Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Corporate Power Bends the Knee to Trumpism

23 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Dig explores how major corporations and elite institutions quickly fell in line with Trumpism. In labor hi...

“TiVo for Radio”

22 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Radio show explores how the Labor Radio Podcast Network amplifies worker voices. In labor history, t...

We Built the Movement

19 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: voices from Reinventing Solidarity remind us how Black organizers and institutions helped build the UAW—and ...

It Ain’t About Scrooge, It’s About Us

18 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A powerful excerpt from A Red Carol by the San Francisco Mime Troupe reframes Dickens as a collective call to ...

“No Place for You in This Firm”

17 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A candid conversation from Union Strong about confronting workplace discrimination and turning exclusion into ...

Who’s Watching the Commute?

16 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: a closer look at license plate readers and the expanding surveillance of workers’ daily lives, from the Unio...

Dignity for All

15 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: global unions rally to free jailed Hong Kong labor leaders as the ITUC launches an international campaign. In ...

History Is Our Best Defense

12 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Tales from the Reuther Library warns that understanding labor history is essential as threats to the NLRA grow...

The People We Don’t See

11 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Ann Goethals reads from her debut novel The Doublewide on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, exploring caregiving,...

History Makes Democracy Possible

10 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On Writing explores why public broadcasting—and the honest, in-depth storytelling it provides—is essential...

Systematic Discrimination at Amazon

09 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Power At Work digs into New Jersey’s investigation alleging widespread discrimination against Amazon workers...

People Power vs. the Coal Port

08 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Solidarity Breakfast reports from a mass people’s blockade targeting the world’s largest coal port. In lab...

Buy American for the Holidays

05 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Manufacturing Report spotlights Nathan Walker’s journey from teenage hobbyist to U.S. leather-goods manu...

When the Machines Start to Sing

04 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily we talk with musician Dave Rovics on the Labor Heritage Power Hour about AI and the future of music. In labor h...

Feeding the Fight

03 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Jawn talks with organizers running a “strike kitchen” to feed and support Starbucks Workers United d...

Letter Carriers Give Back All Year Long

02 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Fight Like Hell spotlights how letter carriers support their communities year-round — including Branch 294’...

Workers Made the Law by Making Trouble

01 Dec 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Tales from the Reuther Library breaks down how labor rights exist only because workers organized and took mili...

Coffee Culture Is Labor Culture

28 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: What’s Goin’ On Labor Friday breaks down how the Red Cup Rebellion reconnects Starbucks workers to the rea...

“Starbucks Took My Cat Away”

27 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Notes digs into the strange reality of Starbucks’ cup-writing mandates — and why baristas say corpor...

Starbucks barista: “Community care is union power”

26 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We Rise Fighting shares a barista’s firsthand account of community, care, and why Starbucks workers are stan...

Now Is the Time to Stand With Starbucks Workers

25 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage digs into the escalating Starbucks strike and why baristas are calling for full solidarity. In l...

The strike wave Starbucks tried to stop

24 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People on the fear, retaliation, and rights violations driving Starbucks workers to organize. In labor...

What’s it all worth?

21 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Next Generation Carrier podcast shares a raw look at burnout, exhaustion, and the emotional toll of the jo...

When the City Stopped

20 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Historian Robert W. Snyder joins the Labor Heritage Power Hour to reflect on the existential choices frontline...

Full-Time Work Shouldn’t Mean Food Bank Lines

19 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Blue Collar News exposes the injustice of workers delivering benefits while struggling to feed their own famil...

Museums as Classrooms, Museums as Battlegrounds

18 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Art and Labor explores museums as both liberatory learning spaces and tools of empire. In labor history, 33 wo...

The Power of Grassroots Democracy

17 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Boiling Point explores how genuine grassroots organizing can shake entrenched power in unexpected ways. In...

The Spirit of Dead Workers Is All Around Us

14 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: America’s Work Force explores the haunting legacy of John Henry and the songs born from the pain and pride o...

Bernie on Debs: A Vision Beyond Capitalism

13 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Senator Bernie Sanders joins the Labor Heritage Power Hour to reflect on labor hero Gene Debs and his enduring...

The Case That Made Scabby a Free Speech Symbol

12 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Worker’s Mic breaks down the federal case that affirmed Scabby the Rat’s protection under the First Am...

“We’re in a real fight”

11 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Organising for a Change digs into the reform vote and the real fight ahead for labor. In labor history, on thi...

Growing Repression in Serbia

10 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: LabourStart reports on escalating union repression in Serbia, where workers are being fired and demoted for po...

Professionalizing the WNBA

07 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Union Strong talks about efforts to professionalize the WNBA—ensuring players have the facilities, training,...

No Rules? No Way at Casa Bonita!

06 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour talks with a Casa Bonita performer in Denver who walked out on Halloween for fai...

Off the Clock and Out of Uniform

05 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: From the Bipartisan Buzz podcast, a look at what postal workers can and can’t do on the clock. In labor hist...

Practice Solidarity

04 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: From the Workers Beat Extra podcast — what we have to do in the short- and long-term interests of union memb...

Elected Power and Political Will

03 Nov 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Notes podcast looks at what it really means for elected officials to wield — or waste — their po...

Partners and Power Lines

31 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Line podcast explores how unions and environmentalists are finding common ground in the industrial Midwest...

Work Seen from the Inside

30 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Photographer Jim Brozek captures the grit and danger of honest work on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, which al...

Standing Up for Their Communities

29 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: From The Boiling Point podcast, two cities are standing up for their communities in their own unique ways. In ...

Walk the Entire Plant in VR?

28 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Talk the TAUC digs into real-world VR headset use cases for workers in the field. In labor history, Ironworker...

Profit over people in SF’s Gateway warehouse plan

27 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: WorkWeek Radio covers community pushback against San Francisco’s Gateway warehouse plan and the health and e...

Young workers organizing young workers

24 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Machinist 141 Connections on JetBlue ramp agents building an inside committee and peer-to-peer outreach to win...

Parody is an organizer’s secret weapon

23 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour features Si Kahn on why parody songs are powerful tools for organizers. In labor his...

Canada’s largest union hits 800,000

22 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Radio Labour Canada on CUPE’s growth to 800,000 members and a vow to fight back-to-work orders and austerity...

32,000 MI home care workers win union power

21 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage on Michigan’s 32,000 home healthcare workers winning SEIU recognition with a 73% “yes.” In...

Fierce, cool, and fighting elder abuse

20 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Third & Fairfax talks with filmmaker Susie Singer Carter about “No Country for Old People” and exposin...

Hard hats hard truths

17 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: My Labor Radio talks with NYC Building Trades leader Gary LaBarbera about PBS’s “Hard Hat Riot” and unio...

Laurel's Legacy

16 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour honors Laurel Blaydes and spotlights songs that organize from Fannie Lou Hamer t...

Respect the guards, respect the residents

15 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stick Together reports from Melbourne as security guards demand safety and fair pay. In labor history, Preside...

“That video’s not gonna lie”

14 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Show with JDoc & Krausey talks tech and accountability with FOP Lodge 5 President Roosevelt Popl...

Watching Them Dismantle Fair Housing

13 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People with HUD whistleblowers on retaliation and the dismantling of fair housing. In labor history, t...

He Grabbed the Mic

10 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Exchange remembers USW leader Leo Gerard with stories of fearless, hands-on solidarity. In labor his...

Shut it down

09 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Heritage Power Hour talks with director Mark Mori about “Baristas vs. Billionaires” and the Star...

The Constitution is a living promise

08 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: El Cafecito del Dia on why the Constitution must live in our unions, communities and everyday lives. In labor ...

Into the Blackwater

07 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Say Watt goes deep with a story of midnight Blackwater diving and the grit it takes to work in the dark. In la...

Where democracy takes root

06 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Reinventing Solidarity explores how public education nurtures democracy and why critical thinking threatens au...

What’s in the spray?

03 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Notes spotlights salon workers who discovered their tanning spray wasn’t FDA-approved for aerosol use ...

Smog, solidarity and the red bandana

02 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour visits the Donora Smog Museum and traces the red bandana’s roots in solidarity. In...

Banks, bots and the fight to save jobs

01 Oct 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: WorkWeek digs into bank workers pushing back against digitalization, outsourcing, and call center closures. In...

Italy workers shut it down

30 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage on Italy’s mass strike that froze public transit nationwide. In labor history, Black farmers i...

From Zero to Solidarity

29 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We Work Europe on workers organizing from scratch—and building independent power without prior union experie...

Mind the Gap: Living Wage Now

26 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stick Together digs into the gulf between minimum and living wages—and its real-life consequences. In labor ...

We Don’t Stand Alone

25 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour features Matt Olson on New Orleans’ “Don’t Stand Alone” exhibit and Dr. Kend...

An Injury to One Is an Injury to All

24 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People talks with tech workers who realized real change doesn’t come through “proper channels.” ...

Redford on Political Corruption and Resistance

23 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red podcast digs into Robert Redford’s film work on political corruption and its resonance tod...

The Long Day of the College Athlete

22 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Power at Work exposes the grueling schedules, exhaustion, and injuries faced by college football players as th...

Trapped by Wages Too Low to Live

19 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Buwa Basebetsi follows a South African factory worker whose life on the minimum wage leaves her struggling to ...

Flipping the script on union antisemitism

18 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour with historian Joe McCartin on Congress’s “Unmasking Union Antisemitism” and h...

From Doctors and Cops to Every Voice

17 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the SAG-AFTRA Podcast spotlights audiobook narration, where actors bring entire casts of characters to life. I...

Sword of Damocles Over Free Speech

16 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: AAUP Presents warns against the government using immigration law to silence dissent. In labor history, the NHL...

Real community is built through play

15 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Exploits of Play from the Reimagine Value Action Lab explores how joy and fun build resilient communities. In ...

Complicated storytelling made simple

12 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Director’s Cut podcast unpacks the film Freakier Friday and the art of telling complex stories. In labor...

The circus is a workplace

11 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We hear from Circus World author Andrea Ringer and Art Works author Ken Grossinger on the power of the arts an...

Smoke and mirrors for workers

10 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Rick Smith Show calls out empty promises from the Department of Labor while union jobs are cut. In labor h...

Corporate power and the state

09 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The KGNU Labor Exchange explores how corporate power often allies with the state in pernicious ways. In labor ...

They’re lying to you

08 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, September 8: The Work Stoppage Podcast calls out Trump’s anti-union energy policies. In labor his...

Every worker depends on public service

05 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, September 5: What’s Going On spotlights the vital role of federal workers and the erosion of staf...

Strike records as their own genre

04 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, September 4: Josh MacPhee, co-author of Strike While the Needle is Hot, joins the Labor Heritage ...

“One of the only truths I’ve ever heard”

03 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, September 3: Former NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo tells the Heartland Labor Forum about ...

Pilots, Wear Your Union Pin

02 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Engage—The Podcast for Delta Pilots on solidarity you can see and why wearing your ALPA pin matters. In labo...

Drop the Needle on Solidarity

01 Sep 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour’s Labor Day Special with Josh MacPhee on strike records from the Sixties to the Ei...

Bring a New Member

29 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Machinists 141 Connections on recruiting, education, and showing up to union meetings, plus a plug for Monday’...

Who Will Dare to Light the Fuse?

28 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: clips from the Labor Heritage Power Hour—Theater Alliance’s “Fire Work,” strike songs from Strike Whil...

Lies and Liars

27 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers Beat Extra takes on Trump, truth, and the takeover of the airwaves. In labor history, sanitation s...

Unions as Community

26 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Power At Work podcast explores how unions build solidarity and community beyond economic struggles. In lab...

That ain’t happening on my watch

25 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Alberta Worker Podcast brings us voices from the Canadian flight attendants’ strike. In labor history, t...

Pick the best candidate for workers

22 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On the Labor Notes podcast, organizers explain how UAW Region 9A backed the strongest pro-worker candidate—a...

All people must be free

21 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour talks with poet Martín Espada about immigration and poetry. In labor history, Nat T...

The myth of an invisible army

20 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red podcast challenges the myth of an invisible army of federal workers. In labor history, 2021 ...

From Superman to ICE

19 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers Mic riffs on ICE’s celebrity turn as ’90s Superman star Dean Cain signs on as an agent. In lab...

You can’t fix service without federal workers

18 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Valley Labor Report on why you can’t improve service without hiring federal workers. In labor history, 1...

Sanitation strikes and society’s backbone

15 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Jawn on why Philly gets a sanitation strike about every 40 years — and what that says about the work w...

Holding on to the power of democracy

14 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Naomi Williams joins the Labor Heritage Power Hour to discuss her new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity a...

“What about unemployed people?”

13 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Tales from the Reuther recalls an AFL-CIO meeting where delegates challenged union leaders to focus more on un...

Hard hats vs. hippies in New York

12 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: America’s Workforce Radio digs into Nixon’s role in the infamous 1970 “hard hat protest” that pitted c...

America’s Workforce Radio; Tales from the Reuther Library; Labor Jawn; Solidarity Works; Labor Heritage Power Hour

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From America’s Workforce Radio, we revisit the Vietnam era’s “Hard Hat” protest and how labor’s...

The legacy of Cesar Chavez is a call to action

11 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Solidarity Works looks at how the Delano grape strike’s legacy continues to inspire immigrant labor, collect...

Fighting Misinformation at the Local Scale

08 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Boiling Point podcast tackles the importance of local labor media in the fight against misinformation. In ...

Cowboys and Capitalists

07 Aug 2025

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On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Filmmaker Matthew Pehl on the 1883 Great Cowboy Strike, featured on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, a...