Starbucks Red Cup Day strike | Job cuts at UW-Parkside | School voucher lawsuit | Protest against Gaza death contractor | Madison's budget and workers | Feds rule on Wisconsin worker death

Starbucks Red Cup Day strike | Job cuts at UW-Parkside | School voucher lawsuit | Protest against Gaza death contractor | Madison's budget and workers | Feds rule on Wisconsin worker death

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio November 18, 2023 Duration: 28:42

We report on the Madison response to the nationwide Starbucks strike, a lawsuit over school vouchers, jobs getting slashed at a University of Wisconsin system school, the Madison city budget and what it means for city workers, a local labor response to the attack on Gaza and a company that arms it, a Department of Labor finding in a worker death in Prairie du Chien, and more.


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