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Expiris job cuts | Harley job moves | Madison worker for budget raise | Election analysis | AFT sues a student loan company
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Expiris in Milwaukee says its job cuts have nothing to do with the union drive, Harley in Milwaukee says its threatened job moves overseas have nothing to do with its union shop, an AFSCME Madison city worker testifies in support of putting a budget referendum on the November ballot, Nick Ramos of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign gives an analysis …
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SCFL endorsements | Nurses and family leave | Rally for Democracy | Health care apprenticeships | NEA staff union fight
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The president of the South Central Federation of Labor-AFL-CIO talks endorsements and urges against the constitutional cahnges on Tuesday's ballot, UW Health nurses demand better family leave, a Rally for Democracy in Madison includes calls for working people, a health care apprenticeship program gets funding in South Central Wisconsin, and the sta…
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Poor Peoples Campaign in Madison | Unions on Palestine | UFT, ALU elections | Disney contract | Game company organizing | Heat rule | Civil rights 1964
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The Poor Peoples Campaign has an upcoming march and a meeting in Madison, Madison-area union members in the APWU and UE speak on their unions signing a letter to President Biden demanding an arms cutoff of Israel, new slates win elections at the United Federation of Teachers and at the Amazon Labor Union, Disney workers get a contract soon after a …
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Worker protection at GOP bash | SCFL organizer talks | Ballot and education | Unions say: No Israel arms $ | A farmer-labor podcast | EPI on unionization, 'flexibility' | SpaceX vs. NLRB
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South Central Federation of Labor organizer Issy Bilek talks to Labor Radio, a worker talks about worker security during the Republican convention in Milwaukee, an education advocate talks ballot questions, seven unions representing around 6 million workers call on President Biden to end arm sales to Israel, there's a new farmer-labor podcast, the …
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Madison budget hits workers | UA flight attendants consider strike | Teamsters prez, Vance pump Trump in Milwaukee | Umpire walkout 25 years on | Labor on Wisconsin ballot amendments
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A Madison city worker talks about the budget battle, 28,000 United Airlines flight attendants are moving to a strike authorization vote, Trump is with us, fellow workers! if you believe Teamster President Sean O'Brien and Harvard Law hillbilly/Vice Presidential candidate J. D. Vance from the GOP convention stage in Milwaukee, a former major league …
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OSHA heat standards | Dropboxes are back | Workers party? | Scary GOP stuff | France goes left | Remembering Jane McAlevey
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OSHA introduces new heat standards amid worker deaths, a jusge says ballot drops are back in Wisconsin and the Leauge ofWomen Voters explains the impact, the APWU convention will have a Wisconsin-initated call for a workers' party, the GOP comes to Milwaukee and brings a right-wing platform all laid out, a left coalition makes waves in French elect…
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Biden in Madison | Judge hits Act 10 | Visa reform | SCOTUS and workers | Slave trade charge for Milwaukee Tool | Amazon strike near Chicago | Tributes to Frank Emspak
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President Joe Biden visits Madison and is met by supporters and protesters, a Dane County judge says Act 10 looks unconstitutional, migrant agricultural workers get some visa protections, the 'Chevron rule' and Trump decisions at the US Supreme Court and what it could mean for workers, a lawsuit says Milwaukee Tool uses work gloves made by slaves, …
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Tributes to Frank Emspak | IBEW-Rock Energy gas workers contract | Child labor | August vote | Kaul ruling
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Rock Energy gas workers with IBEW 965 have a contract, some states are pushing back on child labor expansion, more on the August referenda vote, and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has weighed in on ellection worker hiring. Today's show has tributes from friends and comrades of the late Frank Emspak, co-founder of Labor Radio.…
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Remembering Frank Emspak (1943-2024) | Frank on labor and the media | Wisconsin civil service | Amazon-Teamsters | Virginia schools | New union nurses | Poor Peoples Campaign
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In this show, we remember Labor Radio co-founder Frank Emspak, who died June 14 at the age of 80. In a 2023 interview at WORT, Frank tells the story of Workers Independent News, which for a brief time brought union news into mainstream commercial radio. In labor news: It's the annual birthday celebration of the embattled Wisconsin civil service sys…
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Family values? | Juneteenth | Fair maps voting | EWOCs | Unemployment numbers | SCOTUS Starbux ruling } Waffle House
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If you want Family Velues @ Work, shouldn't you welcome your own union? Also: Wisconsin organized labor fights for Juneteenth recognition, the new Fair Maps ruling and the August ballot in Wisconsin, an Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee project of the UE and the DSA comes to the Madison area, the Supreme Court rules for Starbucks and against…
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Storm repairs | Amendments on ballot | Kids fishing | Amazon union to join Teamsters | Food drive numbers | PLEDGE WEEK EDITION
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Utility workers fix things up after a big Madison-area storm, more on state contitutional amendments that will be on the August ballot, voices from the eighth trades-sponosred Take Kids Fishing Day, the Amazon Labor Union votes to affilitate with the Teamsters, and the final numbers are in on the letter carriers' Mothers Day food drive. THIS IS A P…
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City budget | End lunch debt? | Act 10 in court | Kids fishing | Teamster merger | UW protests and SCFL response | Nurse fired over Palestine
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Madison is telling workers 'No money for you,' progressive organizatiosn team up to wipe out student food debt, labor argues against Act 10 in court, Teamster locals 695 abd 120 join forces, it's Take Kids Fishing weekend, and the South Central Federation of Labor speals out against repression of protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.…
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Bean Feed | Meriter contract | Immigrant work permits | School budget | U of California strike | Constitutional amendments
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The South Central Federation of Labor holds its annual COPE Bean Feed, a worker in SEIU Wisconsin gives details on the UnityPoint-Meriter Hospital support staff contract that was approved this week, Voces de la Frontera calls for increased immigrant work permits, get the union side of the Madison schools teacher pay and staffing crisis, a worker fr…
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Meriter agreement | No Mercedes union | Faith-Labor | NALC drive results | UCal union strike vote | Kids learn union | August vote | Argentina general strike
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Negotiators have a tentative agreement for support staff at UnityPoint Health Meriter in Madison, the UAW comes up short in a union recognition vote at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama, voices from Madison's Faith-Labor Breakfast, the results of the letter carriers' Mothers Day weekend food drive is in, some third graders learn what a union is, 48,000-stro…
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Picket at Meriter | NALC food drive | UW faculty union and Palestine | State workers | Faith-Labor Breakfast | Nurses' Week | UAW and Mercedes
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SEIU Wisconsin pickets for a support staff contract at UnityPoint Meriter Hospital in Madison, the letter carriers union has its annual food drive, the student encampment at UW-Madison goes down but not before getting union support, it's State Employee Appreciation Week and Nurses Week across the country and in Wisconsin, Madison's annual Faith-Lab…
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May Day | UW Palestine protest | Meriter picket | State workers meet | Another UAW win | Weeks for nurses, teachers
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May Day marches in Milwaukee and Madison, labor support for protests for Palestine at the University of Wisconsin, an informational picket by SEIU Wisconsin at UnityPoint Health-Meriter, AFSCME and AFT state workers meet to talk pay and hiring, the UAW gets another win in the South, a blood drive is coming up in Madison for Nurses Week, and Teacher…
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UAW wins at Volkswagen | Labor Notes | Workers Memorial Day | Google firings | COSATU on Palestine | UAW 180 on Case layoffs | May Day marches
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The US labor movement gets a big win at Volkswagen, we hear reports from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago and listen in on the Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Madison, 'No Tech for Apartheid' Google workers are fired after Israel arms AI protests and South Africa's largest labor federation calls for Palestine solidarity, the president of UAW …
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Teachers rally | Social Security secure? | Apple vs. unions, Palestine | Constitutional amendments | Metcalfes bought out | UW campus threatened | Local announcements
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Madison school workers rally and march for inflation pay, staffing levels, unions fight threats to Social Security, a recenlty fired worker at an Apple Store in Chicago talks about the unionization drive and worker solidarity with Palestine there, a look at the right-wing love of constitutional amendments, Sauk County steps in for UW-Baraboo campus…
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Teachers to rally | Child labor vetoed | Biden in Madison: Policies, protest | UAW at Harvard | IUOE vs. rat contractors | Workers Fair at UW | Pharmacy workers organize
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Madison's public shool union will rally for staffing and funding on Monday, Wisconsin Governor Evers vetoes an expansion of child labor in the state, President Bidenis was in Madison to announce student loan forgivemes but faced a protest over Gaza, the UAW will represent non-tenured faculty at Harvard, rats are on the run from the Operating Engine…
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PLAs and utilities | UW nurses union move | Election results | Family leave and UW | Bama auto plant files | Worker justice | Events this week
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Wisconsin utility companies make an agreement with unions, UW Health nurses begin a new recognition push, labor endorsements come through in the April 2 elections, some union members buck Biden, the University of Wisconsin has a family leave plan, the UAW files at Mercedes in Alabama, the latest from the Worker Justice Center, and Labor Spring and …
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Election Day and labor | Willy Street contract | State workers unions still here | Child labor finding | Biden campaign visit | WI Supremes on employee status | AI and workers
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We look at how labor sees the Tuesday elections with a focus on schools, state worker unions are still fighting despite Act 10, UE 1186 workers at Willy Street Co-op have a new contract, the Wisconsin Supreme Court hits Amazon and its "contractor" policy and a Tennessee company is hit for child labor violations, a key member of Joe Biden's campaign…
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Elections, cards in big week at Starbucks stores | ILO on forced labor worldwide | April 2 referenda | Meriter update | UAW in Tennessee | Pay gap | Georgia vs. unions | ERA on March 22, 1972
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Madison area Starbucks workers who won elections or filed for one this week speak out, the International Labor Organization reports how forced labor and trafficking grows worldwide, two Republican-led Wisconsin constitutional amendments are on the April 2 ballot, UnityPoint-Meriter support staff contract talks drag on, unions advance in Tennessee a…
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Starbucks worker talks organizing, Monday's elections | Madison school referendum? | Dollar General workers walk | Meriter update | SCFL conference | More unions for Gaza ceasefire | Minny mobilizes ...
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A worker-organizer talks about the drive that got two Madiison-area union elections coming up Monday, a negotiator gives a update on talks at UnityPoint Meriter, Dollar General employees walk out in Mineral Point, UWM to walk out of Waukesha, more unions join a call for a Gaza ceasefire, the South Central Federation of Labor Community Services Conf…
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Sourdough contract | City job cuts? | VP Harris to Madison to talk jobs, hears about Palestine | Women in Construction | Poor People's march | PLEDGE WEEK EDITION
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Madison Sourdough workers get first contract, city unions talk Madison budget troubles, it's Women in Construction Week, VP Kamala Harris visits Madison to talk union jobs and meets a protest over Palestine, and poor people march. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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Meriter negotiations | Starbucks talks to start | MTI and new supe | Child labor on the rise | Poor People's rally | Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch | PLEDGE WEEK EDITION
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Meriter workers begin bargaining, Starbucks agrees to talk to the union, Madison schools and its teachers union sees a new superintendent, Poor People’s Campaign marches Saturday 3/2, the Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch reach a tentative agreement, and more. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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Two Starbucks campaigns | IUOE pickets | Webcrafters leaving | New maps | Poor Peoples Campaign | Tenants fight | Frederick Douglass
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Students and workers in Madison and across the US announce new Starbucks union fights, Operating Engineers picket in downtown Madison, upcoming Moral March on state legislators with the Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign, tenants’ rights struggle in Madison, Webcrafters leaving town, new legislative maps signed into law, the legacy of Frederick Dougl…
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Fire Bob! | Labor going forward in MN+MI, backward in WI law | Purple 4 Palestine | Big house for Cambria mill bosses | DALE protections | Velma Hopkins
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What's happening in the Minnesota labor movement, labor wins in Michigan, child labor losses in Wisconsin, a President' Day rally coming to Milwaukee, Purple 4 Palestine, Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement for the undocumented, jury gives time to Cambria explosion mill managers, the Velma Hopkins story, and more.…
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Starbucks Milwaukee election win, Ocean Spray loss | Meriter talks begin | Planned Parenthood staff organizing | UW system cuts | Hattie Canty
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We talk to workers about the union victory at a Starbucks store in Milwaukee, share news of organizing at Planned Parenthood and contract talks at UnityPoint Meriter, get the latest on the UW Oshkosh budget cuts, learn about a Las Vegas union leader and activist and more.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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Ocean Spray and IBEW | OSHA slaps Schoeps | More on UW cuts | Boston area teachers strike | Wisconsin Farmers Union | Right to starve
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We learn what’s been going on at the Schoeps ice cream factory in Madison, hear from the organizing drive at Ocean Spray in Wisconsin Rapids, get an update on a major teachers strike in Massachusetts, learn about organizing in the Wisconsin Farmers Union, dig deeper into how workers are affected by the UW budget cuts, explore the history of Right t…
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UW system cuts | Palestine, Madison, and SCFL | Unions after Act 10 | Cal State U, CostCo, Microsoft, credit union workers | Famers Union | District maps latest
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We take a look at how Wisconsin unions are doing now after years of Act 10, discuss demands for a ceasefire from all over the world and from our unions here at home, discuss the impacts of budget cuts in the UW system, catch up on labor struggles near and far, look at teh National Farmers Union, and more.…
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South Africa, trade unions, and Palestine | UAW in 1937 and today | Child labor | SCOTUS and SBUX | Rank and file power
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Today, we commemorate the Flint sitdown strike of 1937 and look at UAW organiizing today, talk to a South African trade unionist about that country's legal and social actions in support of Palestine, look at the US Supreme Court and its taking up of a Starbucks labor case, hear from a longtime union activist on the state of unions today, see how ch…
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MLK and labor | Meriter staff negotiations | University system cuts | Google union win | Battery factory closure | UAW in Alabama
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We look at the labor legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., learn about budget cuts affecting the UW system, get an update on bargaining at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital, hear what is happening in Alabama as the UAW organizes, look at the battery plant closure in Portage, get a look at a tech union legal win, and more.…
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MLK Day preparation | Starbucks organizing at Marquette | Fair maps after the WI court ruling | Milwaukee letter carriers take action | SCFL education and youth outreach | Upcoming contracts | 2023 in ...
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On this show ww'll look at Madison labor's preparation for the Martin Luther King Community dinner, hear about organzing at a Marquette University Starbucks, learn about the efforts of letter carriers to protect themselves in Milwaukee, check out the status of fair district maps after last month's favorable state Supreme Court ruling, hear about lc…
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2023 labor news discussion | Ellen LaLuzurne
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In our end-of-the year show, Labor News reporters discuss this year in labor news and give a shoutout to workers who help us report it. We also remember Labor Radio co-founder Ellen LaLuzurne.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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North Pole organizing report | Labor year in review | Unions call for ceasefire | Wisconsin retirees | Government rulings against bosses
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In this show, we have an get an exclusive report from the North Pole. Also we take a look at the year for workers in Wisconsin and across the nation, report on calls from labor for a ceasefire in Gaza, look at Wisconsin retirees, report on some government rulings affecting workers and consumers, and more.…
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MG&E, TruStage contracts ratified | UW workers caught in GOP culture wars | Fantasy in Lights | No holiday for postal workers || Wisconsin labor actions for Palestine | UAW reaching beyond Big 3 | Cambria ...
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In this show, we get late-breaking details of the newly-ratified OPEIU Local 39 contracts with MG&E andTruStage, hear union leadership’s reaction to the state legislature’s underhanded move to force culture war changes at UW, check in with postal workers during this stressful holiday season, tell more about the UAW’s organizing strategy, look at la…
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OPEIU 39 tentative deals at both TruStage, MG&E | Labor marches for Palestine | Union at Lambeau | Long hand of Act 10 | UAW in Tennessee |
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We get an update on not one but two labor tenative agreements by OPEIU Local 39, check out tmorrow's march for Palestine in Madison and delve into the labor reaction, look at a new union at Lambeau Field, learn about UAW’s ongoing organizing efforts in non-union auto plants, hear from a union leader about what Act 10 has done--and the lawsuit that …
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Act 10 lawsuit | Amazon union leader fired | Postal service hours | Hospital staff bargaining starts | UAW targets non-union auto | BIRTHDAY BASH PLEDGE EDITION
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We learn about a lawsuit by unions against Act 10, talk to a union worker at Amazon in New York, look at the postal worker contract and the holiday season, announce the start of bargaining at Meriter, explore the new organizaing campaign by UAW, and more.THIS IS A BIRTHDAY BASH PLEDGE EDITION.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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Special on the UAW and the Big 3 strike: Interviews with Dawnya Ferdinandsen and Jane Slaughter
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This week, we have extended interviews with UAW Local 12 auto worker Dawnya Ferdinandsen and labor journalist and activist Jane Slaughter. They discuss the 'stand-up' strike against the Big 3 autmakers and the contract agreement that resulted from it.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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Starbucks Red Cup Day strike | Job cuts at UW-Parkside | School voucher lawsuit | Protest against Gaza death contractor | Madison's budget and workers | Feds rule on Wisconsin worker death
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We report on the Madison response to the nationwide Starbucks strike, a lawsuit over school vouchers, jobs getting slashed at a University of Wisconsin system school, the Madison city budget and what it means for city workers, a local labor response to the attack on Gaza and a company that arms it, a Department of Labor finding in a worker death in…
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Madison labor rally | Nurses charge UW understaffing | EA, paraprofessional wages in Monona schools | SAG-AFTRA agreement | IBEW 2150 strike authorization | Labor resolutions on Palestine | Union Red Cup ...
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We bring you on-the-ground-reporting from the rally for union solidarity, learn what SEIU nurses have to say about patient care concerns, hear what teaching staff and parents have to say about low wages in Monona schools, look at the SAG-AFTRA agreement, hear about an international and a local resolution on the destruction in Gaza, learn about a st…
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November 4 labor march in Madison | UAW gains big for all | Labor and Palestine | Oakwood Village worker speaks | WIsconsin voting maps | Midwest workers lag | Wisconsin teaching assistants
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Today, we bring you news of Saturday's union solidarity march and rally in Madison, celebrate UAW’s victory for all workers, look at the organized labor response to the crisis in Palestine, talk to a worker about the new contract at Oakwood Village, get an immigrants rights look at Wisconsin's districting battles, look at the University of Wisconsi…
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SEIU Wisconsin inks Oakwood contract, rallies for fair maps, gets ready for Meriter talks | UAW-Ford agreement | Organizing at Expiris Gaming | OSHA goes heavy on some bosses | and more
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Get this week's update on the ongoing UAW-Big 3 strike, hear about the brand new union contract at Oakwood Village and preparation for negotiations at Meriter Hospital, hear voices at a rally at the capitol for fair electoral maps, get an update on union organizing at a Milwaukee game company, learn about preparations for the upcoming solidarity ra…
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OPEIU 39-MG&E struggle continues | Attacks on state higher ed | Palestine and labor | Fain and UAW latest | Worker Justice has a union | Madison talks equity talk, doesn't walk walk | and more
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We bring you this week's update on the ongoing UAW strike, learn about an upcoming unity rally to support OPEIU Local 39 in their struggle with Madison Gas and Electric, learn more about how cuts at UW Oshkosh will affect workers, hear about a proposed union resolution on Palestine, check a report on Madison failure on equity over the last ten year…
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UAW, Kaiser strikes | State workers rally | NLRB, EEOC rulings against bosses | Teachers need more pay | District map battle
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Today, we bring you the latest update on the UAW strike, details of the win by healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente, news of a rally by Wisconsin state workers, the good word on bosses with fines and bosses in handcuffs, the bad word on teacher pay, the latest on Wisconsin districting battles, and more.…
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UAW picketers speak | UAW Fain's latest | Kaiser Permanente strike | Worker health action at Madison Starbucks | Wisconsin state workers mobilize | PLEDGE WEEK EDITION
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We bring you the latest on the UAW strike still holding strong against the Big 3 automakers and talk to picketers, give details on the largest healthcare workers strike ever in the US, hear about a worker-led petition at a Madison Starbucks, get news of actions by state workers and more. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.…
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UAW: Fain latest strike expansion, rally in Milwaukee, Frank's analysis | OPEIU-TruStage update | Hollywood writers settle | Demo up for UW-Oshkosh | PLEDGE WEEK
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We bring more news on the historic UAW strike against the Big 3 automakers, including coverage of a solidarity rally in Milwaukee and an analysis of the strike's impact by Frank Emspak, along with news of struggles at TruStage, UW-Oshkosh and more. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.By WORT-FM Labor Radio
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UAW strike Week Two | Noble Knight, Madison Sourdough talks | Krogers-Albertsons merger and labor | State worker compensation plan | Fair Labor Standards | Labor-pizza anniversary
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Today, we hear about Week Two of the United Auto Workers in the words of UAW President Shawn Fain, get an update on negotiations at Noble Knight Games and at Madison Sourdough, hear how a proposed national grocery merger affects workers, get the latest info on state worker compensation, hear about some good proposed labor standards changes, find ou…
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UAW strike Day 1 | Crushin' It workers speak | OPEIU-MG&E impasse | State starves regional unis | Poverty report | Impeach threat | Medicaid Army
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We bring you the full message from UAW President Shawn Fain and more on the history-making strike against the Big 3 automakers, along with news of struggles at Crushin’ It, MG&E, and UW Oshkosh, get a reminder that social spending actually works, hear how Republicans are going after Justice Protasiewicz, learn about actions for Medicaid this Sudnay…
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Lightning Starbucks walkout | Monona teachers turn a vote | Agreement at Noble Knight | OPEIU 39 and TruStage, UFCW and Madison Sourdough, UFAS and UW | Will UAW strike? | NAACP Labor Week
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Today, we get news on a walkout at a local Starbucks, hear about teachers and supporters switched a school board vote in Monona, catch up on the potential UAW strike, get news from the union at Noble Knight Games and catch up on other area labor actions, hear what happened at this year's LaborFest and at NAACP Labor Week, and more.…
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