The Labor Notes Podcast
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The Labor Notes Podcast is a new show from the folks who put on the Labor Notes conference every two years.
We’ll talk each week 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.
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The podcast focuses on labor activism, workers' rights, and environmental justice, with episodes exploring topics like climate action in the workplace, the impact of tariffs on workers, and firsthand accounts of shop floor actions. For example, one episode highlights how workers advocate for a liveable planet by pushing for climate-related demands in their contracts.
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.
This 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, forced overtime, dangerous heat, and robberies—conditions they see their opaque, undemocratic leadership failing to address—the upcoming election is a focal point for recent reform currents brewing in the union.
They’ll be voting on 10 officers, three trustees, and 15 regional business agents. Labor Notes Editor Al Bradbury joins the episode.
Also check out:
Letter Carriers Set to Deliver Change in Upcoming Union Electionby Alexandra Bradbury, July 29, 2026
On the Labor Notes Pod, in April 2025: Facing Privatization And DOGE Attacks, Postal Workers Are Fighting Back
Labor Notes Online Workshop: What to Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart, Tuesday, August 18
Labor Notes Online Workshop: Running for Union Office, Tuesday, September 15
New Labor Notes Book: Running for Local Union Office
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