![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Labor Express Radio for 4-22-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-22-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode features an interview with Ken Barger, Director of Communications for FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing Committee) about the murder of FLOC organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz in Monterrey Mexico. It also includes an episode of Tom Herriman’s Shift Break on American Federation of Musicians Local 1000. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; Chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; FLOC; farm workers; Tom Herriman; Shift Break; Mexico; immigrant; Santiago Rafael Cruz; Ken Barger; murder; assassination; local 1000; American Federation of Musicians
Downloads: 494
Average rating:  (0 review) |
| Conn-Selmer Workers in Elhart - Larry Duncan & Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Elkhart; union; indiana; UAW; Conn-Selmer; labor
Downloads: 355
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 1-7-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 1-7-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our first program of 2007, the episode takes a look at the top labor news stories of 2006. This is part 2 of a end of the year news review. Part 1 aired 12-31-06. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday night at 7:00 PM on Chicago's independent community radio station, WLUW.
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; immigrant; elections; CIW; rights; miners
Downloads: 355
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 2-11-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-11-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode focuses on the role of organized labor in Chicago's 2007 Aldermanic elections. Features interviews with Jerry Morrison, Executive Director of SEIU's Illinois State Council and Leroy Jones Jr., SEIU Local 73 City Division Director and candidate for alderman in the 21st Ward on Chicago's South Side. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; elections; Alderman; SEIU
Downloads: 328
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 12-31-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-31-06 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our New Years Eve, 2006 episode takes a look at the top labor news stories of the past year. This is part 1 of a end of the year news review. Part 2 airs 1-7-07. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday night at 7:00 PM on Chicago's indepedent community radio station, WLUW.
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; immigrant; elections; CIW; rights
Downloads: 325
Average rating: (0 review) |
| USLAW's Gene Bruskin at UNITE Hall Chicago 04 - Jerry Mead
Audio recording of speech by Gene Bruskin of US Labor Against War at UNITE Hall in Chicago, Summer of 2004.
Keywords: Iraq; war; labor; unions; USLAW; Bruskin; anti-war
Downloads: 284
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 12-31-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor, chicago, justice, workers, unions, immigrant, elections
Downloads: 261
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 5-6-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-6-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our post May Day 2007 episode, the bulk of the program involves interviews with participants in this year’s march and rally for immigrant workers rights in which hundreds of thousands participated. Also includes an interview with Chicago Teacher’s Union Activist Jackson Potter about a new documentary on Renaissance 2010, the plan by the Chicago Board of Education to privatize a large number of Chicago’s public schools...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CTU; teachers; Ren 2010; Renaissance; Jackson; Potter; May Day; Mayday; immigrant; Haymarket; James Thindwa; march; rally; may 1; public schools; UNITE-HERE; march 10th coalition; CONFEMEX; NALACC
Downloads: 240
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 4-8-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-8-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we hear from Cruz Salucio of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about the McDonald’s campaign of the CIW in preparation for major actions against McDonald’s planned for April 13th & 14th in Chicago. We also have an episode of Tom Herriman’s Shift Break on the efforts to organize Starbucks workers. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CIW; farm workers
Downloads: 187
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Ai-Jen Poo of Domestic Workers United at USSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Ai-Jen Poo of Domestic Workers United (DWU) announces the creation of a national coalition of domestic worker’s organizations at the USSF. This is one of the most powerful labor speeches I have ever heard. Ai-Jen talks about the domestic workers movement as providing new spirit and direction to the entire working class movement. DWU and the other domestic worker organizations represent some of the best labor organizing going on today.
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; domestic workers united; worker; rights; labor express, domestic
Downloads: 181
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Gregg Shotwell UAW Contracts 07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Greg Shotwell is a GM worker, a member of Local 1753 of the UAW, and a leader in the Soldiers of Solidarity (SOS) organization within the UAW. SOS seeks to end the concessionary cooperation with management that typifies the UAW leadership in recent years and to stem the decline of wages, working conditions and benefits for auto workers by pushing for a militant fight back strategy against the boss...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; gregg shotwell; jerry mead-lucero; SOS; Soldiers of Solidarity
Downloads: 149 |
| Labor Express for 9-11-05 - Jerry Mead
On the 4th anniversary of 9-11 (and the 32nd anniversary of the coup in Chile) Labor Express includes an interview conducted by our friends at WIN with U.S. Labor Against The War national organizer Michael Eisencher about the anti-war protests that will be held in D.C. the weekend of Sept. 24th-25th. We also feature Bob Kingsley's organizing report at the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) convention held in Chicago in late August.
Keywords: Labor; UE; war; iraq; USLAW; Chicago; work; union
Downloads: 145
Average rating: (0 review) |
| AcuffUSSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Stewart Acuff, Organizing Director for the AFL-CIO, speaks at the Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy Plenary at the USSF. Always a powerful speaker, Acuff talks about a re-invigorated labor movement in terms rarely heard by officials of such high rank in the AFL-CIO. Acuff continues to be one of the best leaders in the organization. In particular, Acuff calls for the AFL to develop closer relationships with “non-traditional” forms of organizing workers...
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; afl-cio; worker; rights; labor express
Downloads: 140
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 4-29-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
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...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; immigration; immigrants; Mexican; INS; ICE; NAFTA; David Bacon; free trade
Downloads: 120
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express for 3-27-05 - Jerry Mead
This is the March 27th 2005 edition of Labor Express. In this episode: Interview with Gabe Gonzalez of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and Martin Manteca of SEIU on the current state of immigrant's rights. Part 1 of an interview with Katie Jordan of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) on the history of CLUW and the concerns of working women. And a special WIN feature on organizing by women in the global sex trade.
Keywords: labor; work; Chicago; union; movement; worker; rights; justice
Downloads: 115
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Joycelyn Campbell of Domestic Workers United - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Joycelyn Campbell, a Nanny from Manhattan, an immigrant from Barbados, and a leader in the Domestic Workers United organization discuss the lack of legal protections for domestic workers in the United States and the roots of this reality in racism as well as U.S. economic and foreign policy.
Downloads: 104
Average rating: (0 review) |
| LE11-18-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-18-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Nathan Wilmers & Sarah Jankowski of Students Organizing United with Labor (SOUL) about there efforts to support campus workers, members of Teamsters Local 743, in their struggle for a fair contract. Also, an Interview with National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) executive director Oscar Chacon at the NALACC National Leadership Assembly in Cincinnati Ohio.
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; NALACC; SOUL; University of Chicago; Teamsters; Local 743; students
Downloads: 102 |
| Joe Costigan on Hartmarx Sitdown Vote - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Joe Costigan on Hartmarx Sitdown Vote
Keywords: Joe Costigan on Hartmarx Sitdown Vote
Downloads: 98 |
| Alexis DeSimone at USSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Alexis De Simone with Casa of Maryland, one of the organizations involved in organizing domestic workers, talks about their work and the decision at the USSF to form a national coalition of domestic worker organizations. The national gathering of domestic workers organizations at the USSF was one of the highlights of the forum, and perhaps the most important labor movement development at the forum.
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; domestic workers united; worker; rights; labor express, domestic, casa of maryland
Downloads: 94
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Lower9thNewOrleans-July-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Post-Katrina Struggles in New Orleans: Katrina survivor, long time Lower 9th Ward resident, and Common Ground Collective activist Albert Bass, talks about living through the levee breach and the ongoing struggle for a right of return for Lower 9th Ward residents. Recorded in July of 2007.
Keywords: New Orleans; Katrina; lower 9th ward; common ground; labor express; justice; sustainable; ecological; race; housing; gentrification
Downloads: 94 |
| Henry Tamarin at Congress Hotel Strike 5th Year Anniversary - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Henry Tamarin, President of UNITE-HERE Local 1, talks about the massive turn out of workers and their supporters at the 5th anniversary rally of the Congress hotel strike in Chicago. The strike in now officially the longest running active strike in the country.
Keywords: union; labor; strike; chicago; UNITE-HERE; Congress Hotel; worker; Labor Express
Downloads: 93 |
| Hot8atUSSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
The Hot 8 Jazz Band from New Orleans at the Opening Rally for the United States Social Forum (USSF).
Keywords: Jazz; Hot 8 Jazz; USSF; United States Social Forum; labor
Downloads: 88 |
| JillFriedbergOaxaca - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Documentary filmaker and community radio activist, Jill Friedberg, discuss the history of recent struggles of the teacher's union in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, and the current state of popular struggle against the corrupt state government.
Keywords: Oaxaca; Mexico; teacher; section 22; labor; labor express; justice; social movements; APPO; union
Downloads: 86 |
| RonGettelfingerUAWStrikePressConference - Original: UAW / Edited: Jerry Mead-Lucero
Ron Gettelfinger, President of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), discusses at a press conference on Monday, Sept. 24th, 2007, why they choose to go on strike against GM. Orginal source of the audio is the UAW website... www.uaw.org
Keywords: UAW; strike; auto; workers; GM; Ron Gettelfinger; labor express
Downloads: 83 |
| Cynthia McKinney Acceptance Speech - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Cynthia McKinney delivers her acceptance speech after being nominated as the Green Party Presidential candidate at the Green Party of the United States National Convention, July 12th 2008.
Keywords: Cynthia McKinney; Green Party; election 2008
Downloads: 81 |
| LE5-20-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-20-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode, an interview with Dwight Kirk on the 36th Annual Meeting of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) and an interview with Peter Miller on his new documentary on Sacco and Vanzetti.
Keywords: labor; labor express; union; worker; justice; african-american; black; coalition of black trade unionists; CBTU; Dwight Kirk; Sacco; Vanzetti; Peter Miller; Sacco and Vanzetti
Downloads: 80 |
| LE12-23-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-23-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Kim Moody, author of U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The Promise of Revival from Below. This new book from Verso Press discuss the decline in union members and power over the past few decades and what can be done to turn the situation around. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; AFL-CIO; Change to Win; Kim Moody; reform
Downloads: 79 |
| Jerry Tucker on UAW Contracts 07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Jerry Tucker is a former director of Region 5 of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), former International Executive Board member, and was one of the leaders of the New Directions reform movement in the UAW. He is the co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. In this interview, Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio talks with Tucker about the 2007 contract negotiations between the UAW, GM, Chrysler & Ford...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; jerry tucker; jerry mead-lucero; center for labor renewal; new directions
Downloads: 77 |
| Labor Express Radio for 8-6-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; community; immigrant; class; immigration; NALACC
Downloads: 77
Average rating: (0 review) |
| USSF-ImmigrantRightsPressConference - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Members of immigrant rights organizations from around the country speaking out against the âimmigration reformâ proposals that were being discussed in the U.S. Congress earlier today at a press conference held at the Immigrant Rights tent at the USSF. We received word later in the day, that the reform proposals in Congress were defeated â to the relief of everyone here.
Keywords: immigrant; labor; justice; rights; ussf; United States Social Forum
Downloads: 75 |
| LE3-2-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-2-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 1 of our interview with Amjad Al-Jawhary, North American Representative of the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC). Al-Jawhary talks about the goals and purpose of the IFC and recent attacks on IFC HQ by U.S. Occupation Forces. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program. News for working people, by working people...
Keywords: Iraq; labor; unions; rights; justice; war; occupation; Iraq Freedom Congress; Al-Jawhary; mead; lucero; labor express; chicago
Downloads: 75 |
| Labor Express Radio for 3-4-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full March 4th, 2007 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This program covers the rally organized by AFSCME Council 31 and held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Chicago, on Saturday 3-3-07. The rally highlighted the ongoing efforts of AFSCME to organize workers in the Resurrection Health Care hospital chain and celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives passage of the Employee Free Choice Act...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; elections; AFSCME; Obama; Barack; sweeney; AFL-CIO; Resurrection; hospital; nurse; Employee Free Choice Act
Downloads: 73
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express Radio for 4-15-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-15-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) win their campaign against the McDonald’s corporation, when McDonald’s concedes to all the farm workers demands. I interview CIW member Gerardo Reyes about this victory. The program also includes live in-studio interviews with Jason Wallach who works with unions in El Salvador, and Benjamin Dangl, author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CIW; farm workers; McDonald’s; Immokalee; El Salvador; Central America; Bolivia; Venezuela; Jason Wallach; Benjamin Dangl; Gerardo Reyes
Downloads: 71
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Labor Express for 4-17-05 - Jerry Mead
Victory in SEIU Local 880's campaign to organize Illinois' child care workers. The dangers of CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement).
Keywords: labor; work; Chicago; union; movement; worker; rights; justice
Downloads: 71
Average rating: (0 review) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ashim Chandra Interview
Jerry Mead, host of Labor Express radio in Chicago interviews Ashim Roy & Chandra, Indian Trade Unionists about the NTUI, The New Trade Union Initiative in India.
Keywords: unions; India; globalization
Downloads: 70
Average rating: (0 review) |  |
| IWW-Warehouse-sept07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) organizers, Alex van Schaick & Daniel Gross talk about the efforts of the IWW to organize warehouse workers in New York City. The IWW has assisted immigrant latino and asian workers in 8 New York warehouses to fight for better wages, improved working conditions and worker's power on the shop floor. Topics discussed include the unique organizing strategies of the IWW and it's relationship to new forms of worker organizing like worker centers.
Keywords: IWW; Industrial Workers of the World; labor; labor express; justice; new york; immigrant; latino; asian; warehouse; union; organizing; worker
Downloads: 68 |
| USSF-BlackAllianceJustImmigration - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Gerald Lenoir of the The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), talks about immigrant rights as part of the larger struggle for racial justice at the Immigrant Rights Press Conference at the USSF (United States Social Forum).
Keywords: immigrant; labor; justice; rights; African-American; Black; BAJI; ussf; United States Social Forum
Downloads: 65 |
| RallyRouteUSSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Nancy Lenk â Deputy Director AFSCME Local 1644, talks about the negotiations over the march route for the opening rally of the United States Social Forum (USSF).
Keywords: USSF; United States Social Forum; AFSCME; labor
Downloads: 64 |
| LE3-16-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-16-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday night at 7:00 PM on Chicago's independent community radio station, WLUW.
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
Downloads: 63 |
| StewartAcuff2-1 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Section 1 of Part 2 of Stewart Acuff Interview
Keywords: Labor Express
Downloads: 63 |
| AFSCMEGradyHospitalAtlanta - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Nancy Lenk â Deputy Director AFSCME Local 1644, explains the attempt by Atlanta to turn Grady, a public hospital, into a privatized entity.
Keywords: privatization; public; labor; union; AFSCME; Atlanta; USSF
Downloads: 60 |
| CasadePueblo2 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Casa de Pueblo; labor; ufcw
Downloads: 59
Average rating: (0 review) |
| LE1-13-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 1-13-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; WGA; writers; guild; strike; writer's strike; entertainment industry; tv; film
Downloads: 57 |
| LE3-30-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-30-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we focus on the ongoing strike at American Axel. Program features an interview with John Sassman, member of UAW Local 2093, which represents workers at the American Axle plant in Three Rivers Michigan, and an interview with Erv Heidbrink, President of Local 2093. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; American Axle, UAW, Local 2093, Michigan
Downloads: 57 |
| LE1-6-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 1-6-2008 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
Downloads: 54 |
| GreggShotwellUAWStrike - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Gregg Shotwell is an auto worker, a member of UAW Local 1753, and one of the founders of Soldiers of Solidarity, an activist group in the UAW which opposes the union leaderships lack of militancy and concessionary bargaining. We started our interview with Greg providing a little background on SOSâ¦
Keywords: Gregg Shotwell; UAW; GM; strike; Labor Express
Downloads: 53 |
| Labor Express for 9-4-05 - Jerry Mead
Our Labor Day 2005 episode features a half hour special produced by our friends at WIN looking back on events in the labor movement over the past year. (PLEASE EXCUSE MY REFERENCE TO AN INTERVIEW WITH HOWARD ZINN IN THIS PROGRAM--THE INTERVIEW IS ACTUALLY WITH ZINN'S CO-EDITOR ANTHONY ARNOVE). We also have a report on the struggle of Boilermakers Local 484 against Celanese Corp. in Meredosia Illinois where local police in the pay of the company terrorize union members...
Keywords: labor; Meredosia; Boilermakers; Katrina; solidarity; Chicago; work; union
Downloads: 52
Average rating: (0 review) |
| LE10-7-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-7-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we talk with Stewart Acuff, National Organizing Director of the AFL-CIO, about the state of the AFL-CIO and of the labor movement in general, 2 years since the historic 50th Anniversary convention of the federation which resulted in the split that formed the competing Change To Win coalition of unions. This is part one of our two part interview with Acuff...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; AFL-CIO; Change to Win; Stewart Acuff; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero
Downloads: 51 |
| LE11-25-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-25-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 1 of our focus on the Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters and the ICE Raid Rapid Response Network. In this episode, Mark Meinster of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE) talks about the 1-888-Dignidad hotline and their strategy to fight the use of no-match letters by employers to intimidate immigrant workers.
Keywords: UE; United Electrical Workers; Mark Meinster; labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; 1-888-dignidad; rapid response network; no-match; immigrant
Downloads: 51 |
| Labor Express Radio for 1-14-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 1-14-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This is our MLK Day Eve program. It includes excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the Riverside Church in New York City in 1967 and a commentary on King's connection to the labor movement by journalist Dick Meister. The bulk of the program features a speech by North Central College Speech Communications professor, Steve Macek called “Demonizing the Inner City: Ideology and the Urban Poor”...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; poor; mlk; martin luther king; inner city; poverty
Downloads: 50
Average rating: (0 review) |
