The Rick Smith Show; Worker Power Hour; Counter App; The Valley Labor Report; Labor History Today; Labor History in 2

The Rick Smith Show; Worker Power Hour; Counter App; The Valley Labor Report; Labor History Today; Labor History in 2

Author: laborradiopodcastweekly January 17, 2026 Duration: 54:52
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 ✊ Solidarity works! Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below.Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.

Tune in to Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly for a curated soundscape of voices often missing from mainstream headlines. This program acts as your direct line to the stories, struggles, and victories of working people across the nation, stitching together the most compelling segments from a diverse network of worker-focused shows. Each episode is a digest of on-the-ground perspectives, featuring conversations about workplace organizing, economic justice, policy debates, and the cultural issues that shape daily life for millions. You’ll hear from organizers, journalists, and workers themselves, offering analysis and personal narratives that go beyond simple news summaries. While the podcast compiles these highlights for on-demand listening, it also originates as a radio feature, airing weekday mornings on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, D.C. This dual identity ensures the content is both timely and deeply rooted in community broadcasting traditions. For anyone looking to understand the real conversations happening within the labor movement, this podcast provides an essential, unfiltered compilation. It’s more than a review; it’s a weekly immersion into the ongoing fight for fairness and dignity on the job, delivered with the urgency and authenticity that these topics demand.
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Labor Day Around the Working World [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:00
On this special Labor Day edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, working people share stories of skill, struggle and power—from an Asbury Park beach to a nuclear-waste facility more than 2,000 feet underground. Proje…
Surveillance Won’t Stop Solidarity [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:44
On this week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Labor Force and Labor Notes report on federal surveillance and investigations targeting Minnesota union members resisting immigration raids—and the workers refusing to be intimi…
Your Weekly Shot of Hope: Labor Media from the Streets [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips bring you another grassroots antidote to corporate media, featuring selections from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network’s mor…
Red Scares and Union Fights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:01
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Next Gen Carriers on The Valley Labor Report reports on challenges to letter-carrier union leadership;Maryland Labor History explains a Baltimore museum’s new name; Apple Box Ta…
From Riot Dogs to Radio Waves [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:08
This week on Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Filipino migrant workers fight back against union busting in Taiwan, protesters and their canine comrades take to the streets in Chile and Greece, and labor activists revisit the…
Worker Power From Cincinnati to Chennai [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:25
This week on Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, Boiling Point explores hospitality-worker organizing in Cincinnati and celebrates its 100th episode; Blue Collar News launches a new series on Native workers in Montana's skilled…
On Strike, On Stage, On TikTok [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:31
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Week Radio: ILWU Local 6 members take on C&H Sugar in a strike over jobs, safety and respect.Blue Collar News: Terrie Trettenback examines the case of a worker at Hometown Harvest…
From Heat Waves to Toy Story: Workers Organize the Future [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
On the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Roswell Hub — Teamsters discuss surviving extreme heat on the job and the contract rights that can save workers' lives.Labor Force — AI, gig work, engineering, ports, and video games al…
First Contracts, Strike Data & Starbucks Organizing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:59
This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Stoppage examines the Faster Labor Contracts Act and whether it could finally speed first-contract negotiations. Reinventing Solidarity digs into the Labor Action Tracker…