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Labor Radio
by WORT-FM 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
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NUHW legal wins | AFGE defends LGBTQ+, DEI | Texas Tech profs fight back | Labor Notes, AFL-CIO conventions
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…
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Minnesota 15 | ABC For Health | Labor history: Reconstruction, AFSCME, Kohler strike, NALC
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...
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GHC board | Meriter contract | School cafe workers | Cleric released | Trades careers program | Juneteenth | ITUC downgrades US
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...
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MTI salaries | GHC Board | Minn fed indictments | UAW boots Israel | Juneteenth | Happy Bday WI Civil Service | UAW Dauch strike ends | Fed civil service hits
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...
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Union Yes at St. Mary's | Wis Dems | Dauch strike | First contract law | Daycare crisis | Take Kids Fishing
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…
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St. Mary's union vote set | Guv forum | Cargill closing | 2304 president | Food drive | WORT PLEDGE EDITION
Labor Radio talks to a St. Mary's nurse as the NLRB sets June 11th as the date for a union representation election to join SEIU Wisconsin, organized labor sponsors a forum for candidates for Governor of Wisconsin ahead of the primaries, Cargill is closing its Milwaukee facility and laying off…
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Jiffy Lube union | St. Mary's nurses | MOSA | Labor Forward | AFGE win | AI and the Pope | Food drive
Jiffy Lube workers in Madison and Janesville are organizing with UFCW Local 1473, nurses at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Madison rally to join SEIU Wisconsin, Midwest Organic Services Association organic food certification workers vote to unionize with OPEIU Local 39, the UW School for…
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MMSD dues | Madison Hilton, Fox News 6 first contract struggles | Happy 125th IBEW 159 | Bean Feed | LIRR back to work | U Chicago Press union
The Madison Metropolitan School District adopts a voluntary dues deduction policy for employee association groups, Madison Hilton workers of Unite Here Local 1 Members want a first contract, IBEW Local 159 is celebrating its 125th anniversary, Labor Radio gets some voices of the COPE Bean Feed...
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Meriter rally | Wisco school funding killed | UK Google union | AI, bosses, and workers | Minnesota worker law | Texas State prof win
UnityPoint-Meriter Hospital workers rally for a fair contract, Wisconsin legislators kill a school funding deal, Google workers in England want a union as a voice against military deals, Economic Policy Institute speakers argue that the power of bosses is the real threat to workers as…
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St. Mary's announces, Cap Times gets union | WEAC 4 Roys | UW workers May Day rally | April job numbers | Rogers firings | Landmark union | Meriter rally announced
Another Madison hospital wants to go union as St. Mary and Dean Nurses United is announced, Cap Times reporters talk about how they joined NewsGuild-CWA, Wisconsin's largest teachers union coalition announces their gubernatorial endorsement, a University of Wisconsin-Madison labor-student…
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May Day in Madison | Teachers union on May 1 | SCFL and May Day Strong | MTI salary rally | Workers Memorial Day | Long Island Railroad
Labor Radio airs voices of some of the attendees of Madison's version of the nationwide No Work No School No Shopping rallies across the nation on May 1st 2026, the president of Madison Teachers Inc. explains why the union is supporting the student call to close school on May Day, the president…
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Union win at Rogers | Salary compression | Baldwin factory closes | May Day call | AFSCME endorsement | Ohio union plant shuts | Labor Secy out
Workers at Rogers Behavioral Health in Madison and West Allis overwhelmingly vote to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers but not without drama at one voting place, the president of Madison Teachers Inc. discusses how teachers face salary compression and an upcoming rally to protest it,...
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NLRB orders Rogers union vote | Higher Ed Day of Action | B&G Teamsters contract | Unemployment | Minnesota lessons | Farm labor | Union Now
The National Labor Relations Board has sided with United Healthcare Workers petitioners and has scheduled a representation vote at Rogers Health facilities in Madison and West Allis, three University of Wisconsin-Madison employee unions join campus student groups to march to the UW administration...
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Minnesota panel to Madison | Election results | NLRB orders Amazon | Ben Gruber | Workers Assembly
Labor and community activists who have been confronting ICE in Minneapolis will speak in Madison and Labor Radio talks to one of them ahead of the event, the April 7 election shows many big wins for labor-endorsed candidates, the NLRB has finally ordered Amazon to bargain with its union, state...
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Teamsters OK Stoughton strike | Coffee shop labor complaint | Election basics, labor endorsements | Workers Assembly | School bus strike dodged | No Kings
Teamsters Local 120 authorizes a strike at B&G Foods in Stoughton, as a new Qamaria Coffee shop opens in Madison a worker discusses an outstanding labor complaint still outstanding at their Milwaukee-area facility, the local League of Woman Voters voting director goes over how to vote on the…
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Meriter contract rally | TSA local prez speaks | ICE Out UW meets | TAA today | Quick New York U strike agreement | Equal Pay Day | Dolores Huerta
Meriter Hospital support staff and labor and community supporters rally at the hospital to demand a fair contract, AFGE Local 777 President Darrell English describes what his members are going through as they are forced to work without pay, a union an student coalition at UW Madison organizes...
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SEIU Meriter contract up | Starbucks negotiations | Judge rules with AFGE | No pay for TSA | Colorado meatpackers strike on | UW faculty union co-prez on WI IHRA definition law
The negotiations chair for non-nursing staff at Madison's UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital talks to Labor Radio about current talks, Starbucks management says they will return to the table and a Madison unionized Starbucks worker talks about why it likely happened, a federal ruled with the...
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Immigrant exploitation | Mitch Johnson | Discourse Coffee | MTI Cares | Meatpacking strike call | Pledge extension
Worker Justice Wisconsin tells of immigrant workers experiencing injury and wage theft in Madison area construction jobs, Labor Radio interviews new IBEW Local 159 President Mitch Johnson, Discourse Coffee in Milwaukee is now union, the Madison Teachers Inc. Executive Director discusses its…
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Act 15 | Walmart wage theft | Big Annie | Dred Scott | 1890s Oshkosh strike | PLEDGE WEEK
Wisconsin's Act 15 would put even more work requirements on the underfunded University of Wisconsin system and the co-president of the faculty union talks to Labor Radio, Walmart has to pay out millions in a multistate wage theft case involving driving gigs, a northern Michigan town is raising a...
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Public school lawsuit | UPS buyout | NY nurses sign | WWII internment | Trump vs. Black history | PLEDGE WEEK
Wisconsin's largest teachers union has joined others in filing a lawsuit against the state legislature for the lack of funding of public schools, UPS is offering buyouts to workers as it biggest client announces cuts and Teamsters are pushing back, striking nurses at Presbyterian Hospital in New...
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NY nurses vote | Wage theft | TSA pay | Unions benefit all | Big UAW contract | Labor violations | Black representation
Striking nurses at New York's Presbyterian Hospital are voting on a tentative agreement as we air, Worker Justice Wisconsin is working with community members to expand its fight against wage theft, TSA workers are again without pay in a government shutdown and Labor Radio talks to the head of the...
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Rogers Health union firings | Child labor case | Alabama prison strike | NY nurses settle | UCLA Labor Center | SF teacher deal | Gloria Richardson Dandridge
Labor Radio interviews one of three workers fired at Rogers Behavioral Health in West Allis just days after the workers had demanded union recognition, a reporter talks on a massive string of child labor violations at Burger King, Alabama prison workers are striking against barbaric conditions,...
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Worker hurt | Rogers Health workers want union | Worker co-op law | Texas election | Haitian status | UAW contract | Oscar Robertson
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...
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Madison nurses, Minnesota teachers on fed terror | AFT on ICE | Kaiser, New York nurses strikes | US Foods and Teamsters
In the wake of of the street execution of VA nurse and AFGE member Alex Pretti by federal agents Madison nurses rally on the day of a national strike and the president of the state Minnesota teachers union talks to Labor Radio about how educators deal with the statewide invasion, American...
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Minnesota: Wisconsin worker in Minneapolis, UFCW worker on general strike organizing, Madison support | NY nurses | TSA worker win | Greenland and unions
Labor Radio speaks to a Wisconsin union member who is in Minnesota and who runs down the situation there, interviews a UFCW member grocery worker on the organizing and union solidarity that contributed to the Minnesota general strike against federal terror, and reports on solidarity actions in...
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Madison vs. ICE | Minneapolis general strike? | Protect Social Security | New York nurses strike | Official nazis
A vigil led by a Wisconsin immigrants rights group and a student-led school walkout are among actions in Madison organized against ICE terror in Minneapolis and elsewhere, labor joins the general community in Minnesota is organizing for a general strike in resistance to ICE there, labor activists...
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Labor on Minnesota murder, Venezuela invasion | Childcare cuts | H1B visas | Minimum wage | Teamsters vs. Amazon, AFT vs. Texas
The president of National Nurses United speaks to Labor Radio in the wake of the state killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, child care centers are in crisis as Trump cuts childcare subsidies, the president of UE Local 1186 speaks to Labor Radio on his union's stance following the US invasion of...
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2025 Labor Year in Review
Labor Radio collective members Greg Geboski, Robin Gee, Joanne Powers, Jeannine Ramsey, Keith Steffen, and Carol Weidel are in the WORT studios to discuss labor stories and themes we covered in 2025.
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Starbucks strike | Jobs report | TSA contract | UPS wage theft | Casino hands join Teamsters | Merry SCFL Christmas
The national Starbucks strike led by Starbucks Workers United continues at four stores in the Madison area, the Labor Department is back to issuing a monthly jobs report and Labor Radio takes a closer look, the Trump Administration again unilaterally voids the collective bargaining agreement...
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JCOER jokers | Dairy strike? | Starbucks strike grows in Madison, legal win in New York | Ed vouchers | Holiday in Lights
Wisconsin state workers unions rally as the Joint Committee on Employment Relations legislative committee continues to hold up their compensation, Wisconsin dairy workers have authorized a strike as milk companies pull back on safety and compensation, a fourth Madison area Starbucks store joins…
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Starbucks strike reaches Madison | Union and WORT board | Striking baristas film | PLEDGE WEEK
Labor Radio hears from the picket line as the national Starbucks strike for a good faith bargained contract reaches Madison, the president of IBEW Local 2304 talks to Labor Radio after meeting with the WORT board of directors in the wake of the firing of two unionized staff collective members…
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Holiday music show
Labor Radio for Friday, November 28, 2025, was an all-music show. The show is at the WORT archive for three months at archive.wortfm.org. Look for Labor Radio for Friday, November 28, listed at 5:30 p.m.
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Data center | Milwaukee Forge | Amazon to gut jobs, faces Teamsters in Kentucky | Anti-labor law, pro-fed labor bills in Congress | Wage workshops in Madison
The Building Trades Council and community members speaking at a public meeting are on opposite sides on building a data center in the DeForest area and Labor Radio hears from both side, new owners of Milwaukee Forge agree to keep the company open and retain union jobs, leaked documents detail how...
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WORT layoffs | Fed shutdown and unions | Striking Pitt journos legal win | Boeing deal approved | Red Cup Rebellion | KFC labor ruling
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...
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Fain speaks | RoJo no! | Starbucks strike on? | Settlement at Mercy Health | UE for Palestine | No US jobs report | Teen Vogue cuts
UAW President Shawn Fain gives a nationwide town hall to members and the public, labor marches at US Senator Ron Johnson's Madison office to protest his role in the federal government shutdown, unionized Starbucks workers in Madison vote to authorize a national unfair labor practices strike and...
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Madison hotel picket | United Way and shutdown | Boeing workers reject agreement | Healthcare costs | Alberta teachers strike | Agreement on Broadway | Gaza protest at AFL-CIO
UNITE HERE Local 1 invites the community to a picket demanding a first contract at the Madison Hilton Monona Terrace, the labor liaison to the Madison area United Way discusses how they are reaching out to workers facing dismissals and a federal shutdown, rank and file Machinists striking Boeing…
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Boeing settlement offer | No Kings | Madison federal workers | General strike? | Chicago teachers fight back | EEOC sued | Immigrant worker loss
Machinists on strike at Boeing in the St. Louis area have a federally-mediated agreement that will be voted on by members on October 26, the national No Kings march takes place in Madison with labor support, federal workers who have been shut out from work rally outside the Madison-area Social...
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GHC meeting | Union reaction to Trump RIF | Lower H2A visa base wage | Wisconsin green jobs | Elder care and immigrants | Texas prof fired | No Kings
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...
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Mercy Health East strike rally | Boeing strike boss stall | Federal workers | Anodyne Coffee votes union | PLEDGE WEEK
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...
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Starbucks union busting | Labor for Gazans | 1A union victory, judge warning | H2B visas | PLEDGE WEEK
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…
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UAW 95 rally | UAW policy | Boeing strike | New Mexico childcare | Workers support Gaza flotilla | Rally for Texas prof | Shays' Rebellion
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...
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UW Regents vs unions | Pathfinders vote | U Minnesota win | Labor Forward | Dane workers health insurance | Job stats | AFGE ruling
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...
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Boeing deal out | Teamsters strike at UMinn | Shadow docket | Target a target | Hyundai raid | Weather Service | Debs in jail
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...
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Madison rallies for UAW 95, Social Security | LaborFest | No oligarchs | Dock workers and Gaza flotilla | Abbotsford and ICE
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...
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SMART union vote win | Union bus tour | Dairy workers support | AFL-CIO prez speech | Milwaukee worker speaks | Abrego Garcia rejailed | DACA activist grabbed
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...
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Dairy strike | Hotel union vote win | UAW 95 keeps fighting | Chicago Teamsters, Air Canada flight attendants strikes | NLRB ruling
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…
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Festival Foods in Madison, Pathfinders in Milwaukee unionize | Some states filling labor law gap | Press unions condemn Israeli assassinations | Howton obit | UAW 95 bash
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...
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Raven, Sysco Minnesota contracts | UAW 95 strike update | Bus maintenance | VA union purge | Voting Rights Act | Labor Stats firing | Boeing strike | No NLRB quorum | Madison fundraiser for UAW 95
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...
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Chris Smalls freed | Amazon ruling | Unions unglued on Trump | Wisconsin vs. gig workers | Stage union prez | Social Security march in August | Hilo Massacre
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…
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UAW 95 strike continues | Higher ed attacked | Gaza and labor | Fed worker safety cut | AZ theater unionizes | Airgas strike | Gaza doctor in Madison | Community Services hire
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…
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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.
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