![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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
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| 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
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| CasadePueblo2 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Casa de Pueblo; labor; ufcw
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| 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
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| 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
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-16-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 11-21-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 8-6-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; community; immigrant; class; immigration; NALACC
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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 Radio for 12-31-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor, chicago, justice, workers, unions, immigrant, elections
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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
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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
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| 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
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| Conn-Selmer Workers in Elhart - Larry Duncan & Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Elkhart; union; indiana; UAW; Conn-Selmer; labor
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| 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
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| Labor Express Radio for 2-18-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-18-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode continued our coverage of the role of organized labor in this years elections for the Chicago city council. Features interviews with Dennis Gannon, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Cuahutémoc Morfin, AFSCME Council 31 member and candidate for alderman in the 25th ward. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; elections; CFL; Chicago Federation of Labor
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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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
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| 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
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| 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.
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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
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| 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
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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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| LE5-4-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-4-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express we bring you audio from Chicago's third annual Mayday march for immigrant rights, which at around 20,000 strong, was an impressive showing. Also includes an interview with Jack Heyman, one of the organizers of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) West Coast Mayday strike against the war in Iraq...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; immigrant; mayday; ilwu; Jack Heyman; jorge mujica
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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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| Labor Express For 6-29-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full June 29th, 2008 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode includes the third and final part of my interview with Mark Brenner of Labor Notes on the 2008 SEIU convention in Puerto Rico. The convention gave a growing reform caucus within the union an opportunity to challenge the direction the union has taken in recent years under the leadership of Andy Stern. The convention also highlighted the anger of Puerto Rican teachers, members of Federación de Maestros de Pu...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Zimbabwe; MDC; FMPR; SEIU; James Thindwa; Robert Mugabe
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| Labor Express For 7-6-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full July 6th, 2008 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 2 of my interview with James Thindwa, Executive director Of Chicago Jobs with Justice about the crisis in Zimbabwe. James, who emigrated to the United States from Zimbabwe in the 1970's, has remained active in the Zimbabwe solidarity movement in the United States since the mid 70's. James discusses in this interview how the regime of Robert Mugabe degenerated from a liberation movement into a corrupt dictatorship as...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Zimbabwe; MDC; James Thindwa; Robert Mugabe
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| Labor Express Radio for 9-28-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-28-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the current financial crisis and the collapse of neo-liberal economics with Jonathan Tasini, Executive Director of the Labor Research Association (LRA). Established in 1927, Labor Research Association is a New York City-based labor advocacy organization. Jonathan Tasini, is a labor movement journalist, author, researcher and activist...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Labor Research Association; Jonathan Tasini; Financial Crisis; bailout; Wall Street; $700 billon dollar; economic crisis; bank bailout; recession; neo-liberal
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| Labor Express For 10-5-08 Corrected - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-5-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the growing financial crisis and the $700 billon dollar bailout package passed by the congress on Friday with Ross Eisenbrey, Vice-President of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). EPI is one of the country’s leading progressive economic think tanks and I asked Eisenbrey to talk about what the bailout means for the nation’s working people...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; EPI; Economic Policy Institute; Ross Eisenbrey; Financial Crisis; bailout; Wall Street; $700 billon dollar; economic crisis; bank bailout; Jobs with Justice; JWJ; Fran Tobin; EFCA; Employee Free Choice Act
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| Labor Express For 10-12-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-12-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the economic and financial crisis and the $700 billon dollar bailout package passed by the congress with Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor of Economics at St. Mary’s College in California. Dr. Rasmus has been forecasting a serious financial crisis for sometime in the pages of Z Magazine, In These Times, Against the Current and several other publications...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Jack Rasmus; Financial Crisis; bailout; Wall Street; $700 billon dollar; economic crisis; bank bailout; recession
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| Labor Express For 10-19-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-19-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we take a look at the real ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The mainstream media has portrayed the organization as if it was created to carry out vote fraud on behalf of Democratic candidates. In reality, ACORN is the most successful community organizing network in U.S. history and has worked to empower poor and working class communities around the country...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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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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| Labor Express For 12-21-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-21-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we discuss the successful union election at Smithfield Foods in North Carolina with Jill Cashen spokesperson for the UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers union). On Dec. 11th, after over 15 years of effort the 5,000 meat packers at Smithfield have finally succeeded in organizing their plant, the largest hog processing plant in the world...
Keywords: labor; UFCW; Smithfield; Congress; UNITE-HERE; NALACC; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Hilda Solis; Arne Duncan; Barack Obama; CTU; Marilyn Stewart; immigrants rights; labor
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| Labor Express For 2-8-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-8-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Includes an Interview with economist Dr. Jack Rasmus about President Obama’s economic stimulus package. Rasmus is a Professor of economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is also an advisory to the San Francisco Labor Council Economic Crisis Committee and has written a 20 point economic recovery program proposal, 18 points of which have been adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council and which is now being considered...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Jack Rasmus; stimulus; economy; recession; Obama; EFCA; Employee Free Choice Act; Ren 2010; Renaissance 2010; school; Ron Huberman; CORE; Caucus of Rank and File Educators
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| Labor Express for 2-22-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-22-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode is part of a series looking at the top 6 demands the labor movement is making of the new Obama administration. Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is clearly the number one priority for organized labor. Some of the country’s highest ranking labor leaders attended a Feb. 17th rally for passage of EFCA in Chicago...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; AFL-CIO; Change to Win; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Employee Free Choice Act; EFCA; Anna Burger; John Sweeney; Terence O’Sullivan, Laborers, Chicago
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| Labor Express for 4-12-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-19-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Episode focuses on an interview with Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of the new book Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It. We discuss various forms of wage theft (how companies steal wages from their employees). Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Kim Bobo; wage theft; Department of Labor, Interfaith Worker Justice, WARN Act, Republic; Republic Windows and Doors
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| Labor Express For 7-12-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 7-12-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with former Honduran immigrant, Chicagoan and one of the founders of the Latin American cultural and political activist organization La Voz de los de Abajo about the military coup which took place in Honduras on June 28th 2009. Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, came into office as a conservative leaning politician drawn from the nation’s traditional land owning elite...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Honduras; coup; Zelaya; Alexy Lanza; Latin America; Central America; democracy; peasants; campesinos; La Voz de los Abajo
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| Labor Express For 8-2-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-2-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we hear from a group of laid-off City of Chicago workers who are angry at both Mayor Daley and the leadership of their union, Teamsters Local 726. They raise a multitude of concerns including privatization of city services, alleged violations of the Shakman Decrees, a return of elements of the “Hired Truck” scandal, violations of their union contract and corruption within their union...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Teamsters Local 726; privatization; Mayor Daley; City of Chicago workers; EFCA; Employee Free Choice Act; Joe Berry
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| Labor Express for 8-9-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-9-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we hear about efforts of the working class, immigrant community of Pilsen on Chicago’s Southside to fight sources of pollution in the neighborhood. Dorian Breuer of PERRO (Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization), discusses a lawsuit that will soon by filed against Midwest Generation, owners of the Fisk and Crawford coal fired power plants and recent victories in PERRO’s struggle with the H...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Honduras; coup; Zelaya; PERRO; environment; coal; pollution
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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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| 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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| Sk Hand Tools Striker Victor Morano - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Sk Hand Tools Striker Victor Morano
Keywords: Strike, SK Hand Tools, Teamsters Local 743
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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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| Labor Express For 8-31-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-31-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program will hear from a group of striking workers on Chicago Southside. In May workers at SK Hand Tools, members of Teamsters Local 743, found out that for a month, their company had cut off their health care benefits, without informing them. Now many of the workers find themselves saddled with massive health care bills for services they thought were covered...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; 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 7-19-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 7-19-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we take a look at the democracy movement in Iran, the role of the working class in that movement, hopes for change after the fraudulent elections of June 09, and how people in the U.S. can support the Iranian democracy movement with Kaveh Ehsani, assistant professor of international studies at DePaul University. Ehsani is one of the editors of the Middle East Report, a monthly print and online journal produced b...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; justice; rights; democracy; Iran; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Kaveh Ehsani; elections
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| Labor Express For 9-21-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-21-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this week’s episode, Labor Express covers the 2009 AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburg including excerpts from Sweeney & Trumka’s speeches at the convention and analysis of the main themes of the convention from Labor Notes editor Mischa Gaus. Well also hear about UNITE-HERE Local 1’s plans to take their fight for a new contract for 6,000 hotel workers to a whole new level this Thursday, and will hear audio from last Frida...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
Downloads: 5 |
