Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly
by laborradiopodcastweekly
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. Airs weekdays at 7:15a ET on WPFW 89.3FM #LaborRadioPod
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Workers, ballots and billionaire money
Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Who’s running, who’s paying, and what’s at stake for working people? This week, we look at elections through workers’ eyes—from city council races and public school funding to a union mechanic’s journey into politics and two perspectives on Brazil. On Riverside Rank &...
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On the Ballot, On the Picket Line
Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: From voter turnout in Texas to striking hotel workers in Chicago, this week’s show looks at how workers are organizing for a voice at the ballot box and on the job. On The Valley Labor Report, Alabama’s governor’s race, a Decatur union’s victory over union busting, and...
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From Union Activism to Public Office
On the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Building worker power at the ballot box, on the job, and in our communities. PLUS: Listener mail and a chance for you to weigh in on teasers and bumpers! On Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Oregon Labor Candidate School Executive Director Dan Torres talks about preparing...
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Labor’s Next Move
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: What will it take to turn labor’s crisis into worker power? On The Dig, Chris Brooks makes the case for militant organizing and building toward 2028. Boiling Point examines the toll of an anti-union president, while The SAG-AFTRA Podcast explores the pressures...
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Something’s Cooking on the Shop Floor
On The Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Grocery stores, warehouses and auto parts counters—different workplaces, familiar frustrations, and workers organizing for a say. On Grocery Nerds, a worker and a union organizer describe the fight at California’s Mother’s Market, where the company’s feel-good...
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Organizing Everywhere
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Force connects organizing fights across industries; Boiling Point examines a proposed $5,000 “Trump Dividend”; and El Cafecito del Día looks at affordability for Latino families. The Powerline Podcast tackles mental health in the trades, The Future of Work...
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Ironworkers, Tunnel Workers and a Fight for 2,500 Jobs
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Wealthy Ironworker honors the ironworkers who responded to 9/11; Alberta Worker explores LHF’s Labor Landmarks Map; and On the Line recounts immigrant tunnel workers’ landmark fight against wage discrimination. Plus, a Korean logistics union prepares to...
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Labor Day Lessons: Organizing, History and Holding the Line
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....
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Labor Day Around the Working World
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…
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Surveillance Won’t Stop Solidarity
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;...
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Your Weekly Shot of Hope: Labor Media from the Streets
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...
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Red Scares and Union Fights
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...
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From Riot Dogs to Radio Waves
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…
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Worker Power From Cincinnati to Chennai
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…
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Special “Deep Cuts” Edition: Continent of Resistance & The Solidarity Report
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...
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On Strike, On Stage, On TikTok
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...
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From Heat Waves to Toy Story: Workers Organize the Future
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…
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First Contracts, Strike Data & Starbucks Organizing
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...
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LIVE from Labor Notes: The Work Continues
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…
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Power, Pride, and Solidarity
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…
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The Pope, AI and the Future of Work
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,...
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Workers Speak for Themselves
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…
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Coal Dust and Coffee Shops
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...
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Boycotts, Burnouts and Breakthroughs
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...
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May Day Recap, New Network Shows
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,...
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May Day Amplified
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...
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When Protest Becomes “Terrorism”
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...
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Data centers, May Day and the fight for power
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,...
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From ICE raids to layoffs, workers push back
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...
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Breaking Chains from Memphis to Baseball
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...
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Organize, Disrupt, Win!
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...
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Meatpacking Strike, Movement Truths, and Solidarity on the Field
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...
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Where’s the Beef? Labor Radio Covers the JBS Strike
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…
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Where’s the Beef? Labor Radio Covers the JBS Strike
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…
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Labor Notes Joins the Weekly — Plus the AI Actor Who Can’t Do the Dishes
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...
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Workers Push Back: Data Centers, Rainforests, Anti-Union Laws and Southern Organizing
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…
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Work Week Radio; Labor Radio on KBOO; Riverside Rank and File; Unite & Win; Labor History Today; Labor History in 2:00
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...
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Green and Red; The Valley Labor Report; My Labor Radio; Fly By Night; Concrete Gang; Tales from the Reuther Library
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...
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Labor Notes Podcast; Words and Work; America Works; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor Express Radio
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Notes Podcast — Minnesota workers organize a mass day of action as ICE activity turns immigration enforcement into an unavoidable workplace issue. Words & Work — USL soccer players use the championship spotlight to demand a real CBA, healthcare…
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Heartland Labor Forum; Power Line Podcast; The Green and Red Podcast; Labor Jawn; Labor Heritage Power Hour
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...
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Workers Beat Extra; Voice of the People; Work Stoppage; The Manufacturing Report; Solidarity Works
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...
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Working People; We Rise Fighting; The Green and Red Podcast; Unite & Win; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers
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...
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The Rick Smith Show; Worker Power Hour; Counter App; The Valley Labor Report; Labor History Today; Labor History in 2
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...
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Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: The Dig; LaborForce; BiPartisan Buzz; Tribunus Plebis; Union Bug; Labor Notes
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…
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2025 Best of the Year Picks (Part Two)
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...
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2025 Best of the Year Picks (Part One)
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…
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Labor Radio; The Dig; Power Line Podcast; The Workers' Mic; The Heartland Labor Forum
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…
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LabourStart; Union or Bust; Union Strong; Labor Jawn; Reinventing Solidarity
This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, we spotlight powerful stories from across the movement: • LabourStart updates us on imprisoned Hong Kong union leader Lee Cheuk-yan, whose January trial underscores the escalating repression of independent unionism under the National Security Law. •...
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Solidarity Breakfast; Power at Work; On Writing; Tales from the Reuther Library; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers
This Week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: From a mass climate-justice blockade in Australia to the hidden labor history of British Columbia’s fruit-packing women, this week’s episode ranges across the movement to bring you standout stories from the Labor Radio Podcast Network. We kick things…
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Holiday Special Edition: 6 shows to listen to this weekend
This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: the crew is taking a well-earned union break for Thanksgiving — but Chris and Harold are here with a special holiday mini-edition; even during the holidays, labor shows across the Network are busy lifting up workers. This week’s highlights include: •...
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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. Airs weekdays at 7:15a ET on WPFW 89.3FM #LaborRadioPod
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