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The Labor Notes Podcast

Labor Notes

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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87 episodes

  1. Stewards’ Corner: Move Your Co-Workers Without Annoying Them! 6:24
  2. Your Boss Needs an Exorcism 18:55
  3. Listening to the Strokes Is Organizing, Actually 16:43
  4. Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally 9:57
  5. Canadian Walmart Workers Make History: A Union Contract 13:14
  6. How Much Would You Pay to Stop 11 Workers from Organizing? 7:55
  7. How to Lose Your Next Union Election in 10 Steps 9:40
  8. Why Evil Women Make the Best Organizers 16:47
  9. Tyson Shuttered a Plant Overnight, Laying off 2,500 Meatpacking Workers 24:17
  10. Jackson Transit Workers Win Strike, Save Saturday Service 11:49
  11. A Summer Friday Break 1:38
  12. Unions Aren’t Backing Down Amid Reported Federal Infiltration Efforts in Minnesota 10:26
  13. Letter Carriers Fighting to Make their Union More Democratic Have an Opening 25:23
  14. Steward’s Corner: Are You Thinking Like an Organizer? 15:13
  15. How Utility Workers Won Back Real Pensions in Pennsylvania 12:14
  16. The Other World Cup Winners: Workers Organizing at World Cup Host Cities 18:37
  17. App Workers in Mexico Are Fighting The Bosses' Biggest Lie 28:45
  18. The Labor Notes Podcast: Live! At the 2026 Conference 53:04
  19. Your Favorite Summer Blockbuster Is Really About Organizing 22:39
  20. Still Having Bad Meetings? Take Another Listen 13:11
  21. We *Are* on a Break 1:47
  22. Keep Going: A Guide To Organizing When It’s Hard (w/ Ellen David Friedman and Carlos Pérez) 26:02
  23. How to Build a List to Expand Your Reach with Co-Workers 8:25
  24. The Antidote to Organizing Burnout (w/ Teamsters Local 804 Organizer Antonio Rosario and Sarah Slichter, Movement of Rank-and-File Educators) 44:58
  25. Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I. 6:19
  26. Massachusetts Teachers Taxed the Rich and Brought in $3B Last Year 34:16
  27. How to Have an Actually Good 1:1 Conversation 27:29
  28. Secret: Use the Issue Your Co-Workers Really Care Most About To Build the Union 15:08
  29. Secret: Your Workplace is Already Organized and Leaders Are Waiting to Step Up! 16:21
  30. Secret: Your Co-Workers Actually Care About Making Your Workplace Better 18:44
  31. Why Your Favorite Soup Movie is about Organizing, Actually 16:03
  32. The First Major Meatpacking Strike in 40 Years Extends into Third Week 22:22
  33. So You’ve Been in Reform Organizing for a While. What Next? 14:23
  34. Your Union Isn’t Working Like it Should. Now What? 14:12
  35. One Year of the Labor Notes Podcast 21:02
  36. Three Reasons to Feel Hopeful about the Labor Movement Right Now 12:03
  37. Steward's Corner: Just About Anyone Can Be a Good Steward 17:02
  38. How to Talk About Immigration with Your Co-Workers 47:08
  39. Your Favorite Rom-Com is About Organizing, Actually 17:12
  40. How Workers Pulled Off a Mass Strike in Minnesota 40:05
  41. How Contract Fights Can Help Build Labor Power in 2026 21:05
  42. 15,000 Nurses are on the Largest Nurses Strike in New York City in Decades 11:28
  43. Why Don't We Have More Labor Films? (w/ director Chris Sessions and Working Films) 40:20
  44. Part 3: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.? 31:08
  45. 2026 is OUR Year (w/ Labor Notes staff) 9:19
  46. All Holiday Movies Are About Organizing, Actually: The Labor Notes Pod Holidaypalooza 21:19
  47. Casino Dealers Brought Back the Recognition Strike and Won (w/ Horseshoe Indianapolis Casino dealer Tera Arnold) 26:54
  48. Part 2: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.? 19:16
  49. Canadian Postal Workers Have Had Enough of Government Backed-Management Stonewalling 14:22
  50. Part 1: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0.? 22:41