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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
