Labor Radio-Podcast Daily
Episodes
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, ...
Corporate Power Bends the Knee to Trumpism
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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...