May Day | Marquette U organizes | Workers Memorial Day | Wisco UI changes | Walt Whiteman sings | Job opening | Food drive  | May Day history

May Day | Marquette U organizes | Workers Memorial Day | Wisco UI changes | Walt Whiteman sings | Job opening | Food drive | May Day history

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio May 3, 2025 Duration: 29:05

Multiple May Day marches and rallies in Milwaukee, Madison, and around the state continue in Madison on May 2, the South Central Federation of Labor holds its annual Workers Memorial Day remembrance, Marquette University faculty and staff and staff are demanding recognition of their union, proposed changes to Wisconsin's unemployment insurance system pose serious risks to workers' rights, we play an excerpt from Walt Whitman's 'We Hear America Singing,' a community services position has opened in Dane County, postal workers prepare for their annual food drive, and Rick Smith speaks on the origins of May Day.


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