UAW 95 rally | UAW policy | Boeing strike | New Mexico childcare | Workers support Gaza flotilla | Rally for Texas prof | Shays' Rebellion

UAW 95 rally | UAW policy | Boeing strike | New Mexico childcare | Workers support Gaza flotilla | Rally for Texas prof | Shays' Rebellion

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio September 27, 2025 Duration: 30:46

Unions and community supporters hold a rally for striking health care workers of Mercy Health East Clinic in Janesville, UAW members in California demand a sustainable industrial policy, striking Machinists at Boeing in the St. Louis area offer their own contract proposal absent movement from Boeing management, New Mexico is becoming the first state to institute state-funded universal childcare, strikes spread across Italy in support of the Palestinians undergoing genocide in Gaza and in support of the Sumud Flotilla sailing the Mediterranean, unions at Texas State University rally for colleague and tenured professor Dr. Tom Alter who was summarily fired under political pressure for advocating socialism, and Labor History in Two looks at the Shays Rebellion.


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