Labor Solidarity Podcast

MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor

“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read...

Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy

“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal...We held these bad boss contests. Where the first winner was...

Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber - Author and Professor of Geography

“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out,...

Unionizing Apple Stores with Billy Jarboe AppleCore Union Member and Organizer

“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about...

THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain

"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!"

Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast

“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes...

Luke Rockhold on Healthcare and UFC Fighter Pay

"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding th

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events..

Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander

his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri

Ain’t I A Woman? Reverend Addie Wyatt on Sojourner Truth

“I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.” Addie L. Wyatt (March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United

Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art

"I deserve to eat. I deserve to get the wages I deserve this opportunity to provide for my family as well." Erica Stewart - Boilermakers...

Spiritual and Global Solidarity

"There's another vision of the way things could be. And I think that's where the church and labor and so many of the movements that are...

Jay Naidoo - General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions - Labor Solidarity Podcast

“Apartheid used racial discrimination as an instrument to maintain the cheap labor system. So the core of apartheid was a cheap labor...

Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 & Director of East Side Freedom

Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 and Co-Executive Director of East Side Freedom Library Welcome to...