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The Poor Peoples Campaign has an upcoming march and a meeting in Madison, Madison-area union members in the APWU and UE speak on their unions signing a letter to President Biden demanding an arms cutoff of Israel, new slates win elections at the United Federation of Teachers and at the Amazon Labor Union, Disney workers get a contract soon after a strike authorization vote, drastic industry changes are pushing union organizing at Microsoft-owned video game companies Activision and Blizzard, a recent Supreme Court ruling is likely to slow implementation of new federal workplace heat standards, and Wisconsin was once a workplace civil rights enforcement leader.

South Central Federation of Labor organizer Issy Bilek talks to Labor Radio, a worker talks about worker security during the Republican convention in Milwaukee, an education advocate talks ballot questions, seven unions representing around 6 million workers call on President Biden to end arm sales to Israel, there's a new farmer-labor podcast, the Economic Policy Institute has reports on unionization and on the myth of 'flexibility', and SpeceX can blow up labor law like it blows up spaceships.

A Madison city worker talks about the budget battle, 28,000 United Airlines flight attendants are moving to a strike authorization vote, Trump is with us, fellow workers! if you believe Teamster President Sean O'Brien and Harvard Law hillbilly/Vice Presidential candidate J. D. Vance from the GOP convention stage in Milwaukee, a former major league umpire recalls the disastrous 1999 mass registration attempt that ended up sinking the union, and the SCFL president talks about the constitutional amendment questions on the August ballot.

OSHA introduces new heat standards amid worker deaths, a jusge says ballot drops are back in Wisconsin and the Leauge ofWomen Voters explains the impact, the APWU convention will have a Wisconsin-initated call for a workers' party, the GOP comes to Milwaukee and brings a right-wing platform all laid out, a left coalition makes waves in French elections, and Labor Radio remembers the late Jane McAlevey.

President Joe Biden visits Madison and is met by supporters and protesters, a Dane County judge says Act 10 looks unconstitutional, migrant agricultural workers get some visa protections, the 'Chevron rule' and Trump decisions at the US Supreme Court and what it could mean for workers, a lawsuit says Milwaukee Tool uses work gloves made by slaves, and some Teamster hopeful drivers in Skokie have an unfair labor practice strike as for some reason Amazon keeps ending the contracts of "partner" companies that might unionize. The show ends with more recorded tributes to Labor Radio co-founder and fighter for labor Frank Emspak, who died on June 14.

Rock Energy gas workers with IBEW 965 have a contract, some states are pushing back on child labor expansion, more on the August referenda vote, and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has weighed in on ellection worker hiring. Today's show has tributes from friends and comrades of the late Frank Emspak, co-founder of Labor Radio.

In this show, we remember Labor Radio co-founder Frank Emspak, who died June 14 at the age of 80. In a 2023 interview at WORT, Frank tells the story of Workers Independent News, which for a brief time brought union news into mainstream commercial radio. In labor news: It's the annual birthday celebration of the embattled Wisconsin civil service system, Amazon workers ratify a switch to the Teamsters, SEIU Wisconsin has thirteen new member nurses at UnityPoint-Meriter in Madison, public school teachers see victory in Virginia, and the Poor Peoples Campaign holds an online rally ahead of its June 29 gathering in DC.

If you want Family Velues @ Work, shouldn't you welcome your own union? Also: Wisconsin organized labor fights for Juneteenth recognition, the new Fair Maps ruling and the August ballot in Wisconsin, an Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee project of the UE and the DSA comes to the Madison area, the Supreme Court rules for Starbucks and against its union and the NLRB, a look at the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, and worker organizing makes Waffle House raise wages... a litte.

Utility workers fix things up after a big Madison-area storm, more on state contitutional amendments that will be on the August ballot, voices from the eighth trades-sponosred Take Kids Fishing Day, the Amazon Labor Union votes to affilitate with the Teamsters, and the final numbers are in on the letter carriers' Mothers Day food drive. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

Madison is telling workers 'No money for you,' progressive organizatiosn team up to wipe out student food debt, labor argues against Act 10 in court, Teamster locals 695 abd 120 join forces, it's Take Kids Fishing weekend, and the South Central Federation of Labor speals out against repression of protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.