Molson Coors contract * Los Volcanoes * Striker killed * Boeing latest * Endorsement process * Forced labor * KC tenant strike * Dorothea Lange

Molson Coors contract * Los Volcanoes * Striker killed * Boeing latest * Endorsement process * Forced labor * KC tenant strike * Dorothea Lange

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio October 12, 2024 Duration: 28:14

After a weeklong strike, Molson Coors repair workers with Machinists Lodge 66 in Milwaukee ratify a new contract. The immigrant-founded workers co-op Los Volcanoes launches in Madison, a UAW striker is killed on a Michigan picket line, Boeing management talks tough as the West Coast Machinists strike ends its first month, South Central Federation of Labor AFL-CIO president Kevin Gundlach explains the SCFL electoral endorsement process, a Malaysian contractor of the multinational Kimberly-Clark is found to use forced labor, a Kansas City tenants union has called a strike, and photographer Dorothea Lange is remembered on the anniversary of her death.


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