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Nov 15
2 min

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 it. Those voices are up in the ether, and they will remain there until the earth falls into the sun. So anybody going forward who wants to write something about the murder of Martin Luther King is going to have to deal with those people, those voices, those witnesses that we gathered there. You will not be able to go around it and not deal w

Oct 12
3 min

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 a boss who had asked his secretary to sew up a hole in his pants while he was wearing them. So it was really dire out there. And when we started speaking up, everyone was so shocked. It was like the wallpaper had come alive.” Ellen Cassedy, 9 to 5 Listen wherever you get your podcast! Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Audi

Oct 4
2 min

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, they're dispersed, very transient workplaces and so they're very low density unions. And also, renewable energy projects because of the tax credit system in our country, are owned by Wall Street. Some of the wealthiest people in the whole economy are the ones that have financing and stakes in these renewable energy projects. So, renewable energ

Sep 15
2 min

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 the dues part of it because you'll get to see the contract and do the math. If the dues are worth it, sign the contract, right? If they aren't, you don't have to sign for it. As long as the workers are on the same page.” Billy Jarboe, AppleCore Member and Organizer Listen to wherever you get your podcast. In June 2022, more than 100 Apple

Sep 3
2 min

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!"

Aug 23
2 min

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 people…I mean, it obviously educates people and opens their eyes to how important labor is. And also you have people who are going through their own union busting campaigns. They're going through having to negotiate contracts with their own boss. And so it really has elevated the profile of unions in the news.” Hamilton Nolan American Labor Journa

Aug 19
3 min

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

Aug 12
2 min

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..

Aug 3
2 min

Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers

The nuclear energy economy provides high skilled, high paid, union jobs

Aug 2
2 min

Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers

The Future of Union led Nuclear Energy in America “These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying jobs in the regions where these [nuclear] plants are located.” Jim Key - President Atomic Energy Workers Council Jim Key is the President of the United Steel Workers (USW) Atomic Energy Wor

Jul 18
1 min

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

Jun 27
1 min

Driving home with the Labor Radio Podcast Network

“There's a lot of solidarity, a lot of love and in both Philadelphia and Chicago, and it's been a great road trip with the Labor Radio Podcast Network.” Empathy Media Lab partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia to the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. Evan Papp, Chris Garlock, and Patrick Dixon reflected on these conferences on our drive back to Washington, D.C. Follow the Labor Radio Podcas

Jun 22
1 min

Labor On The Airwaves at Labor Notes

“If you're thinking about trying to start a podcast or a radio show, don't think about doing it all yourself, This is a collective thing.” Judy Ancel - Heartland Labor Forum The Labor On The Airwaves panel attracted an overflow audience at this year's Labor Notes conference. A show of hands revealed that about a third of those in attendance already had shows while another third was interested in finding out how to start their own shows, many of whom stopped by the Network's b

Jun 21
1 min

“Billionaires have got to go! F—k Jeff Bezos!”

“When you come to the fight with organized labor, if you are corporate America, and you want to take us on, or you are a crooked corruptible politician, put your helmets on, buckle your chin strap. It's a full contact sport!” Teamster President Sean O’Brien Friday night’s all-star program at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago featured Chris Smalls from the Amazon Labor Union, Bernie Sanders and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who fired up an already-fired-up crowd.

Jun 20
1 min

Voices from Labor Notes Conference 2022 - Labor Radio Podcast Daily

There are over 4,000 folks at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and the Labor Radio Podcast Network team talked to almost all of them today…Liz Medina, Will Westlake, Michael Brennan, Robert Ovetz, Jeff Eagan, Noah Strang, John Courtney, Jordan Fisher, Mitchell Jones, Howard Stewart, Sam Sprole, Lynn Fields, Lakeisha Lloyd, Dan Kask and Bobby Lynn Negron. OK, maybe not all 4,000, but a terrific cross-section of the activists and self-proclaimed “troublemakers” gather

Jun 9
1 min

Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries - Excerpt 3

Mother Jones is one of my heroes.

May 6
1 min

Christian Smalls Amazon Labor Union, Senate hearing on Taxes Going to Companies Violating Labor Laws

Christian Smalls, Amazon Labor Union President, delivers his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, hearing on “Taxpayer Money to Companies Violating Labor Laws.” The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing to examine taxpayer dollars to companies that violate labor laws. Amazon’s labor practices was a focus. Christian Smalls, Amazon’s labor union president testified and said “it’s not a left or right thing. It’s not a Democrat or Republican thing. It’s a worker

May 4
1 min

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 system, based on black exploitation.” Jay Naidoo is a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and author. Jay served as the first general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions from 1985 to 1993. Following South Africa's transition to democracy in the early 1990s, Jay served as a cabinet minister under the late P

May 3
1 min

The Mother of all Evil is Speculation

Excerpt from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps You're all pretty much fucked. They got all these fancy names for trillions of dollars of credit: CMO, CDOs, SIVs, ABS… So Mr. Banker starts leveraging his interest 50 to 1, with your money because he could. 40% of all American corporate profits came from financial services, not production, not anything remotely to do with the needs of the American public. The mother of all evil is speculation, leveraged debt, borrowing to the hilt

Apr 20
2 min

How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media

“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in tight, addictive prose.” Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1-9-8-1. Timothy has written 9 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, 2 stand alone crime novels, and he is the founder of Hard Ball Press to help working clas