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Labor Express Radio

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Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. “News for working people, by working people.” Our program covers issues in the labor movement locally, nationally, and internationally. The program also addresses issues of concern to working people such as housing, education, health care, immigrants rights, the environment and U.S. foreign policy,... more

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This is the full 12-7-2025 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.

Labor Notes asks, how unions can defend worker power under Trump 2.0.? Economic Policy Institute Labor strategist Dave Kamper discusses his new book entitled Who’s Got the Power... more

This is the full 11-23-2025 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.

Starbucks workers are on strike at over 95 locations across the country. We look at the issues that led up to the strike.

Labor Express Radio is Chicago's oldest labor news an... more

This is the full 11-9-2025 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.

CTU and SEIU call out Chicago corporations profiting of ICE terrorizing immigrant working-class communities. PERRO blocks dangerous demolitions of industrial sites in the Pilsen... more

This is the full 10-19-2025 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.

Report back from No Kings Day 2.0 and Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, discusses her new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education a... more

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  • Chicago’s best labor podcast/radio show

    Labor Express is one of the most reliable and comprehensive reviews of the state of Labor and workers’ issues in Chicago and around the country. For more than 20 years the host has brought a thoughtful perspective to Labor news.

    The show covers workers’ struggles, strikes, lockouts, legislation that affects the Labor movement, and other topics that relate to everyone’s work experience. This includes interviews with many prominent Labor leaders and also everyday on-the-ground workers. Labor Exp... more

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    5
    patio_tapioca
    United States2 years ago
  • Thank you for the Amazonian Workers United episode.

    Appreciated hearing about their organizing campaign, as I’m trying to learn more about pre-majority unionism to better understand how contractors and fully distributed tbh companies can still organize and build power, even without NLRB protections.

    Apple Podcasts
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    megabyterose
    United States3 years ago

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