On the Line

About On the Line

On the Line is a network of union members and leaders who cover, analyze, and draw lessons from the struggles of workers across the country to build a fighting labor movement. Although the vast majority of workers in the U.S. remain unorganized, union popularity is at its highest since 1965. One of the key drivers of this popularity is a groundswell of interest from a new generation of young workers who are looking to the labor movement as a vehicle to fight against an increasingly bleak future. A labor movement that is content with business as usual will not realize the opportunities of this moment. Instead, we need unions that articulate not only our demands for better pay and working conditions, but can advance our broader political aspirations as a working class. Building a movement that can advance the hopes and dreams of all workers won't be achieved by creating perfect structures and processes in unions that become more marginal with each passing year. It will only be achieved by organizing at a scale and fighting with an intensity that we have not seen in decades. This is the kind of labor movement that we need. Our future is on the line.

Publisher

On the Line

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

17 Dec 2023

Latest episode

4 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Mar 2026

   Episode 30: "The Strike is for Everyone": How San Francisco Educators Built a Movement

   On the Line interviewed Nathalie Hrizi, VP of Substitutes of the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) and a core leader of UESF's 4 day strike. We sat down with Nathalie at the conclusion of the strike to discuss how they won on all of their core demands and how their union and city were transformed by the experience. Their fight is part of the statewide "We Can't Wait" campaign which Nathalie plays a central role in leading across the state.

2. 

   16 Sept 2025

   Episode 29: Sara Nelson: Crisis and Opportunity Ahead

   On the Line interviewed Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Fight Attendants (AFA-CWA). As one of the leading progressive labor voices in the country, Sara has pushed the labor movement to respond to the attacks by the Trump administration on the working class during his first administration and again today. Sara spoke to us about what she has learned from nearly three decades in the labor movement and what she sees as our path forward today.

3. 

   27 Jul 2025

   Episode 28: In the Belly of the Beast: How the Federal Unionists Network is Fighting DOGE and Project 2025

   On the Line interviewed Chris Dols, Co-Executive Director of the Federal Unionists Network (FUN). As Trump pursues the billionaire agenda laid out in Project 2025 to dismantle the federal government, FUN is at the forefront of organizing the federal workforce to stop them. Chris spoke to us about the importance of federal workers raising the alarm about threats to crucial government services, and what they are doing to fight back.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,295,635

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

57 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

71