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

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

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio May 24, 2025 Duration: 29:26

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 Local 291 workers at Cummins in Oshkosh reject a tentative agreement and continue their strike, a tornado wipes out a union-represented business in Mayville, a judge orders that foreign service employees can keep their collective bargaining rights for now, and we have results from the postal service food drive earlier this month.


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