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Show: Labor Express for 9-27-2026 - Scott Houldieson runs for office and unions take on the AI industry.
Show: Labor Express for 9-13-2026 - Chicago nurses strike and thousands of hotel workers march.
Show: Labor Express for 8-30-2026 - The aftermath of the derecho that impacted Gary, Indiana, brings echoes of Hurricane Katrina.
Show: Labor Express for 8-16-2026 - Plans for Labor Day 2026 in Chicago and Chicago’s Sustainable Community Schools program expands
Show: Labor Express for 8-2-2026 - AI’s impact on the workplace and how unions are fighting back - audio from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference.
Show: Labor Express for 7-12-2026 - Minimum wages increase in Chicago and immigrant workers lead the fight back against the boss and Trump
Show: Labor Express for 6-21-2026 - Whiting BP Refinery workers locked out and Amazon workers at Labor Notes 2026
Show: Labor Express for 6-7-2026 - Teamsters at UPS oppose cameras in trucks and AI’s impact on the working class.
Show: Labor Express for 5-24-2026 - Labor Notes discusses taxing the rich and fighting AI, Hamilton Nolan discusses Union Now.
Show: Labor Express for 4-26-2026 - Jeremy Brecher, Joseph McCartin, Stephen Lerner discuss how “Resisting Trumpism Can Revive the U.S. Labor Movement” & Plans for May Day in Chicago.
Show: Labor Express for 4-12-2026 - Plans for May Day 2026 in Chicago
Show: Labor Express for 3-29-2026 - Moving from symbolic protests to direct action and May Day 2026, general strike?
Show: Labor Express for 3-15-2026 - Iranians discuss how Trump’s war on Iran is a war on the working class.
Show: Labor Express for 3-1-2026 - New Unite & Win Podcast interviews Jorge Mújica, and the idea of a general strike in the U.S.
Show: Labor Express for 2-8-2026 - Mike Balonek, George Windau, and Scott Houldieson discuss new documentary, The Best Union Money Could Buy, and the idea of a general strike.
Show: Labor Express for 1-25-2026 - Minneapolis “general strike” of Jan. 23rd 2026 and Jackson Potter on Trump Admin. Harassment of the CTU
Show: Labor Express for 1-11-2026 - Chicago reacts to the invasion of Venezuela and the murder of Renee Nicole Good
Show: Labor Express for 12-28-2025 - Discussion of Gaza post-“Ceasefire” including labor historian Jeff Schuhrke
Show: Labor Express for 12-7-2025 - The resurgence of American unions and how organized labor can defend worker power under Trump 2.0.
Show: Labor Express for 11-23-2025 - Starbucks workers on strike!
Show: Labor Express for 11-9-2025 - CTU and SEIU call out Chicago corporations profiting of ICE and PERRO blocks dangerous demolitions
Show: Labor Express for 10-19-2025 - No Kings Day 2.0 and Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT, discusses her new book
Show: Labor Express for 9-28-2025 - Day laborer Willian Giménez kidnapped by ICE, the CTU protests charter school closures and plans for No Kings Day 2.0
Show: Labor Express for 9-14-2025 - Speeches and interviews from Labor 2025 in Chicago
Show: Labor Express for 8-31-2025 - Jorge Mujica on Labor 2025 in Chicago and the life and music of Ed Pickford
Show: Labor Express for 8-17-2025 - Don Villar of the CFL and organizers from LA discuss Trump’s attacks on immigrant workers
Show: Labor Express for 7-27-2025 - Labor Notes on Unions fighting ICE and NDLON defends day laborers from Trump
Show: Labor Express for 7-13-2025 - CTU fights school budget cuts and UE’s history of member-run unionism
Show: Labor Express for 6-29-2025 - SEIU’s Justice Journey caravan and Zohran Mamdani wins NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary
Show: Labor Express for 6-29-2025 - SEIU’s Justice Journey caravan and Zohran Mamdani wins NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary
Show: Labor Express for 6-1-2025 - Tesla Takedown Saturdays and remembering the Memorial Day Massacre
Show: Labor Express for 5-18-2025 - Building a working class resistance to authoritarianism and attacks on the Social Security Administration
Show: Labor Express for 4-27-2025 - Plans for May Day 2025 and Labor Notes Podcast
Show: Labor Express for 4-13-2025 - Jackson Potter on CTU TA and Omar Lopez on May Day 2025
Interview: Jackson Potter, CTU VP on Tenantive Agreement
Show: Labor Express for 3-30-2025 - Chicago Firefighters hold rally with CTU, Federal workers launch “Let Us Work” campaign
Show: Labor Express for 3-9-2025 - CTU delivers petitions to CPS and the 2025 Labor Oscars
Show: Labor Express for 2-23-2025 - March 4th day of action to defend public education, Natascha Uhlmann on protecting immigrant workers and Lori Wallach on tariffs
Show: Labor Express for 2-9-2025 - Alex Lawson of Social Security Works on Medicaid cuts
Show: Labor Express for 1-26-2025 - Chicago teacher's strike coming? What the Trump Administration 2.0 will mean for working people
Show: Labor Express for 12-22-2024 - Jorge Mujica on resisting Trump’s planned mass deportations and voices from the Amazon picket lines
Show: Labor Express for 12-8-2024 - Jimmy Williams Jr., Mark Dimondstein, and Adolph Reed Jr. discuss the aftermath of the 2024 election
Show: Labor Express for 11-24-2024 - CTU ties contract fight to fight against Trump’s Project 2025, we also examine xenophobia and fascism post-Trump’s re-election
Show: Labor Express for 10-27-2024 - Jackson Potter, CTU VP on teacher’s contract negotiations and school board elections, plus ACERO closures
Interview: Jackson Potter, CTU VP on teacher’s contract negotiations
Show: Labor Express for 10-13-2024 - The ILA (Longshoremen) win their strike. UAW President Shawn Fain speaks to the CTU.
Show: Labor Express for 9-22-2024 - Julian Electric workers organize, Jonas Čeika on fascism & middle classes
Show: Labor Express for 9-8-2024 - Les Leopold, author of Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It
Show: Labor Express for 8-25-2024 - the U.S. labor movement inside and outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2024.
Show: Labor Express for 8-11-2024 - ALU joins Teamsters, Pizza Nova workers, SureBuilt workers, Colombian Demand Justice
Show: Labor Express for 7-28-2024 - Palestinian trade unionists call for ceasefire and CTU fights 2024-25 CPS budget proposal
Show: Labor Express for 7-7-2024 - Labor Notes 2024 session on direct action and CTU fights layoffs
Show: Labor Express for 6-23-2024 - Jorge Mujica on Mexican Elections, CTU’s first public bargaining session
Show: Labor Express for 6-2-2024 - Labor Notes 2024 - AI and the working class, Alex O'Keefe of WGA and writer for The Bear as well as Deborah Burger of NNU
Show: Labor Express for 5-19-2024 - Audio from Labor Notes 2024 - Can Unions Seize the Moment? - Including Sara Nelson of AFA
Show: Labor Express for 5-5-2024 - Audio from Labor Notes 2024, including the UAW victory at Volkswagen and Erek Slater with ATU Local 241 fights for his job
Show: Labor Express for 4-14-2024 - Erek Slater of ATU Local 241 wins his fight for free speech and labor rights and more unions join call for Gaza ceasefire
Show: Labor Express for 3-17-2024 - Les Leopold discusses his book Wall Street's War on Workers and Erek Slater, ATU Local 241, fights his firing by CTA and his unlawful arrest by the Chicago police.
Show: Labor Express for 3-17-2024 - Oscar Chacon of Alianza Americas on “migrant crisis”.
Labor Express Radio 20th/30th Anniversary Special!
Show: Labor Express for 2-11-2024 - Instituto schools on strike and Sean O’Brien of the Teamsters flirts with Trump
Show: Labor Express for 1-21-2024 - SAG-AFTRA contract on AI and workers centers demand “DALE” renewal.
Show: Labor Express for 12-31-2023 - Instituto schools teachers vote to strike. Economist Jack Rasmus discuses the year in labor 2023.
Show: Labor Express for 12-3-2023 - UAW, APWU, and UE call for Gaza ceasefire, Jasmin Cardenas on WorkersTEATRO
Show: Labor Express for 11-19-2023 - Scott Houldieson, UAW discusses the auto worker contracts, Harold Phillips and Ilyssa Fradin discuss SAG-AFTRA strike win.
Show: Labor Express for 11-5-2023 - UAW wins big! Chicago Paid Time Off Ordinance. Peter Hudis on war in Gaza.
Show: Labor Express for 10-22-2023 - Voices from the UAW picket lines in Chicago and the attitude of organized labor to war in Gaza, Israel and Palestine.
Show: Labor Express for 10-8-2023 - The ongoing UAW strike wins major gains! Teamster take on Amazon.
Show: Labor Express for 9-24-2023 - UAW 2023 auto strike expands
Interview: Scott Houldieson of UAW Local 551 discusses 2023 auto strike.
Show: Labor Express for 9-10-2023 - Pro and con of UPS - Teamsters contract, the possibility of UAW strike, ChiArts teachers win TA
Show: Labor Express for 8-13-2023 - Scott Houldieson of the UAW and UAWD discusses the contract fight with U.S. auto makers.
Interview: UE General President Carl Rosen on the legacy of UE Hall.
Show: Labor Express for 7-30-2023 - El Milagro tortillerias and Portillo’s workers favorable NLRB rulings and the legacy of UE Hall
Show: Labor Express for 7-16-2023 - Hollywood actors on strike, largest Starbucks in the world files for union election, Joe Allen - The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS
Show: Labor Express for 7-2-2023 - Teamsters at UPS prepare to strike, update on WGA strike and Chicago minimum wage increases.
Show: Labor Express for 6-18-2023 - Will the Summer-Fall of 2023 bring a historic “strike wave”? Chicago Teachers win 12 weeks of parental leave and Chicago as a model for asylum sanctuary.
Show: Labor Express for 6-4-2023 - AI and your job, warehouse workers demand stronger truck emissions standards, Hollywood strippers unionize, dock workers hold work stoppage
Show: Labor Express for 5-14-2023 - AI and the working class, Hollywood Writers Strike, and May Day 2023 in Chicago
Show: Labor Express for 4-30-2023 - Hope Academy, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson and child labor laws under attack
Show: Labor Express for 4-2-2023 - Teamsters gear up for possible UPS strike and France in revolt
Show: Labor Express for 3-19-2023 - Saket Soni’s The Great Escape, UTLA and SEIU strike LAUSD, UAW reformers win
Show: Labor Express for 2-26-2023 - 2022 strike surge and Railroad Workers United speaks out on East Palestine Ohio train derailment
Show: Labor Express for 2-12-2023 - U.S. Supreme court threatens right to strike and 1937 Flint Sit-Down strike and its relevance to UAW today
Show: Labor Express for 1-29-2023 - Chicago teachers demand improved parental leave, Arise Chicago demands DHS implement protections for immigrant workers, and Dr. Rasmus predicts economic conditions
Show: Labor Express for 1-8-2023 - Howard Brown Health Centers strike and 2023 predications for the working class
Show: Labor Express for 12-18-2022 - Twitter, domestic workers' rights, incarcerated workers, and labor journalist Kim Kelly
Show: Labor Express for 12-4-2022 - Government imposes railway labor agreement, World Cup 2022, UAW strike at UC
Show: Labor Express for 11-13-2022 - CTU fights for bilingual ed and railroad workers on the verge of striking.
Show: Labor Express for 10-30-2022 - Minimum wage laws, Chicago charter school contract fight, elections in Brazil.
Show: Labor Express for 10-16-2022 - Alianza Americas sues Republican xenophobes, UAW election candidates
Show: Labor Express for 10-2-2022 - Illinois Worker’ Rights Amendment plus was a railroad strike averted?
Show: Labor Express for 8-14-2022 - Ukrainian working class’s two-front war
Show: Labor Express for 9-4-2022 - Labor Day 2022
Show: Labor Express for 8-14-2022 - Rank-and-File Revolt in the UAW
Show: Labor Express for 7-31-2022 - Labor’s response to the attack on abortion rights.
Show: Labor Express for 7-17-2022 - Part 2 of Labor Notes 2022 Coverage
Show: Labor Express for 6-26-2022 - Part 1 of our coverage of Labor Notes 2022.
Show: Labor Express for 6-12-2022 - Joe Burns - Reviving the Strike, Labor Notes 2022 and Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March.
Show: Labor Express for 5-22-2022 - WWJ Good Jobs & Clean Air study, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh murdered, new book by Robin Alexander on the UE, FAT relationship.