Labor Express Radio

This is the full 1-31-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, the Chicago Teachers Union makes their demand crystal clear - no return to in-school classes without vaccinations.  And they receive what they see as a statement of support from none other than President Biden himself, while CPS continues to lock out teachers who have resisted a return to school buildings.  NOTE THIS IS A QUICKLY EVOLVING SITUATION.  SEE LABOREXPRESS.ORG FOR UPDATES.  Also, the PRO Act - proposed ground breaking federal legislation that if passed would go a long way toward improving U.S. labor law. 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  #LaborRadioPod  #1u  #UnionStrong

This is the full 1-17-2021 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, nurse Dennis Kosuth, who works in both hospitals and public schools, a member of both National Nurses United (NNU) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) discusses Chicago’s teachers and nurses fighting back against unsafe conditions in their workplaces during the pandemic, especially the resistance of teachers to a return to in-classroom teaching as the infection rate in the city tops 10%.  Also in this episode, a coalition of Chicago worker’s centers release a new report entitled The COVID Jungle Research Report, which documents the lack of COVID-19 protections for essential workers in the food supply chain. And we respond to the right-wing insurrection at the nation’s capitol including a bit of provocative commentary by show host Jerry Mead-Lucero. 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  #LaborRadioPod  #1u  #UnionStrong

This is the full 12-27-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, it's our holiday episode.  Did you buy the game Monopoly as a gift this year?  Maybe you played it with friends or family?  What does this game teach children and what was it really meant to teach?  We explore those last two questions on this episode.  And, we mark the 65th anniversary of the AFL-CIO merger.  Both segments courtesy of our friends at Labor History Today… https://laborhistorytoday.podbean.com/ 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  #LaborRadioPod  #1u  #UnionStrong

This is the full 12-13-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) host their own Medicare4All campaign relaunch, shortly after NNU’s kickoff.  The relaunch event includes Chicago nurse Dennis Kosuth, NNU and CTU member.  Then the CTU hosts a discussion of rising teacher union militancy nationwide.  And UE releases a booklet entitled “Them and Us Unionism”. 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  #LaborRadioPod  #1u  #UnionStrong

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