AFSCME Local 1 has a workshop on the Wisconsin state budget, Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee is organizing a union, a Greek worker discusses the state of labor in Greece, the UE considers an independent way forward for labor after the Democrats' big presidential election loss, Whole Foods workers file for a union, a major expansion of overtime coverage ordered this year has been shot down by a federal judge, and average daycare costs now outstrip average rents.

An Iron River, Wisconsin, pizza parlor is busted by the Department of Labor for multiple child work violations, a member of Build a Fighting NALC talks about rank-and-file efforts in that union and disagreements over the national NALC tentative contract agreement, more University of California system workers sign up to join the UAW, the Teaching Assistants Association of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a new initiative to improve the lot of UW bioscience workers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled against employer 'captive audience' anti-union meetings, AFSCME Local 1 will help show how the state budget works at a November 21 event, and November 15, 2024, is the tenth anniversary of a deadly chemical leak at a Dupont insecticide plant in Texas.

Kevin Gundlach of the South Central Federation of Labor looks at the November 5 election results, Lambeau Field workers get their first contract, Los Volcanoes worker-owned cooperative kicks off, the president of Machinists District 751 discusses the end of the Boeing strike and the new contract, California keeps prison labor as a punishment, and the Rick Smith Show looks back on the anniversary of some early interracial union solidarity in the US.

A panel at the University of Wisconsin gives the good and bad news on organized labor in Wisconsin since Act 10, the SEIU Wisconsin president discusses endorsements and AFGE tells how a crisis in Social Security Administration staffing could get even worse under Project 2025, pension plans look to divest from investments in fossil fuels, rank-and-file letter carriers push back on a proposed contract, southeast Pennsylvania transit workers have authorized a system-wide strike for this week after contract talks break down, and nurses in Hawai'i won contract staffing ratio language even after Honolulu's leading hospital locked out nurses and arrested grandmas.

Letter carriers rally in Madison and call for legislative help against recent assaults, the policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees talks on Trump's proposed Project 2025, representatives of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2304 and of the Wisconsin Education Association Council talk about their political endorsement processes and their political priorities, the Teaching Assistants Association at the University of Wisconsin in Madison talks about its response to the UW crackdown on supporters of Palestinians, the SEIU 1199 megalocal calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel, Massachusetts voters get to act on the subminimum "tipped wage" in November, striking machinists at Boeing again reject a proposed agreement, and a Wisconsin chicken dinner chain is fined for overtime violations.

The annual Wisconsin Association of Retired Americans Power Lunch focuses on social Security and social programs, Machinists union negotiator Jon Holden talks to Labor Radio about the ongoing Boeing strike and the history that led to it, the International Association of Firefighters endorses neither presidential candidate, the National Labor Relations Board is swamped but funding and staffing isn't keeping pace, the State of Wisconsin reports good jobs numbers, a new book looks at American labor involvement in sketchy Cold War programs to undercut progressive unions overseas, the family of a worker killed in Tennessee during Hurricane Helene has filed a wrongful death suit against the company, and we remember Wisconsin womens pay rights activist Lily Ledbetter.

After a weeklong strike, Molson Coors repair workers with Machinists Lodge 66 in Milwaukee ratify a new contract. The immigrant-founded workers co-op Los Volcanoes launches in Madison, Tennessee factory workers are ordered to their death during Appalachian storms, a UAW striker is killed on a Michigan picket line, Boeing management talks tough as the West Coast Machinists strike ends its first month, South Central Federation of Labor AFL-CIO president Kevin Gundlach explains the SCFL electoral endorsement process, a Malaysian contractor of the multinational Kimberly-Clark is found to use forced labor, a Kansa City tenants union has called a strike, and photographer Dorothea Lange is remembered on the anniversary of her death.

Teachers and staff at Toad Hill Montessori schools in Madison voted overwhelmingly to join OPEIU Local 39, immigrant workers talk about how employers target them for wage theft, picketing workers speak to Labor Radio as Machinists Council 66 strikes Molson Coors in Milwaukee, the UAW prepares nationwide strikes if Stellantis doesn't meet contract demands, the Wisconsin Association of Retired Americans announces this year's agenda ahead of its October 14 power lunch, and a member of the Madison Professional and Supervisory Employees Association discusses the importance of this November's local funding referendum.

East Coast and Gulf longshore workers could strike this week, the Machinists reject Boeing management's latest "best and final" offer, the UAW says it will push back against announced layoffs at Stellantis, United Electrical workers nationally condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and a UE 1186 member describes an action in the Madison area, the gender wage gap lives on, Mitchell Johnson of IBEW Local 159 is the Wisconsin AFL-CIO Organizer of the Year, a November ballot measure would change voting rights in Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin South Central Federation of Labor-AFL-CIO has events planned ahead of the November election.

Teachers and staff at Toad Hill Montessori in Madison are organizing with OPEIU Local 39, the UAW says it will strike Stellantis if company management doesn't live up to its contract agreements, unions and community organizations are joining to oppose construction emplyees being misclassified as 'independent contractors', Wisconsin Teamsters break with the national union over a presidential endorsement, the AFT Wisconsin is looking for a political organizer, and voting rights will be on the ballot. Thank you to donors to WORT during our just-completed pledge drive.