Labor Radio-Podcast Daily
Episodes
May Day Means Fight Back
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Work Stoppage podcast says May Day is workers’ real labor holiday, not the “bulls--t holiday” chosen...
The story changed as the mill shut down
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Maryland Labor History podcast tracks a project overtaken by a mill closure. In labor history, 1894 Pullma...
Contracts, culture and the power to make change
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The International Labour Organization’s Future of Work podcast examines how job contracts and workplace poli...
WPFW; Where Democracy Now! began
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Heritage Power Hour features Amy Goodman on WPFW’s roots and Steal This Story, Please! Q&A cli...
Data center jobs and community wealth
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Blue Collar News highlights how data centers drive construction jobs and local wealth on the Labor Radio Podca...
We’re not working, we’re not spending
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage channels a boycott and resistance message on the Labor Radio Podcast Network. In labor history, ...
Let the People Speak
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People spotlights a worker-led vision for Philadelphia and a May Day push to ratify it. In labor histo...
“Pick it up off the shelf and make it yours”
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Union Bug reflects on how past struggles can inspire today’s organizing. In labor history, millions joined t...
Can unions build power through culture too?
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how unions are investing in arts and culture to build worker power. In ...
“People power for mobility is not new”
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum explores how transit riders have long used organizing to demand freedom of mobility. In ...
“Can’t afford a car after 20 years on the job”
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On Union Strong, Albany News Guild journalists describe life without a contract for 17 years—and what it mea...
Blurred lines at home and abroad
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red podcast examines how the line between domestic and foreign surveillance is eroding. In labor his...
“Learn to See the Grassland”
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stick Together explores how we misread landscapes—and labor—on the Labor Radio Podcast Network. In labor h...
“Free on May Day”
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour previews the May Day re-release of American Dream at the DC Labor FilmFest. In l...
Black rain and toxic truth
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People exposes environmental disaster and worker danger. In labor history, enslaved Africans led the f...
Breaking barriers in the trades
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: My Labor Radio spotlights efforts to make trades training accessible for women. In labor history, New York’s...
Data centers come with hidden costs
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Rick Smith Show examines the environmental and economic impacts of AI data centers. In labor history, 10,0...
You can’t just rebuild a workforce
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: America’s Work Force Radio looks at the devastating impact of mass layoffs on workers and communities. In la...
Women’s stories and the myth of “time-saving” tech
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour previews the DC Labor FilmFest and explores how “time-saving” tech often mea...
Facing ICE, Standing Ground
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Solidarity Works recounts a tense encounter with ICE as a parent is surrounded at gunpoint while trying to kee...
The Safety Net of Solidarity
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: El Cafecito del Día highlights rapid-response solidarity, as workers mobilize to support immigrant families. ...
ICE raid horror sparks outrage
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio reports a shocking ICE raid where agents in black seized a terrified woman. In labor history, ...
A watershed moment in baseball
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum looks at a potential turning point in baseball history and what it could mean for worker...
Showing Up for the Movement
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Rude Mechanical Orchestra on the Labor Heritage Power Hour talks about showing up and amplifying the movem...
“My Leg Came Off on the Pole”
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On PowerLine, a lineman recounts a harrowing moment on the job and the realities of working aloft. In labor hi...
Kids Shouldn’t Be Ubering to School
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On UnionTalk, school bus shortages force working parents to rely on rideshares to get kids to class. In labor ...
Together We Rise
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We delve into the readiness of the working class to confront challenges ahead on Labor Express Radio. In labor...
Re:Work rides and labor arts on display
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Re:Work Radio shares a striking story of women drivers challenging bias and skill on the road. In labor histor...
Inside the escape room the workers are the show
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour explores immersive theater workers organizing inside escape rooms. In labor history,...
No games; we do not cross picket lines
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Workers’ Mic says real solidarity means no games when refs strike—put it in the contract. In labor history...
Workers are saying enough is enough
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People spotlights JBS workers organizing for fair pay, dignity, and safe conditions. In labor history,...
Dolores Huerta shares difficult truths
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: CWA Hour of Power features UFW’s Dolores Huerta reflecting on painful early movement experiences. In labor h...
Boss makes workers pay to stay safe
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage exposes JBS workers forced to pay for their own safety gear. In labor history, 2002: Supreme Cou...
Sisters in the trades
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour features crane operator Sammy Cossairt on sisterhood – and singing -- in the t...
99 percent vote to strike at JBS
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Exchange reports a 99% strike authorization by JBS meatpacking workers. In labor history, the 1911 T...
Power, not just contracts
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Force examines power imbalance between workers and a multinational food company. In labor history, NYC s...
Workers Like You and Me
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People exposes the sweeping impact of immigration enforcement on everyday workers. In labor history, t...
Breath and Brotherhood
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: a powerful moment from the America Works podcast reflects on strength, vulnerability, and solidarity. In labor...
Hollywood Panic Over Organizing
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Labor Heritage Power Hour reveals how fears of union organizing shaped early Hollywood. In labor history, ...
They Can’t Even Load a Dishwasher
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the SAG-AFTRA podcast shares a humorous take on AI struggling with a simple commercial shoot on the Labor Radi...
Stronger Each Day
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On The Line shares how community support strengthened workers during a four-day strike. In labor history, the ...
Workers’ Stories, Antidote to Despair
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: how hearing workers’ organizing stories on the Labor Notes Podcast has become a source of hope in turbulent ...
When “Rat” Entered the Labor Lexicon
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: backlash to a Christmas Eve strike on We Rise Fighting from the Labor Radio Podcast Network. In labor history,...
Gloria Johnson’s Promise
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Elise Bryant recounts the story of CLUW leader Gloria Johnson and the promise she made after facing segregatio...
The Problem With Oreos
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red podcast digs into deforestation and labor rights abuses tied to ingredients in Oreos and oth...
Big Tech Moves In Next Door
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Economics for the People reports on a massive data center project planned near homes on Bly Road and what it c...
Fight Like Hell for Our Unions
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Solidarity Podcast from Teamsters Local 769 says workers won’t give up their unions. In labor history, t...
Labor celebrates International Women’s Day
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Immigrant workers under attack in today’s climate on the Unite and Win podcast. Labor celebrates Internation...
Right side of history
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: SEIU president April Verrett on the Labor Heritage Power Hour says the labor movement must stand firmly on the...
Connected to something bigger
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Radio on KBOO explores how Oregon workers see themselves as part of a larger, ongoing struggle. In labor...
Profits Over Patients
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: nurses warn the Riverside Rank and File that profit-driven healthcare is crowding out patient-centered care —...
Why We Do This
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: WorkWeek Radio lifts up educators fighting for students and public schools. In labor history, 6,000 Greyhound ...
Hope in hard times
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Tales from the Reuther Library explores how The Radical Fund defended workers and dissenters in America’s da...
One at a time we build solidarity
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Elise Bryant and the DC Labor Chorus on the Labor Heritage Power Hour remind us that solidarity grows person b...
Bring your noise maker
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: My Labor Radio reports on letter carriers’ plans to revive loud, old-school union rally energy with megaphon...
Enough Is Enough: Jobs and Justice for All
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red Podcast honors Jesse Jackson’s lifelong fight to unite workers around economic justice and...
We Can’t Just Bless America
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Valley Labor Report explores inequality and working-class struggle in Atlanta. In labor history, Woody Gut...
One Day Longer Than Pittston
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Express Radio investigates layoffs, corruption, and worker resistance in auto manufacturing. In labor hi...
Healing Justice and the Long Fight for Equity
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: America Works examines Black hospitals, health disparities, and why equity requires understanding lived experi...
Who Controls Your Digital Self?
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the SAG-AFTRA Podcast explains new guardrails on digital replicas and performer consent. In labor history, Kic...
No Confetti for the Champions
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Words and Work digs into USL players’ bold protest and a stripped-down championship celebration. In labor hi...
Courage, Conviction, and Collective Action
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Notes examines how Twin Cities unions responded as workers organized themselves and forced bold action. ...
From the Fields to the Picket Line
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: a Labor Jawn story traces early farm work, loss, and survival. In labor history, the Sons of Vulcan secure a f...
Stand Up and Do Something
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: artists reflect on writing songs for this political moment and the need to act, on the Labor Heritage Power Ho...
Greensboro Sparks a Movement
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: how the Greensboro sit-ins helped ignite the modern Civil Rights Movement and reshaped American politics. In l...
Called at Any Hour
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: PowerLine Podcast takes us inside the high-risk, high-responsibility world of substation work and what it dema...
Shutting Down a Paper to Bust a Union
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Heartland Labor Forum reports on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shutdown and the anti-union retaliation behin...
Pete’s Genius Was Teaching
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: how Pete Seeger turned songs into shared power, via the Solidarity Works podcast. In labor history, the Seattl...
Stories Move People
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Singer David Rovics on why stories—not chants—move people, 2026 Labor Grammys winners, and Songs for Minne...
ICE in the Back Seat
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage shares drivers’ fears of ICE stings using ride apps. In labor history, Rosa Parks is born. Quo...
“The Continued Existence of ICE Is a Threat”
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Voice of the People challenges ICE’s power and impact on working communities. In labor history, the Supr...
“Girls, We Can’t Lose”
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Worker’s Beat on how a Minnesota general strike is shaking the labor landscape. In labor history, the lo...
Hooked on solidarity
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: a new LRPN show, Unite and Win, on the power of collective action. In labor history, the ILO is founded. Quote...
A Brick and a Bible
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores a new play about the 1933 Funsten Nut Strike and the image that became ...
MLK’s Radical Vision of Class and Solidarity
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red explores Martin Luther King Jr.’s often-overlooked commitment to class struggle and democratic...
General Strike in Minneapolis!
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On We Rise Fighting, unions demand ICE leave Minnesota in solidarity with immigrant workers. In labor history,...
The Working Class Fights Back in Minneapolis
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People on mass resistance to ICE terror and why solidarity on the ground in Minneapolis matters nation...
Building Unions Worthy of Trust
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: voices from The Valley Labor Report on rebuilding unions strong enough to earn workers’ trust—and keep it....
Labor and the Race Divide
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, historian Rudi Batzell examines how racial divisions shaped the U.S. labor m...
What Uberization Really Means
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily, Counter App unpacks the meaning of “Uberization” and how digital labor platforms are transforming work. In...
“If I Could Pay You Less, I Would”
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a sharp Chris Rock joke opens a deeper conversation about why collective bargaining agreements matter. In labo...
Just Trying to Get Gas
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Rick Smith Show reports from Minneapolis, where immigration raids are spilling into everyday life and trau...
Corporate Media Isn’t Built for Workers
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Why podcasts and independent labor media matter, featuring The Union Bug on the Labor Radio Podcast Network an...
There’s Drama. There’s a Pinkerton.
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A behind-the-scenes look at The Hidden Shift and the labor-history intrigue explored on the Labor Heritage Pow...
“Even When You Lose, You Gain Something”
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: lessons in persistence from the Labor Notes Podcast, as organizers reflect on why fighting—and learning from...
There’s No Resort Without These Workers
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: a look at the Telluride ski patrol strike from LaborForce and what it shows about worker power in seasonal ind...
Imperial Ambitions and Oil Politics
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Dig unpacks the MAGA agenda behind escalating intervention, deportation, and oil-driven geopolitics. In la...
Small Acts Build Collective Power
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Boiling Point podcast reminds us that making change doesn’t require grand gestures—just people coming ...
Children of 2008, Builders of Solidarity
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Younger workers are turning crisis into collective power, as Dave Kamper discusses the post-2008 generation an...
Labor History We Take for Granted
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Wealthy IronWorker makes the case for teaching labor history—and remembering how hard-won our basic rig...
Watching the Watchers
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red Podcast links the Church Committee, CIA power, and resistance politics. In labor history, To...
Speaking Truth to Power—and Paying the Price
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Heartland Labor Forum examines the firing of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and what it signals about l...
They Know the Real Thing
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Force looks at political authenticity, independence, and why credibility matters. In labor history, indu...
When Work, Art, and Algorithms Collide
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour explores AI, creative work, and what the future may hold for artists and workers...
If We Ain’t All Free
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Valley Labor Report on what the Alabama coal miners’ strike reveals about militancy and democracy. In la...
Labor Radio Links the Fights
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working to Live in Southwest Washington on how labor radio links local fights around the world. In labor histo...
2025’s Top 5: Labor Jawn
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: highlights from the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly Top 5 of the Year, today featuring the Labor Jawn podcast and i...
From the line to the feed
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Voices from the PowerLine Podcast on how line workers are using TikTok and social media to tell their own stor...
“Every day we’re working ourselves out of a job”
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Building trades workers talk with the Heartland Labor Forum about the stress of job uncertainty and what it me...
Holiday Displays and Labor Memory
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Madison Labor Radio looks at decades of union-built holiday displays in Madison, Wisconsin. In labor history, ...