Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

The circus is a workplace

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 and labor, from the Labor Heritage Power Hour. In labor history, 75,000 coal miners ended a ten-week strike in 1897, winning the eight-hour day and the abolition of company stores. Quote of the day: Crystal Lee Sutton.

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Smoke and mirrors for workers

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 history, deputies gun down peaceful immigrant miners in the 1897 Lattimer Massacre. Quote of the day: Jonathan Swift.

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Corporate power and the state

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 history, Boston police struck in 1919 after union leaders were fired. Quote of the day: Frederick Douglass.

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They’re lying to you

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 history, on this date in 1965 the United Farm Workers launched their historic grape boycott and strike in Delano, California. Quote of the day: Cesar Chavez.

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Every worker depends on public service

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 staffing levels in key services. In labor history, New York’s first Labor Day parade drew 30,000 marchers in 1882. Quote of the day: Peter J. McGuire.

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Strike records as their own genre

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 Power Hour to dig into the forgotten genre of strike records. In labor history, 12,000 New York tailors struck in 1894 over sweatshop conditions. Quote of the day: Noam Chomsky.

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

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, September 3: Former NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo tells the Heartland Labor Forum about her firing and the president’s power grab. In labor history, 25 workers die in a 1991 fire at the Imperial Poultry plant in Hamlet, NC. Quote of the day: Jennifer Abruzzo.

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Pilots, Wear Your Union Pin

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 labor history, 1921: mineowners dropped homemade bombs on West Virginia strikers. Quote of the day: Joseph Ettor.

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Drop the Needle on Solidarity

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 Eighties that put you on the line. In labor history, 2003: the AFL-CIO launched Working America. Quote of the day: Ford Workers on Strike

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Bring a New Member

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Machinists 141 Connections on recruiting, education, and showing up to union meetings, plus a plug for Monday’s Labor Heritage Power Hour Labor Day Special (11–1 on WPFW). In labor history, 1996: dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady vote to join SEIU Local 790 and soon won a first contract. Quote of the day: Courtney Crimson.

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