UW Health union hearing | Public Instruction race | Carolina Amazon union | Oregon nurses stay on strike, Colorado Kroger workers start one | Coleman Young | Madison area events

UW Health union hearing | Public Instruction race | Carolina Amazon union | Oregon nurses stay on strike, Colorado Kroger workers start one | Coleman Young | Madison area events

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio February 15, 2025 Duration: 29:17

UW Health System nurses and supporters speak up before a Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing on their union's status under the Wisconsin Employee Peace Act, Labor Radio holds interviews before the Tuesday election for Wisconsin Director of Public Instruction, workers at a North Carolina Amazon facility are voting on whether they will be represented by Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), Oregon nurses at eight hospitals run by Providence Health voted down a tentative agreement and their strike enters its second month, United Food and Commercial Workers grocery store employees of Kroger in Colorado and Wyoming vote to strike, labor and civil rights fighter Coleman Young becomes Mayor of Detroit, and there are a number of labor-sponsored events this week in the Madison area.


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