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The Labor Notes Podcast — 78 episodes

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Jackson Transit Workers Win Strike, Save Saturday Service

2

A Summer Friday Break

3

Unions Aren’t Backing Down Amid Reported Federal Infiltration Efforts in Minnesota

4

Letter Carriers Fighting to Make their Union More Democratic Have an Opening

5

Steward’s Corner: Are You Thinking Like an Organizer?

6

How Utility Workers Won Back Real Pensions in Pennsylvania

7

The Other World Cup Winners: Workers Organizing at World Cup Host Cities

8

App Workers in Mexico Are Fighting The Bosses' Biggest Lie

9

The Labor Notes Podcast: Live! At the 2026 Conference

10

Your Favorite Summer Blockbuster Is Really About Organizing

11

Still Having Bad Meetings? Take Another Listen

12

We *Are* on a Break

13

Keep Going: A Guide To Organizing When It’s Hard (w/ Ellen David Friedman and Carlos Pérez)

14

How to Build a List to Expand Your Reach with Co-Workers

15

The Antidote to Organizing Burnout (w/ Teamsters Local 804 Organizer Antonio Rosario and Sarah Slichter, Movement of Rank-and-File Educators)

16

Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

17

Massachusetts Teachers Taxed the Rich and Brought in $3B Last Year

18

How to Have an Actually Good 1:1 Conversation

19

Secret: Use the Issue Your Co-Workers Really Care Most About To Build the Union

20

Secret: Your Workplace is Already Organized and Leaders Are Waiting to Step Up!

21

Secret: Your Co-Workers Actually Care About Making Your Workplace Better

22

Why Your Favorite Soup Movie is about Organizing, Actually

23

The First Major Meatpacking Strike in 40 Years Extends into Third Week

24

So You’ve Been in Reform Organizing for a While. What Next?

25

Your Union Isn’t Working Like it Should. Now What?

26

One Year of the Labor Notes Podcast

27

Three Reasons to Feel Hopeful about the Labor Movement Right Now

28

Steward's Corner: Just About Anyone Can Be a Good Steward

29

How to Talk About Immigration with Your Co-Workers

30

Your Favorite Rom-Com is About Organizing, Actually

31

How Workers Pulled Off a Mass Strike in Minnesota

32

How Contract Fights Can Help Build Labor Power in 2026

33

15,000 Nurses are on the Largest Nurses Strike in New York City in Decades

34

Why Don't We Have More Labor Films? (w/ director Chris Sessions and Working Films)

35

Part 3: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.?

36

2026 is OUR Year (w/ Labor Notes staff)

37

All Holiday Movies Are About Organizing, Actually: The Labor Notes Pod Holidaypalooza

38

Casino Dealers Brought Back the Recognition Strike and Won (w/ Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino dealer Tera Arnold)

39

Part 2: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.?

40

Canadian Postal Workers Have Had Enough of Government Backed-Management Stonewalling

41

Part 1: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.?

42

Notes on the USMCA: The Real Solution to Offshoring and Union-Busting is Cross-Border Solidarity

43

Starbucks Workers are on a Nationwide Strike for a First Contract (with Starbucks Workers United member Sabina Aguirre)

44

How Do We Build Worker Power Under Trump 2.0? (with guest Eric Blanc)

45

All Horror Movies Are About Organizing, Actually: The Labor Notes Hallowepisode

46

Are the Democrats F*cking Up the Shutdown?

47

Stewards’ Corner: Workplace Safety Is Not a Game

48

Wells Fargo Workers Push to Bring A Union to the Banking Industry

49

May 2028 Could Be the Push the Labor Movement Needs to Survive, Grow, and Build Power

50

The Labor Notes Pod will be back next week on Friday, 10/3

51

How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

52

Turn a Disciplinary Meeting into an Organizing Opportunity

53

Air Canada Flight Attendants Didn't Let the Government Ground Their Strike

54

Under Trump's Anti-Worker Landscape, Employers are Testing the Limits of What They Can Get Away With

55

Labor Notes Beach Reads: How Starbucks Workers Took On a Behemoth and How To Find What Your Boss is Hiding From You

56

Stewards' Corner: Acting Like A Union When Meeting With Management

57

Zohran’s NYC Primary Win Shows People Are Ready to Organize

58

Build Power By Coordinating Your Bargaining

59

Construction Unions Face a Choice: Cave or Defend Members?

60

Fight Ice. Build The Union.

61

What Makes Trump's Big Beautiful Bill So Ugly

62

How to Win a Strong Contract

63

How Grocery Workers in Indiana Said No to a Crappy Contract, and More from Our July Issue

64

Mexico’s independent auto union has bosses scared

65

77,000 California Educators Are Joining Forces

66

Grocery Workers at the UFCW are Organizing for a Fighting Union

67

Stewards’ Corner: What if Union Meetings Were Actually Good?

68

Beyond May Day, Part 2: Organizing in the Authoritarian Whirlwind

69

Beyond May Day: Part 1

70

Stewards' Corner: Did You Know You're Allowed to Read Your Boss' Emails?

71

Everything Sucks! Here’s What We Can Do About It

72

Mexican Autoworkers Faced Down Tariff Threats and Won Double Digit Raises—Plus, Labor Notes May Issue Preview!

73

Union Members are Leading the Defense of Immigrant Workers

74

Facing Privatization And DOGE Attacks, Postal Workers Are Fighting Back

75

Mexico City’s Trolleybus Workers Took on Austerity and Won

76

How TSA Agents and Federal Workers are Fighting a Hostile Administration

77

How Workers Are Fighting for a Liveable Planet

78

What the Tariffs Debate Is Missing: Workers’ Voices