Teamsters OK Stoughton strike | Coffee shop labor complaint | Election basics, labor endorsements | Workers Assembly | School bus strike dodged | No Kings

Teamsters OK Stoughton strike | Coffee shop labor complaint | Election basics, labor endorsements | Workers Assembly | School bus strike dodged | No Kings

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio April 4, 2026 Duration: 29:01

Teamsters Local 120 authorizes a strike at B&G Foods in Stoughton, as a new Qamaria Coffee shop opens in Madison a worker discusses an outstanding labor complaint still outstanding at their Milwaukee-area facility, the local League of Woman Voters voting director goes over how to vote on the April 7 election and the president of the South Central Federation of Labor explains and names SCFL endorsements for April 7, an organizer discusses a Madison-area Workers Assembly with Labor Radio, a Teamsters-led school bus strike in the Madison area and nationwide set for the beginning of April was closely averted, and Labor Radio speaks to participants in Madison-area labor-endorsed No Kings marches of March 28.


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