Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

Banks, bots and the fight to save jobs

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: WorkWeek digs into bank workers pushing back against digitalization, outsourcing, and call center closures. In labor history, NHL owners began a 103-day lockout in 1994. Quote of the day: Mother Jones.

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Italy workers shut it down

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Work Stoppage on Italy’s mass strike that froze public transit nationwide. In labor history, Black farmers in Elaine, Arkansas formed the Progressive Farmers and Householders Union before white mob violence sparked a massacre. Quote of the day: Progressive Farmers and Householders Union.

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From Zero to Solidarity

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: We Work Europe on workers organizing from scratch—and building independent power without prior union experience. In labor history, 165 Wobblies were indicted in 1917 for protesting World War I. Quote of the day: The IWW.

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Mind the Gap: Living Wage Now

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Stick Together digs into the gulf between minimum and living wages—and its real-life consequences. In labor history, photographer Lewis Hine (born 1874) later exposed child labor for the National Child Labor Committee. Quote of the day: Lewis Hine.

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We Don’t Stand Alone

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour features Matt Olson on New Orleans’ “Don’t Stand Alone” exhibit and Dr. Kendra Boyd on Black entrepreneurship and racial capitalism. In labor history, an 1891 Arkansas cotton-pickers’ strike turned deadly. Quote of the day: William “Big Bill” Haywood.

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An Injury to One Is an Injury to All

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Working People talks with tech workers who realized real change doesn’t come through “proper channels.” In labor history, Canada declared the Wobblies illegal in 1918. Quote of the day: the Wobblies.

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Redford on Political Corruption and Resistance

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Green and Red podcast digs into Robert Redford’s film work on political corruption and its resonance today. In labor history, tech contractors at Google’s Pittsburgh office vote to join the Steelworkers. Quote of the day: Ursula K. Le Guin.

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The Long Day of the College Athlete

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Power at Work exposes the grueling schedules, exhaustion, and injuries faced by college football players as they push to organize. In labor history, Domino’s workers in Pensacola formed the first U.S. pizza delivery drivers’ union in 2006. Quote of the day: Hannah Shapiro.

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Trapped by Wages Too Low to Live

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Buwa Basebetsi follows a South African factory worker whose life on the minimum wage leaves her struggling to provide for her children. In labor history, half a million unionists rallied at the 1981 Solidarity Day march in Washington, DC. Quote of the day: Joseph Ettor.

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Flipping the script on union antisemitism

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour with historian Joe McCartin on Congress’s “Unmasking Union Antisemitism” and how it rewrites labor’s history. In labor history, a 20-month illegal Kaiser Aluminum lockout ends with an arbitrator ordering a new contract, firing scabs, and back pay. Quote of the day: Summer Lee.

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