Philly strike | Tips and taxes | Law and labor | Prime serfs | NEA and ADL | Argentina and unions

Philly strike | Tips and taxes | Law and labor | Prime serfs | NEA and ADL | Argentina and unions

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio July 12, 2025 Duration: 28:42

The massive Philadelphia public worker strike continues, a deeper look at "no taxes on tips," the Supreme Court allows Trump to go ahead with mass firings of federal workers and a Madison-area labor veteran explains why US workers may have to give up on relying on labor law, Amazon thinks a good way to solve its hiring problems is to "suggest" office workers work in its warehouses for free during its Prime Days, a leading committee of the country's largest union says it will no longer work with the dubious "civil right organization" the Anti-Defamation League, and a union delegate visiting Madison talks on unions in Argentina and here.


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