Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

TikTok Hacks, Tariffs & Labor Costs

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Manufacturing Report exposes how viral TikTok shopping hacks push ultra-cheap Chinese factory goods—and the hidden costs behind them. Plus: weekend labor films at the DC Labor FilmFest and Reel Work in California, the 1934 Minneapolis general strike, and a powerful quote from A. Philip Randolph.

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Shawn Fain: “Telling Workers’ Stories is Revolutionary”

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: UAW President Shawn Fain accepts the 2025 Solidarity Forever Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation, reflecting on the revolutionary power of telling workers’ stories. Plus: the 1917 founding of the first public library workers’ union and a musical tribute to IWW songwriter T-Bone Slim.

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What Really Made America Great

On today's Labor Radio Podcast Daily, we hear from the On The Line podcast, where the power of honest history takes center stage. Educators and organizers are pushing back on sanitized narratives, lifting up the essential struggles—of enslaved Africans, suffragettes, and the Chicano labor movement—that truly built America. Plus: labor film highlights from D.C. to California, a victorious 1953 brewery strike, and a classic labor quote from modern-day picket lines.

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Know Your Rights: Teachers and Students Stand Together

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily, we hear from Working Voices on KPFK, where educators are taking a stand to protect immigrant students by distributing red rights cards and refusing to aid ICE without a warrant. Plus: labor arts calendar highlights and the 1913 IWW dockworkers strike in Philadelphia. Today’s labor quote comes from UAW President Doug Fraser, who broke barriers—and spoke hard truths—on this day in 1980.

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Labor on the Rise, Fear in the Streets

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: In 2025, over 580 Starbucks stores have unionized—an outcome few predicted just five years ago. Today’s Reinventing Solidarity podcast explores how this unexpected surge is reshaping the labor movement, especially among young workers. Plus: immigration raids echo a dark history, labor arts events from D.C. to California, and George Escobar of CASA calls out fear-based enforcement tactics.

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Importing Inequality

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Congress cracked down on undocumented workers—then made exceptions for low-wage white labor. Tales from the Reuther Library exposes the racial bias baked into U.S. labor policy. Plus: labor films this weekend, a 1934 strike, and Big Bill Haywood.

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Strike a Nerve, Snap a Shot, Draw the Line

Labor Radio Podcast Daily: On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, Tim Lawson spotlights the IBEW Photo Contest, Tabitha Arnold talks labor art with Australian cartoonist Sam Wallman, and Samantha Smith uncovers the hidden history of unionizing Las Vegas showgirls. Plus, music from the DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert.

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Sugar, Strikes, and Shorts

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Inside the sugar production line with the Bakery Workers Union’s BCTGM Voices Project. In the labor arts world, Bargaining Shorts screen at California’s Reel Work Labor Film Festival. On this day in labor history: Philadelphia’s longest transit strike ends after 44 days. And today’s labor quote comes from Equity’s Andrea Hoeschen on the fight at The Second City in Chicago.

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“The Most American Thing You Can Do”

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio defends freedom of speech as a core labor value, Calamity screens at the DC Labor FilmFest; the Clara Lemlich Awards honor women organizers in NYC; and NoVa Book Club tackles Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois. Plus, a wildcat strike by Black tobacco stemmers in 1937 Richmond and a quote by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

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Locked Out: Labor, Community, and the Fight for Access

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, May 5: A chilling glimpse into campus shutdowns and community exclusion, from the Union Talk podcast. Plus, two powerful films — Calamity and Clockwatchers — screen at the DC Labor FilmFest, and we remember the Battle of Harlan County and labor leader John Sweeney.

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