Students and workers in Madison and across the US announce new Starbucks union fights, Operating Engineers picket in downtown Madison, upcoming Moral March on state legislators with the Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign, tenants’ rights struggle in Madison, Webcrafters leaving town, new legislative maps signed into law, the legacy of Frederick Douglass.

What's happening in the Minnesota labor movement, labor wins in Michigan, child labor losses in Wisconsin, a President' Day rally coming to Milwaukee, Purple 4 Palestine, Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement for the undocumented, jury gives time to Cambria explosion mill managers, the Velma Hopkins story, and more.

We talk to workers about the union victory at a Starbucks store in Milwaukee, share news of organizing at Planned Parenthood and contract talks at UnityPoint Meriter, get the latest on the UW Oshkosh budget cuts, learn about a Las Vegas union leader and activist and more.

We learn what’s been going on at the Schoeps ice cream factory in Madison, hear from the organizing drive at Ocean Spray in Wisconsin Rapids, get an update on a major teachers strike in Massachusetts, learn about organizing in the Wisconsin Farmers Union, dig deeper into how workers are affected by the UW budget cuts, explore the history of Right to Work laws and more.

We take a look at how Wisconsin unions are doing now after years of Act 10, discuss demands for a ceasefire from all over the world and from our unions here at home, discuss the impacts of budget cuts in the UW system, catch up on labor struggles near and far, look at teh National Farmers Union, and more.

Today, we commemorate the Flint sitdown strike of 1937 and look at UAW organiizing today, talk to a South African trade unionist about that country's legal and social actions in support of Palestine, look at the US Supreme Court and its taking up of a Starbucks labor case, hear from a longtime union activist on the state of unions today, see how child labor is growing in the 21st century, and more.

We look at the labor legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., learn about budget cuts affecting the UW system, get an update on bargaining at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital, hear what is happening in Alabama as the UAW organizes, look at the battery plant closure in Portage, get a look at a tech union legal win, and more.

On this show ww'll look at Madison labor's preparation for the Martin Luther King Community dinner, hear about organzing at a Marquette University Starbucks, learn about the efforts of letter carriers to protect themselves in Milwaukee, check out the status of fair district maps after last month's favorable state Supreme Court ruling, hear about lcoal plans for education and youth outreach, get a rundown of upcoming union contracts, look at some of last year's high points, and more.

In our end-of-the year show, Labor News reporters discuss this year in labor news and give a shoutout to workers who help us report it. We also remember Labor Radio co-founder Ellen LaLuzurne.

In this show, we have an get an exclusive report from the North Pole. Also we take a look at the year for workers in Wisconsin and across the nation, report on calls from labor for a ceasefire in Gaza, look at Wisconsin retirees, report on some government rulings affecting workers and consumers, and more.