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2020/04/28
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2026/10/09
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio/Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. Airs weekdays at 7:15a ET on WPFW 89.3FM #LaborRadioPod
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Labor’s Next Move
2026/10/09
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: What will it take to turn labor’s crisis into worker power? On The Dig, Chris Brooks makes the case for militant organizing and building toward 2028. Boiling Point examines the toll of an anti-union president, while The SAG-AFTRA Podcast explores the pressures facing broadcast journalists with reporter and union leader Tracee Wilkins.
Plus: Amazon drivers discuss Chicago’s Delivery Protection Act on The Workers’ Mic, ironworker Francisca Pamela talks work, family and women in the trades on Project Labor, and Solidarity Works celebrates Joe Hill’s enduring voice.
Shows You Should Know: The LabourStart Podcast on labor rights in Hong Kong, Working People on organizing to change the world, The Garage Mind on building a union audience, The Manufacturing Report on “Made in USA” claims and AI shopping assistants, and Working History on unions, schools and community action.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Harold Phillips and Patrick Dixon. Recorded under a SAG-AFTRA collective bargaining agreement.
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Something’s Cooking on the Shop Floor
2026/10/03
On The Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Grocery stores, warehouses and auto parts counters—different workplaces, familiar frustrations, and workers organizing for a say.
On Grocery Nerds, a worker and a union organizer describe the fight at California’s Mother’s Market, where the company’s feel-good image clashes with workers’ experiences. The Garage Mind hears from a slot-machine technician organizing with Teamsters Local 710 over low wages, costly healthcare, safety concerns and expanding duties. And Labor & Healthcare Confidential reports on AutoZone workers in White Plains, New York, winning representation with UAW Local 259.Then, We Work Europe explores the complications of living in one country and working in another. On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, Mark Strolle introduces “Assembled in Lansing,” an exhibit putting the autoworkers behind the cars into the picture.
Plus, Labor History in 2:00 remembers the 1851 Jerry Rescue and a 2007 victory for Starbucks workers organizing with the IWW.
Shows You Should Know: The ALPA Canada Podcast: Bill C-39 and proposed changes to Canada’s Labour Code. Blue Collar News: Who speaks for working-class voters? TWU Local 513 Podcast: Getting off the sidelines and building solidarity face to face. Roswell Hub: Logistics expert Ben Fong on what’s happening at UPS. The Worker Power Hour: Chris Garlock joins Randy to discuss AI—and why workers deserve a voice in its use.
Find these shows and more at laborradionetwork.org.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Harold Phillips and Patrick Dixon. Recorded under a SAG-AFTRA collective bargaining agreement.
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Organizing Everywhere
2026/09/25
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Force connects organizing fights across industries; Boiling Point examines a proposed $5,000 “Trump Dividend”; and El Cafecito del Día looks at affordability for Latino families. The Powerline Podcast tackles mental health in the trades, The Future of Work looks to space for lessons about decent jobs, and Working History returns. Plus, Shows You Should Know.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Ironworkers, Tunnel Workers and a Fight for 2,500 Jobs
2026/09/19
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Wealthy Ironworker honors the ironworkers who responded to 9/11; Alberta Worker explores LHF’s Labor Landmarks Map; and On the Line recounts immigrant tunnel workers’ landmark fight against wage discrimination. Plus, a Korean logistics union prepares to strike on LabourStart, Labor Notes reports on 2,500 workers fighting Tyson’s sudden Illinois plant closure, and Power At Work welcomes a mystery guest (Hint: his name isn’t on the Kennedy Center).
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Labor Day Lessons: Organizing, History and Holding the Line
2026/09/11
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Sean Astin and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler discuss the state of America’s labor movement. Engage explores how labor history shaped the piloting profession and why Delta pilots are determined to protect their hard-won contract rights. Green and Red talks with 9to5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum about organizing women office workers and the movement that inspired Dolly Parton’s classic film and song.
Then, The Heartland Labor Forum speaks with author Elaine Weiss about the Highlander Center and the underground schools that helped build the civil rights movement. Apple Box Talks visits with BC labor historian Donna Sacuta, and Solidarity Breakfast reports from a Maritime Union of Australia picket against a worker lockout at Quantem.
Plus, Shows You Should Know highlights Labor Day history, the stories working people tell about themselves, pro-worker trade policy, and protecting voting rights.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the world, presented by the Labor Radio Podcast Network—where working people speak.
Labor Day Around the Working World
2026/09/04
On this special Labor Day edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, working people share stories of skill, struggle and power—from an Asbury Park beach to a nuclear-waste facility more than 2,000 feet underground.
Project Labor meets veteran lifeguard Joe Bongiovanni, who explains why saving lives begins long before anyone needs rescuing. On The Alberta Worker Podcast, journalist Ximena Gonzalez recalls the all-night architecture job that showed her exactly why workers organize.
Australia’s Concrete Gang responds to police raids targeting CFMEU officials and their families, while Solidarity Works visits the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, where United Steelworkers members keep a remarkable underground workplace running safely.
On Blue Collar News, AFL-CIO campaigns director Artie Blanco explains why workers already possess political power—and why more union members are asking, “Why not me? Why not now?”
Finally, The Labor Exchange uncovers the history behind Colorado’s 1927 coal strike, the Columbine Mine Massacre and the Wobblies who organized workers across ethnic and racial lines. Plus, more recommendations in Shows You Should Know.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced & hosted by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Surveillance Won’t Stop Solidarity
2026/08/28
On this week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Labor Force and Labor Notes report on federal surveillance and investigations targeting Minnesota union members resisting immigration raids—and the workers refusing to be intimidated.
Work Stoppage covers investigations into a suspected company union; Grocery Nerds talks with Cleanup on Aisle Five author Ann Larson about poverty wages, corporate power and solidarity in the grocery industry. Union or Bust meets San Diego Zoo artists who organized with IATSE Local 122, while Maryland Labor History explores civil rights and public-sector unionism in Baltimore with author Jane Berger.
Plus, Shows You Should Know highlights educators preparing for a new school year on Boiling Point; longtime Teamster Randy Cammack on The Worker Power Hour; the KKK in Kansas City and the upcoming UAW election on The Heartland Labor Forum; labor author Cole Rockarts and voices from the Teamsters Black Caucus Convention on Working Voices; and Labor Day plans and sustainable community schools on Labor Express Radio.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Your Weekly Shot of Hope: Labor Media from the Streets
2026/08/21
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 employer self-policing.
America’s Workforce Union Podcast traces labor’s central role in the decades-long struggle for Medicare and Medicaid—and the continuing campaign for Medicare for All.
Joe Uehlein joins Green and Red to discuss his memoir, Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, and his efforts to bridge the labor and environmental movements.
Working People marks the 25th anniversary of Barbara Ehrenreich’s landmark Nickel and Dimed and considers why its portrait of low-wage work remains so relevant.
Also featured: outgoing Australian Council of Trade Unions Secretary Sally McManus talks with LabourStart about major worker victories and challenges facing Australia’s unions; an excerpt from Richard Trumka’s inspiring 2009 address on the essential power of labor art, from Labor History Today; Emma Goldman’s fiery defense of unemployed workers on Labor History in 2:00, and the latest installment of Shows You Should Know.
The Labor Radio Podcast Network—where working people speak. Find the Network at laborradionetwork.org and follow #LaborRadioPod on social media.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Red Scares and Union Fights
2026/08/14
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 America’s renewed Red Scare.
Plus, Shows You Should Know!
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
From Riot Dogs to Radio Waves
2026/08/08
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 conversation about building worker power through independent radio.
On LabourStart, Lennon Wang of the Taidoc Technology Union tells the story of Filipino migrant workers at TaiDoc Technology in Taiwan, who organized in the face of discrimination, forced labor conditions, and union busting.
On Working Class History, Movements and Riot Dogs explores the role of street dogs in mass protests in Chile and Greece, focusing on the legendary Negro Matapacos and Loukanikos.
On Heartland Labor Forum, Natasha Iskander revisits the worker-rights abuses surrounding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, while Stage Hands union leader Jacob Hobbs assesses whether this summer's tournament has treated workers any better.
On Delivering Solidarity, organizers gather for the union's national convention.
On Labor Exchange, the hosts discuss Boulder City Council's decision not to cut tipped workers' pay, the union drive at the Hotel Boulderado, and the working-class history of soccer.
On The Valley Labor Report, an Alabama USW local president reacts to the closure of the BFGoodrich plant, and Jennifer Berkshire joins the show to discuss the future of public education.
On The Worker Power Hour, Chris Garlock and Harold Phillips discuss the growing partnership between the Worker Power Radio Network and the Labor Radio Podcast Network and the importance of independent media in amplifying workers' voices.
PLUS: Shows You Should Know: The Workers Mic, Working People, Blue Collar News, Reinventing Solidarity, and Breaking Ground.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Worker Power From Cincinnati to Chennai
2026/07/31
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 Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, while The Workers' Mic covers the Ashland Specialty Chemicals strike and the fight against wage theft. Plus more Shows You Should Know.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
Special “Deep Cuts” Edition: Continent of Resistance & The Solidarity Report
2026/07/24
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 care, and a culture of solidarity that welcomes new workers and builds resilient movements.
Then, The Solidarity Report sits down with Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Chris Garlock and actor and SAG-AFTRA member Harold Phillips. The conversation ranges from the origins of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and the importance of labor storytelling to organizing through arts and culture, preserving labor history, protecting workers from AI, and why communication is essential to building worker power. The episode also highlights the Labor Heritage Foundation's Labor Landmarks Map and the growing community of labor podcasters working together across the movement.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
On Strike, On Stage, On TikTok
2026/07/18
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 from the live show at the 2026 Labor Notes Conference.
My Labor Radio: TikTok creator Joe Lundequam discusses labor messaging and reaching new audiences online.
The SAG-AFTRA Podcast: Harrison Ford reflects on life as a working actor and the realities of the profession.
Shows You Should Know: Concrete Gang, The Voice, The Canadian Union Podcast For Employees, Labor History Today, Union Labor Advisory Network Podcast.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
From Heat Waves to Toy Story: Workers Organize the Future
2026/07/10
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 a first contract.
Pipe Up — A 19-year-old union apprentice prepares to represent the UA and the U.S. at the WorldSkills competition in Shanghai.
Labor Notes Podcast — Toy Story turns out to be a master class in organizing, collective action, and worker solidarity.
Green & Red Podcast — Historian James Cheney explores the largely forgotten 1912–13 Little Falls textile strike led by immigrant women workers.
Shows You Should Know: Worker Power Hour; Next Generation Carriers; Working People; My Labor Radio; Labor History Today.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.
First Contracts, Strike Data & Starbucks Organizing
2026/07/03
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. Bronner's CEO David Bronner about worker justice and regenerative business. Plus: the Manufacturing Report visits Detroit's "Arsenal of Democracy," Working Class History revisits the IWW's pioneering Starbucks organizing drive, and our regular roundup of Shows You Should Know.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.
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Union Jack NW 2021/04/03
Great format to keep informed!!!
I am really impressed with content of this show. It is a springboard to dive deeper into subjects such as worker rights, unions and blue collar pride!...
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