NLRB orders Rogers union vote | Higher Ed Day of Action | B&G Teamsters contract | Unemployment | Minnesota lessons | Farm labor | Union Now

NLRB orders Rogers union vote | Higher Ed Day of Action | B&G Teamsters contract | Unemployment | Minnesota lessons | Farm labor | Union Now

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio April 18, 2026 Duration: 27:52

The National Labor Relations Board has sided with United Healthcare Workers petitioners and has scheduled a representation vote at Rogers Health facilities in Madison and West Allis, three University of Wisconsin-Madison employee unions join campus student groups to march to the UW administration and demand ICE Out of UW, after a sweeping strike vote the Teamsters hammer out a contract with B&G Foods in Stoughton, unemployment ticks up in Wisconsin, labor activists who are veterans of the recent Operation Metro Surge assault in Minnesota visit Madison to talk about lessons learned, Labor Radio talks to the Wisconsin Farmers Union about the farm labor shortage, and the non-for-profit Union Now is launched by the labor movement to give help to strikers and organizers.


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