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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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- Your Boss Needs an Exorcism · 19 min · Avsnitt 86You and your co-workers have worn boo-nion pins. You’ve sent reply-all emails demanding a “Fair Contract Now and For All of Eternity.” But to take your ghoul-idarity to the next…
- Listening to the Strokes Is Organizing, Actually · 17 min · Avsnitt 85In 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…
- Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally · 10 min · Avsnitt 84Mexican Volkswagen workers who build the Jetta, Tiguan, and Taos at the company’s Puebla plant are poised to strike, after rejecting the company's latest contract offer on…
- Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract · 13 min · Avsnitt 83Eight 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…
- How Much Would You Pay to Stop 11 Workers from Organizing? · 8 min · Avsnitt 82When 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…
- How to Lose Your Next Union Election in 10 Steps · 10 min · Avsnitt 81If 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…
- Why Evil Women Make the Best Organizers · 17 min · Avsnitt 80They 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…
- Tyson Shuttered a Plant Overnight, Laying off 2,500 Meatpacking Workers · 24 min · Avsnitt 79Tyson 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…
- Jackson Transit Workers Win Strike, Save Saturday Service · 12 min · Avsnitt 78After 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…
- A Summer Friday Break · 2 min · Avsnitt 77The Labor Notes Podcast is taking a Summer Friday. We’ll be back next week!
- Unions Aren’t Backing Down Amid Reported Federal Infiltration Efforts in Minnesota · 10 min · Avsnitt 76The Trump Administration has been surveilling and investigating unions including the Communications Workers (CWA) and Service Employees (SEIU), as part of its targeting of groups…
- Letter Carriers Fighting to Make their Union More Democratic Have an Opening · 25 min · Avsnitt 75This fall, 200,000 members of the Letter Carriers will get the chance to vote (perhaps fittingly, by mail ballot) for new leadership. For many postal workers fed up with low pay…
- Steward’s Corner: Are You Thinking Like an Organizer? · 15 min · Avsnitt 74You want more members to share the work of your contract action team? Win more grievances? Commit to wearing Hawaiian shirts together to the Jaws screening? You know what we're…
- How Utility Workers Won Back Real Pensions in Pennsylvania · 12 min · Avsnitt 73For over four decades now, workers have seen their steady, reliable pension payouts replaced by more uncertain returns from 401(k) plans—where employees’ payments are invested in…
- The Other World Cup Winners: Workers Organizing at World Cup Host Cities · 19 min · Avsnitt 72More than 2,000 stadium workers in Los Angeles scored a goal that VAR can’t take away: they overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike and built a credible threat to walk off the…
- App Workers in Mexico Are Fighting The Bosses' Biggest Lie · 29 min · Avsnitt 71Gig workers are often sold the lie that their job is flexible, customizable, and lets them be their own boss. But that hides the reality that they don’t control a lot of their…
- The Labor Notes Podcast: Live! At the 2026 Conference · 53 min · Avsnitt 70Have you ever been so stumped by an organizing challenge that you wished you could just beam out a help signal to others who’ve dealt with the same thing? Enter special guests…
- Your Favorite Summer Blockbuster Is Really About Organizing · 23 min · Avsnitt 69You might be in a battle of wits with a great white shark on a New England beach and needing a bigger boat. Or maybe you're getting into property fights with your goth relatives…
- Still Having Bad Meetings? Take Another Listen · 13 min · Avsnitt 68You guys loved our episode about having bad meetings so much that we’re actually bringing it back. Revisit this old Labor Notes pod banger and evergreen organizing question…
- We *Are* on a Break · 2 min · Avsnitt 67It feels like we just saw about 4,700 of you a week ago in Chicago, so we're taking some space this week to give you a chance to miss us a little. (i.e. We're catching up on…
