Worker hurt | Rogers Health workers want union | Worker co-op law | Texas election | Haitian status | UAW contract  | Oscar Robertson

Worker hurt | Rogers Health workers want union | Worker co-op law | Texas election | Haitian status | UAW contract | Oscar Robertson

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio February 7, 2026 Duration: 28:33

A construction worker is hurt in Madison at the Wisconsin Historical Museum site, Labor Radio speaks to a Rogers Behavioral Health worker who is among those in West Allis organizing to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers, Wisconsin is considering a law that will benefit worker-owned cooperatives, a union member wins a key Texas state Senate election, a judge orders that workers from Haiti in the US can maintain Temporary Protected Status for now, UAW Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga negotiate their first collective bargaining agreement, and Labor Radio remembers NBA Hall of Famer and union leader Oscar Robertson.


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