Best Dock Workers Podcasts (2025)

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Madison rallies for UAW 95, Social Security | LaborFest | No oligarchs | Dock workers and Gaza flotilla | Abbotsford and ICE 29:45

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UAW Local 95 remains on strike against Mercy Health East in Janesville and labor and supporters in Madison rally at the state capitol, the Madison Social Security office was the site of a rally in support of that program, on Labor Day workers speak at LaborFest and also march downtown against oligarchs in Labor Over Billionaires, Italian dockworker…

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UAW 95 rally | UAW policy | Boeing strike | New Mexico childcare | Workers support Gaza flotilla | Rally for Texas prof | Shays' Rebellion 30:46

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Unions and community supporters hold a rally for striking health care workers of Mercy Health East Clinic in Janesville, UAW members in California demand a sustainable industrial policy, striking Machinists at Boeing in the St. Louis area offer their own contract proposal absent movement from Boeing management, New Mexico is becoming the first stat…

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UW Regents vs unions | Pathfinders vote | U Minnesota win | Labor Forward | Dane workers health insurance | Job stats | AFGE ruling 29:55

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University of Wisconsin system faculty and staff unions go to a Board of Regents meeting to demand meet and confer and formal recognition, OPEIU Local 39 wins a union recognition vote at Pathfinders social services in Milwaukee, a four-day strike by Teamsters Local 320 at the University of Minnesota system ends in an agreement with the help of soli…

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Boeing deal out | Teamsters strike at UMinn | Shadow docket | Target a target | Hyundai raid | Weather Service | Debs in jail 29:03

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Machinist union members who build Boeing fighter jets reject a tentative agreement, Teamsters Local 320 at the University of Minnesota goes on strike and Labor Radio talks to a strike captain, the US Supreme Court increasingly relies on a "shadow docket" to upend the lives of workers, department store Target's abandonment of diversity gets a target…

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SMART union vote win | Union bus tour | Dairy workers support | AFL-CIO prez speech | Milwaukee worker speaks | Abrego Garcia rejailed | DACA activist grabbed 30:02

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Security workers at Woodman's grocery vote to join SMART Local 565, a nationwide AFL-CIO bus tour hits Eau Claire and a Central Labor Council leader there speaks to Labor Radio, W&W dairy workers who are on strike receive a show of support in Madison, AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler's Labor Day speech slams Trump but also says workers can't depend on…

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Dairy strike | Hotel union vote win | UAW 95 keeps fighting | Chicago Teamsters, Air Canada flight attendants strikes | NLRB ruling 28:41

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Immigrant workers at W&W Dairy in Monroe strike their new owners and the community and organized labor comes out in support, hotel workers at the Hilton-Madison Monona Terrace join UNITE HERE Local 1 in an NLRB certified election with two-thirds of the vote, workers at Mercy Health East represented by UAW Local 95 carry their strike into the sevent…

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Festival Foods in Madison, Pathfinders in Milwaukee unionize | Some states filling labor law gap | Press unions condemn Israeli assassinations | Howton obit | UAW 95 bash 27:17

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Workers at Festival Foods in Madison speak to Labor Radio after their landslide vote to unionize and join UFCW Local 1473, Pathfinders in Milwaukee joins OPEIU Local 39, some states are passing labor protections as they are withdrawn on the federal level, the NewsGuild and the NWU jointly condemn the Israeli assassination of journalists Anas al-Sha…

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Raven, Sysco Minnesota contracts | UAW 95 strike update | Bus maintenance | VA union purge | Voting Rights Act | Labor Stats firing | Boeing strike | No NLRB quorum | Madison fundraiser for UAW 95 28:39

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After three years the Game Workers Alliance union at Raven Software in Middleton secures its first contract, a representative of UAW Local 95 on strike in Janesville addresses Labor Radio listeners, Teamsters Local 120 inks a contract at Sysco Minnesota and alleges poor bus maintenance support in Madison, the Secretary of the Veterans Administratio…

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Chris Smalls freed | Amazon ruling | Unions unglued on Trump | Wisconsin vs. gig workers | Stage union prez | Social Security march in August | Hilo Massacre 27:43

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Former Amazon Labor Union organizer Chris Smalls is freed from Israeli captivity after being abducted on the sea while bringing aid to Gaza, Amazon workers finally get rulings on charges filed at the National Labor Relations Board, national unions are having trouble unifying against actions of the Trump administration, a Wisconsin bill to strip gig…

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UAW 95 strike continues | Higher ed attacked | Gaza and labor | Fed worker safety cut | AZ theater unionizes | Airgas strike | Gaza doctor in Madison | Community Services hire 28:46

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The president of UAW Local 95 talks to Labor Radio as her union continues its strike against Mercy Health East in Janesville, faculty and staff at institutions of higher education across the US are organizing against federal cuts and academic interference, the NEA executive board backs off from its rank-and-file proposed ban of the ADL, an Australi…

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UAW 95 on strike | Medicaid cuts | Good trouble | Dept of Ed cuts OKed | Philly settlements | ICE grabs prof

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A UAW Local 95 nurse at the striking Mercy East clinic in Janesville speaks to Labor Radio and the union holds a rally at the picket line, Wisconsin health care activist Tim Faust speaks on the effect on workers of the upcoming massive cuts in Medicaid funding, a Good Trouble rally is held in Madison, the US Supreme Court says Trump can go ahead wi…

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Philly strike | Tips and taxes | Law and labor | Prime serfs | NEA and ADL | Argentina and unions 28:42

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The massive Philadelphia public worker strike continues, a deeper look at "no taxes on tips," the Supreme Court allows Trump to go ahead with mass firings of federal workers and a Madison-area labor veteran explains why US workers may have to give up on relying on labor law, Amazon thinks a good way to solve its hiring problems is to "suggest" offi…

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UAW 291 contract | UW staff funding | Philly strike | UAW strike in Janesville | Fed court chaos | Douglass's July Fourth 28:31

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The president of UAW Local 291 discusses its new contract with Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as its almost four-month strike there comes to an end, the president of the faculty and academic staff union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses how a seeming big Wisconsin state budget increase for UW isn't necessarily one for workers, over …

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UW nurses lose Act 10 ruling | GHC board elections, physician interview | War protest | Retired Wisconsin workers speak | WPR cuts | Parks narcs | Fain pain 31:54

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A UW Health nurse explains how the union fight is still on after the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against the union in its Act 10 fight with the local healthcare giant, union-endorsed candidates are elected to the Group Health Collective board and a physician there speaks to Labor Radio as the GHC union recognition fight continues, labor voices ar…

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No Kings | GHC rally, board endorsements | Labor leaders leave DNC | Juneteenth | Job Corps suit | Women's Bureau 29:46

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Labor is included in the Madison version of the national No Kings march and rally, workers at Madison's Group Health Cooperative who are trying to win a union rally on Madison's east side, and a GHC member describes a union-supporting member-worker slate for GHC board elections ending June 22, national labor leaders Randi Weingarten of the AFT and …

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GHC workers rally | Strikes and solidarity | ICE snatches SEIU Cal prez | Takes Kids Fishing | No Kings | Google unmasked 28:59

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Workers at Group Health Cooperative rally to demand union recognition, leaders from the Meriter Hospital nurses and Harvard dining hall workers discuss their successful strikes and the power of solidarity in the workplace and in the community, the president of SEIU California is among union members targeted in protests against ICE abductions, we he…

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SEIU Wisconsin: Meriter, Gundersen get contracts | UAW still striking at Cummins | Annodyne Coffee vote | PLEDGE WEEK 28:31

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Meriter Hospital nurses in Madison represented by SEIU Wisconsin end their five-day strike and win a new contract, SEIU Wisconsin workers at Gundersen Health Care in LaCrosse have a new settlement, UAW Local 291 continues its strike a Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as the rank-and-file rejects the latest company offer, and workers at Anodyne Coffe…

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Meriter SEIU nurses strike | Cummins UAW strike update | TSA union | Unions vs. fed cuts | Kaiser Permante strike settled | SEIU member freed from ICE | Mexican GM workers 29:25

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Nurses at UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital in Madison go on strike, the rank-and-file of UAW Local 291 will look at the latest management proposals as the strike continues at Cummins in Oshkosh, Labor Radio talks to Christine Vitel of AFGE 777 representing TSA workers, unions organize to resist federal spending cuts, mental health workers of the …

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Bean Feed | Fed budget and workers | Meriter nurse strike is on | Cummins strike continues | Mayville tornado | Trump loses foreign service ruling | USPS food drive results 29:26

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The South Central Federation of Labor holds its annual Bean Feed to raise funds for its COPE, a Wisconsin expert discusses the likely effect of Medicaid cuts on working people in the wake of the federal bill granting huge tax cuts to the rich, nurses at Meriter Hospital in Madison talk to Labor Radio ahead of their strike starting May 27th, UAW Loc…

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Organizing at GHC, strike date set at Meriter, ULP strike at Starbucks | Rally for Judge Dugan | Civil service rally | Job portal | Bean Feed announcement 28:36

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Workers at Group Health Collective in Madison are demanding union recognition from GHC management amidst charges of union busting, Meriter nurses have set a strike date and discuss that state of negotiations with Labor Radio, Voces de la Frontera and organized labor rally for indicted Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan while federal ICE terror continues,…

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Americorps and Trump | Public broadcasting | Labor Department | New Social Security head | Ozturk ordered released | New postmaster | Walter Reuther | Job offer 28:54

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Labor Radio speaks to workers affected by federal cuts in the Americorps program and in public broadcasting, how US Labor Department cuts will affect workers, there are new directors of the Social Security system and of the postal service, a federal judge orders the release from ICE captivity of graduate student and SEIU member Rumeysa Ozturk and h…

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May Day | Marquette U organizes | Workers Memorial Day | Wisco UI changes | Walt Whiteman sings | Job opening | Food drive | May Day history 29:05

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Multiple May Day marches and rallies in Milwaukee, Madison, and around the state continue in Madison on May 2, the South Central Federation of Labor holds its annual Workers Memorial Day remembrance, Marquette University faculty and staff and staff are demanding recognition of their union, proposed changes to Wisconsin's unemployment insurance syst…

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Protests at fed arrest of Milwaukee judge | Minny food co-op workers, their union in freedom of expression fight | Teacher support for student-led May Day march in Madison | Fired fed workers fight back ... 28:54

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Protests are quickly called in Milwaukee as the federal government arrests Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan for not submitting to ICE, UFCW members at a Minneapolis food co-op stand up for freedom of expression while that freedom comes under attack across the country, May Day and May 2 marches and rallies include a May 1 high school student-organiz…

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Rally for higher ed | Strike in Oshkosh | Child care rally | IRS resignations | Data breach | Bread & Roses 28:20

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Madison holds rallies for a union-sponsored call to support higher education and another for child care providers on Child Care Advocacy Day, UAW Local 291 holds a rally and march in Oshkosh as its strike against Cummins continues into its second month, about a third of Internal Revenue Service workers may be gone by the end of this year, a whistle…

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Meriter nurses rally | Voices of Hands Off | Wage theft | Fain on tariffs | UW faculty on protests | GHC union vote update 30:16

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UnityPoint-Meriter nurses and their supporters rally for a fair contract and promise to strike if hospital management doesn't come through in bargaining, Labor Radio speaks to folks marching at Madison's version of the national Hands Off rally, a local worker wins a wage theft case but the company has yet to pay up, UAW President Shawn Fain address…

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Hands Off | Post-election | Tariffs and workers | Disappeared unionists | Religious exemption? | Free speech is history 29:44

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Labor Radio previews the April 5 Hands Off rally against the Republican administration in Washington and talks to a local organizer, the results of the April 1 Wisconsin statewide election are in with union-backed victories, how tariffs can be expected to affect the working class, union members are prominent among some high-profile ICE detention an…

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Trump's anti-union latest and local pushback: AFGE 1732 president speaks, rallies at the Labor Temple and post office | Labor endorsements | UAW 291 on strike | Fain vs. NFTA | FL child labor | NALC win ... 28:51

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While Trump takes away collective bargaining rights from even more federal workers, rallies are held at the Madison Labor Temple and at the main post office, and we speak to American Federation of Government Employees Local 1732 President William Townsend. The AFL-CIO has endorsements for the April 1 election in Wisconsin, we talk to the president …

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WEAC on April 1 election | Postal, TSA workers vs. Trump-Musk | UAW strike in Oshkosh | FAA Day of Action | US Ed Dept purge | Lucy Parsons 29:02

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The Wisconsin Education Association Council talks endorsements for the April 1 statewide election, postal workers in Madison take to the street after the threatened Trump-Musk takeover, UAW Local 291 strikes Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems in Oshkosh, the Trump-Musk administration says that the federal collective bargaining agreement with th…

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Trump-Musk attack: Federal unions organize as post office, TSA, others under siege | Print shop revolt | Palestine rally | Bernie Sanders tour | Meet and confer 30:35

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The President of the United States or the world's richest man or somebody orders the US Postal Service to become part of the Commerce Department or even more of a private company or something, and they say that the collective bargaining agreement with workers of the Transportation Security Administration doesn't count any more because they say they…

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Abortion rally | State budget | Federal $ emergency bill | SEIU and Columbus Health | PLEDGE WEEK 29:39

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Hundreds including union members rallied and spoke at the state capitol for reproductive health rights and for electoral support of a labor-endorsed candidate in the April 1 Supreme Court race, some Democratic state legislators are holding "listening sessions" on the intricacies and problems of state budget proposals and some others have sponsored …

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Fed firings TRO | Medicaid, school funding rallies in Madison | Head Start woes | Oregon nurse, longshore contracts | PLEDGE WEEK 29:55

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A federal judge backs a union lawsuit for now and issues a temporary restraining order halting a Trump-Musk order to fire about 200,000 US government workers, people march on US Senator Ron Johnson's Madison office to protest Medicaid cuts, Wisconsin teachers and public school advocates rally at the state capitol to demand that state legislators fu…

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Madison bus action | SEIU nurses rally | Head Start crisis | Fed worker purge | NTEU pushback | Corporate fightback | Carolina Amazon union vote | Costco update | 31:07

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Absence of Madison bus drivers on February 20 looks like a labor action from drivers and mechanics working without a contract, SWIU Wisconsin rallies for Meriter nurses during their contract talks and for UW Health and GHC workers who are organizing, chaotic federal funding cuts affect Head Start, US Forest Service workers facing Trump purges speak…

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Madison bus action | SEIU nurses rally | Head Start crisis | Fed worker purge | NTEU pushback | Carolina Amazon union vote | Costco update | 31:07

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Absence of Madison bus drivers on February 20 looks like a labor action from drivers and mechanics working without a contract, SWIU Wisconsin rallies for Meriter nurses during their contract talks and for UW Health and GHC workers who are organizing, chaotic federal funding cuts affect Head Start, US Forest Service workers facing Trump purges speak…

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UW Health union hearing | Public Instruction race | Carolina Amazon union | Oregon nurses stay on strike, Colorado Kroger workers start one | Coleman Young | Madison area events 29:17

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UW Health System nurses and supporters speak up before a Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing on their union's status under the Wisconsin Employee Peace Act, Labor Radio holds interviews before the Tuesday election for Wisconsin Director of Public Instruction, workers at a North Carolina Amazon facility are voting on whether they will be represented by …

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Rally in Madison | NLRB gutted | Federal workers in fear | Letter carriers reject agreement, Oregon nurses voting on one | Teamsters-Costco contract | Chris Smalls | 1913 massacre | Early voting 30:33

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A march and rally in Madison protests the Trump and Musk takeover of the government, Trump goes after the National Labor Relations Board, federal workers discuss the fear and uncertainty as Trump and Musk swing their axes, the National Association of Letter Carriers has voted against its tentative agreement with the US Postal Service, as their stri…

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Training vs. ICE | Labor Temple for sale | Undocumented and the economy | Findorff ESOP | NLRB purge | Pocan Town Hall | Philly Whole Foods joins UFCW | Amazon ditches Quebec | Starbucks mediation 29:14

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The South Central Federation of Labor and Worker Justice Wisconsin plan trainings on workers rights and organized labor joining with immigrant workers ahead of expected Trump administration assaults, the Madison Labor Temple will be sold, a Mexican professor speaks on immigration and the US economy, Wisconsin construction giant Findorff is now unde…

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Evers speech | Trump vs. civil service, birth citizenship | Peoples March | Iowa rollback | Act 10 stayed | Stellantis stays 28:16

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers gives his State of the State speech and we have excerpts on the budget, President Trump goes after the federal civil service starting with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion administrators and those who work from home, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul talks about the lawsuit filed by Wisconsin and other states agains…

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MLK labor history and Madison events | Oregon nurses strike, Philly Whole Foods workers rally | SEIU rejoins AFL-CIO | SCFL prez on April election 29:18

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Labor Radio looks back at the close ties between the Reverend Martin Luther King and the labor movement and tells what is happening in the Madison area this holiday weekend, a nurse discusses the Oregon Nurses Association strike against Providence Health in that state, the SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, workers and community members rally at an Amazon-o…

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SEIU organizing Group Health | SCFL prez on South Africa | Amazon organizing then and now | Dock workers | Dem Party bigs and labor 28:58

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Labor Radio talks to workers and labor leaders as SEIU Wisconsin works to organize Group Health Collective while a GHC management complaint on the voting unit heads to a regional National Labor Relations Board hearing in Madison, South Central Federation of Labor President Kevin Gundlach tells what workers he talked to had to say during his recent …

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Studio discussion: Labor Radio 2024 in review 29:35

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Labor Radio reporters Carol Weidel, Keith Steffen, Jeannine Ramsey, and Greg Geboski, and engineer Joann Powers sit down in the studio to discuss stories aired in 2024 and what happened in the year in labor.By WORT-FM Labor Radio

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UW consultants make bank | Starbucks strike in Madison, nationwide 22:19

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The WORT News Department has more on its investigation of University of Wisconsin payouts to consultants, particularly Huron Consulting, an arrangement that has long been under critical scrutiny by university unions. Also, Labor Radio interviews strikers as Madison joins the Christmas Eve unfair labor practices strikes held at Starbucks stores acro…

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Madison teachers on school shootings | Holiday strikes at Amazon, Starbucks | U of Wisconsin job changes | Minimum wage to rise | Elves on strike 29:29

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In the wake of a shooting at Madison's Abundant Life Christian School, Labor Radio speaks to the Madison public teachers union president and to a former teacher about what it's like working where school shootings have become normalized. Also, workers at Amazon and Starbucks get into the holiday spirit with unfair labor practice strikes across the c…

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Immigrant rights | State workers and work-at-home | NLRB chair out | Canadian mail strike | Railroad negotiations | Hello Fresh and child labor | Holiday in Lights 29:16

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An attorney addresses the immigrants rights group Voces de la Frontera ahead of the second Trump administration, the Wisconsin legislature wants to end work-at-home for state workers, the US Senate refuses to re-confirm National Labor Relations Board chair Lauren McFerran as an NLRB regional office rules that some reality show workers are employees…

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Lawyer, TAA steward on judge's Act 10 order | Trump Labor pick | Labor on Palestine, UW protest arrests | PLEDGE EDITION 29:38

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This week Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost has ordered sweeping changes to Act 10, the Wisconsin law severely restricting the rights of the state's public sector unions, and Labor Radio spoke to Jeff Mandell, an attorney for the union plaintiffs who brought the successful lawsuit, and to Barrett McIntosh of the Teaching Assistants Associ…

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State budget | Lakefront Brewery, Whole Foods organize | View from Greece | Labor pushback on Dems? | Overtime rule overturned | Daycare costs 28:03

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AFSCME Local 1 has a workshop on the Wisconsin state budget, Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee is organizing a union, a Greek worker discusses the state of labor in Greece, the UE considers an independent way forward for labor after the Democrats' big presidential election loss, Whole Foods workers file for a union, a major expansion of overtime cover…

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Child labor bust | NALC contract | UCal and UAW | UW Bioscience | Captive no more | State budget and you | Dupont leak anniversary 28:03

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An Iron River, Wisconsin, pizza parlor is busted by the Department of Labor for multiple child work violations, a member of Build a Fighting NALC talks about rank-and-file efforts in that union and disagreements over the national NALC tentative contract agreement, more University of California system workers sign up to join the UAW, the Teaching As…

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Election recap | Lambeau, Boeing contracts | Los Volcanoes | Prison labor | Solidarity history 27:49

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Kevin Gundlach of the South Central Federation of Labor looks at the November 5 election results, Lambeau Field workers get their first contract, Los Volcanoes worker-owned cooperative kicks off, the president of Machinists District 751 discusses the end of the Boeing strike and the new contract, California keeps prison labor as a punishment, and t…

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After Act 10 | SEIU, AFGE on the election | Pensions and fossil fuels | Letter carriers contract beef | Philly transit workers to walk | Hawai'i nurses win staffing ratios 29:08

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A panel at the University of Wisconsin gives the good and bad news on organized labor in Wisconsin since Act 10, the SEIU Wisconsin president discusses endorsements and AFGE tells how a crisis in Social Security Administration staffing could get even worse under Project 2025, pension plans look to divest from investments in fossil fuels, rank-and-f…

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Letter carriers rally | AFGE on Project 2025 | Electricians, educators on political endorsements | UW Palestine crackdown | SEIU 1199 arms embargo call | Wages on ballot in MA | Boeing strike | Chicken ... 29:39

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Letter carriers rally in Madison and call for legislative help against recent assaults, the policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees talks on Trump's proposed Project 2025, representatives of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2304 and of the Wisconsin Education Association Council talk about their polit…

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WIARA power lunch | Boeing union interview | Firefighters skip prez pick | NLRB overload | Jobs numbers | Blue Collar Empire | Family sues over worker death | Remembering Lily Ledbetter 29:06

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The annual Wisconsin Association of Retired Americans Power Lunch focuses on social Security and social programs, Machinists union negotiator Jon Holden talks to Labor Radio about the ongoing Boeing strike and the history that led to it, the International Association of Firefighters endorses neither presidential candidate, the National Labor Relati…