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Oct 22, 2019
10/19
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This is the full 10-20-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and SEIU Local 73 on strike! We have been talking about it for months and now its finally here. The two unions and the Chicago board of ed could not reach agreement and so as of Thursday, October 17th, teachers, PSRPs and other support staff including everybody from custodians to security personnel, to lunch room attendants, to bus aides, etc. went out on strike - some over 30,000 workers...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Local 73, SEIU,...
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Nov 15, 2017
11/17
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This is the full 8-27-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express we air and interview with Will Griffin of the organization Veterans For Peace who recently spoke at the Veterans For Peace National Convention in Chicago a couple weeks ago about the growing tensions and possibility of war with North Korea. Griffin offers a perspective on the conflict we rarely hear in the U.S. mainstream press. And in the second half of tonight’s program, as movie...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Korea, war, peace, race, Detroit
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Nov 24, 2010
11/10
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This is the full 11-22-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio we will hear from NALACC Executive Director Oscar Chacon about the state of the struggle for the rights of immigrants in the United States in light of recent political developments. Will also hear a critique of the new film Waiting for Superman from education reform activist Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Jul 4, 2011
07/11
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This is the full 7-4-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Last Saturday, the locked-out Steelworkers of Local 7-669 in Metropolis Illinois held a rally marking one year since the 228 workers at the Honeywell Uranium Processing plant were locked-out. And on todayâs program I will bring you an update of the efforts of the Steelworkers to bring the lock-out to a close. This will be part 1 of a multi-episode update. Definitely some interesting, inspiring and disturbing stuff that you...
Topics: labor, justice, worker, rights, Chicago, unions
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Dec 23, 2008
12/08
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-26-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the deepening economic crisis and the $700 billon dollar bailout package passed by the congress earlier this month with Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). CEPR is one of the country’s leading progressive economic think tanks and Dean Baker has been one of the harshest critics of the bank bailout. The episode also includes the comments of David Moberg, a...
Topics: labor, justice, rights, worker, union, chicago, CEPR, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean...
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Jun 19, 2018
06/18
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 6-10-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Over a month ago on this program I had to announce the sad news of the passing Labor Beat TV co-founder and chief producer Larry Duncan. At the time I mentioned that I would have more to say on this on upcoming episodes of Labor Express. Well, tonight I want to let all of our listeners know that a memorial service has been organized to celebrate Larry’s life and legacy on August 4th at the new Chicago Teachers Union Hall...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Larry Duncan, Labor Beat TV, Wayne Heimbach, media
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Nov 21, 2016
11/16
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This is the full 11-20-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express we take a look at the presidential election and ask what happened, why and what can we expect in regards to the impact on working people in the next 4 years. While much of the mainstream press is rightly lamenting the level of racism, sexism and xenophobia in this country that was revealed by Trump’s victory, few media outlets have focused on a class perspective and analysis of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Donald Trump, election, Hillary Clinton, Jack Rasmus
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Mar 8, 2011
03/11
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This is the full 2-21-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The past week has been one of those weeks in which I wished Labor Express aired 2 or 3 times every week. There is no way we can do justice on today’s program to all the important developments of the past week. Of course tomorrow is election day in Chicago and, as promised I will bring you my interview with Mike Klonsky on Rahm Emmanuel’s policy positions on public education. We’ll hear that in the second half of the...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Aug 20, 2014
08/14
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-10-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Dale Lehman of Neighbors for Peace, talks about the Evanston Library’s decision to cancel a scheduled talk by Palestinian-American author Ali Hasan Abunimah, co-founder of the The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Lehman also discusses the current situation in Gaza and the Palestinian occupied territories. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, Ali Hasan Abunimah, Electronic...
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Apr 16, 2010
04/10
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-12-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this week’s episode of Labor Express we take a look at number of labor actions held around the city last week. First we’ll hear from Gina Gemmel of GEO – the Graduate Employees Organization at UIC. The graduate employees had been threatening to strike last week after a year of fruitless negotiations over their contract with the university. Fortunately, the university finally saw the light in the 13th hour and agreed...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Oct 9, 2018
10/18
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This is the full 10-7-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program I will air an interview I conducted by phone last June with economist Dr. Jack Rasmus about the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Dr. Rasmus and I discuss why there has been a great deal of discussion of this idea as of late and particularly why it seems popular with billionaire CEOs in the tech world and other new emerging industries in our economy. Is UBI an answer to the rise of automation...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, universal basic income, UBI, automation, Jack Rasmus
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Dec 24, 2018
12/18
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This is the full 12-16-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express charter school teachers in Chicago win a historic victory. When charter school’s, a form of public school privatization, became a thing roughly two decades ago, it was rather blatantly used as a tool to try to bust teacher unions. Chicago under Daley and then Rahm, embraced charter schools, opening dozens in a short time and leading the nation in this particular privatization...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, charter schools, Acero, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU,...
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Jun 19, 2018
06/18
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-27-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program, Arise Chicago Workers Center has been pushing the Chicago City Council to create an Office of Labor Standards, and now it looks like the likelihood of this becoming a reality is very good as 70% of the City Council has endorsed the proposal. If an Office of Labor Standards is created, it will improve enforcement of all the other pro-worker ordinances Arise convinced the council to pass in recent...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Arise Chicago, workers centers, ChiActs, CTU-Acts,...
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Dec 30, 2020
12/20
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-27-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, it's our holiday episode. Did you buy the game Monopoly as a gift this year? Maybe you played it with friends or family? What does this game teach children and what was it really meant to teach? We explore those last two questions on this episode. And, we mark the 65th anniversary of the AFL-CIO merger. Both segments courtesy of our friends at Labor History Today …...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Monopoly, AFL-CIO, AFL, CIO, Walter Reuther, George Meany
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Aug 15, 2019
08/19
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This is the full 8-4-2019 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Joe Allen on the rise of left-wing politics in Chicago: Chicago is leading the nation right now in a budding and growing working class fight back. It dates back to 2012 and the Chicago teachers strike that year whose impact continues to ripple across the nation. That strike launched a rise of teacher union militancy that has brought back the strike weapon to the class struggle battlefield in this country. ...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, socialists,...
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Dec 23, 2013
12/13
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This is the full 9-2-2013 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio we will air audio from several great new Labor Beat TV videos. Labor Beat, our sister TV program on cable access TV here in Chicago continues to produce great pieces covering the labor scene in our City. First up we will hear from members of the newly formed Chicago Students Union. Later we will hear from attendees at the 2013 Convention of the IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, UE, IVAW, Detroit, Chicago Students Union
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Oct 19, 2019
10/19
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Belding Elementary School special ed teacher Chris Hartwig, member of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and special education teacher assistant Marnita Hayes, member of SEIU Local 73, explain why they are on strike with over 30,000 of their fellow workers at Chicago public schools. The interviewer is Labor Express Radio reporter Marnie Goodfriend.
Topics: workers, union, justice, labor, Chicago, schools, education, CPS, public schools, public education,...
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May 5, 2020
05/20
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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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. Nurses, members of National Nurses United (NNU), held a rally outside Stroger hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020. They were protesting practices and policies of hospital management they say is preventing the nurses from accessing needed PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and do not observe CDC guidelines for how...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, coronavirus, corona virus, ATU, Amalgamated Transit Union,...
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Aug 28, 2021
08/21
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-22-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, a brief eulogy for AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka, CTU bargains with CPS over safe return to schools and Avery Barnard, former Amazon employee and producer of the podcast called The Amazon talks about why he launched a podcast on Amazon’s impact on workers and society. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Amazon, Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO, CTU, public schools, CPS,...
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Feb 6, 2022
02/22
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This is the full 1-30-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, Arise Chicago Workers Center discusses Chicago’s new domestic worker rights ordinance. The Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Lightfoot reach an agreement on a safe return plan, but short of what the Union wanted. And working people’s loss of faith in public institutions in the United States. #laborradionetwork #LaborRadioPod #1u #UnionStrong Labor Express Radio...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Chicago Public Schools, CPS,...
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Sep 14, 2020
09/20
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This is the full 9-13-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurses at UIC hospital go on strike! Members of INA (Illinois Nurses Association) launched a week-long strike on Saturday at UIC Hospital over staffing ratios and safe working conditions, especially in the context of the COVID-19 crisis (they were joined by SEIU Local 73 on Monday). Teamsters Local 743 organized a car caravan and rally last Tuesday from Provident Hospital in the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, INA, Illinois Nurses Association, Teamsters, Teamsters...
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May 30, 2022
05/22
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This is the full 5-22-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Warehouse Workers for Justice releases a new Good Jobs & Clean Air study which examines the impact of warehouses in Will County and alternatives for the future. Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh murdered by the IDF in the Occupied Territories. And new book by Robin Alexander of the UE entitled International Solidarity in Action on the UE, FAT relationship. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestine, Israel, occupied...
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Aug 9, 2021
08/21
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-8-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Dennis Kosuth - NNU nurse at Cook County hospital and member of the CTU as a school nurse discusses the new nurse's contact at Cook County and concerns regarding the coming school year. Also, a 3-week long strike at Frito-Lay in Kansas ended on July 25th. We hear about why the workers struke and what they gained in their new contract. What do their conditions say about work in...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, nurses, NNU, National Nurses...
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Feb 16, 2022
02/22
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-13-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, we talk Starbucks workers organizing! Workers at 70 Starbucks locations across the country are organizing unions, including 2 in Chicago. Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez discusses introducing a resolution in Chicago City Council to support the workers. He also discusses exciting affordable housing possibilities in Pilsen. Hosts of the Work Stoppage Podcast, former employees...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Starbucks, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Chicago City Council,...
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Jun 30, 2020
06/20
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 6-28-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Universal Basic Income (UBI), great solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy whose time has come or distraction from real solutions to the crisis we face? And what is up with the proposed Chicago UBI pilot project? A conversation with Ameya Pawar, former Chicago alderman and Fellow at the Open Society Foundations & Economic Security Project. Pawar...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, CTU, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy...
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Feb 16, 2021
02/21
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-14-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we celebrate an agreement between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Chicago Public Schools on a plan for an at least safer return to schools than what CPS was originally demanding. It is a victory for the union who had fought hard to ensure the safety of school personnel and students alike during this pandemic. We also mourn the passing of Karen Lewis, President Emerita of the...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, schools, Chicago...
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Apr 24, 2022
04/22
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This is the full 4-17-2022 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, a historic union election victory at Staten Island Amazon warehouse and union election victory at Soho REI store in NYC! Are we in a period of possible labor movement resurgence? #laborradionetwork #LaborRadioPod #1u #UnionStrong Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working...
Topics: labor, Chicago, union, justice, workers, Amazon, REI, Starbucks, WTTW, IBEW Local 1220
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Dec 13, 2017
12/17
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-10-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program I bring audio from the Binational Conference on Culture, Language, and Work in the Era of the North American Free Trade Agreement also referred to as the Bi-National Conference against NAFTA, though that was far from the only topic discussed at the conference. In particular we will hear from two icons of the U.S. labor movement. From the two most important farm worker organizations in the country....
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, farm workers, farm labor, UFW, FLOC, Mexico, Mexican,...
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Mar 10, 2014
03/14
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-10-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio we take a look the current status of the debate around immigration reform and the movement for immigrant rights. There has been much discussion in the mainstream press as of late that after several setbacks in the past couple years, 2014 could be the year that we see comprehensive immigration reform. But what does this really mean? For one, much of the seeming optimism that...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, rights, Obama, immigration reform
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Oct 23, 2018
10/18
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This is the full 10-21-2018 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight's program is a rare live in-studio episode, featuring an interview with Joe Allen, author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service . I discuss with Joe the recent betrayal of the Teamsters members who work for UPS by the Hoffa leadership. The Teamsters have been in negotiations with UPS over a new 5 year contract for the past several months. UPS is demanding major concessions,...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Teamsters, UPS, logistics, Joe Allen
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Jun 1, 2009
06/09
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This is the full 5-31-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Is the U.S. government helping bust the United Auto Workers Union (UAW)? What responsibility does the UAW have for the dire straits auto workers now find themselves in? What is the future for the U.S. auto industry and the UAW? All of this and more is discussed with Gregg Shotwell, retired GM/Delphi worker and founder of the Soldiers of Solidarity, a network of auto worker activist who have sought to fight the UAW’s...
Topics: labor, union, worker, UAW, United Auto Workers, GM, Ford, Chrysler, auto, labor express, justice,...
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May 7, 2007
05/07
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-29-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we cover a controversial ICE (immigration) raid in the Mexican neighborhood of La Villita on Chicago South-West Side, in which agents invaded a busy strip mall with automatic rifles and detained over a hundred Latino shoppers. The episode also includes a speech given in Chicago by labor journalist and activist David Bacon about the relationship between free trade and immigration. Labor Express Radio is...
Topics: labor, chicago, justice, workers, unions, rights, work, movement, immigration, immigrants, Mexican,...
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Aug 20, 2014
08/14
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-25-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio, the Fight for 15, coming off their recent historic international one day strike a week and a half ago, take the fight to McDonalds door-step with another historic massive rally outside McDonalds HQ in Oak Brook Illinois last Thursday. We will hear from several of the over one hundred McDonald’s workers who were arrested that day for blocking the road outside McDonalds...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Fight for 15, SEIU, McDonalds, health care
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Jun 23, 2016
06/16
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is a segment of the 6-19-2016 Labor Express Radio program that covered the situation at CAN-TV. The full program can be found here... https://archive.org/details/LaborExpressFor6-19-2016 "...And lastly, we will return to a story we did cover briefly almost a year ago. The workers for CAN-TV in Chicago, are still negotiating their first contract, after their union was recognized by management last August. Negotiations have largely stalled for months and now at least one of the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, CAN-TV
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Aug 9, 2011
08/11
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This is the full 8-8-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today's episode of Labor Express Radio we bring you one more update on the situation in Metropolis Illinois with the locked workers at the Honeywell Uranium Processing plant. On Tuesday, members of Steelworkers Local 7-669 voted by a slim margin to ratify a tentative agreement that includes some victories for the local but includes many painful concessions. We will hear about the new contract from Local 7-669 activist...
Topics: labor, justice, worker, rights, Chicago, unions
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Feb 7, 2016
02/16
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This is the full 2-7-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Struggles around public education continue to dominate the labor news scene in Chicago, and on tonight’s program we’ll hear about several developments in this area. First, on Monday the Chicago Teachers Union rejected the latest contract offer from the Chicago Board of Education. Making the possibility of a strike very likely. The contract offer from the board which demands serious concessions from the teachers comes...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, public schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Board of...
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Oct 18, 2014
10/14
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Topics: labor, justice, workers, rights, Chicago, unions
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Mar 26, 2013
03/13
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This is the full 3-11-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. However, a 20 minute portion of the program had to be removed at the legal request of one of the conference participants. We apologize for the inconvenience. “The basic system of worker representation is failing to meet the needs of America’s working men and women by every critical measure”, these are the words, not of some outside critic of the U.S. labor movement. That was a quote from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka....
Topic: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, Walmart
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Dec 7, 2010
12/10
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This is the full 12-6-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Last Friday, the new unemployment figures came out and they are not good. The unemployment rate rose from 9.6% to 9.8% nationally last month, once again setting records and making the current economic crisis one of the longest and deepest in our nation’s history. Along with the negative employment numbers, was the equal disturbing news a couple weeks ago that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s moratorium on evictions would be...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Apr 17, 2017
04/17
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This is the full 4-16-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Did you file your taxes? Yesterday, April 15th was of course tax day, the day by which all residents working in the U.S. are legally obligated to submit their annual tax returns. Though the IRS is giving people until Tuesday the 18th to file this year as the 15th was a Saturday and Monday is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in D.C. A holiday commemorating Lincoln’s 1862 emancipation of slaves in the capital prior to...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, migrants, taxes
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Dec 4, 2010
12/10
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This is the full 11-29-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s Labor Express Radio program will take a look at some of the issues raised by the recent mid-term elections. We’ll hear about the growing influence of money in elections following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case. And we’ll hear a critique of Obama’s first two years in office from Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report. Will also get a little labor history via our friends at Labor Beat...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Mar 10, 2014
03/14
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-17-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio we have a sort of 10th anniversary program. In 2004 when I took over Labor Express from the program’s founder and long time host Wayne Heimbach, I was the co-chair of the Global Justice Committee of Jobs with Justice. In those days we were working on the Coca-Cola boycott motivated by the assassination of several trade unionist at Coca-Cola facilities in Colombia. One of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Colombia, human rights, war, peace
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Mar 23, 2011
03/11
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This is the full 3-21-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The Great Labor Uprising of 2011 continues, even if it is not capturing the headlines in the same way it was a couple weeks ago. Not surprisingly events in Libya and Japan, have grabbed more attention over the past week. But the movement continues to march on and has spread to different parts of the country. On Friday a rally of some 5,000 was held in Lansing Michigan to protest the amazingly anti-democratic measures being...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Jun 6, 2011
06/11
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This is the full 6-6-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Last Wednesday, the stock market took a dive, the deepest plunge in almost a year, after much volatility the last few months. This came as something of a shock to some, as the pundits who have been declaring that the recession is over and that we are well on our way to recovery have focused on the stock market and corporate earnings as their barometer of the economy while the employment numbers have remained largely dismal....
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Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Oct 17, 2009
10/09
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This is the full 8-28-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this week’s program we continue our coverage of the 2009 AFL-CIO convention held Sept. 12th - 17th In Pittsburg. Will hear from an important figure in the federation, Stewart Accuf, formerly the director of organizing for the AFL-CIO and now assistant to the president of the federation, and his assessment of the convention, the close of the Sweeney era in the federation’s history and predications for the future under...
Topics: labor, justice, rights, worker, union, chicago, AFL-CIO, Arise Chicago, workers center, Adam Kader,...
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Jun 15, 2010
06/10
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This is the full 6-14-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program we’ll hear about a tremendous victory for the forces of reform in the Chicago Teachers Union. CORE, the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, a reform caucus within the teachers union that emerged less than two years ago has won the election for union leadership over the incumbent United Progressive Caucus receiving nearly 60% of the vote. This is a startling victory for a group that started with just a...
Topic: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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Jun 21, 2011
06/11
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This is the full 6-20-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Well it was a busy week for the labor movement locally and national last week. We will try to bring you a small sampling of the events that occurred. First up weâll hear about Stand Up! Chicago, a new community and labor coalition in Chicago that made quite a splash with its inaugural rally targeting the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce who hosted an Executive Summit of CEOs and CFOs from some of Americaâs richest companies...
Topics: labor, justice, worker, rights, Chicago, unions
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Jul 1, 2016
07/16
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 7-3-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio will be devoted to an interview by phone with economist, Dr. Jack Rasmus, a professor of economics and politics at St. Mary’s College in California, and author of numerous books, the latest of which is entitled, Systemic Fragility' in the Global Economy , he is also a regular contributor to several magazines, journals and online news sources. One of his most recent articles for...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Brexit, Jack Rasmus, economics, neoliberalism, elections,...
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Jul 3, 2017
07/17
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 7-2-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio we will hear about a preliminary strike vote held by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 308 which represents workers on Chicago’s El Trains. We have been talking about the increasing militancy demonstrated by the ATU locals as they continue to work without a contract since 2015. This move is the latest and perhaps most significant development in that struggle. If a...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, teachers, CTA, transit, Oak Park, Minimum Wage, Cook County
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Jul 14, 2011
07/11
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This is the full 7-11-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this weekâs episode of Labor Express Radio, we focus on a report back from my visit to Metropolis Illinois on June 25th, for a rally hosted by Steelworkers Local 7-669. The Local represents workers at the Honeywell Uranium Conversion Plant, who have been locked-out for over a year now. On last weekâs program we heard Local member Luckie Atkinson talk about the unionâs corporate campaign against Honeywell, including a...
Topics: labor, justice, worker, rights, Chicago, unions
