Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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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Who Will Dare to Light the Fuse?

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: clips from the Labor Heritage Power Hour—Theater Alliance’s “Fire Work,” strike songs from Strike While the Needle is Hot (including “Ford Workers on Strike”), and Ziltoid the Worker Safety Oracle. In labor history, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew 250,000 and heard Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream.” Quote of the day: Zoltoid, the Worker Safety Oracle.

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Lies and Liars

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Workers Beat Extra takes on Trump, truth, and the takeover of the airwaves. In labor history, sanitation strike leader Baxter Leach dies at 79. Quote of the day: Baxter Leach.

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Unions as Community

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Power At Work podcast explores how unions build solidarity and community beyond economic struggles. In labor history, on this date in 1920, women won the right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment. Quote of the day: Wendell Lewis Willkie.

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That ain’t happening on my watch

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: the Alberta Worker Podcast brings us voices from the Canadian flight attendants’ strike. In labor history, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded in 1925. Quote of the day: A. Philip Randolph.

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