Labor Notes kicks off | Poor people march | Microsoft ❤ CWA? | Starbucks CEO rants | Happy Birthday Wisco Civil Service | Case strike update | and more

Labor Notes kicks off | Poor people march | Microsoft ❤ CWA? | Starbucks CEO rants | Happy Birthday Wisco Civil Service | Case strike update | and more

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio June 18, 2022 Duration: 27:25

This week we have a live report from the 2022 Labor Notes Conference, and hear a report ahead of the Saturday June 18 Poor People’s March in DC. We bring you updates on the UAW strike in southeast Wisconsin and on organizing at Starbucks and among video game workers, celebrate and hear warnings on the 117th anniversary fo the Wisconsin civil service system, get a new statistic of the week and much more!


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2023 labor news discussion | Ellen LaLuzurne [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:55
In our end-of-the year show, Labor News reporters discuss this year in labor news and give a shoutout to workers who help us report it. We also remember Labor Radio co-founder Ellen LaLuzurne.
MG&E, TruStage contracts ratified | UW workers caught in GOP culture wars | Fantasy in Lights | No holiday for postal workers || Wisconsin labor actions for Palestine |  UAW reaching beyond Big 3  | Cambria explosion settlement [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:28
In this show, we get late-breaking details of the newly-ratified OPEIU Local 39 contracts with MG&E andTruStage, hear union leadership’s reaction to the state legislature’s underhanded move to force culture war changes a…
Madison labor rally | Nurses charge UW understaffing | EA, paraprofessional wages in Monona schools | SAG-AFTRA agreement | IBEW 2150 strike authorization | Labor resolutions on Palestine | Union Red Cup Day | Wisconsin Watch unionizes [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:59
We bring you on-the-ground-reporting from the rally for union solidarity, learn what SEIU nurses have to say about patient care concerns, hear what teaching staff and parents have to say about low wages in Monona schools…