All episodes
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.
Show: Labor Express for 5-8-2022 - May Day 2022 in Chicago and around the world.
Show: Labor Express for 4-17-2022 - Amazon and REI in New York go union!
Show: Labor Express for 4-3-2022 - IBEW Local 1220 goes on strike at WTTW.
Show: Labor Express for 3-20-2022 - Voices from the Ukrainian Left as they fight Russia’s imperialist aggression.
Show: Labor Express for 3-6-2022 - War in Ukraine from a working-class perspective.
Show: Labor Express for 2-13-2022 - Ald. Sigcho-Lopez discusses Starbucks worker organizing and affordable housing in Chicago
Show: Labor Express for 1-30-2022 - New protections for domestic workers in Chicago and CTU and Mayor Lightfoot reach agreement on safe schools.
Show: Labor Express for 1-9-2022 - Chicago Teachers Union fights for safe schools in response to the Omicron variant and Steve Zeltzer looks at labor’s response to the rise of the right.
Show: Labor Express for 12-19-2021 - Rank-and-file members of IATSE and UAW at John Deere discuss health and safety, new contracts, Chicago JWJ launches new campaign.
Show: Labor Express for 12-5-2021 - Jonah Furman, Labor Notes on new John Deere contract and sympathy strikes at Kaiser
Show: Labor Express for 11-21-2021 - New IATSE contract, Halyna Hutchins tragic death on the set of Rust, El Milagro workers, immigration reform and Biden
Show: Labor Express for 11-7-2021 - STRIKETOBER becomes STRIKEVEMBER or STRIKESGIVING!
Show: Labor Express for 10-24-2021 - Shailly Gupta Barnes of the Poor People’s Campaign and Striketober.
Show: Labor Express for 10-3-2021 - Know Your Rights on the Job and Jonah Furman on John Deere.
Show: Labor Express for 9-19-2021 - Status of PRO-Act and Hurricane Ida and the NYC working class.
Show: Labor Express for 9-5-2021 - Reflection and analysis of the Trumka years of the AFL-CIO with two labor historians.
Show: Labor Express for 8-22-2021 - Eulogy to Trumka, CTU demands safe school return, and the host/producer of The Amazon.
Show: Labor Express for 8-8-2021 - Dennis Kosuth on new nurses contract at Cook County Hospital and Frito-Lay strikers on why they struke and what they gained.
Show: Labor Express for 7-25-2021 - PRO-Act week of action and Amazon a danger to our communities.
Show: Labor Express for 6-27-2021 - CTU fights layoffs, NNU and SEIU strike at Cook County, members of ATU fight CTA mang. and their union leadership, SEIU celebrates Juneteenth
Show: Labor Express for 6-13-2021 - Union struggles at Urban Prep and EPIC charter schools, WWJ goes after Amazon shareholders
Show: Labor Express for 5-23-2021 - May Day in Chicago and what next for Amazon organizing
Show: Labor Express for 5-2-2021 Jorge Mujica of Arise Workers Center, Alianza Americas on migration
Show: Labor Express for 4-18-2021 Analyzing the lost union election at Amazon in AL.
Show: Labor Express for 3-28-2021, unions vs. Amazon, Chicago school parents want TLC, Dave Zirin interviews Sarah Jaffe
Show: Labor Express for 3-16-2021, Campaign to pass the PRO Act
Show: Labor Express for 2-28-2021, Special Program - Labor Express celebrates the work of the late Karen Lewis
Show: Labor Express for 2-14-2021, Chicago teachers win improved COVID safety plan and the passing of CTU President Emerita Karen Lewis
Show: Labor Express for 1-31-2021, Chicago teachers demand vaccinations before return to school buildings and the PRO Act could significantly improve labor law in the U.S.
Show: Labor Express for 1-17-2021, Dennis Kosuth on Chicago nurses and teachers fighting back, plus The COVID Jungle Research Report, and workers response to the right-wing insurrection.
Show: Labor Express for 12-27-2020, Monopoly, capitalist game with left wing origins and the AFL-CIO turns 65.
Show: Labor Express for 12-13-2020, DSA launches renewed fight for M4All, CTU on new teachers militancy, UE’s booklet - “Them and Us Unionism
Show: Labor Express for 11-29-2020, Nurse Elizabeth Lalasz, member of NNU, discusses Cook County cuts and COVID. Plus NNU relaunches Medicare4All Fight.
Show: Labor Express for 11-15-2020, Bill Fletcher Jr. on Trump’s election defeat, Mars warehouse workers, and Erek Slater’s fight for reinstatement continues.
Show: Labor Express for 10-25-2020, Fair Tax in Illinois and Prop 15 in California.
Show: Labor Express for 9-27-2020, SEIU 73 WINS at UIC Hospital, People’s Academy defeats ICE Academy and LVEJO and Warehouse Workers Justice partnership.
Show: Labor Express for 9-13-2020, Nurses at UIC go on strike! Teamsters 743 fight cuts and closures at Provident and Mercy hospitals. Warehouse Workers for Justice fights firings of Mars candy worker
Show: Labor Express for 8-30-2020, Postal workers speak out against attacks on the postal system and bus driver Erek Slater of the ATU fights the CTA over another illegal firing and for racial and eco
Show: Labor Express for 8-9-2020, CTU demands remote start to CPS school year and audio excerpt from Haymarket Books forum Racism is a Public Health Crisis.
Show: Labor Express for 7-26-2020, Jorge Mujica of Arise Chicago on Illinois Unidos and CBA for displaced by Obama Presidential Library.
Show: Labor Express for 6-28-2020, COVID-19 and meatpackers as well as union’s relationship with Black Lives Matter and the Police as addressed by several labor radio shows.
Show: Labor Express for 6-28-2020, Ameya Pawar on UBI, Stacy Davis Gates on cops out of CPS Schools
Show: Labor Express for 6-14-2020, Erek Slater on ATU solidarity with Black Lives Matter and CTA management’s efforts to silence that solidarity, and voices from the uprising.
Labor Express Radio Audio Extra: Chicago bus driver and elected ATU Local 241 board member denounces CTA management’s suspension for discussing solidarity with anti-police brutality protesters.
Show: Labor Express for 5-31-2020, Mike Elk on COVID-19 Strike Wave Tracker and Interactive Map. Plus teachers respond to COVID-19.
Show: Labor Express for 5-17-2020, Cristobal Cavazos of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage Workers Center and Amazonians United.
Show: Labor Express for 5-5-2020, Nurses protest COVID-19 safety at Stroger, transit worker Eric Basir battle with COVID-19, Moises Zavala UFCW organizing cannabis, Marianela D'Aprile growth of DSA
Labor Express Radio Audio Extra: Nurses at Stroger Hospital in Chicago hold rally protesting lack of PPE are joined by transit workers with the same complaint against the CTA.
Interview: Marianela D'Aprile, member of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America, discusses rapid growth of the DSA post Bernie campaign.
Interview: CTA train motorman Eric Basir discusses Transit Workers Unite’s petition on the COVID-19 crisis and his own battle with the disease.
Show: Labor Express for 4-19-2020, Worker’s Self-Activity in response to COVID-19, discussion with Moises Zavala - UFCW, Erek Slater and Eric Basir - ATU and Carl Rosen - UE
Interview: Erek Slater of Transit Workers Unite and COVID-19 survivor on “Safety First for Transit Workers Now”
Interview: Carl Rosen - General President of UE discusses how unions can and must organize a militant, bottom up worker fightback in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Interview: Labor Express Radio interviews Moises Zavala of UFCW Local 881 about workers at Raymundo’s Foods who walked over COVID-19 concerns, and organizing in the cannabis industry.
Show: Labor Express for 4-5-2020, Chicago NNU Nurse Dennis Kosuth on dealing with the coronavirus and Alianza Americas webinar audio featuring AFL-CIO and UFE.
Show: Labor Express for 3-22-2019, Isaac Silver on People's Coronavirus Response and Jorge Mujica of Arise Chicago on new Chicago COVID-19 coalition.
Show: Labor Express for 3-8-2019, Erek Slater of ATU Local 241 on Chicago transit worker contract negotiations and NNU on Coronavirus.
Interview: Eric Basir and Erek Slater - Transit Workers United 2020 Contract Speak Out
Show: Labor Express for 2-16-2019, Labor Express remembers James Thindwa - interview with Carlos Fernandez of the AFT and Thindwa on Obama’s election.
Show: Labor Express for 2-2-2019, Labor Express remembers James Thindwa with the re-airing of interviews on topics from human rights in Zimbabwe, to the Fight for 15 and police brutality.
Show: Labor Express for 1-19-2019, John Ocampo, UE Organizer, discusses recent protests in Colombia.
Show: Labor Express for 1-5-2019, Oscar Chacón, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, discusses the current state of affairs across Latin America.
Show: Labor Express for 12-22-2019, Mario Venegas on uprising in Chile and Angela Davis on National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
Show: Labor Express for 12-8-2019, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to Chicago teachers and analysis of his labor platform.
Show: Labor Express for 11-24-2019 Kenzo Shibata discusses the outcome of the 2019 CTU/SEIU strike at CPS
Show: Labor Express for 11-3-2019 The Tale of Two Strikes: UAW strike at GM and the CTU strike at CPS
Interview: Jesse Sharkey and Jeffrey Howard CTU SEIU Strike
Show: Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and SEIU Local 73 on strike!
Interview: Teacher David Kaplan Von Steuben On Strike
Interview: Chris Hartwig and Marnita Hayes CTU and SEIU On Strike Chicago Schools
Show: Labor Express for 10-6-2019 (UAW strike at GM, and CTU - SEIU Strike vote))
Show: STRIKE! Nurses strike in Chicago