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Labor Radio is news by, for, and about working people in Madison, Wisconsin and around the world. It originates out of the studios of WORT 89.9 FM Madison.

  1. 24 ABR

    Union win at Rogers | Salary compression | Baldwin factory closes | May Day call | AFSCME endorsement | Ohio union plant shuts | Labor Secy out

    Workers at Rogers Behavioral Health in Madison and West Allis overwhelmingly vote to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers but not without drama at one voting place, the president of Madison Teachers Inc. discusses how teachers face salary compression and an upcoming rally to protest it, labor council president Nick Webber discusses the impact of the closing of the Northern Metal Fabrication plant in Baldwin, Madison labor loins groups across the country in calling for May Day Strong in 2026, AFSCME endorses Ben Gruber in a state assembly race, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns as the Trump administration labor secretary.

    28 min

  2. 17 ABR

    NLRB orders Rogers union vote | Higher Ed Day of Action | B&G Teamsters contract | Unemployment | Minnesota lessons | Farm labor | Union Now

    The National Labor Relations Board has sided with United Healthcare Workers petitioners and has scheduled a representation vote at Rogers Health facilities in Madison and West Allis, three University of Wisconsin-Madison employee unions join campus student groups to march to the UW administration and demand ICE Out of UW, after a sweeping strike vote the Teamsters hammer out a contract with B&G Foods in Stoughton, unemployment ticks up in Wisconsin, labor activists who are veterans of the recent Operation Metro Surge assault in Minnesota visit Madison to talk about lessons learned, Labor Radio talks to the Wisconsin Farmers Union about the farm labor shortage, and the non-for-profit Union Now is launched by the labor movement to give help to strikers and organizers.

    28 min

  3. 10 ABR

    Minnesota panel to Madison | Election results | NLRB orders Amazon | Ben Gruber | Workers Assembly

    Labor and community activists who have been confronting ICE in Minneapolis will speak in Madison and Labor Radio talks to one of them ahead of the event, the April 7 election shows many big wins for labor-endorsed candidates, the NLRB has finally ordered Amazon to bargain with its union, state union worker Ben Gruber explains why he is running for a State Assembly seat, and Madison holds a Workers Assembly modeled after a similar action in Minnesota.

    29 min

  4. 3 ABR

    Teamsters OK Stoughton strike | Coffee shop labor complaint | Election basics, labor endorsements | Workers Assembly | School bus strike dodged | No Kings

    Teamsters Local 120 authorizes a strike at B&G Foods in Stoughton, as a new Qamaria Coffee shop opens in Madison a worker discusses an outstanding labor complaint still outstanding at their Milwaukee-area facility, the local League of Woman Voters voting director goes over how to vote on the April 7 election and the president of the South Central Federation of Labor explains and names SCFL endorsements for April 7, an organizer discusses a Madison-area Workers Assembly with Labor Radio, a Teamsters-led school bus strike in the Madison area and nationwide set for the beginning of April was closely averted, and Labor Radio speaks to participants in Madison-area labor-endorsed No Kings marches of March 28.

    29 min

  5. 27 MAR

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

    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.

    30 min

  6. 20 MAR

    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

    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.

    30 min

  7. 13 MAR

    Immigrant exploitation | Mitch Johnson | Discourse Coffee | MTI Cares | Meatpacking strike call | Pledge extension

    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.

    29 min

  8. 6 MAR

    Act 15 | Walmart wage theft | Big Annie | Dred Scott | 1890s Oshkosh strike | PLEDGE WEEK

    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.

    29 min
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Labor Radio is news by, for, and about working people in Madison, Wisconsin and around the world. It originates out of the studios of WORT 89.9 FM Madison.

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    WORT-FM Labor Radio
  • Años de actividad
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodios
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