Labor Express Radio

This is the full 11-29-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, cuts in the Cook County hospital system and nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis fightback.  An interview with Stroger Hospital nurse Elizabeth Lalasz, member of National Nurses United who works with COVID patients on the likely effects of the cuts to Black and Brown working-class communities on the Southside of Chicago and how nurses are organizing regardless to fight for safe workplaces and patient centered care. Plus, NNU launches a renewed fight for Medicare4All within weeks of the 2020 elections. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 11-15-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, responses to Trump’s election defeat from people celebrating the 2020 Presidential election’s outcome in the streets of Chicago and from highly respected racial justice and labor organizer Bill Fletcher Jr.  Also on the program, updates on the fight of workers in the warehouses for Mars candies, members of Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) for safe workplaces and against retaliatory firings for organizing activity.  And the International Campaign to Reinstate Chicago Bus Driver Erek Slater continues, with a rally planned for this Wednesday, Nov. 18th at 9:30 AM at CTA Headquarters - 567 W. Lake Street. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 10-25-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, unions fight for fair, progressive taxation on two coasts.  Here in Chicago, the labor movement, especially the teachers, are working for a yes vote on the Fair Tax which would switch Illinois from a flat tax to a progressive graduated income tax.  Meanwhile, the labor movement in California is putting its resources behind passage of Prop 15, Schools and Communities First, which will end a loophole allowing wealthy commercial and industrial property owners to avoid paying their fair share of property tax. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 9-27-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, victory in the strike of SEIU Local 73 members at UIC Hospital!  The Peoples Academy defeats the ICE Academy- an insidious attempt to recruit regular citizens to become part of the deportation machine.  And LVEJO and Warehouse Workers for Justice form a groundbreaking partnership uniting the interests of low wage workers and environmental justice activists. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 9-13-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurses at UIC hospital go on strike!  Members of INA (Illinois Nurses Association) launched a week-long strike on Saturday at UIC Hospital over staffing ratios and safe working conditions, especially in the context of the COVID-19 crisis (they were joined by SEIU Local 73 on Monday).  Teamsters Local 743 organized a car caravan and rally last Tuesday from Provident Hospital in the Washington Park neighborhood to Mercy Hospital in the Bronzeville neighborhood to protest cuts at Provident, the closing of Mercy and a Chicago Southside healthcare facility crisis in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. And workers at Mars candy warehouse in Chicago, members of Warehouse Workers for Justice fight for a safe workplace and against unjust and likely illegal firings of workers who speak out. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 8-30-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, postal workers speak out against attacks on the postal system by the Trump administration.  This is not just an election issue, this is a privatization issue and an attack on unions.  And in the second half of the program, Erek Slater fights a political firing by the Chicago Transit Authority for the second time in his 14 years as a Chicago bus driver.  The CTA fired Erek once again for carrying out his union duties.  Erek relates his fight and the struggles of public sector workers to the current nationwide rebellion of black and brown working people for racial and economic justice. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 8-9-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we bring you audio excerpts from one of the Chicago Teachers Union’s recent Car Caravan protests demanding that Chicago Public Schools start the 2020 school year fully remote. The CTU has claimed another victory at Mayor Lightfoot has backed down and agreed to a fully remote start to the school year.  Also in the program, audio excerpts from Haymarket Books recent webinar “Racism is a Public Health Crisis”. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork

This is the full 7-26-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Jorge Mujica of Arise Chicago workers center talks about the new coalition called Illinois Unidos, formed to address the health care problems of the Latinx community associated with COVID-19, especially in the workplace. Also in the episode, Black Youth Project 100 and Black Lives Matter activists demand a CBA for displaced Southeast siders because of the Obama Presidential Library. And 200,000 seafarers trapped at sea, for months after the expiration of their employment contracts, because of the pandemic. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8 PM or Monday at 11 AM central on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio

This is the full 7-12-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio we look at the impact of COVID-19 on workers in the meatpacking industry and the relationship between unions, Black Lives Matter and the police. But we are doing it in a unique way because this episode of Labor Express Radio is also a coast to coast tour of labor radio programs in celebration of our new membership in the Labor Radio/Podcast Network. The Network offers us wonderful opportunities to expand our reach and resources so that we can better bring you the labor movement stories that you need to hear and that mainstream media is unlikely to cover. In this tour we focus on programs and producers that are old friends of Labor Express Radio - Steve Zeltzer of the Work Week podcast in the Bay Area of California, Judy Ancel of the Heartland Labor Forum in Kansas City, and Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash from Building Bridges in NYC. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8 PM or Monday at 11 AM central on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio

This is the full 6-28-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Universal Basic Income (UBI), great solution to help alleviate some of the worst problems of our economy whose time has come or distraction from real solutions to the crisis we face? And what is up with the proposed Chicago UBI pilot project? A conversation with Ameya Pawar, former Chicago alderman and Fellow at the Open Society Foundations & Economic Security Project. Pawar also discusses public banking and its potential to revolutionize the marketplace.  Also on the program, Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) VP Stacy Davis Gates gives an impassioned statement to the press after CPS Board’s vote to keep cops in the schools. Thanks to Labor Express Radio reporter Dale Lehman for capturing the audio of Stacy Davis Gates. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page...   laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org  #laborradionetwork