Madison bus action | SEIU nurses rally | Head Start crisis | Fed worker purge | NTEU pushback | Carolina Amazon union vote |  Costco update |

Madison bus action | SEIU nurses rally | Head Start crisis | Fed worker purge | NTEU pushback | Carolina Amazon union vote | Costco update |

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio February 22, 2025 Duration: 31:07

Absence of Madison bus drivers on February 20 looks like a labor action from drivers and mechanics working without a contract, SWIU Wisconsin rallies for Meriter nurses during their contract talks and for UW Health and GHC workers who are organizing, chaotic federal funding cuts affect Head Start, US Forest Service workers facing Trump purges speak at the Madison Labor Temple, the National Treasury Employees Union pushes back on the Trump-Musk cuts, Amazon workers vote against a union in Carolina, and Costco raises non-union wages,


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