In this special blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by music and labor experts to reveal the results of Power At Work’s #LaborGrammys2025. This awards ceremony features Elise Bryant, the founder-director of the DC Labor Chorus and co-host of the Labor Heritage Power Hour podcast; Chris Garlock, the Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and founder-coordinator of the Labor Radio Podcast Network; and Ruben Garcia, Professor of Law and Director of the Workplace Law Program at the University of Nevada.
Watch now as our experts offer their opinions on the nominated songs in six categories and give their takes on worker power songs more broadly. But most importantly, find out which nominated songs won the vaunted “Guthrie” as chosen by Power At Work’s subscribers.
You voted — learn the results by watching/listening to this blogcast (or just look below at our 2025 Labor Grammys graphics — but also watch the blogcast)!!!
Elise Bryant is the founder-director of the DC Labor Chorus and the previous executive director of the Labor Heritage Foundation. After retiring from her professorship at the National Labor College, Bryant launched a consulting practice, the E.L.I.S.E (Education, Leadership, Inspiration, Solidarity and Excellence) Consortium. She is a co-host of the Labor Heritage Power Hour podcast with Chris Garlock, our other guest.
Chris Garlock is the Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and the founder-coordinator of the Labor Radio Podcast Network (which Power At Work is a proud member of!). Garlock co-hosts two labor podcasts, the Labor Heritage Power Hour and Labor History Today. He is also the executive director of the DC Labor FilmFest.
Ruben Garcia is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Workplace Law Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. From 2017 to 2019 he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at the UNLV Boyd School of Law. Prior to joining the UNLV faculty in 2011, he was Professor of Law and Director of the Labor and Employment Law Program at California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he taught for eight years.
For those of you who don't have the time or the inclination to watch this fun, educational, and exciting conversation, which featured surprised musical performances by two of our guests (the third steadfastly refused to sing), we are please to inform you of the results of the 2025 Labor Grammys and the winners of the eagerly awaited and highly respect The Guthries!
And the Guthrie goes to . . . . 
