![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Labor Express For 11-30-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-23-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Labor Express Radio took a brief break over the Thanksgiving Holiday, so today’s episode of Labor Express is an archive edition originally aired on Jan. 18th of 2009. The bulk of the program is an interview with labor and black liberation movement activist Bill Fletcher Jr. whose book Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice is a brilliant critique of the current state of the lab...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express For 9-14-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-18-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The Congress Hotel strikers held a major rally outside the hotel on Labor Day. The fact that 6,000 hotel workers are engaged in a major contract battle lends even more urgency to this 6 year old strike, the longest on going strike in the country. Some powerful figures showed up to support the strikers including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Illinois Governor Pat Quinn...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| Labor Express For 11-16-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express For 11-16-09
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| 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
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| 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
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-8-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights
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| Labor Express For 11-30-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-30-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Curly Cohen of Affordable Power to the People talks about the 100,000 households in Illinois whose home heating has been cut off because they canât afford their utility bills. Alan Benjamin, Executive Committee member of the San Francisco Labor Council, who supported Cynthia McKinney in the recently past Presidential election, discuss the meaning of Barack Obamaâs victory for working people in the United States...
Keywords: UAW; autoworkers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto industry; utilities; home heating; Curly Cohen; Affordable Power; Barack Obama; Cynthia McKinney; Elections; workers; union; labor; Chicago; Illinois
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| Labor Express For 8-16-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-16-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. In this week’s program we take a look at the debate on health care reform in the United States. We talk to Dr. Anne Scheetz, a practicing physician and member of Physicians for a National Health Plan about why a single payer, non-profit, universal health care system is the only solution to our health care crisis. We also look back on the last 16 years of Labor Express Radio with the former show host Wayne Heimbach, as we move...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; union; Chicago
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| 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 |
| 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
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| Joe Costigan on Hartmarx Sitdown Vote - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Joe Costigan on Hartmarx Sitdown Vote
Keywords: Joe Costigan on Hartmarx Sitdown Vote
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| Labor Express for 11-23-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-23-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On todayâs program we take a deeper look at the struggle of the workers at the Bissell products warehouse in Chicagoâs Southwest suburbs to get their jobs back. On last weekâs program we heard from Carl Rosen, Western Region President of UE (The United Electrical Workers Union) about how when the Bissell workers presented their employer with a petition to form a union, they were fired en masse...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| Labor Express For 8-24-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-24-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. In this week’s program we take a look at the growing anger of teachers, parents and community members about how schools are funded in Chicago with Jackson Potter, a Chicago public high school teacher and a founding member of CORE (the Caucus of Rank and File Educators). We talk with Jorge Mujica of the March 10th Committee about plans for an immigrants rights march in downtown Chicago on Labor Day...
Keywords: Labor; rights; worker; union; justice; Chicago; immigrant; education; public schools; CORE; Labor Day; Pullman
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| 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
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| JoeIsobaker&AdamWeisbergDebate - Jerry Mead-Lucero
JoeIsobaker&AdamWeisbergDebate
Keywords: SEIU; NNOC; CNA
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| Carl Rosen City Hall Republic Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Carl Rosen, President of the Western Region of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE) talks at Chicago City Hall press conference on the ongoing occupation of Republic Windows and Doors by it's workers. He announces that the union is seeking a means to keep the factory in operation under new management.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| Final Press Conference Republic Factory Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Final Press Conference Republic Factory Occupation
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| AnitaChan-LaborNotes08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Leading scholar on workers in contemporary China, Anita Chan, discusses recent developments in the Chinese labor movement at 2008 Labor Notes conference.
Keywords: China; Labor; rights; unions
Downloads: 30 |
| 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 |
| 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
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| Labor Express For 12-14-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-14-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Republic Windows & Doors workers WIN! Only 6 days after under taking the first factory occupation in the United States since the late 1930’s, the workers at Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago defeat both Republic management and Bank of America, winning the severance package they were due under federal law. The action of the workers at Republic was international news within days of the worker’s decision to occupy the facto...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Republic; Bank of America; bailout; occupation; direct action; Coalition of Immokalee Workers; CIW; Republic Windows and Doors
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| Imelda Martinez Congress Hotel Striker - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Imelda Martinez, employee of the Congress Hotel in Chicago talks about attending the picket line 5 days a week for the past 5 years, at the 5th strike anniversary rally outside the hotel.
Keywords: union; labor; strike; chicago; UNITE-HERE; Congress Hotel; worker; Labor Express
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| 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
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| Labor Express For 10-26-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
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...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; CEPR; Center for Economic and Policy Research; Dean Baker; Financial Crisis; bailout; Wall Street; $700 billon dollar; economic crisis; bank bailout; David Moberg; Teamsters; Richard Berg; Politics; Bush
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| LE11-4-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-4-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Coverage of this years Teamsterâs for a Democratic Union (TDU) convention, including interviews with TDU National Steering Committee memberâs Frank Halsted and Nichelle Fulmore, Labor Notes editor Chris Kutalik, and newly elected International Longshoremanâs Association (ILA) Local 1588 Sectetary Treasurer, Tony Perlstein.
Keywords: TDU; Teamsters; ILA; Labor Notes; labor; union; worker; rights; justice; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; reform
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| 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
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| 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 |
| Labor Express for 11-2-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express for 11-2-09
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express For 11-23-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-23-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Labor Express reflects on the meaning of President Elect Barack Obamaâs election victory for the labor movement with Chicago Jobs With Justice Executive Director James Thindwa. A long time labor activist and community organizer in Chicago - especially in poor, African-American working class communities on Chicagoâs Southside - who is also an African immigrant, Thindwa offers a unique perspective on what Obamaâs election mea...
Keywords: Barack Obama; James Thindwa; labor; workers; Chicago; justice; Jobs With Justice; unions; labor movement; Obama
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| Labor Express For 11-9-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-9-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Labor Express remembers the life and Times of Studs Terkel with historian Al Stein. Studs Terkel, author, actor, historian, activist, radio personality and a Chicago institution, passed away on October 31st. Al Stein is an oral historian, labor archivist and the creator of the video documentary⦠ROCKING THE BOAT: STUDS TERKEL'S 20TH CENTURY...
Keywords: Studs Terkel; Al Stein; labor; chicago; workers
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| Labor Express For 8-28-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
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 Ric...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; AFL-CIO; Arise Chicago; workers center; Adam Kader; Stewart Acuff; John Sweeney; Richard Trumka
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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
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| LE8-19-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-19-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.
Keywords: labor; labor express; union; worker; justice; rights
Downloads: 50 |
| 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
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| Leah Fried on Republic Windows Factory Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
UE organizer Leah Fried discusses the decision of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors, members of UE Local 1110, to occupy their factory. The workers are demanding that the owners of the plant, which was official closed Friday morning pay them a severance mandated by law.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers; Leah Fried
Downloads: 39 |
| Labor Express Radio for 10-16-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Joe Moore on Republic Windows Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Chicago Alderman Joe Moore announces that 15 members of the Chicago City Council are seeking to pass a resolution calling for the City to divest from Bank of America if the bank refuses to extend credit to the owners of Republic Windows & Doors. Republic management claims that it can not pay their workers the severance they are due under law, because the bank has refused them further credit. The workers are currently occupying the factory in protest.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| LE2-10-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-10-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. When UAW Local 3520 members at Freightliner, a truck manufacturer in Cleveland North Carolina, resisted company demands that they accept a concessionary contract, UAW International officials attacked their own members rather than support their efforts to combat concessions. The Freightliner 5 are Local 3520 leaders who have had to fight both the company and UAW officialdom in their effort to represent the membership of their lo...
Keywords: freightliner 5; cleveland 5; labor; unions; uaw; united auto workers; workers; concessions; north carolina; jerry mead-lucero; mead-lucero; labor express; Freightliner
Downloads: 13 |
| StewartAcuff2-3 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Section 3 of Part 2 of Stewart Acuff Interview.
Keywords: Labor Express
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| LE4-27-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express from 4-27-08
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| LE5-18-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-18-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode focuses on the presentation at the 2008 Labor Notes Conference, by the New Orleans Worker’s Center for Racial Justice, featuring a number of the Indian migrant workers, employees of Signal International in Mississippi, who endured a form a form debt peonage to this major U.S. marine construction company. The situation of the Signal workers is one of the most powerful indictments of the H2B guest worker program ye...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; guest worker; immigrant; india; indian; Signal; Gulf Coast; New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice; Saket Soni; Labor Notes
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| LE12-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 2 of our focus on the Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters and the ICE Raid Rapid Response Network. In this episode, Tim Bell of the Chicago Workers Collaborative talks about the no-match crisis and efforts to make Chicago a no-match letter, ICE raid free zone. Also, Emmanuel Castro talks about his struggle against no-match firings at Utility Concrete Products in Morris IL., and the initial reluctance of his union, L...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters; rapid response network; immigrant; ICE; Chicago Workers Collaborative; Emmanuel Castro; Tim Bell; Laborers Local 25
Downloads: 35 |
| LE9-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Tim Bell of The Chicago Worker’s Collaborative, about the proposed policies changes by the Dept. Homeland Security in-regards to the Social Security “no match letters”, which could result in massive firings of undocumented and documented immigrant workers. Socorro Leos of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA!), talks about the struggles of migrant workers on the Gulf Coast, post-Katrina.
Keywords: labor; labor express; union; worker; justice; rights; Mississippi; MIRA!; immigrant; Socorro Leos; Katrina; Pascagoula; no match; social security; Tim Bell; Homeland Security
Downloads: 31 |
| BaldemarVelasquezLaborNotes08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), delivers a powerful speech at the 2008 Labor Notes conference.
Keywords: FLOC; farm workers; labor; union; immigrants
Downloads: 25 |
