Labor Radio

A targeted health worker explains how an expensive union-busting campaign by Rogers Health against the new National Union of Healthcare Workers union falls short so far in court and in front of a Wisconsin professional board, an American Federation of Government Employees local president discusses how AFGE is standing up to Trump anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-DEI campaigns, professors at Texas Tech represented by AAUP-AFT have filed a lawsuit over censorship by the university system, and Labor Radio speaks to participants from the AFL-CIO convention and Labor Notes conference.

Madison labor activists call for solidarity with the indicted anti-ICE activists the Minnesota 15, the nonprofit ABS For Health which is undergoing a union drive describes its mission, and Labor Radio looks at some labor history in the US: how the undermining of postwar Reconstruction keeps the legacy of racially-based unpaid labor continuing to hold down Black people and the whole working class, Labor Radio looks at the now-nationwide public sector American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Wisconsin since its founding 90 years ago, the longest strike in US history lasted over six years between the UAW and the Kohler company in Kohler's self-named Wisconsin company town, and how the nationwide National Association of Letter Carriers can trace its origin to an 1889 meeting above a Milwaukee saloon.

A Madison health cooperative that is facing a union organizing drive had questions about its board election procedures, Meriter Hospital support staff represented by SEIU Wisconsin agree to contract terms, AFSCME Local 60 speaks out against a plan to relocate food services workers from middle and high school to elementary, labor responds to the release of Milwaukee area Muslim leader Salah Sarsour, WRTP-Big Step offers pre-apprenticeship programs in the building trades, labor joins the Madison celebration of Juneteenth, and the International Trades Union Confederation puts the United States and Israel on its watchlist for violations of labor rights.

The Madison Metropolitan School District adopts a plan to address teacher salary compression, Group Health Cooperative members vote on a board of directors through June 25th as its workers continue to organize to join SEIU Wisconsin, a CWA local president responds to the indictments and arrest raids of 15 anti-ICE activists in Minnesota, UAW at its convention votes to divest itself of Israel bonds, Black Resilience: Celebrating Our History and Presence is the theme of this year's Juneteenth, it's the 121st birthday of Wisconsin's civil service system and a state worker explains its importance, UAW members ratify a new contract by 80% after a 10-day strike at Dauch (the former American Axle), and a Trump executive order strips civil protections from a tier of federal employees.

Nurses at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison opt to join SEIU Wisconsin in a landslide vote, Labor Radio speaks to a Wisconsin Democratic Party official about labor ahead of the state party convention, the UAW goes on strike at Dauch (the former American Axle) in Michigan, The House of Representatives passes a law designed to keep bosses from delaying the first union contract after union recognition, funds for daycare that went in place during the pandemic are set to run out, and the Building Trades Council and Sportsmen's Alliance holds its annual Takes Kids Fishing Day.