Episodes

Thursday Sep 25, 2025
We Don’t Stand Alone
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour features Matt Olson on New Orleans’ “Don’t Stand Alone” exhibit and Dr. Kendra Boyd on Black entrepreneurship and racial capitalism. In labor history, an 1891 Arkansas cotton-pickers’ strike turned deadly. Quote of the day: William “Big Bill” Haywood.
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Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People talks with tech workers who realized real change doesn’t come through “proper channels.” In labor history, Canada declared the Wobblies illegal in 1918. Quote of the day: the Wobblies.
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Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Redford on Political Corruption and Resistance
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
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 today. In labor history, tech contractors at Google’s Pittsburgh office vote to join the Steelworkers. Quote of the day: Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Monday Sep 22, 2025
The Long Day of the College Athlete
Monday Sep 22, 2025
Monday Sep 22, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Power at Work exposes the grueling schedules, exhaustion, and injuries faced by college football players as they push to organize. In labor history, Domino’s workers in Pensacola formed the first U.S. pizza delivery drivers’ union in 2006. Quote of the day: Hannah Shapiro.
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Friday Sep 19, 2025
Trapped by Wages Too Low to Live
Friday Sep 19, 2025
Friday Sep 19, 2025
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 provide for her children. In labor history, half a million unionists rallied at the 1981 Solidarity Day march in Washington, DC. Quote of the day: Joseph Ettor.
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Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Flipping the script on union antisemitism
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour with historian Joe McCartin on Congress’s “Unmasking Union Antisemitism” and how it rewrites labor’s history. In labor history, a 20-month illegal Kaiser Aluminum lockout ends with an arbitrator ordering a new contract, firing scabs, and back pay. Quote of the day: Summer Lee.
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Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
From Doctors and Cops to Every Voice
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the SAG-AFTRA Podcast spotlights audiobook narration, where actors bring entire casts of characters to life. In labor history, 100,000 Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners struck in 1900. Quote of the day: Samuel Gompers.
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Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Sword of Damocles Over Free Speech
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: AAUP Presents warns against the government using immigration law to silence dissent. In labor history, the NHL lockout cancels the 2004–05 season. Quote of the day: Richard Trumka.
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Monday Sep 15, 2025
Real community is built through play
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
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 labor history, the International Association of Siderographers merged with the Machinists in 1992. Quote of the day: Kate Atkinson.
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Friday Sep 12, 2025
Complicated storytelling made simple
Friday Sep 12, 2025
Friday Sep 12, 2025
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 history, New York City’s Union Square was officially named a national historic landmark in 1998. Quote of the day: Eugene V. Debs.
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