UAW 95 on strike | Medicaid cuts | Good trouble | Dept of Ed cuts OKed | Philly settlements | ICE grabs prof

UAW 95 on strike | Medicaid cuts | Good trouble | Dept of Ed cuts OKed | Philly settlements | ICE grabs prof

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio July 19, 2025 Duration: 0:00

A UAW Local 95 nurse at the striking Mercy East clinic in Janesville speaks to Labor Radio and the union holds a rally at the picket line, Wisconsin health care activist Tim Faust speaks on the effect on workers of the upcoming massive cuts in Medicaid funding, a Good Trouble rally is held in Madison, the US Supreme Court says Trump can go ahead with gutting the US Department of Education, striking municipal workers in Philadelphia go back to work as they go to vote on a tentative agreement, and a California State professor protesting a massive ICE raid in Camarillo is detained and their union rallies behind them.


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