Episodios

  • Meriter contract rally | TSA local prez speaks | ICE Out UW meets | TAA today | Quick New York U strike agreement | Equal Pay Day | Dolores Huerta
    Mar 27 2026

    Meriter Hospital support staff and labor and community supporters rally at the hospital to demand a fair contract, AFGE Local 777 President Darrell English describes what his members are going through as they are forced to work without pay, a union an student coalition at UW Madison organizes against ICE oppression on campus, Labor Radio looks at what's up at the nation's oldest teaching assistant's union, striking non-tenured faculty forced a quick agreement at New York University, March 26 was Equal Pay Day as women's pay still lags behind, and Labor Radio looks at the work of United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta.

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    30 m
  • SEIU Meriter contract up | Starbucks negotiations | Judge rules with AFGE | No pay for TSA | Colorado meatpackers strike on | UW faculty union co-prez on WI IHRA definition law
    Mar 20 2026

    The negotiations chair for non-nursing staff at Madison's UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital talks to Labor Radio about current talks, Starbucks management says they will return to the table and a Madison unionized Starbucks worker talks about why it likely happened, a federal ruled with the American Federation of Government Employees in ordering the temporary reinstatement of the collective bargaining agreement that had been unilaterally dismissed by the Trump administration, TSA workers are working without pay during the latest federal semi-shutdown and Labor Radio reporter Jeannine Ramsey talks to people at an airport who may not realize this, the massive announced UFCW Local 7 meatpackers strike in Greeley, Colorado is on and workers speak out, and the dangers to free speech and academic freedom of a proposed Wisconsin state law that is going to the governor's desk which would enshrine the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of antisemitism into state civil and criminal law is discussed by the UW faculty and staff union co-president.

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    30 m
  • Immigrant exploitation | Mitch Johnson | Discourse Coffee | MTI Cares | Meatpacking strike call | Pledge extension
    Mar 13 2026

    Worker Justice Wisconsin tells of immigrant workers experiencing injury and wage theft in Madison area construction jobs, Labor Radio interviews new IBEW Local 159 President Mitch Johnson, Discourse Coffee in Milwaukee is now union, the Madison Teachers Inc. Executive Director discusses its social committee MTI Cares, and Colorado meatpackers with UFCW have authorized a massive strike action. PLEDGE UPDATE: Certain pledges doubles through March 20.

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    29 m
  • Act 15 | Walmart wage theft | Big Annie | Dred Scott | 1890s Oshkosh strike | PLEDGE WEEK
    Mar 6 2026

    Wisconsin's Act 15 would put even more work requirements on the underfunded University of Wisconsin system and the co-president of the faculty union talks to Labor Radio, Walmart has to pay out millions in a multistate wage theft case involving driving gigs, a northern Michigan town is raising a statue honoring early 20th-century labor organizer "Big Annie" Clemenc, Rick Smith looks at the notorious Dred Scott case, and Labor Radio looks back at a late 19th woodworkers strike in Oshkosh in which women took a major role. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

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  • Public school lawsuit | UPS buyout | NY nurses sign | WWII internment | Trump vs. Black history | PLEDGE WEEK
    Feb 27 2026

    Wisconsin's largest teachers union has joined others in filing a lawsuit against the state legislature for the lack of funding of public schools, UPS is offering buyouts to workers as it biggest client announces cuts and Teamsters are pushing back, striking nurses at Presbyterian Hospital in New York agree to a contract, in 1942 the Seattle public reacts as Japanese-American school workers are forced from their jobs, and Labor Radio looks at the Trump administration assault on Black history. THIS IS A WORT-FM PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

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    29 m
  • NY nurses vote | Wage theft | TSA pay | Unions benefit all | Big UAW contract | Labor violations | Black representation
    Feb 20 2026

    Striking nurses at New York's Presbyterian Hospital are voting on a tentative agreement as we air, Worker Justice Wisconsin is working with community members to expand its fight against wage theft, TSA workers are again without pay in a government shutdown and Labor Radio talks to the head of the Madison area union local, a new report shows that states with high union density have more rewards for all workers, UAW auto workers ratify a historic contract in Tennessee, the Department of Labor slaps down Wisconsin scofflaw bosses cheating on tips, wages, and benefits, and Labor Radio looks at Black-led organizations within organized labor.

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    28 m
  • Rogers Health union firings | Child labor case | Alabama prison strike | NY nurses settle | UCLA Labor Center | SF teacher deal | Gloria Richardson Dandridge
    Feb 13 2026

    Labor Radio interviews one of three workers fired at Rogers Behavioral Health in West Allis just days after the workers had demanded union recognition, a reporter talks on a massive string of child labor violations at Burger King, Alabama prison workers are striking against barbaric conditions, striking nurses in New York have reached an agreement and Labor Radio talks to nurse there for details, Labor Radio interviews a professor affiliated with the UCLA Labor Center, striking teachers in San Francisco have reached a temporary agreement with the school district, and Labor Radio remembers civil rights leader Gloria Richardson Dandridge.

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    29 m
  • Worker hurt | Rogers Health workers want union | Worker co-op law | Texas election | Haitian status | UAW contract | Oscar Robertson
    Feb 6 2026

    A construction worker is hurt in Madison at the Wisconsin Historical Museum site, Labor Radio speaks to a Rogers Behavioral Health worker who is among those in West Allis organizing to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers, Wisconsin is considering a law that will benefit worker-owned cooperatives, a union member wins a key Texas state Senate election, a judge orders that workers from Haiti in the US can maintain Temporary Protected Status for now, UAW Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga negotiate their first collective bargaining agreement, and Labor Radio remembers NBA Hall of Famer and union leader Oscar Robertson.

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