Immigrant rights | State workers and work-at-home | NLRB chair out | Canadian mail strike | Railroad negotiations | Hello Fresh and child labor | Holiday in Lights

Immigrant rights | State workers and work-at-home | NLRB chair out | Canadian mail strike | Railroad negotiations | Hello Fresh and child labor | Holiday in Lights

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio December 14, 2024 Duration: 29:16

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 employees back to work, US railroad workers promise tough negotiations after years of company- and government-enforced givebacks while Trump looms ahead, the Department of Labor is investigating child labor at an Illinois food processing facility of the food delivery company Hello Fresh, and union electricians present Madison's annual Holiday Fantasy in Lights.


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