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A UAW Local 95 nurse at the striking Mercy East clinic in Janesville speaks to Labor Radio and the union holds a rally at the picket line, Wisconsin health care activist Tim Faust speaks on the effect on workers of the upcoming massive cuts in Medicaid funding, a Good Trouble rally is held in Madison, the US Supreme Court says Trump can go ahead with gutting the US Department of Education, striking municipal workers in Philadelphia go back to work as they go to vote on a tentative agreement, and a California State professor protesting a massive ICE raid in Camarillo is detained and their union rallies behind them.

The massive Philadelphia public worker strike continues, a deeper look at "no taxes on tips," the Supreme Court allows Trump to go ahead with mass firings of federal workers and a Madison-area labor veteran explains why US workers may have to give up on relying on labor law, Amazon thinks a good way to solve its hiring problems is to "suggest" office workers work in its warehouses for free during its Prime Days, a leading committee of the country's largest union says it will no longer work with the dubious "civil right organization" the Anti-Defamation League, and a union delegate visiting Madison talks on unions in Argentina and here.

The president of UAW Local 291 discusses its new contract with Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as its almost four-month strike there comes to an end, the president of the faculty and academic staff union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses how a seeming big Wisconsin state budget increase for UW isn't necessarily one for workers, over 9000 city workers including sanitation workers are on strike across Philadelphia, UAW Local 35 members working at Mercy Health East in Janesville go on strike, a big district court injunction win for federal employees has to be sifted through a US Supreme Court decision issued a few days later, and Frederick Douglass asks What to a slave is the Fourth of July?

A UW Health nurse explains how the union fight is still on after the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against the union in its Act 10 fight with the local healthcare giant, union-endorsed candidates are elected to the Group Health Collective board and a physician there speaks to Labor Radio as the GHC union recognition fight continues, labor voices are among those protesting at the Wisconsin state capitol after the US bombs Iran, the Wisconsin Alliance of Retired Americans meets at Madison's Labor Temple, the Trump administration wants you to snitch on bad wokeness at the National Parks, we look at the effect of job cuts at Wisconsin Public Radio, and a UAW monitor issues a report critical of the administration of UAW President Shawn Fain.

Labor is included in the Madison version of the national No Kings march and rally, workers at Madison's Group Health Cooperative who are trying to win a union rally on Madison's east side, and a GHC member describes a union-supporting member-worker slate for GHC board elections ending June 22, national labor leaders Randi Weingarten of the AFT and Lee Saunders of AFSCME quit the Democratic National Committee, we hear voices from a Juneteenth celebration in Sun Prairie, a lawsuit is filed to protect the federal Job Corps, and supporters of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau fight to maintain that 105-year-old agency.

Workers at Group Health Cooperative rally to demand union recognition, leaders from the Meriter Hospital nurses and Harvard dining hall workers discuss their successful strikes and the power of solidarity in the workplace and in the community, the president of SEIU California is among union members targeted in protests against ICE abductions, we hear voices from Take Kids Fishing Day, a former Google employee fired for his activism has an update on that company's stake in military and policing projects, and No Kings Day protests will occur in Madison and around the country.

Meriter Hospital nurses in Madison represented by SEIU Wisconsin end their five-day strike and win a new contract, SEIU Wisconsin workers at Gundersen Health Care in LaCrosse have a new settlement, UAW Local 291 continues its strike a Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as the rank-and-file rejects the latest company offer, and workers at Anodyne Coffee joins the Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Union after a unanimous NLRB-adjudicated vote. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

Nurses at UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital in Madison go on strike, the rank-and-file of UAW Local 291 will look at the latest management proposals as the strike continues at Cummins in Oshkosh, Labor Radio talks to Christine Vitel of AFGE 777 representing TSA workers, unions organize to resist federal spending cuts, mental health workers of the National Union of Healthcare Workers in Southern California reach an agreement with Kaiser Permante after striking for over six months, an immigration judge orders an SEIU member released from ICE detention in Washington State, and GM workers in Mexico fight to organize.

The South Central Federation of Labor holds its annual Bean Feed to raise funds for its COPE, a Wisconsin expert discusses the likely effect of Medicaid cuts on working people in the wake of the federal bill granting huge tax cuts to the rich, nurses at Meriter Hospital in Madison talk to Labor Radio ahead of their strike starting May 27th, UAW Local 291 workers at Cummins in Oshkosh reject a tentative agreement and continue their strike, a tornado wipes out a union-represented business in Mayville, a judge orders that foreign service employees can keep their collective bargaining rights for now, and we have results from the postal service food drive earlier this month.

Workers at Group Health Collective in Madison are demanding union recognition from GHC management amidst charges of union busting, Meriter nurses have set a strike date and discuss that state of negotiations with Labor Radio, Voces de la Frontera and organized labor rally for indicted Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan while federal ICE terror continues, Madison Starbucks workers join a nationwide unfair labor practice strike over a Starbucks dress code imposed outside of collective bargaining, Wisconsin state workers and their supporters rally in defense of the civil service and of diversity programs, the State of Wisconsin has launched an online jobs portal to aid federal workers fired under the Trump-Musk cuts, and the annual SCFL Bean Feed is coming up on Wednesday, May 21.