Fain speaks | RoJo no! | Starbucks strike on? | Settlement at Mercy Health | UE for Palestine | No US jobs report | Teen Vogue cuts

Fain speaks | RoJo no! | Starbucks strike on? | Settlement at Mercy Health | UE for Palestine | No US jobs report | Teen Vogue cuts

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio November 8, 2025 Duration: 27:49

UAW President Shawn Fain gives a nationwide town hall to members and the public, labor marches at US Senator Ron Johnson's Madison office to protest his role in the federal government shutdown, unionized Starbucks workers in Madison vote to authorize a national unfair labor practices strike and hold an early picket, UAW Local 95 settles its strike at Mercy Health East clinic in Janesville, the president of UE Local 1186 representing Madison area workers at Willy Street Coop discusses that union's call for support of Palestinians, the US has steep job losses but one can't tell from the monthly Department of Labor jobs report because after 77 years no report was issued, and publishing giant Conde Nast guts the staff and the labor reporting at Teen Vogue.


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