Workers Push Back: Data Centers, Rainforests, Anti-Union Laws and Southern Organizing

Workers Push Back: Data Centers, Rainforests, Anti-Union Laws and Southern Organizing

Author: laborradiopodcastweekly March 7, 2026 Duration: 55:00
This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly spotlights workers and activists confronting powerful institutions—from Big Tech’s rapidly expanding data centers to global snack companies, anti-union politicians, and workplace conflicts on the job. On Economics for the People from Dollars & Sense, activists Katie Currid and Rachel Gonzalez discuss the boom in artificial-intelligence-driven data centers across the Midwest and the enormous demands these facilities place on local electricity grids and water supplies. On the Green and Red Podcast, host Scott Parkin talks with forest campaigner Maggie Martin about the campaign targeting Mondelēz International—the company behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone—over tropical deforestation and labor abuses in its supply chains. The Solidarity Podcast from Teamsters Local 769 in Miami features Business Agent Andy Madtes explaining new anti-union legislation moving through the Florida legislature and why union members need to organize and push back. On Hot House with Richie Ray, the focus is workplace conflict for letter carriers. Richie breaks down common Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) issues, mistakes workers make during disputes, and practical ways carriers can protect themselves on the job. And on We Rise Fighting, Olivia Najera-Garcia of the Union of Southern Service Workers talks about organizing service workers in North Carolina and building worker power across the South. Plus, in our regular Shows You Should Know segment: RadioLabour Canada, Work Stoppage, Pipe Up, and Labor History Today. Find links to every show at laborradionetwork.org and follow #LaborRadioPod on Bluesky, X, Facebook, and Instagram.👉 Subscribe, listen, and follow us at laborradionetwork.org#LaborRadioPod #1u #UnionStrong #WorkersVoices #SolidarityMedia @AFLCIO 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.

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.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly
Podcast Episodes
The Pope, AI and the Future of Work [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
Artificial intelligence dominates this week's Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly. The Workers Mic examines Pope Leo XIV's call to protect the dignity of work in the age of AI, while WorkWeek Radio, the International Labour Organ…
Workers Speak for Themselves [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Radio on KBOO talks with workers organizing at a gender-affirming care clinic, Riverside Rank and File explores union organizing at Amazon, Solidarity Breakfast marks Na…
Coal Dust and Coffee Shops [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:01
This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, we feature stories from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network on coal miners, grassroots democracy movements, labor media, Starbucks organizing, labor music, and more.Working…
Boycotts, Burnouts and Breakthroughs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: REI workers launch a nationwide boycott campaign after stalled bargaining talks, Alabama lawmakers battle over voting rights and representation, Brookfield Zoo workers score a…
May Day Recap, New Network Shows [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:00
This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly is our May Day recap special, featuring reports from across the country on the biggest crop of actions in decades —and welcoming new shows to the Network. From Work Stoppage, a remi…
May Day Amplified [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:01
This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, May Day takes center stage as workers organize nationwide actions and build power on the ground: Working People features organizers behind May Day Strong and calls for a natio…
When Protest Becomes “Terrorism” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:45
This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly features organizing campaigns across the movement:Green and Red — Will Potter on the growing criminalization of protest and expanding surveillance powers targeting activists.On Unio…
Data centers, May Day and the fight for power [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:55
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, we explore the real-world impacts of major economic and industrial shifts—and how working people are organizing in response. The Rick Smith Show examines the rapid expansion of…
From ICE raids to layoffs, workers push back [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:02
On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Week Radio reports on a shocking ICE raid at San Francisco International Airport and the fight for sanctuary…El Cafecito Del Dia and Solidarity Works examine how unions are…
Breaking Chains from Memphis to Baseball [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:22
On this week’s Labor History Today: In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood with striking sanitation workers in Memphis—members of AFSCME Local 1733—delivering his powerful “Mountaintop” speech just one day before hi…