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Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Did the Mob control the Teamsters?

March 04, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Roswell Hub talks to TDU founders Today’s labor history: UAW wins recognition at GM Today’s labor quote: Thomas Jefferson @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily The Teamsters’ fight for democracy

March 01, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Battling Teamster corruption, on the Labor Jawn podcast Today’s labor history: Minimum wage increases to $1/hr Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, February 29, 2024

February 29, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily SAG Awards’ “laborific” shows

February 29, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

The Labor Heritage Power Hour’s annual review, plus “Who was Ben Fletcher?” Today’s labor history: SC raises minimum age Today’s labor quote: Italian proverb @sagaftra @SAGawards @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Harassment Down Under

February 28, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Australia’s “Stick Together” podcast on the Perfection Fresh case Today’s labor history: Today’s labor quote: @stick__together @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily “Union” is not a bad word

February 27, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su talks with El Cafecito del Dia Today’s labor history: SCOTUS rules sitdowns illegal Today’s labor quote: John Steinbeck @LCLAA @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Mickey Mouse joins a union

February 26, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

The Labor Force podcast reports Today’s labor history: SoCal supermarket worker strike ends Today’s labor quote: Teamsters Local 997 @LaborForcePod @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily “Our union is us”

February 23, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

It’s Time, the podcast of SkyWest Flight Attendants Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO charters Association of Flight Attendants Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie @OOItsTime @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, February 22, 2024

February 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson

February 22, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Writer/director Cord Jefferson and musician Joe Uehlein, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour Today’s labor history: Planning the People’s Party Today’s labor quote: Al Shanker @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Organized labor and the Civil Rights Movement

February 21, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

The Heartland Labor Forum explores the role unions played in supporting civil rights Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO charters the UFW Today’s labor quote: Cesar Chavez @Heartland_Labor @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Forward for justice

February 20, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

AFT’s Fedrick Ingram on America’s Work Force Radio Today’s labor history: Unemployed rally in Philadelphia Today’s labor quote: Richard Trumka @AWFUnionPodcast @AFTunion @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Liberia Firestone workers’ 2006 strike

February 19, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

From the On This Day In Working Class History podcast Today’s labor history: 7-year Campbell’s boycott ends Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King Jr. @wrkclasshistory @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily “Union Town”

February 16, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Why USC faculty are unionizing, on the 3rd & Fairfax podcast Today’s labor history: New York furriers strike Today’s labor quote: Leonora O’Reilly @WGAWest @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily The Detroit Diva & Union Funk

February 15, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Singer Lynn Marie Smith on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour Today’s labor history: Birth of Susan B. Anthony Today’s labor quote: Union Funk @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Auto workers upset Alabama’s ruling class

February 14, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes - 1.83 MB

Mercedes-Benz workers in Tuscaloosa organize, on the Work Stoppage podcast Today’s labor history: Detroit newspaper workers call off strike Today’s labor quote: Jimmy Hoffa @WorkStoppagePod @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily The myth of “highly paid” Alabama auto workers

February 13, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

The Valley Labor Report reports. Today’s labor history: Striking Hollywood writers return to work. Today’s labor quote: Bill Fletcher Jr. @LaborReporters @BillFletcherJr @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Latino workers and unions

February 12, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

“A strategic partnership for America's success,” on El Cafecito del Día Today’s labor history: Birth of UMWA president John L. Lewis Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass @LCLAA @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Helping kids do better

February 09, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Teachers and parents working together, on the OEA podcast Today’s labor history: McCarthy launches “Red Scare” Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King, Jr. @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily JFK's last words to labor

February 08, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB

JFK's last words to labor, saving the UE Chicago mural, and Discovering Maxo Vanka. the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour Today’s labor history: Vigilantes beat IWW organizers Today’s labor quote: John F. Kennedy @steelworkers @ueunion @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Delta workers speak

February 07, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Frontline reports, on the IAM Delta podcast Today’s labor history: Hockey players organize Today’s labor quote: Karl Marx @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Teamster rank-and-file slam Trump

February 06, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Teamster members react to leadership meeting with Trump, on Work Week Radio Today’s labor history: Seattle General Strike begins Today’s labor quote: “Big Bill” Haywood @labormedianow @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily AI: Fear and hope

February 05, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MB

UNI General Secretary Christy Hoffman on Radio Labour Today’s labor history: First daily labor newspaper Today’s labor quote: Bill Clinton @radiolabour @uniglobalunion @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Fire fighters on mental performance

February 02, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.96 MB

Lessons from a fire fighter, on the PFFA Pod Today’s labor history: Secretary fired for refusing to make coffee Today’s labor quote: How to operate a coffee maker @iaff43 @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, February 1, 2024

February 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Socialist Labor Party Hall survives flood

February 01, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MB

How VT’s Socialist Labor Party Hall survived the 2024 flood, on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour Today’s labor history: The Paterson Silk Strike Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Looking back -- and forward -- after a year of strikes

January 31, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

The Black Work Talk podcast takes a look at labor’s wins in 2023 and fights coming up in 2024 Today’s labor history: Harvard forced to raise wages Today’s labor quote: Emma Tenayuca @BlackWorkTalk @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily A.I. in the workplace

January 30, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Making sure A.I. is used fairly and responsibly at work, on the Union Strong podcast Today’s labor history: Founding the ILO Today’s labor quote: ILO mission @nysaflcio @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily “The spillover effect”

January 29, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MB

How strong unions help all workers, on the State of Working America podcast Today’s labor history: Obama signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Today’s labor quote: Dolly Parton @EconomicPolicy @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily COP28 Recap

January 26, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

The Checkout checks in with Lauren Baker of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. Today’s labor history: Sitdown in Brooklyn Today’s labor quote: Sam Gompers @checkoutradio @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, January 25, 2024

January 25, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Labor Heritage Power Hour preview

January 25, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.9 MB

Elise shares some of her favorite labor songs Today’s labor history: Passaic textile workers strike Today’s labor quote: Sojourner Truth @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Will labor support a Gaza ceasefire?

January 24, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.33 MB

Bill Fletcher Jr., on the Union Or Bust podcast Today’s labor history: Minimum wage increases Today’s labor quote: MLK @UnionOrBustPod @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily How to preserve democracy in 2024

January 23, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.59 MB

Radio host and author Zerlina Maxwell joins AFT President Randi Weingarten for a riveting discussion about the state of American democracy on Union Talk, the AFT’s podcast Today’s labor history: 10,000 Rochester clothing workers strike Today’s labor quote: Rebecca Gordon @aftunion @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Rick Smith remembers MLK

January 22, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MB

“It's not about red hat or blue hat; it's about green.” The Rick Smith Show Today’s labor history: Knights of Labor head born Today’s labor quote: Terence V. Powderly @RickSmithShow @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Year of the Fascist?

January 19, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MB

RadioLabour reports that Fascism is on the rise in the U.S. Today’s labor history: Trump’s union investigates him for inciting violence Today’s labor quote: Bruce Springsteen @sagaftra @radiolabour @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, January 18, 2024

January 18, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Hilary Peach’s Thick Skin

January 18, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Former welder Hilary Peach on her new memoir and folksinger Joe Jencks on “Rise As One”. Today’s labor history: “Take This Job and Shove It” hits #1 in the U.S. Today’s labor quote: Johnny Paycheck @AnvilPress @JoeJencksMusic @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Marquette baristas organize

January 17, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MB

Labor Radio on WORT reports Today’s labor history: Hunger march in Chicago Today’s labor quote: "Solidarity Forever" @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Empire of Words

January 16, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Marc McGurl on Amazon and the fate of literature on The Workers' Speculative Society podcast Today’s labor history: Death of former UAW president Leonard Woodcock Today’s labor quote: Walter Reuther @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Flight attendants raise the bar

January 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB

Latest on airline contract talks, on It’s Time! Live! Today’s labor history: Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. @OOItsTime @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Innovation and ConTech

January 12, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MB

A conversation with Brianne Stewart and Matt Hedke on the Construction User 2.0 podcast Today’s labor history: Seattle police raid mass union meeting Today’s labor quote: Jack London @TAUCbuilt @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, January 11, 2024

January 11, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily David Bacon’s “Working Coachella”

January 11, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MB

Photojournalist David Bacon on his new photo exhibit on farmworkers, which opens today in Riverside, CA Today’s labor history: Sex worker organizer Margo St. James dies Today’s labor quote: Woody Guthrie @photos4justice @WoodyGuthrieCtr @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily “Go big or go home”

January 10, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

The Bipartisan Buzz podcast welcomes NALC president Brian Renfroe Today’s labor history: Death of longtime AFL-CIO President George Meany Today’s labor quote: George Meany @COSALC_ @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily The altar of the testing god

January 09, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MB

The toll of stress on educators, on the School Me podcast Today’s labor history: The Missouri Highway sit-down Today’s labor quote: WWI Mediation Commission @NEAToday @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Something radical happened here!

January 08, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MB

Philadelphia's radical Jewish labor history, on the Labor Jawn podcast Today’s labor history: AFL-CIO calls for Trump’s resignation after attack on U.S. Capitol Today’s labor quote: Mary Kenney O’Sullivan @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily Detroit Under Fire

January 05, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MB

Police violence and racial justice in the civil rights era, on Tales from the Reuther Library Today’s labor history: Golden Gate Bridge construction begins Today’s labor quote: Leo Tolstoy @ReutherLibrary @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

WPFW - The Labor Heritage Power Hour The Labor Heritage Power Hour - Thursday, January 4, 2024

January 04, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Labor news and information

Labor Radio-Podcast Daily The story behind the song

January 04, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MB

Folksinger Si Kahn on the origins of “La Libertad” Today’s labor history: NYC social workers strike Today’s labor quote: Si Kahn @Kahn75Si @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

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