UAW wins at Volkswagen | Labor Notes | Workers Memorial Day | Google firings | COSATU on Palestine | UAW 180 on Case layoffs | May Day marches

UAW wins at Volkswagen | Labor Notes | Workers Memorial Day | Google firings | COSATU on Palestine | UAW 180 on Case layoffs | May Day marches

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio April 27, 2024 Duration: 29:21

The US labor movement gets a big win at Volkswagen, we hear reports from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago and listen in on the Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Madison, 'No Tech for Apartheid' Google workers are fired after Israel arms AI protests and South Africa's largest labor federation calls for Palestine solidarity, the president of UAW Local 180 talks about the announced layoffs of the Case New Hollard plant in Racine County, and organizers discuss two May Day marches in the area, one in Milwaukee and and a high school student-led march in Madison.


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