On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Work Week Radio, more than 6,500 San Francisco educators strike for living wages, safe staffing, and protections for immigrant students. From Labor Radio on KBOO FM, Portland Community College faculty describe their contract fight and readiness to strike for the first time in school history. A frontline nurse on Riverside Rank & File explains why 30,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are striking over patient safety and staffing levels. Unite & Win shares strategies for protecting immigrant workers amid growing political pressure. From Labor History in 2:00: MADISON! And on Labor History Today, we explore how labor memory survives through the new Labor Landmarks Map. Plus, in Shows You Should Know, highlights from Boiling Point, Labor Force, The Workers’ Mic, El Cafecito del Dia, and Roswell Hub.

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This week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly features the Green and Red Podcast honoring civil rights and labor champion Jesse Jackson and his lifelong fight for economic justice and multiracial working-class solidarity. The Valley Labor Report speaks with Dr. Augustus Wood about his new book Class Warfare in Black Atlanta and why Black working-class struggle remains central to confronting inequality and building liberation movements.

On My Labor Radio, letter carriers organize nationwide rallies demanding fair contracts, living wages, and respect for essential public service workers. The FedEx pilots’ union podcast Fly By Night highlights how worker feedback leads to real improvements in safety and working conditions, while Australia’s Concrete Gang defends construction unions against political attacks and makes the case for unions’ critical role in protecting wages, safety, and dignity.

Finally, Tales from the Reuther Library marks its 100th episode with a look at the Radical Fund, showing how bold ideas and strategic support helped advance labor rights and civil liberties during some of America’s most turbulent times.

The episode concludes with our “Shows You Should Know” roundup, featuring strike votes by Nova Scotia care workers, ongoing coverage from the Working People podcast, organizing lessons from Labor Notes and Labor Force, and new data on strikes and work stoppages from Power At Work.

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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:

• Labor Notes Podcast — Minnesota workers organize a mass day of action as ICE activity turns immigration enforcement into an unavoidable workplace issue.
• Words & Work — USL soccer players use the championship spotlight to demand a real CBA, healthcare, and basic professional standards.
• America Works — Nurse practitioner Tracy Augusta connects holistic health, spirituality, and the labor history of Black caregiving.
• The SAG-AFTRA Podcast — Performers break down new AI protections, digital replica rules, and what producers can—and cannot—do without consent.
• Labor Express Radio — A documentary filmmaker and UAW activists recount corruption, job selling, and the rank-and-file movement that reclaimed union democracy.

Plus Shows You Should Know: El Cafecito del Día — youth activism and love-in-action organizing; Green and Red Podcast — general strikes, May Day, and class-conscious storytelling; The Concrete Gang — construction industry news and a CFMEU victory; Pipe Up — Black leadership in the pipe trades; Union Or Bust — nurses on the Kaiser strikes; The Valley Labor Report — a Volkswagen win in Chattanooga.

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Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.

Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.

This week on Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Heartland Labor Forum examines the stunning decision to shut down the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just hours after workers won their case at the U.S. Supreme Court, with NewsGuild–CWA president John Schleuss on what comes next.

The Power Line Podcast goes inside the substation with Arizona Public Service electricians Juan Huerta and Beau Tubbs, exploring high-risk work, accountability, and what it takes to stay safe where everything connects.

On the Green and Red Podcast, hosts revisit the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the rise of SNCC, and the lessons mass direct action still holds today.

Labor Jawn features songwriter Mindy Mary on Striking at King’s, a new labor song inspired by a 1938 Pennsylvania farmworkers’ strike—and why its message still resonates.

On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, we feature one of the powerful medleys from the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Songs for Minneapolis YouTube playlist, responding in music to recent ICE killings.

Bonus track: Labor History in 2:00 looks back at the 1919 Seattle General Strike, when tens of thousands of workers shut down a city and briefly ran it themselves.

Plus, in Shows You Should Know, quick highlights from Alan on Labor, Union Talk, Apple Box Talks, The Union Labor Advisory Network Podcast, and Labor Radio on KBOO.

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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, shows across the Network spotlight the Minneapolis General Strike and a growing wave of worker resistance and organizing.

We hear from Workers Beat Extra, Voice of the People, and Work Stoppage on what’s happening in Minnesota and why it matters nationally. The Manufacturing Report looks at ethical U.S. manufacturing, while Solidarity Works honors Pete Seeger’s legacy of music and movement-building.

Shows You Should Know highlights include new episodes from The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Blue Collar News, Talk The TAUC, and Unite And Win.

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This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly brings urgent reporting and analysis from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network, with a focus on resistance, organizing, and solidarity in a moment of escalating political and workplace conflict.

We begin with Working People, where organizers and union members in Minnesota describe the Trump administration’s largest ICE operation to date and the growing call for a statewide day of no work, no school, and no shopping.

On We Rise Fighting, frontline reports on Minneapolis resistance to ICE.

Green & Red marks MLK Day weekend with a deep dive into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical legacy—his opposition to the Vietnam War, the Poor People’s Campaign, his socialist politics, and how those ideas continue to shape resistance to state violence today.

For organizers looking to sharpen their skills, Unite & Win returns to the fundamentals. Guests Dawn Tefft and Bob Lawson walk through the basics of building power, organizing coworkers, and keeping campaigns rooted in member leadership.

From Canada, On The Line: Stories of BC Workers looks back at the life of Syd Thompson, a towering figure in British Columbia’s labor movement.

We close with tips on more Shows You Should Know, featuring The Heartland Labor Forum, The Union Labor Advisory Network Podcast, Pipe Up and The Labor Notes Podcast. BONUS TRACKS: Labor History in 2: If Poison Doesn’t Work, Try Briggs! Plus the DC Labor Chorus keeps their Eyes on the Prize and Holds On.

🎧 About the Weekly: The Labor Radio Podcast Weekly is your roundup from the 200+ shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, sharing the best new episodes each week.

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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we bring you voices from across the labor movement grappling with state violence, organizing under pressure, and the fight to protect workers’ power—on the streets, in the workplace, and in the digital economy.

🔹 The Rick Smith Show: Journalist Amanda Moore reports from Minneapolis, where ICE and Border Patrol operations have escalated into street-level raids that are traumatizing entire communities—not just those being detained.

🔹 Worker Power Hour: On this show from the Teamsters 1932 Broadcast Network, Randy Corrigan and steward Jason Nugent talk about what workers should be demanding in 2026: affordable healthcare, wage increases that beat inflation, and dignity backed by strong union contracts.

🔹 Counter App: This episode digs into “Uberization”—how digital labor platforms spread precarious work across industries, the warning signs to watch for, and how unions can respond before jobs are broken into tasks and controlled by algorithms.

🔹 The Valley Labor Report: From the largest union talk radio program in the South, Julie Prill of the Painters and Allied Trades shares how house calls, internal organizing, and honest conversations helped unionize more than 200 workers at a Mississippi shipyard.

🔹 Labor History Today: Historian Martin Wright, co-author of Made by Labour, explores labor history through objects—banners, lockboxes, and visual culture—that reveal how workers understood power, solidarity, and self-organization. BONUS TRACK: Labor History in 2: Packinghouse Workers Join the ‘46 Strike Wave.

🎧 About the Weekly: The Labor Radio Podcast Weekly is your roundup from the 200+ shows in the Labor Radio Podcast Network, sharing the best new episodes each week.

🔗 Find links to every show at laborradionetwork.org 📣 Follow #LaborRadioPod on Bluesky, X, Facebook, and Instagram ✉️ Contact us: info@laborradionetwork.org

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Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly (1/9): It’s the first week back in the New Year—and it feels like five days crammed into three. Chris, Harold, and Patrick return with a packed roundup: geopolitics, strike action, tax-policy sleight of hand, a brand-new show on worker-focused media, year-end reflections, and a fresh new intro.

Featured this week:

The Dig — Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, and Yoletty Bracho join Daniel Denvir to analyze the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Trump’s imperial project, oil politics, and how different forces inside Venezuela are responding. Labor Force — Mike Struan checks in on strike action at Telluride Ski Resort, spotlighting leverage, seasonal labor, and the power of unionized workers to shift the balance in a resort economy. (And: good news—workers later ratified a CBA.) Labor Notes Podcast — Labor Notes staff share New Year’s organizing resolutions—more phone calls, fewer Zooms, better delegation, and making time to evaluate fights and build for the long haul. Tribunus Plebis — Sean takes on Trump’s “no tax on overtime” promise, arguing it’s less a benefit than an accounting trick: a rebate structure that rewards overwork while protecting employer power. NEW: The Union Bug — Mel Buer launches a brand-new show with a conversation on why worker-focused media matters, featuring Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Harold Phillips and Chris Garlock. Shows You Should Know — Tariff debates, end-of-year wrap-ups, best-of episodes, and a look ahead to 2026, including: The Manufacturing Report, From A to Arbitration, Heartland Labor Forum, Canadian Union Podcast for Employees.

Credits / notes: This podcast is recorded under a SAG-AFTRA collective bargaining agreement. Edited this week by Patrick Dixon, Chris Garlock & Harold Phillips; produced by Chris Garlock; social media—always and forever—by Harold Phillips.