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The Labor Notes Podcast, co-hosted by organizers Danielle Smith and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, is a weekly show from the folks who put on the Labor Notes conference every two years.
We’ll talk about the strikes, contract campaigns, shop floor actions, reform caucus organizing, and union elections that our staff and rank-and-file workers in the labor movement’s troublemaking wing write about and work on all year round.
New episodes on Fridays.
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English
United States
85 episodes
since March 14, 2025
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In honor of The Strokes’ ongoing Reality Awaits tour, which the Labor Notes pod cares about a normal amount, we talk about organizing lessons we’ve pulled from films of the grimy Lower East Side dive bar era of 2006-2013 with our favorite indie rock needledrops: Marie Antoinette (2006), 500 Days of…
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Mexican Volkswagen workers who build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant were getting ready to strike over Volkswagen’s 10 percent raise offer during an annual wage reopener at the plant, as well as its firing of 800 workers in a segment of the plant that produces the Jetta an…
Eight hundred workers at a distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, organized with Unifor Local 252 a couple years ago, and have now won a two-year contract with Walmart, a major first in the North American retail giant.
Kari Thompson, who reported on the successful campaign for Labor Notes, …
When workers at the parts retailer AutoZone organized to form the company’s first ever union, their boss pulled out the big guns—but they still won their election!
Also in this episode: Video Game Workers at Blizzard have won their first contract and 1,400 solar manufacturing workers have joined t…
If you’re holding bad meetings, caving to management, and trying to do everything yourself, congrats—you’re already well on your way to fumbling your shot!
On the other hand, if you want to actually advance a positive vision for your union that energizes members, you can ground your next union…
They lure people into their campaigns, grow phone trees, and machete a path out of fear.
It turns out some of our archetypal evil heroines—Amy Dunne of Gone Girl, sisters Sally and Gillian Owens of Practical Magic, and Merricat Blackwood of We Have Always Lived in the Castle—have some positively d…
Tyson workers at a meatpacking plant in Joslin, Illinois, arrived at work one day in mid-August to discover that it was suddenly closed and that 2,500 of them would be out of jobs.
These workers—members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546—are now rallying to demand that the plant reo…
After five weeks on the picket line, 80 public transit workers in Jackson, Mississippi, members of ATU Local 1208, have won a 5 percent wage increase; beat back a plan for “microtransit,” a private on-call service that would have brought in drivers without a commercial driver’s license at a lower-t…
The Labor Notes Podcast is taking a Summer Friday. We’ll be back next week!
The Trump Administration has been surveilling and investigating unions including the Communications Workers (CWA) and Service Employees (SEIU), as part of its targeting of groups resisting immigration raids, according to a report this month in the New York Times.
But union members and representati…
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