A weekly radio show celebrating the cultural heritage of the American worker.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant and produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation; broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
On The Labor Heritage Power Hour: A mother sorts mail through the night. Miners occupy a coal plant. Baristas turn their organizing struggles into theater. This week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how workers preserve their stories—and find power in telling them. Artist and writer Clifford Thompson takes us through Ma at the Post Office, his wordless, 25-panel tribute to the mother who supported him and his grandmother by working nights in Washington, DC. Small details reveal exhaustion, workplace camaraderie and the family life her labor made possible. Then producer Anthony Dominiczak takes us along Virginia’s Gravel Lick Road, connecting the Musick family’s devastating losses during the Harlan County Coal War with the 1989 occupation of Pittston’s Moss Number Three plant. Decades later, miners and neighbors joined forces again to oppose a landfill at the historic site. Finally, Bread & Roses Missouri’s Emily Kohring and worker-performers Alex Barge and Iana Rain discuss this year’s Workers’ Opera. Through music, sketches and poetry, workers bring organizing, bad bosses, racial injustice and hope to the stage. The production runs October 9–11 at Jefferson Avenue Mission in St. Louis. Find tickets at breadandrosesmo.org, and explore more worker culture at laborheritage.org.Broadcast on October 1, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and syndicated on Pacifica’s Audioport.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
24 Sept 2026
Joe Uehlein’s Three Roads and Lansing’s Autoworkers
On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Joe Uehlein shares stories from his new book, “Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology,” including how songs helped workers organize. Mark Strolle takes us inside “Assembled in Lansing,” a new exhibit about the autoworkers behind the city’s auto industry. Plus: Fighting the Runaway Shop on Labor History in 2:00Broadcast on September 24, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon; engineered by Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and syndicated on Pacifica’s Audioport.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
17 Sept 2026
Dolly, Dystopia and the '34 Teamsters Strike
On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Karen Nussbaum reveals the working-women’s movement behind Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5”; Kathy Newman explores labor, AI and individuality in Pluribus; and John Hanson recounts the rank-and-file solidarity that powered the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike. Plus Labor Arts News Briefs and the story of organizer and songwriter Ella Mae Wiggins. Broadcast on September 17, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; interviews by Lisa Raye Garlock and Peter Rachleff; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman. Special thanks to Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin at the Green and Red podcast. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and syndicated on Pacifica’s Audioport.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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