Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Somehow It Feels Like a Small Town

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Green and Red captures the grassroots spirit rising in Los Angeles as communities resist ICE raids and repression—no organizing required when neighbors have each other’s backs. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange kicks off Friday in Silver Spring, A. Philip Randolph meets with FDR, and a powerful reminder that justice must be exacted, not given.

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The Labor Movement Needs Its Heart and Backbone

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Week Radio sounds the alarm on rising attacks and calls for labor to act now. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange kicks off Friday, a deadly 1864 arsenal explosion, and Susan B. Anthony’s timeless words.

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Playing by the Rules Won’t Stop the Empire

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red podcast takes us deep into Andor, where political awakening comes not from power and privilege, but from the realization that systemic change requires more than following the rules. Plus: Eugene V. Debs speaks truth to power on this day in 1918.

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Fashioning Power and Divine Rule

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Dig examines how English monarchs used clothing to project divine authority. Plus: worker-themed theater in NYC, WTO/99 at dcdoxfest, and the founding of the American Railway Union.

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Revolution Rhythms from the Barrio to the Range

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Francisco Herrera on music as empowerment, songs from Carsie Blanton and Colleen Kattau, Will Attig’s favorite labor anthem, and Seth Newton Patel on the 1883 Cowboy Strike.

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The “New Norm” in Workforce Strategy

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Pandemic-era understaffing and overwork have become “the new norm” in workforce strategy, says Economics for the People. Plus: the Great Labor Arts Exchange is next week, and we remember labor leader John L. Lewis, who died on this day in 1969.

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Why Washington Post Tech Workers Organized

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Washington Post tech workers say their work is central to the company’s success—so why not have a union to match? That’s from the Power at Work podcast. Plus: unions legalized in Canada (1872), vigilantes attack a MI picket line (1937), and JFK signs the Equal Pay Act (1963). Labor quote by Rep. Jackie Speier on the long road to wage equality.

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Why Bother? Union Meetings and Member Engagement

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Why union meetings feel pointless to some members—and what that means for participation and power. Featuring a segment from the Labor Notes Podcast, plus labor history, today’s labor quote, and the latest from the labor arts calendar.

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Never Knew What Happened to the Guy

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A wartime streetcar ride takes an unexpected turn on On The Line: Stories of BC Workers. Plus: Unite for Veterans hits the Mall with the Dropkick Murphys, and we remember Lansing’s 1937 “Labor Holiday.”

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From the Heart: Dropkick Murphys Stand with Workers

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily. “We started in ’96 and our message has not changed at all,” says Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey. On The Labor Heritage Power Hour, Casey talks about the band’s new single, their working-class roots, and why veterans are fighting back.
Plus: The Lockout of the 20,000 premieres online today, and in 1976, Teamsters for a Democratic Union was born.

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