UCOMM Live

Phil Cohen calls in to talk about what President Biden can do to fix the NLRB.

Right to work is defeated in New Hampshire, California union elects a controversial new leader to lead a 90,000 member union, and the UFCW inks the first national cannabis union contract.

Plus environmentalist union-busting, regulating self-driving cars, and the White House Task Force looks at how to promote organizing.

Teamsters notch big win against CEO pay, Biden sets up union taskforce, unions say no money to Democrats who don't support the PRO Act and much more on this week's UCOMM Live with Kris LaGrange.

Thursday, April 8th is the PRO Act Digitial Day of Action, find out what you need to do to get this important bill passed.

Amazon, Tesla, and Google are all in trouble with the NLRB over union busting charges.

President Biden has released a massive infrastructure bill that will put millions of union members to work.

Minor League Baseball has started and players are getting paid below minimum wages, find out why.

A look at 20 things that the American Rescue Plan does for workers, Senate confirms Marty Walsh, Amazon violates NLRB rules, and the Supreme Court is hearing a union case.

Boycott Amazon has been trending this week as consumers stay away from Amazon to support the workers organizing in Alabama. The PRO Act passed the House this week, but faces an uncertain future in the Senate. Right to Work was defeated in Montana and Colorado.

On UCOMM Live with Kris LaGrange Thursday 2/25 at 12 noon ET, we got Jay Malone, the Political Director for the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation, welcoming back Vinny Alvarez, President of the NYC CLC and also welcoming back Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers.

A bill to strengthen apprenticeships has passed the House of Representatives, find out what it does and how it makes pre-apprenticeships and youth apprenticeships stronger. The PRO Act has been introduced, Evan Papp from Empathy Media Labs comes on to discuss what needs to be done to get it passed. Amazon workers in Alabama are organizing, we hear from two of the workers' thanks to The Valley Labor Report. Houston hates firefighters, find out why.

IBEW Local 3's Chris Erikson comes on to talk about the Biden Presidency and how his local union is making it through COVID. We also take a look at the Executive Orders Biden has signed including an OSHA standard for COVID, Union membership increasing, and we list the insurgents who have lost their jobs after storming the Capitol.

Labor has played an integral role in getting the vaccine out to the public, but they also built the facilities that made the vaccine. Find out more about the role they have played.

Trumpers attacked the Capitol, killed a cop, and are now going to jail. Did you have one on your job?

Joe Biden has appointed Marty Walsh to run the Labor Department, Pete Buttigieg to run Transportation, and Miguel Cardona to run the Education Department. Josh Slaughter calls in to give us his take on these appointments.

UCOMM PAC's Worker to Worker campaign helped to turn union voters out in Georgia. Find out more about it and what it means for the PRO Act.