Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

The Great Labor Arts Exchange

Singers Colleen Kattau and Ben Grosscup and organizer David Heller talk about why they’re attending the June 15-18 Great Labor Arts Exchange.
Today’s labor quote: Colleen Kattau.
Today’s labor history: Teamsters for a Democratic Union founded.

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Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights

Striking for quality TV and movies; Teamsters ready to strike; Lights, Camera, Action!; How WestJet pilots got their deal; Forgotten Populists
Today’s labor quote: Rose Elizabeth Bird.
Today’s labor history: House OKs Taft-Hartley Act.

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Forgotten Populists

Steve Babson, author of “Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy”, on the We Rise Fighting podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Chicago secretaries.
Today’s labor history: Secretary Iris Rivera fired for refusing to make coffee.

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How WestJet pilots got their deal

An inside look at recent contract negotiations for WestJet pilots on the WestJet MEC PIREP Podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Chris Smalls.
Today’s labor history: Mexican government abolishes siestas.

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Lights, Camera, Action!

The Million Dollar Organizer podcast explores the impact of short-form video for union organizing.
Today’s labor quote: The Four Vagabonds.
Today’s labor history: Rosie the Riveter dies.

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Teamsters ready to strike

Teamsters 175 president Ken Hall previews strike issues on America’s Workforce radio.
Today’s labor quote: The film Blue Jean, which screens free tonight at AFI, closing out the 2023 DC Labor FilmFest.
Today’s labor history: Police kill 10 strikers in Memorial Day Massacre.

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Striking for quality TV and movies

What the Writers Guild strike means for TV and movie fans, from Labor Radio on KBOO-FM.
Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez.
Today’s labor history: UFW agreement ends 17-year lettuce boycott.

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Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights

“Something is broken”; Talking tone; “Abbott Elementary” star loves teachers; Los Angeles, 1992; The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Today’s labor quote: The Turkey Trot.
Today’s labor history: The Rochester (NY) general strike.

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The Tolpuddle Martyrs

A musical about English workers deported to Australia in 1834 for unionizing; from The Valley Labor Report.
Today’s labor quote: Francis Wilson.
Today’s labor history: 100,000 steel workers and miners strike.

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Los Angeles, 1992

Working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992, on the Belabored podcast.
Today’s labor quote: Toby Higbie.
Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO campaigns for a 35-hour workweek.

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