Episodes

Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Art, Action, and Agitation
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Chicago Jobs with Justice organizer Angie Moreno previews their upcoming Art Build, using creativity to process the struggles and joys of labor and immigration. Also on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: a DC Labor FilmFest preview, a labor scavenger hunt in Washington State, and the winner of the General Strike Song Contest. Plus: auditions for Love Songs from the Liberation Wars in North Carolina, American Agitators screens in California, and the ILWU’s 1999 port shutdown for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
“We Shall Endure”
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: When Cummins management asked for a six-month extension with no raises, workers stood their ground — hear the story on We Rise Fighting.
Plus: In the labor arts world, Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion in Chicago, From Ground Zero screens in Santa Cruz, and a virtual book talk on global labor history.
We also remember Cesar Chavez, who passed on this day in 1993.
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Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Dirty Jobs, Real Consequences
Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Power at Work blogcast highlights the dangers of debris cleanup and how lack of training and equipment leaves workers vulnerable to exploitation.
Plus, on the labor arts calendar: The Last Human Job author talk in East Lansing and From Ground Zero screens at the Reel Work Labor Film Festival in California.
In labor history: a deadly 1938 mining disaster in Virginia.
And today’s labor quote comes from We Just Come To Work Here, sung by Anne Feeney.
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Monday Apr 21, 2025
Don’t Call Musk — Call the Unions
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: North America’s Building Trades Unions lay out the case for union careers on Work Stoppage. Plus: Vegas showgirls organize, the Taylor Law bans public sector strikes, and a labor quote from John D. Rockefeller. Full calendar and events at laborheritage.org.
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Friday Apr 18, 2025
Labor vs. Fascism: The Fight Heats Up
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Michelle breaks down America’s march toward fascism—and how labor is fighting back—on Boiling Point. Plus: striking West Virginia coal miners stand up to the National Guard, and a powerful quote from “Big Bill” Haywood.
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Thursday Apr 17, 2025
DC Labor FilmFest preview #2
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Lilly opens Fest May 1; SCOTUS blows it; Lilly quote
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Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
DOGE “chainsaws” American workers
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: 50/51 organizer talks with The Valley Labor Report; activists bloackade World Bank and IMF; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quote
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Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Trump escalates war on federal unions
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People talks with a National Park Service worker; American Federation of Teachers founded; A. Philip Randolph quote
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Monday Apr 14, 2025
In the streets
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Worker’s Mic on last weekend’s protests; birth of Florence Reece; “Which Side Are You On?” quote
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Friday Apr 11, 2025
Jane Fonda: It’s women’s turn
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Legendary actor and activist Jane Fonda, on The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; 25,000 march for farmworkers; Jackie Robinson quote
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