Labor Express Radio

This is the full 3-19-2023 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Reformers victorious in UAW elections, teachers and staff in Los Angles schools prepare to strike and Saket Soni discusses his new book The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America, about hundreds of Indian guest workers escaping a forced labor camp in post-Katrina Mississippi. Labor Express Ra...

This is the full 2-26-2023 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, it seems the pandemic period strike wave continues - 2022 saw a 50% increase in strike activity.  And Railroad Workers United speaking out on the corporate greed behind the East Palestine Ohio train derailment. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affair...

This is the full 2-12-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the Feb. 12th episode of Labor Express Radio, will the U.S. Supreme Court attack the right to strike?  And the 86th anniversary of the 1937 Flint Sit-Down strike and its relevance to the UAW and the labor movement today. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working...

This is the full 1-29-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the Jan. 29th episode of Labor Express Radio, Chicago teachers demand Mayor Lightfoot implement improved parental leave, Arise Chicago demands DHS implement protections for immigrant workers, the war in Ukraine’s effect on seafarers and Dr. Jack Rasmus predicts economic conditions in 2023. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's on...

This is the full 1-8-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. What does 2023 have in store for working people and the labor movement?  Forecasts and predictions for the new year. Also, workers at the Howard Brown Health Centers carry out a 3-day strike to protest layoffs. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by wo...

Labor Express for 12-18-2022  This is the full 12-18-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.  On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, what does chaos at Twitter mean for unions, domestic worker's rights in Illinois, labor journalist Kim Kelly on incarcerated workers, and much more.  Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs radio program. Ne...

This is the full 12-4-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.  On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, the federal government uses the arcane Railway Labor Act to cram an unjust contract agreement down the throats of union rail workers, World Cup 2022 comes at the cost of the deaths of hundreds of migrant workers, and the largest strike of graduate student workers in the nation...

This is the full 11-13-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, the Chicago Teachers Union holds a Dia de los Muertos press conference to highlight CPS’s broken promises on bilingual ed in Chicago’s public schools and, is a railroad strike still likely?  Members of Railroad Workers United discuss the ongoing vote on the rail worker's tenta...

This is the full 10-30-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.  On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, minimum wage laws at the city, county and state level are discussed.  CTU launches a citywide campaign for new charter school contracts. Brazil’s election could impact not only Latin America but the entire world. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and curre...

This is the full 10-16-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, Alianza Americas and Lawyers for Civil Rights initiate a lawsuit targeting the Republican politicians responsible for the fraudulent transportation of migrants under false pretenses. Also, audio from the historic UAW Presidential Candidates Forum, the first direct election of UAW l...

This is the full 10-2-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, I discuss the proposed Workers' Rights Amendment that is on the 2022 general election ballot in Illinois with Robert Bruno, a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations and as well as the Director of the Project for Middle-Cl...

This is the full 9-18-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, the Ukrainian working class faces a fight on two fronts.  While they organize a truly heroic resistance to Russian imperialism, they must also contend with an attack on their labor rights from within - from their own neo-liberal Parliament. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only...

This is the full 9-4-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, we celebrate Labor Day with a little history, reflections on highlights of the labor movement in Chicago for the past year and a little music. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working peop...

This is the full 8-14-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Rank-and-File Revolt in the UAW!  Scott Houldieson, Chairperson of Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) discuss the historic UAW 2022 Convention. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every...

This is the full 7-31-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the next episode of Labor Express Radio, the U.S. Supreme Court last month stripped away bodily autonomy for women and endorsed forced pregnancy - involuntary, unpaid reproductive labor.  What is the labor movement's response? Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio pr...

This is the full 7-17-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the next episode of Labor Express Radio, part 2 of our excerpts of presentations from Labor Notes 2022, including the voices of powerful leaders in the labor movement like Sara Nelson of the Flight Attendants Union, Marcia Howard of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, Nolan Tabb of Unite All Workers for Democracy and Chi...

This is the full 6-26-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, excerpts of presentations from Labor Notes 2022, including voices from the organizing victories at Amazon and Starbucks and a speech on the state of the class struggle in the U.S. by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current a...

This is the full 6-12-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, Joe Burn’s has a new book out entitled Class Struggle Unionism .  From the Labor Express Radio archive, we rebroadcast a presentation on his previous book, Reviving The Strike .  Plus Labor Notes 2022 and Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Wa...

This is the full 5-22-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Warehouse Workers for Justice releases a new Good Jobs & Clean Air study which examines the impact of warehouses in Will County and alternatives for the future.  Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh murdered by the IDF in the Occupied Territories.  And new book by Robin Alexander of the UE entitled In...

This is the full 5-8-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. May Day 2022 in Chicago and around the world. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   ...

This is the full 4-17-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, a historic union election victory at Staten Island Amazon warehouse and union election victory at Soho REI store in NYC!  Are we in a period of possible labor movement resurgence?   #laborradionetwork  #LaborRadioPod  #1u  #UnionStrong Labor Express Rad...

This is the full 4-3-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, IBEW Local 1220 launches a strike at WTTW-Channel 11, Chicago’s public television channel.  It's the first strike in the broadcaster's over 65-year history.  Hear why the workers at WTTW see this as an existential fight.   #laborradionetwork  #LaborRadioPod &...

This is the full 3-20-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, voices from the Ukrainian Left as they fight Russia’s imperialist aggression. #laborradionetwork  #LaborRadioPod  #1u  #UnionStrong Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working...

This is the full 3-6-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, one of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign’s leading spokespersons - academic, socialist activist and expert on Ukrainian history, Marko Bojcun, discusses the origins of the current crisis in Ukraine.  We will also hear from a long-time Russian socialist dissident and academic, Bori...

This is the full 2-13-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, we talk Starbucks workers organizing!  Workers at 70 Starbucks locations across the country are organizing unions, including 2 in Chicago.  Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez discusses introducing a resolution in Chicago City Council to support the workers. He also discusses exci...