WORT layoffs | Fed shutdown and unions | Striking Pitt journos legal win | Boeing deal approved | Red Cup Rebellion | KFC labor ruling

WORT layoffs | Fed shutdown and unions | Striking Pitt journos legal win | Boeing deal approved | Red Cup Rebellion | KFC labor ruling

Author: WORT-FM Labor Radio November 15, 2025 Duration: 28:46

WORT lays off two union members and Labor Radio talks to the president of IBEW Local 2304, writer Eric Blanc says the the deal to end the federal government shutdown shows fissures in organized labor and a missed opportunity to exercise worker power, a federal court ruling gives a big win to NewsGuild workers who have been on strike for over three years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Labor Radio talks to a striker there, striking Machinists at Boeing in Missouri and Illinois are going back to work after accepting a newly bargained agreement, unionized baristas of Starbucks Workers United across the country walk out on the coffee behemoth's Red Cup Day promotion, and KFC restaurant employees across Wisconsin win a unanimous jury verdict granting them unpaid overtime.


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