Madison hotel picket | United Way and shutdown | Boeing workers reject agreement | Healthcare costs | Alberta teachers strike | Agreement on Broadway | Gaza protest at AFL-CIO

Madison hotel picket | United Way and shutdown | Boeing workers reject agreement | Healthcare costs | Alberta teachers strike | Agreement on Broadway | Gaza protest at AFL-CIO

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio November 1, 2025 Duration: 29:45

UNITE HERE Local 1 invites the community to a picket demanding a first contract at the Madison Hilton Monona Terrace, the labor liaison to the Madison area United Way discusses how they are reaching out to workers facing dismissals and a federal shutdown, rank and file Machinists striking Boeing in the St. Louis area have rejected a tentative agreement, Labor Radio looks at the expected skyrocketing of healthcare costs for working people, Alberta teachers are forced back to work under a punitive anti-strike law, an American Federation of Musicians local representing Broadway musicians have reached a tentative contract agreement, and Amazon Labor Union organizer and Gaza blockade participant Chris Smalls leads a protest at AFL-CIO headquarters demanding US labor take a stand against arming the genocide in Palestine.


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