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.
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 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.
3 Jul 2026
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 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.
26 Jun 2026
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 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.
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Jake Bailey
Daniel Costa
Sarah Miller
Jose Ramirez
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Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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YouTube
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Engagement
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