers refusing to be intimidated.

Work Stoppage covers investigations into a suspected company union; Grocery Nerds talks with Cleanup on Aisle Five author Ann Larson about poverty wages, corporate power and solidarity in the grocery industry. Union or Bust meets San Diego Zoo artists who organized with IATSE Local 122, while Maryland Labor History explores civil rights and public-sector unionism in Baltimore with author Jane Berger.

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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips bring you another grassroots antidote to corporate media, featuring selections from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network’s more than 200 shows.

On Labor Radio on KBOO, Michael Cathcart and Elliott Gilliland examine Labor Secretary nominee Keith Sonderling’s management-side background and support for employer self-policing.
America’s Workforce Union Podcast traces labor’s central role in the decades-long struggle for Medicare and Medicaid—and the continuing campaign for Medicare for All.

Joe Uehlein joins Green and Red to discuss his memoir...

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Next Gen Carriers on The Valley Labor Report reports on challenges to letter-carrier union leadership;
Maryland Labor History explains a Baltimore museum’s new name;
Apple Box Talks meets visual effects workers;
Garage Mind exposes dangerous corporate shortcuts;
The Solidarity Podcast warns of a threat to public-sector bargaining;
and Green & Red takes on America’s renewed Red Scare.
Plus, Shows You Should Know!

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This week on Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Filipino migrant workers fight back against union busting in Taiwan, protesters and their canine comrades take to the streets in Chile and Greece, and labor activists revisit the legacy of the Qatar World Cup as workers ask whether conditions have improved. Plus, organizing at Colorado's historic Hotel Boulderado, the closure of an Alabama tire plant, and a conversation about building worker power through independent radio.

On LabourStart, Lennon Wang of the Taidoc Technology Union tells the story of Filipino migrant workers at TaiDoc Technology in Taiwan, who organized in the...

This week on Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, Boiling Point explores hospitality-worker organizing in Cincinnati and celebrates its 100th episode; Blue Collar News launches a new series on Native workers in Montana's skilled trades; Wealthy Ironworker decodes construction contracts; and Re:Work follows an Indian auto-rickshaw driver who became a union leader. Plus, On the Line tells the story of Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, while The Workers' Mic covers the Ashland Specialty Chemicals strike and the fight against wage theft. Plus more Shows You Should Know.

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This week's special edition of Labor Radio Podcast Weekly features extended excerpts from two outstanding shows on the Labor Radio Podcast Network instead of the usual sampler format.

First, Continent of Resistance explores what it means to rewrite the culture of labor movements. The discussion argues that strong organizing depends on healthy relationships, democratic decision-making, collective care, and a culture of solidarity that welcomes new workers and builds resilient movements.

Then, The Solidarity Report sits down with Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Chris Garlock and actor and SAG-AFTRA member Harold Phillips. The conversation ranges from...

On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Work Week Radio: ILWU Local 6 members take on C&H Sugar in a strike over jobs, safety and respect.
Blue Collar News: Terrie Trettenback examines the case of a worker at Hometown Harvest Foods and what it says about workplace rights.
Grocery Nerds: Why ALDI is winning the U.S. grocery war—and what it means for workers and shoppers.
Labor Notes Podcast: Highlights from the live show at the 2026 Labor Notes Conference.
My Labor Radio: TikTok creator Joe Lundequam discusses labor messaging and reaching new audiences online.

On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
Roswell Hub — Teamsters discuss surviving extreme heat on the job and the contract rights that can save workers' lives.
Labor Force — AI, gig work, engineering, ports, and video games all point to one conclusion: workers are organizing to shape the future of work.
The Workers Mic — Teamsters launch the nation's first cannabis industry strike as workers fight for a first contract.
Pipe Up — A 19-year-old union apprentice prepares to represent the UA and the U.S. at the WorldSkills competition in Shanghai.
Labor Notes Podcast — Toy Story turns out to be...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Stoppage examines the Faster Labor Contracts Act and whether it could finally speed first-contract negotiations. Reinventing Solidarity digs into the Labor Action Tracker's latest findings on strikes and labor militancy. Labor Radio on KBOO checks in with Oregon university workers preparing for a possible strike, while Grocery Nerds talks with Dr. Bronner's CEO David Bronner about worker justice and regenerative business. Plus: the Manufacturing Report visits Detroit's "Arsenal of Democracy," Working Class History revisits the IWW's pioneering Starbucks organizing drive, and our regular roundup of Shows You Should Know.

Winning a strike. Building a union. Defending organizers. This week on Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we hear why the real work begins after the victory. LaborForce recaps the action at this year’s Labor Notes, plus live from the stage, UAW Local 2093's John Krause about the American Axle strike that delivered every demand after 18 years of concessions. Working People: Hamilton Nolan and Alex Press ask why union membership fell during the most pro-union administration in decades—and what organized labor needs to do differently. Work Stoppage tackles another Labor Notes focus, the fightback in Minnesota. On We Rise Figh...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: the Labor Heritage Power Hour live from last weekend’s Great Labor Arts Exchange at Labor Notes to explore how culture builds worker power; Grocery Nerds talks Whole Foods union organizing; Economics for the People examines labor organizing in newsrooms; Next Generation Carriers celebrates Pride Month and queer labor history; and Class Matters revisits the Labor Party experiment 30 years later. Plus Shows You Should Know and Chris, Harold and Patrick throw away the script!

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Artificial intelligence dominates this week's Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly. The Workers Mic examines Pope Leo XIV's call to protect the dignity of work in the age of AI, while WorkWeek Radio, the International Labour Organization's Future of Work podcast, and Working Voices explore automation, inequality, workplace surveillance, and who benefits from the rapid deployment of new technologies.

Then we step away from AI for a look at the human side of work, as Project Labor profiles a funeral director whose profession centers on service and compassion. And the Manufacturing Report visits Rhode Island's historic Slater Mill to...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Radio on KBOO talks with workers organizing at a gender-affirming care clinic, Riverside Rank and File explores union organizing at Amazon, Solidarity Breakfast marks National Sorry Day with Indigenous activists in Australia, Heartland Labor Forum talks with retiring Texas AFL-CIO leader Rick Levy, El Cafecito del Día examines the history of mass deportations and mixed-status families, and Say Watt explores the core beliefs that shape our lives. Plus, a speed round of Shows You Should Know from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, we feature stories from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network on coal miners, grassroots democracy movements, labor media, Starbucks organizing, labor music, and more.
Working People: Labor journalist Kim Kelly reports on the Trump administration’s weakening of mine safety protections, exacerbating the black lung crisis and jeopardizing coal miners' health.
Green and Red: Anthropologist Ida Susser discusses France’s Yellow Vest movement, highlighting grassroots workers' challenges to both liberal and far-right politics while fostering new democratic organizing.
The Worker Power Hour: Steve Matthews emphasizes the need for labo...

This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: REI workers launch a nationwide boycott campaign after stalled bargaining talks, Alabama lawmakers battle over voting rights and representation, Brookfield Zoo workers score a contract breakthrough after a strike threat, Montana nurses discuss burnout and staffing shortages, and Cincinnati labor activists talk about connecting unions to broader community life.

Featuring clips from The Union Bug, The Valley Labor Report, The Workers Mic, Blue Collar News and Boiling Point.

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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly is our May Day recap special, featuring reports from across the country on the biggest crop of actions in decades —and welcoming new shows to the Network.

From Work Stoppage, a reminder that May Day is a day of action, not celebration. New to the Network, Solidarity Report digs into the history and meaning of International Workers’ Day, Maryland Labor History captures a story transformed by a sudden mill closure, and Project Labor explores the realities of representing workers on the shop floor.

Plus, We Work Europe highlights Ukrain...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, May Day takes center stage as workers organize nationwide actions and build power on the ground:
Working People features organizers behind May Day Strong and calls for a national economic blackout; Work Stoppage urges a full shutdown to hit the boss class where it hurts; Labor History Today explores how strikes and disruption can rebuild worker power with Jeremy Brecher, Joe McCartin, and Stephen Lerner;
Blue Collar News looks at unions shaping jobs and standards in the growing data center industry; the ILO’s Future of Work podcast examines th...

This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly features organizing campaigns across the movement:
Green and Red — Will Potter on the growing criminalization of protest and expanding surveillance powers targeting activists.
On Union Strong, Albany News Guild journalists discuss their 17-year fight for a first contract—and what it means for workers, wages, and the future of local news.
Heartland Labor Forum — Transit riders organizing for equitable public transportation and building Bus Riders Unions.
The Union Bug — How workers can build their own unions with a new framework for organizing from the ground up.
LaborStart — Extreme heat...

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we explore the real-world impacts of major economic and industrial shifts—and how working people are organizing in response.

The Rick Smith Show examines the rapid expansion of AI data centers, raising questions about massive public subsidies, environmental impacts, and who really benefits from this booming industry.

From My Labor Radio, tradeswomen are building power in the construction industry—mentoring, organizing, and breaking down barriers to ensure access and opportunity for the next generation.

On Labor Express Radio, we look ahead to May Day 2026 in Chicag...

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Week Radio reports on a shocking ICE raid at San Francisco International Airport and the fight for sanctuary…El Cafecito Del Dia and Solidarity Works examine how unions are mobilizing to support immigrant workers and families. America’s Workforce looks at mass layoffs at a Whirlpool plant in Iowa, while Boiling Point explores the threat of AI replacing teachers. Plus, the new Mine Wars Forum highlights the importance of preserving labor history, and our Speed Round features The Worker Power Hour, Talking SMART, The Labor Show, My Labor Radio, and Hot Ho...

On this week’s Labor History Today: In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood with striking sanitation workers in Memphis—members of AFSCME Local 1733—delivering his powerful “Mountaintop” speech just one day before his assassination. We reflect on King’s labor legacy and what it means for organizing today.

With the 2026 baseball season underway, we also take a look at the business of the game, featuring a segment from the Heartland Labor Forum on how players organized to break free from a system that bound them to their teams—and built one of the most powerful unions in the country...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: direct action, rising costs, worker resilience, and the long fight for free agency—Chris and Harold are joined by special guest co-host Judy Ancel of the Heartland Labor Forum as Patrick enjoys a day off.

Labor Express Radio explores the shift from protest to direct action, connecting global solidarity to organizing for a potential May Day 2026 general strike.

Union Talk examines the growing affordability crisis, with educators and union members detailing how rising costs are impacting workers and students alike.

Powerline Podcast shares a lineman’s st...

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:

Working People – JBS meatpacking workers launch one of the largest strikes in decades, demanding safer conditions, fair pay, and dignity on the job amid growing corporate consolidation.

CWA Hour of Power – A powerful Women’s History Month segment on Dolores Huerta that honors her legacy while confronting difficult truths about power, accountability, and survivor courage within movements.

The Workers Mic – A lively discussion on labor and sports, exploring solidarity through the lens of NFL referees, WNBA gains, and the importance of honoring picket lines.

Re:Work –...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: comprehensive coverage of the strike by meatpacking workers at JBL; Labor Force looks at what led to the walkout, Colorado-based Labor Exchange brings us voices from the picket lines, and Work Stoppage provides global context. Plus, ICE detains a gaming champion on Working People and Workers Beat Extra wonders Who really counts as a worker?

In our speed round Shows You Should Know segment, we spotlight new episodes on resistance in film, women in the labor movement, construction protests, labor shortages, and the politics shaping workers’ lives today.

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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: comprehensive coverage of the strike by meatpacking workers at JBL; Labor Force looks at what led to the walkout, Colorado-based Labor Exchange brings us voices from the picket lines, and Work Stoppage provides global context. Plus, ICE detains a gaming champion on Working People and Workers Beat Extra wonders Who really counts as a worker?

In our speed round Shows You Should Know segment, we spotlight new episodes on resistance in film, women in the labor movement, construction protests, labor shortages, and the politics shaping workers’ lives today.

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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, guest co-hosts Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Danielle Smith from the Labor Notes Podcast join the crew to celebrate their show’s first anniversary. They reflect on a year of sharing rank-and-file organizing stories and explain why hearing directly from workers has become a source of hope during turbulent times.

We also feature highlights from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network:

Madison Labor Radio reports from Calumet, Michigan, where organizers are raising funds for a life-sized statue honoring Big Annie Clements, the early 20th-century miner’s union organizer who...

This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly spotlights workers and activists confronting powerful institutions—from Big Tech’s rapidly expanding data centers to global snack companies, anti-union politicians, and workplace conflicts on the job.

On Economics for the People from Dollars & Sense, activists Katie Currid and Rachel Gonzalez discuss the boom in artificial-intelligence-driven data centers across the Midwest and the enormous demands these facilities place on local electricity grids and water supplies.

On the Green and Red Podcast, host Scott Parkin talks with forest campaigner Maggie Martin about the campaign targeting Mondelēz International—the company b...

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Work Week Radio, more than 6,500 San Francisco educators strike for living wages, safe staffing, and protections for immigrant students.
From Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Portland Community College faculty describe their contract fight and readiness to strike for the first time in school history.
A frontline nurse on Riverside Rank & File explains why 30,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are striking over patient safety and staffing levels.
Unite & Win shares strategies for protecting immigrant workers amid growing political pressure.
From Labor History in 2:00: MADISON!
And on Labor History To...

This week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly features the Green and Red Podcast honoring civil rights and labor champion Jesse Jackson and his lifelong fight for economic justice and multiracial working-class solidarity. The Valley Labor Report speaks with Dr. Augustus Wood about his new book Class Warfare in Black Atlanta and why Black working-class struggle remains central to confronting inequality and building liberation movements.

On My Labor Radio, letter carriers organize nationwide rallies demanding fair contracts, living wages, and respect for essential public service workers. The FedEx pilots’ union podcast Fly By Night highlights how worker feedback lead...

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:

This week on Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:
The Heartland Labor Forum examines the stunning decision to shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just hours after workers won their case at the U.S. Supreme Court, with NewsGuild–CWA president John Schleuss on what comes next.

The Power Line Podcast goes inside the substation with Arizona Public Service electricians Juan Huerta and Beau Tubbs, exploring high-risk work, accountability, and what it takes to stay safe where everything connects.

On the Green and Red Podcast, hosts revisit the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the rise of SNCC, and the lessons ma...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, shows across the Network spotlight the Minneapolis General Strike and a growing wave of worker resistance and organizing.

We hear from Workers Beat Extra, Voice of the People, and Work Stoppage on what’s happening in Minnesota and why it matters nationally. The Manufacturing Report looks at ethical U.S. manufacturing, while Solidarity Works honors Pete Seeger’s legacy of music and movement-building.

Shows You Should Know highlights include new episodes from The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Blue Collar News, Talk The TAUC, and Unite And Win.

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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly brings urgent reporting and analysis from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network, with a focus on resistance, organizing, and solidarity in a moment of escalating political and workplace conflict.

We begin with Working People, where organizers and union members in Minnesota describe the Trump administration’s largest ICE operation to date and the growing call for a statewide day of no work, no school, and no shopping.

On We Rise Fighting, frontline reports on Minneapolis resistance to ICE.

Green & Red marks MLK Day weekend with a deep...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we bring you voices from across the labor movement grappling with state violence, organizing under pressure, and the fight to protect workers’ power—on the streets, in the workplace, and in the digital economy.

🔹 The Rick Smith Show: Journalist Amanda Moore reports from Minneapolis, where ICE and Border Patrol operations have escalated into street-level raids that are traumatizing entire communities—not just those being detained.

🔹 Worker Power Hour: On this show from the Teamsters 1932 Broadcast Network, Randy Corrigan and steward Jason Nugent talk about what workers should be demanding...

Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly (1/9): It’s the first week back in the New Year—and it feels like five days crammed into three. Chris, Harold, and Patrick return with a packed roundup: geopolitics, strike action, tax-policy sleight of hand, a brand-new show on worker-focused media, year-end reflections, and a fresh new intro.

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The Dig — Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, and Yoletty Bracho join Daniel Denvir to analyze the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Trump’s imperial project, oil politics, and how different forces inside Venezuela are responding.
Labor Force — Mike Struan checks in on stri...

This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we wrap up our Best of the Year series with another round of standout episodes—chosen by producers and hosts across the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Highlights include deep Midwest reporting from Heartland Labor Forum; urgent political and cultural conversations from The Green and Red Podcast; working-class reflection and debate from The Wealthy Ironworker; and sustained local labor reporting from Boiling Point.

We also share Best of selections from Labor History Today, connecting centuries of labor struggle to today’s fights, and we close with Work Stoppage—bringi...

As the year winds down, the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly takes a step back to celebrate the work coming out of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Instead of choosing favorites ourselves, we asked Network producers and hosts to select their top five episodes of 2025—and this week, you’ll hear the first batch of those Best of the Year picks.

Highlights include Labor Jawn’s deep dives into Philadelphia labor history; Labor Force’s sharp analysis of power, precarity, and organizing in today’s economy; and selections from the Labor Heritage Power Hour exploring labor culture through music, his...

This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly takes a wide-angle look at where labor power is showing up right now—on the shop floor, in politics, in culture, and across the media landscape.

We start on The Workers’ Mic, where hosts are joined by The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Chris Garlock and Harold Phillips to talk about why independent labor media matters and how the Network connects worker struggles across industries and regions.

From there, The Dig digs into the political moment, with Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid examining the liberal resistance’s sharp le...