Two Starbucks campaigns | IUOE pickets | Webcrafters leaving | New maps | Poor Peoples Campaign | Tenants fight | Frederick Douglass

Two Starbucks campaigns | IUOE pickets | Webcrafters leaving | New maps | Poor Peoples Campaign | Tenants fight | Frederick Douglass

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio February 24, 2024 Duration: 29:27

Students and workers in Madison and across the US announce new Starbucks union fights, Operating Engineers picket in downtown Madison, upcoming Moral March on state legislators with the Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign, tenants’ rights struggle in Madison, Webcrafters leaving town, new legislative maps signed into law, the legacy of Frederick Douglass.


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