Labor Radio

Labor Radio

Labor Radio is news by, for, and about working people in Madison, Wisconsin and around the world. It originates out of the studios of WORT 89.9 FM Madison.

Episodes

October 17, 2025 29 mins

A membership meeting at Group Health Cooperative in Madison cheers a push for unionization with SEIU, Trump announces that some federal workers won't return after the government shutdown and American Federation of Government Employees members talk to Labor Radio about the White House onslaught against federal workers, as ICE deports farm workers the Trump administration says the answer to farm job loss is to lower the minimum wage ...

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The strike at Mercy Health East Clinic in Janesville enters its 100th day and UAW Local 95 holds a solidarity rally, Boeing is ignoring striking Machinists and training scabs as the strike near St. Louis enters its third month, Labor Radio speaks to a local president of a federal employees union about how the US government shutdown is being used to heighten the anti-worker attacks of the Trump administration, and workers at Anodyne...

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UFCW Local 1473 president Jake Bailey talks to labor Radio about a worker victory in an NLRB ruling shows egregious union busting in 2022 by Starbucks during a 1473 organizing drive in Madison, the Sumud Flotilla is stopped as it tries to break Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza but workers in Italy and elsewhere strike in support of Palestine, a federal judge issues a sweeping First Amendment victory in a union-backed petition figh...

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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 suppo...

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University of Wisconsin system faculty and staff unions go to a Board of Regents meeting to demand meet and confer and formal recognition, OPEIU Local 39 wins a union recognition vote at Pathfinders social services in Milwaukee, a four-day strike by Teamsters Local 320 at the University of Minnesota system ends in an agreement with the help of solidarity from IATSE, a UW School or Workers webinar series looks at the role of immigra...

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Machinist union members who build Boeing fighter jets reject a tentative agreement, Teamsters Local 320 at the University of Minnesota goes on strike and Labor Radio talks to a strike captain, the US Supreme Court increasingly relies on a "shadow docket" to upend the lives of workers, department store Target's abandonment of diversity gets a target on its back from organized labor, the feds raid a Georgia Hyundai plant and maybe de...

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UAW Local 95 remains on strike against Mercy Health East in Janesville and labor and supporters in Madison rally at the state capitol, the Madison Social Security office was the site of a rally in support of that program, on Labor Day workers speak at LaborFest and also march downtown against oligarchs in Labor Over Billionaires, Italian dockworkers promise to shut down European shipping if a flotilla braving the illegal blockade o...

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Security workers at Woodman's grocery vote to join SMART Local 565, a nationwide AFL-CIO bus tour hits Eau Claire and a Central Labor Council leader there speaks to Labor Radio, W&W dairy workers who are on strike receive a show of support in Madison, AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler's Labor Day speech slams Trump but also says workers can't depend on Democrats, Laborers union member Jose Ramirez speaks of his union rise and the l...

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Immigrant workers at W&W Dairy in Monroe strike their new owners and the community and organized labor comes out in support, hotel workers at the Hilton-Madison Monona Terrace join UNITE HERE Local 1 in an NLRB certified election with two-thirds of the vote, workers at Mercy Health East represented by UAW Local 95 carry their strike into the seventh week and get support in Madison, Teamsters local 705 is striking Mauser Packagi...

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Workers at Festival Foods in Madison speak to Labor Radio after their landslide vote to unionize and join UFCW Local 1473, Pathfinders in Milwaukee joins OPEIU Local 39, some states are passing labor protections as they are withdrawn on the federal level, the NewsGuild and the NWU jointly condemn the Israeli assassination of journalists Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues and call for solidarity with the Palestinian people, AFGE Loca...

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After three years the Game Workers Alliance union at Raven Software in Middleton secures its first contract, a representative of UAW Local 95 on strike in Janesville addresses Labor Radio listeners, Teamsters Local 120 inks a contract at Sysco Minnesota and alleges poor bus maintenance support in Madison, the Secretary of the Veterans Administration tears up VA collective bargaining agreements, Madison celebrates the 60th anniversa...

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Former Amazon Labor Union organizer Chris Smalls is freed from Israeli captivity after being abducted on the sea while bringing aid to Gaza, Amazon workers finally get rulings on charges filed at the National Labor Relations Board, national unions are having trouble unifying against actions of the Trump administration, a Wisconsin bill to strip gig workers of employee status goes to the desk of Governor Tony Evers, the president of...

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The president of UAW Local 95 talks to Labor Radio as her union continues its strike against Mercy Health East in Janesville, faculty and staff at institutions of higher education across the US are organizing against federal cuts and academic interference, the NEA executive board backs off from its rank-and-file proposed ban of the ADL, an Australian journalist is awarded damages after being fired for commenting on Gaza, a Palestin...

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A UAW Local 95 nurse at the striking Mercy East clinic in Janesville speaks to Labor Radio and the union holds a rally at the picket line, Wisconsin health care activist Tim Faust speaks on the effect on workers of the upcoming massive cuts in Medicaid funding, a Good Trouble rally is held in Madison, the US Supreme Court says Trump can go ahead with gutting the US Department of Education, striking municipal workers in Philadelphia...

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The massive Philadelphia public worker strike continues, a deeper look at "no taxes on tips," the Supreme Court allows Trump to go ahead with mass firings of federal workers and a Madison-area labor veteran explains why US workers may have to give up on relying on labor law, Amazon thinks a good way to solve its hiring problems is to "suggest" office workers work in its warehouses for free during its Prime Days, a leading committee...

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The president of UAW Local 291 discusses its new contract with Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as its almost four-month strike there comes to an end, the president of the faculty and academic staff union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses how a seeming big Wisconsin state budget increase for UW isn't necessarily one for workers, over 9000 city workers including sanitation workers are on strike across Philadelphia, UAW...

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A UW Health nurse explains how the union fight is still on after the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against the union in its Act 10 fight with the local healthcare giant, union-endorsed candidates are elected to the Group Health Collective board and a physician there speaks to Labor Radio as the GHC union recognition fight continues, labor voices are among those protesting at the Wisconsin state capitol after the US bombs Iran, the ...

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Labor is included in the Madison version of the national No Kings march and rally, workers at Madison's Group Health Cooperative who are trying to win a union rally on Madison's east side, and a GHC member describes a union-supporting member-worker slate for GHC board elections ending June 22, national labor leaders Randi Weingarten of the AFT and Lee Saunders of AFSCME quit the Democratic National Committee, we hear voices from a...

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Workers at Group Health Cooperative rally to demand union recognition, leaders from the Meriter Hospital nurses and Harvard dining hall workers discuss their successful strikes and the power of solidarity in the workplace and in the community, the president of SEIU California is among union members targeted in protests against ICE abductions, we hear voices from Take Kids Fishing Day, a former Google employee fired for his activism...

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Meriter Hospital nurses in Madison represented by SEIU Wisconsin end their five-day strike and win a new contract, SEIU Wisconsin workers at Gundersen Health Care in LaCrosse have a new settlement, UAW Local 291 continues its strike a Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as the rank-and-file rejects the latest company offer, and workers at Anodyne Coffee joins the Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Union after a unanimous N...

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