This week on The Workers’ Mic, Powered by the MCL, Ed Maher returns from vacation to share the latest news in labor with Ken Edwards. Karen Kent, President of UNITE HERE Local 1, joins the show and details the big win for the workers at the Kinzie Hotel Chicago lockout.

To celebrate Labor Day on The Workers’ Mic, Powered by the MCL, Ed Maher takes the week off while Ken Edwards and Phil Davidson, Communications Director, Mid America Regional Council of Carpenters, talk with Professor Bob Bruno, Director of the Labor Studies Program and a Professor of Labor and Employment at the University of Illinois. Bob shares the origins of Labor Day, labor policy, and much more!

On this episode of The Workers’ Mic, Powered by MCL, Ken Edwards and Ed Maher are reunited and they cover the abundance of labor news this week including Starbucks’ attempt to remove unions, the United Auto Workers strike, and the nurses’ strike in Joliet, IL. Plus, Ken and Ed learn a little bit of WGN history!