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Podcast: How to Stop a Carpenter Union Raid
On this week's show we have Frank Jacobs, the Business Manager of IBEW Local 1 in St. Louis on a campaign to stop the raids from the Carpenters union. We also have the New Jersey Department of...
Podcast: How New York Will Save the Nation
Ed Sills of the Texas AFL-CIO calls in to let us know what workers in Texas are doing as the state reopens. A Vice President at Amazon is quitting over the company's union-busting activities,...
Podcast: Actor Harold Phillips / McConnell not Paying Police
On this week's show we have Harold Phillips, an actor who was on Grimm and Leverage. He is talking to us about SAG-AFTRA, the Labor Radio Network, and May Day job actions. We also have Chris...
Podcast: Some Good News / A Sleepover at Work
Comedian Vic DiBitetto goes on a rant about people not adhering to social distancing and stay at home orders, IBEW members are having a sleepover at their power plants, unions are coming to the...
Podcast: NYC Heroes Transporting Heroes
Long Island Railroad President Phil Eng calls in to praise the workers of the nation's largest commuter rail line as the work to transport healthcare workers into the epicenter of the pandemic...
Podcast: Hope Delivered by Teachers
Dr. Mancuso calls in to talk about COVID-19. Multiple teachers union leaders call in to discuss Governor Cuomo's Executive Order about Spring Break and talk about the role that their members...
Podcast: Kobe, Cleaning Up the UAW, and the Super Bowl
Remembering Kobe, Will C has some reflections, Trump is going out of his way to privatize the Post Office, Illinois wants to ban Right to Work, Amazon employees are protesting climate change, Schneck...
Podcast: Why Union Density is Down
We have the results from our poll asking which Senator will lose their job over the impeachment hearings. Our listeners have some great ideas. A Mexican union threatens a strike at Home Depot, they...
Podcast: Scandals at MLB & UAW, change in Colorado, West VA.
MLB is coming down hard on managers involved in a sign-stealing scheme. LaGrange argues with Will C about whether this is the progression of the game or just a repeat of the Black Sox scandal. West...
Podcast: 2020 Presidential Predictions, AT&T, Trump & Gamers
Rick Smith from The Rick Smith Show joins us to talk about Presidential politics and give us some insight into the 2020 election. Wes McEnany from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) called...