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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 against Trump's attempt to remove birth citizenship, a...

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-owned Whole Foods store in Philadelphia ahead of a...

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 trip to South Africa, an organizer discusses how t...

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.

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 across the country. This broadcast show has a music po...

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 country, with New York City cops busting Teamster A...

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, the Canadian government orders it striking mail...

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 Association, one of the seven unions filing the suit. Al...

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 coverage ordered this year has been shot down by a fede...

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 Assistants Association of the University of Wisconsi...

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 the Rick Smith Show looks back on the anniversary o...

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-file letter carriers push back on a proposed contra...

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 political endorsement processes and their political pri...

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 Relations Board is swamped but funding and staffing isn'...

After a weeklong strike, Molson Coors repair workers with Machinists Lodge 66 in Milwaukee ratify a new contract. The immigrant-founded workers co-op Los Volcanoes launches in Madison, a UAW striker is killed on a Michigan picket line, Boeing management talks tough as the West Coast Machinists strike ends its first month, South Central Federation of Labor AFL-CIO president Kevin Gundlach explains...

Teachers and staff at Toad Hill Montessori schools in Madison voted overwhelmingly to join OPEIU Local 39, immigrant workers talk about how employers target them for wage theft, picketing workers speak to Labor Radio as Machinists Council 66 strikes Molson Coors in Milwaukee, the UAW prepares nationwide strikes if Stellantis doesn't meet contract demands, the Wisconsin Association of Retired Ameri...

East Coast and Gulf longshore workers could strike this week, the Machinists reject Boeing management's latest "best and final" offer, the UAW says it will push back against announced layoffs at Stellantis, United Electrical workers nationally condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and a UE 1186 member describes an action in the Madison area, the gender wage gap lives on, Mitchell Johnson of IBEW Loca...

Teachers and staff at Toad Hill Montessori in Madison are organizing with OPEIU Local 39, the UAW says it will strike Stellantis if company management doesn't live up to its contract agreements, unions and community organizations are joining to oppose construction emplyees being misclassified as 'independent contractors', Wisconsin Teamsters break with the national union over a presidential endors...

A view of the Harris-Trump debate from the Labor Temple bar, yet another proposed constitutional change on the Wisconsin November ballot, 33,000 member of the Machinists are on strike at Boeing, and flight attendants at United Air are two weeks into their strike authorization. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

Voices from LaborFest 2024 at the Madison Labor Temple, a steamfitter describes the trade, rank-and-file workers oganize to move their unions to support Palestinians, and workers speak at the Havens-Wright Center at the University of Wisconsin. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

The South Central Federation of Labor president speaks on LaborFest and other upcoming events around Madison, why US Labor Day is at the beginning of September and not May Day, a first-time attendee looks forward to Socialism 2024 in Chicago, UAW pushes back as Stellantis rewrites its agreement on jobs, the Association of Flight Attendants passes a strike authorization vote as United Airlines cont...

University of Wisconsin unions show up at the university system's Board of Regents meeting with actions and demands, striking University of Illinois Hospital nurses speak to Labor Radio at the picket line, the federally-appointed "neutral" monitor tries to make the UAW do his bidding on Gaza policy, unions strike across Cornell University, and we hear voices of organized labor at the Democratic Pa...

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 of the recent election and the labor-supported def...

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 staff at the nation's largest union end up in a tough...

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 strike authorization vote, drastic industry change...