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Protests are quickly called in Milwaukee as the federal government arrests Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan for not submitting to ICE, UFCW members at a Minneapolis food co-op stand up for freedom of expression while that freedom comes under attack across the country, May Day and May 2 marches and rallies include a May 1 high school student-organized event in Madison that is supported by many union teachers, the AFL-CIO has announced a new initiative to help fired federal workers organize and fight back legally against the Trump-Musk purges, a federal judge pushes back on a Trump administration claim that unions 'threaten national security,' and many events are coming up in Madison and Wisconsin, including Workers Memorial Day on Monday April 28, marches and rallies on International Workers Day (Thursday, May 1) in Milwaukee, Appleton, and Madison, and a corresponding march and rally in Madison on Friday afternoon, May 2. Also, Labor Radio remembers Tom Kozlovsky.

Madison holds rallies for a union-sponsored call to support higher education and another for child care providers on Child Care Advocacy Day, UAW Local 291 holds a rally and march in Oshkosh as its strike against Cummins continues into its second month, about a third of Internal Revenue Service workers may be gone by the end of this year, a whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board showed how Musk's DOGE is accessing privileged data on workers and unions, and we play a performance of the labor standard Bread and Roses.

UnityPoint-Meriter nurses and their supporters rally for a fair contract and promise to strike if hospital management doesn't come through in bargaining, Labor Radio speaks to folks marching at Madison's version of the national Hands Off rally, a local worker wins a wage theft case but the company has yet to pay up, UAW President Shawn Fain address the union and the world about support for Trump's tariffs, the president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff union speaks on a recent resolution of the UW Faculty Senate condemning the UW administration's violent response to pro-Palestinian protests last year and on the union response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the NLRB comes to a decision on the size of the Group Health Cooperative voting unit and sets an early May date on the union election.

Labor Radio previews the April 5 Hands Off rally against the Republican administration in Washington and talks to a local organizer, the results of the April 1 Wisconsin statewide election are in with union-backed victories, how tariffs can be expected to affect the working class, union members are prominent among some high-profile ICE detention and deportation cases, employers at religion-funded groups are looking to get exemptions from unemployment taxes, and Madison protests the Trump executive order against museums, “improper ideology,” and the teaching of history.

While Trump takes away collective bargaining rights from even more federal workers, rallies are held at the Madison Labor Temple and at the main post office, and we speak to American Federation of Government Employees Local 1732 President William Townsend. The AFL-CIO has endorsements for the April 1 election in Wisconsin, we talk to the president of UAW Local 291 in Oshkosh about their strike at Cummins, Inc., UAW International President Shawn Fain speaks out against NAFTA, Florida's answer to its purge of immigrant workers is to bring back child labor, and an arbitrator awards the National Association of Letter Carriers a win.

The Wisconsin Education Association Council talks endorsements for the April 1 statewide election, postal workers in Madison take to the street after the threatened Trump-Musk takeover, UAW Local 291 strikes Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems in Oshkosh, the Trump-Musk administration says that the federal collective bargaining agreement with the Transportation Security Administration just doesn't count any more so TSA workers with AFGE Local 777 and supporters speak up in Madison, the Flight Attendants Association has a nationwide Day of Action at airports around the country, Trump-Musk says the Department of Education is no more because they say they can, and Labor Radio remembers noted troublemaker Lucy Parsons.

The President of the United States or the world's richest man or somebody orders the US Postal Service to become part of the Commerce Department or even more of a private company or something, and they say that the collective bargaining agreement with workers of the Transportation Security Administration doesn't count any more because they say they can, and they keep firing people because they say they can and cutting federal programs because they say they can, while rank-and-file federal workers are organizing with their unions to fight back. Meanwhile, the fight for the right to organize at the workplace is highlighted in the struggle or the largely immigrant workforce at a Madison screen printing shop, labor voices speak to us at a rally for Palestinians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison following the capture and detainment by ICE of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, US Senator Bernie Sanders is touring the US including Wisconsin to speak against the ruling capitalist oligarchy, and University of Wisconsin faculty and staff demand to meet and confer with university administrators and chancellors over workplace conditions and issues like the protection of freedom of speech.

Hundreds including union members rallied and spoke at the state capitol for reproductive health rights and for electoral support of a labor-endorsed candidate in the April 1 Supreme Court race, some Democratic state legislators are holding "listening sessions" on the intricacies and problems of state budget proposals and some others have sponsored a labor-supported bill that could cover state budget gaps due to Trump-Musk federal funding cuts, and SEIU health care workers in contract talks at Columbus Health and Rehab are asking for community support in their wage proposals, THIS IS A WORT-FM PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

A federal judge backs a union lawsuit for now and issues a temporary restraining order halting a Trump-Musk order to fire about 200,000 US government workers, people march on US Senator Ron Johnson's Madison office to protest Medicaid cuts, Wisconsin teachers and public school advocates rally at the state capitol to demand that state legislators fund education, an early childhood education worker talks about the effects of a funding freeze on Head Start programs, the Oregon Nurses Association has a new contract after settling its statewide strike on Providence Health, and East Coast longshore workers represented by the International Longshoremen's Association hear from their president about their new contract. THIS IS A WORT-FM PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

Absence of Madison bus drivers on February 20 looks like a labor action from drivers and mechanics working without a contract, SWIU Wisconsin rallies for Meriter nurses during their contract talks and for UW Health and GHC workers who are organizing, chaotic federal funding cuts affect Head Start, US Forest Service workers facing Trump purges speak at the Madison Labor Temple, the National Treasury Employees Union pushes back on the Trump-Musk cuts, Amazon workers vote against a union in Carolina, and Costco raises non-union wages,

Absence of Madison bus drivers on February 20 looks like a labor action from drivers and mechanics working without a contract, SWIU Wisconsin rallies for Meriter nurses during their contract talks and for UW Health and GHC workers who are organizing, chaotic federal funding cuts affect Head Start, US Forest Service workers facing Trump purges speak at the Madison Labor Temple, the National Treasury Employees Union pushes back on the Trump-Musk cuts, the Labor Temple has a workshop on fighting back against corporate power, Amazon workers vote against a union in Carolina, and Costco raises non-union wages,

UW Health System nurses and supporters speak up before a Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing on their union's status under the Wisconsin Employee Peace Act, Labor Radio holds interviews before the Tuesday election for Wisconsin Director of Public Instruction, workers at a North Carolina Amazon facility are voting on whether they will be represented by Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), Oregon nurses at eight hospitals run by Providence Health voted down a tentative agreement and their strike enters its second month, United Food and Commercial Workers grocery store employees of Kroger in Colorado and Wyoming vote to strike, labor and civil rights fighter Coleman Young becomes Mayor of Detroit, and there are a number of labor-sponsored events this week in the Madison area.

A march and rally in Madison protests the Trump and Musk takeover of the government, Trump goes after the National Labor Relations Board, federal workers discuss the fear and uncertainty as Trump and Musk swing their axes, the National Association of Letter Carriers has voted against its tentative agreement with the US Postal Service, as their strike approaches one month 5000 nurses of the Oregon Nurses Association at Providence Health facilities across Oregon vote on a tentative agreement, the Teamsters and Costco reach a deal, Labor Radio profiles Amazon warehouse worker and union organizer Chris Smalls, Rich Smith looks at a 1913 massacre in West Virginia, and early voting opens for a February 18 election in Wisconsin.

The South Central Federation of Labor and Worker Justice Wisconsin plan trainings on workers rights and organized labor joining with immigrant workers ahead of expected Trump administration assaults, the Madison Labor Temple will be sold, a Mexican professor speaks on immigration and the US economy, Wisconsin construction giant Findorff is now under a full employee stock ownership plan, Trump goes after not only the NLRB general counsel but also a term-protected board member, Wisconsin Second Congressional District Representative Mark Pocan holds a post-election Town Hall at the Madison Labor Temple, a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia joins the United Food and Commercial Workers, Amazon doesn't like union organizing so it is ending operation across the Province of Quebec, and unionized stores and Starbucks management announce contract mediation.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers gives his State of the State speech and we have excerpts on the budget, President Trump goes after the federal civil service starting with  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion administrators and those who work from home, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul talks about the lawsuit filed by Wisconsin and other states against Trump's attempt to remove birth citizenship, a Peoples March was held in Madison and labor voices were there, Iowa considers rolling back child labor standards, Act 10 is kept on the books for now as the implementations demanded to make it constitutional are stayed pending appeal, and for now Stellantis is back to keeping its promise that it won't send jobs overseas.

Labor Radio looks back at the close ties between the Reverend Martin Luther King and the labor movement and tells what is happening in the Madison area this holiday weekend, a nurse discusses the Oregon Nurses Association strike against Providence Health in that state, the SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, workers and community members rally at an Amazon-owned Whole Foods store in Philadelphia ahead of a unionization vote later this month, and South Central Federation of Labor President Kevin Gundlach talks about labor and the April election in Wisconsin, which includes an important state Supreme Court race.

Labor Radio talks to workers and labor leaders as SEIU Wisconsin works to organize Group Health Collective while a GHC management complaint on the voting unit heads to a regional National Labor Relations Board hearing in Madison, South Central Federation of Labor President Kevin Gundlach tells what workers he talked to had to say during his recent trip to South Africa, an organizer discusses how the documentary "Union" shows the grassroots organizing of the first Amazon facility and talks about how subsequent organizing led to December's nationwide strike, there is a tentative agreement in the East Coast longshore strike, and Democratic Party leaders say they have decided to ask unions and workers what they think is important.

Labor Radio reporters Carol Weidel, Keith Steffen, Jeannine Ramsey, and Greg Geboski, and engineer Joann Powers sit down in the studio to discuss stories aired in 2024 and what happened in the year in labor.

The WORT News Department has more on its investigation of University of Wisconsin payouts to consultants, particularly Huron Consulting, an arrangement that has long been under critical scrutiny by university unions. Also, Labor Radio interviews strikers as Madison joins the Christmas Eve unfair labor practices strikes held at Starbucks stores across the country.This broadcast show has a music portion. The full show will be available for a limited time under Friday, December 27, on the WORT archives for a limited time at https://archive.wortfm.org

In the wake of a shooting at Madison's Abundant Life Christian School, Labor Radio speaks to the Madison public teachers union president and to a former teacher about what it's like working where school shootings have become normalized. Also, workers at Amazon and Starbucks get into the holiday spirit with unfair labor practice strikes across the country, with New York City cops busting Teamster Amazon picket lines. Also the faculty and academic staff union president explains how a software update at the University of Wisconsin system can cover for an attack on administrative labor, an analyst details what will happen in a few weeks when states and municipalities across the US (but not in Wisconsin) institute minimum wage increases, and we rerun a segment on last year's elf labor action at the North Pole.

An attorney addresses the immigrants rights group Voces de la Frontera ahead of the second Trump administration, the Wisconsin legislature wants to end work-at-home for state workers, the US Senate refuses to re-confirm National Labor Relations Board chair Lauren McFerran as an NLRB regional office rules that some reality show workers are employees, the Canadian government orders it striking mail employees back to work, US railroad workers promise tough negotiations after years of company- and government-enforced givebacks while Trump looms ahead, the Department of Labor is investigating child labor at an Illinois food processing facility of the food delivery company Hello Fresh, and union electricians present Madison's annual Holiday Fantasy in Lights.

This week Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost has ordered sweeping changes to Act 10, the Wisconsin law severely restricting the rights of the state's public sector unions, and Labor Radio spoke to Jeff Mandell, an attorney for the union plaintiffs who brought the successful lawsuit, and to Barrett McIntosh of the Teaching Assistants Association, one of the seven unions filing the suit. Also, Donald Trump has designated a Secretary of Labor who isn't hated by everybody in organized labor, and we hear from labor supporters of a protest for the people of Palestine at a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meetings that led to 19 arrests on Thursday, December 5. THIS IS A WORT BIIRTHDAY BOOST PLEDGE EDITION.

AFSCME Local 1 has a workshop on the Wisconsin state budget, Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee is organizing a union, a Greek worker discusses the state of labor in Greece, the UE considers an independent way forward for labor after the Democrats' big presidential election loss, Whole Foods workers file for a union, a major expansion of overtime coverage ordered this year has been shot down by a federal judge, and average daycare costs now outstrip average rents.

An Iron River, Wisconsin, pizza parlor is busted by the Department of Labor for multiple child work violations, a member of Build a Fighting NALC talks about rank-and-file efforts in that union and disagreements over the national NALC tentative contract agreement, more University of California system workers sign up to join the UAW, the Teaching Assistants Association of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a new initiative to improve the lot of UW bioscience workers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled against employer 'captive audience' anti-union meetings, AFSCME Local 1 will help show how the state budget works at a November 21 event, and November 15, 2024, is the tenth anniversary of a deadly chemical leak at a Dupont insecticide plant in Texas.

Kevin Gundlach of the South Central Federation of Labor looks at the November 5 election results, Lambeau Field workers get their first contract, Los Volcanoes worker-owned cooperative kicks off, the president of Machinists District 751 discusses the end of the Boeing strike and the new contract, California keeps prison labor as a punishment, and the Rick Smith Show looks back on the anniversary of some early interracial union solidarity in the US.

A panel at the University of Wisconsin gives the good and bad news on organized labor in Wisconsin since Act 10, the SEIU Wisconsin president discusses endorsements and AFGE tells how a crisis in Social Security Administration staffing could get even worse under Project 2025, pension plans look to divest from investments in fossil fuels, rank-and-file letter carriers push back on a proposed contract, southeast Pennsylvania transit workers have authorized a system-wide strike for this week after contract talks break down, and nurses in Hawai'i won contract staffing ratio language even after Honolulu's leading hospital locked out nurses and arrested grandmas.

Letter carriers rally in Madison and call for legislative help against recent assaults, the policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees talks on Trump's proposed Project 2025, representatives of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2304 and of the Wisconsin Education Association Council talk about their political endorsement processes and their political priorities, the Teaching Assistants Association at the University of Wisconsin in Madison talks about its response to the UW crackdown on supporters of Palestinians, the SEIU 1199 megalocal calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel, Massachusetts voters get to act on the subminimum "tipped wage" in November, striking machinists at Boeing again reject a proposed agreement, and a Wisconsin chicken dinner chain is fined for overtime violations.

The annual Wisconsin Association of Retired Americans Power Lunch focuses on social Security and social programs, Machinists union negotiator Jon Holden talks to Labor Radio about the ongoing Boeing strike and the history that led to it, the International Association of Firefighters endorses neither presidential candidate, the National Labor Relations Board is swamped but funding and staffing isn't keeping pace, the State of Wisconsin reports good jobs numbers, a new book looks at American labor involvement in sketchy Cold War programs to undercut progressive unions overseas, the family of a worker killed in Tennessee during Hurricane Helene has filed a wrongful death suit against the company, and we remember Wisconsin womens pay rights activist Lily Ledbetter.

After a weeklong strike, Molson Coors repair workers with Machinists Lodge 66 in Milwaukee ratify a new contract. The immigrant-founded workers co-op Los Volcanoes launches in Madison, Tennessee factory workers are ordered to their death during Appalachian storms, a UAW striker is killed on a Michigan picket line, Boeing management talks tough as the West Coast Machinists strike ends its first month, South Central Federation of Labor AFL-CIO president Kevin Gundlach explains the SCFL electoral endorsement process, a Malaysian contractor of the multinational Kimberly-Clark is found to use forced labor, a Kansa City tenants union has called a strike, and photographer Dorothea Lange is remembered on the anniversary of her death.

Teachers and staff at Toad Hill Montessori schools in Madison voted overwhelmingly to join OPEIU Local 39, immigrant workers talk about how employers target them for wage theft, picketing workers speak to Labor Radio as Machinists Council 66 strikes Molson Coors in Milwaukee, the UAW prepares nationwide strikes if Stellantis doesn't meet contract demands, the Wisconsin Association of Retired Americans announces this year's agenda ahead of its October 14 power lunch, and a member of the Madison Professional and Supervisory Employees Association discusses the importance of this November's local funding referendum.

East Coast and Gulf longshore workers could strike this week, the Machinists reject Boeing management's latest "best and final" offer, the UAW says it will push back against announced layoffs at Stellantis, United Electrical workers nationally condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and a UE 1186 member describes an action in the Madison area, the gender wage gap lives on, Mitchell Johnson of IBEW Local 159 is the Wisconsin AFL-CIO Organizer of the Year, a November ballot measure would change voting rights in Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin South Central Federation of Labor-AFL-CIO has events planned ahead of the November election.

Teachers and staff at Toad Hill Montessori in Madison are organizing with OPEIU Local 39, the UAW says it will strike Stellantis if company management doesn't live up to its contract agreements, unions and community organizations are joining to oppose construction emplyees being misclassified as 'independent contractors', Wisconsin Teamsters break with the national union over a presidential endorsement, the AFT Wisconsin is looking for a political organizer, and voting rights will be on the ballot. Thank you to donors to WORT during our just-completed pledge drive.

A view of the Harris-Trump debate from the Labor Temple bar, yet another proposed constitutional change on the Wisconsin November ballot, 33,000 member of the Machinists are on strike at Boeing, and flight attendants at United Air are two weeks into their strike authorization. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

Voices from LaborFest 2024 at the Madison Labor Temple, a steamfitter describes the trade, rank-and-file workers oganize to move their unions to support Palestinians, and workers speak at the Havens-Wright Center at the University of Wisconsin. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

The South Central Federation of Labor president speaks on LaborFest and other upcoming events around Madison, why US Labor Day is at the beginning of September and not May Day, a first-time attendee looks forward to Socialism 2024 in Chicago, UAW pushes back as Stellantis rewrites its agreement on jobs, the Association of Flight Attendants passes a strike authorization vote as United Airlines contract talks drag, US Representative visits the Labor Temple to talk on Trump's Project 2025, and both Chipotle and Starbucks get slapped by the NLRB.

University of Wisconsin unions show up at the university system's Board of Regents meeting with actions and demands, striking University of Illinois Hospital nurses speak to Labor Radio at the picket line, the federally-appointed "neutral" monitor tries to make the UAW do his bidding on Gaza policy, unions strike across Cornell University, and we hear voices of organized labor at the Democratic Party convention.

Expiris in Milwaukee says its job cuts have nothing to do with the union drive, Harley in Milwaukee says its threatened job moves overseas have nothing to do with its union shop, an AFSCME Madison city worker testifies in support of putting a budget referendum on the November ballot, Nick Ramos of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign gives an analysis of the recent election and the labor-supported defeat of the constitutional changes, and we have an extended look at the American Federation of Teachers lawsuit against the student loan servicing company MOHELA.

The president of the South Central Federation of Labor-AFL-CIO talks endorsements and urges against the constitutional cahnges on Tuesday's ballot, UW Health nurses demand better family leave, a Rally for Democracy in Madison includes calls for working people, a health care apprenticeship program gets funding in South Central Wisconsin, and the staff at the nation's largest union end up in a tough union struggle of their own.

The Poor Peoples Campaign has an upcoming march and a meeting in Madison, Madison-area union members in the APWU and UE speak on their unions signing a letter to President Biden demanding an arms cutoff of Israel, new slates win elections at the United Federation of Teachers and at the Amazon Labor Union, Disney workers get a contract soon after a strike authorization vote, drastic industry changes are pushing union organizing at Microsoft-owned video game companies Activision and Blizzard, a recent Supreme Court ruling is likely to slow implementation of new federal workplace heat standards, and Wisconsin was once a workplace civil rights enforcement leader.

South Central Federation of Labor organizer Issy Bilek talks to Labor Radio, a worker talks about worker security during the Republican convention in Milwaukee, an education advocate talks ballot questions, seven unions representing around 6 million workers call on President Biden to end arm sales to Israel, there's a new farmer-labor podcast, the Economic Policy Institute has reports on unionization and on the myth of 'flexibility', and SpeceX can blow up labor law like it blows up spaceships.

A Madison city worker talks about the budget battle, 28,000 United Airlines flight attendants are moving to a strike authorization vote, Trump is with us, fellow workers! if you believe Teamster President Sean O'Brien and Harvard Law hillbilly/Vice Presidential candidate J. D. Vance from the GOP convention stage in Milwaukee, a former major league umpire recalls the disastrous 1999 mass registration attempt that ended up sinking the union, and the SCFL president talks about the constitutional amendment questions on the August ballot.

OSHA introduces new heat standards amid worker deaths, a jusge says ballot drops are back in Wisconsin and the Leauge ofWomen Voters explains the impact, the APWU convention will have a Wisconsin-initated call for a workers' party, the GOP comes to Milwaukee and brings a right-wing platform all laid out, a left coalition makes waves in French elections, and Labor Radio remembers the late Jane McAlevey.

President Joe Biden visits Madison and is met by supporters and protesters, a Dane County judge says Act 10 looks unconstitutional, migrant agricultural workers get some visa protections, the 'Chevron rule' and Trump decisions at the US Supreme Court and what it could mean for workers, a lawsuit says Milwaukee Tool uses work gloves made by slaves, and some Teamster hopeful drivers in Skokie have an unfair labor practice strike as for some reason Amazon keeps ending the contracts of "partner" companies that might unionize. The show ends with more recorded tributes to Labor Radio co-founder and fighter for labor Frank Emspak, who died on June 14.

Rock Energy gas workers with IBEW 965 have a contract, some states are pushing back on child labor expansion, more on the August referenda vote, and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has weighed in on ellection worker hiring. Today's show has tributes from friends and comrades of the late Frank Emspak, co-founder of Labor Radio.

In this show, we remember Labor Radio co-founder Frank Emspak, who died June 14 at the age of 80. In a 2023 interview at WORT, Frank tells the story of Workers Independent News, which for a brief time brought union news into mainstream commercial radio. In labor news: It's the annual birthday celebration of the embattled Wisconsin civil service system, Amazon workers ratify a switch to the Teamsters, SEIU Wisconsin has thirteen new member nurses at UnityPoint-Meriter in Madison, public school teachers see victory in Virginia, and the Poor Peoples Campaign holds an online rally ahead of its June 29 gathering in DC.

If you want Family Velues @ Work, shouldn't you welcome your own union? Also: Wisconsin organized labor fights for Juneteenth recognition, the new Fair Maps ruling and the August ballot in Wisconsin, an Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee project of the UE and the DSA comes to the Madison area, the Supreme Court rules for Starbucks and against its union and the NLRB, a look at the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, and worker organizing makes Waffle House raise wages... a litte.

Utility workers fix things up after a big Madison-area storm, more on state contitutional amendments that will be on the August ballot, voices from the eighth trades-sponosred Take Kids Fishing Day, the Amazon Labor Union votes to affilitate with the Teamsters, and the final numbers are in on the letter carriers' Mothers Day food drive. THIS IS A PLEDGE WEEK EDITION.

Madison is telling workers 'No money for you,' progressive organizatiosn team up to wipe out student food debt, labor argues against Act 10 in court, Teamster locals 695 abd 120 join forces, it's Take Kids Fishing weekend, and the South Central Federation of Labor speals out against repression of protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The South Central Federation of Labor holds its annual COPE Bean Feed, a worker in SEIU Wisconsin gives details on the UnityPoint-Meriter Hospital support staff contract that was approved this week, Voces de la Frontera calls for increased immigrant work permits, get the union side of the Madison schools teacher pay and staffing crisis, a worker from UAW 4811 at the Unviersity of California talks about the strike action there following pro-Palestinian protest crackdowns, and hear how constitutional amendments on this August's Wisconsin ballot will affect workers.

Negotiators have a tentative agreement for support staff at UnityPoint Health Meriter in Madison, the UAW comes up short in a union recognition vote at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama, voices from Madison's Faith-Labor Breakfast, the results of the letter carriers' Mothers Day weekend food drive is in, some third graders learn what a union is, 48,000-strong University of California local authorizes a strike vote over the administration's violent response to Palestine protests, prepping for a vote in August, and a call for a general strike in Argentina.

SEIU Wisconsin pickets for a support staff contract at UnityPoint Meriter Hospital in Madison, the letter carriers union has its annual food drive, the student encampment at UW-Madison goes down but not before getting union support, it's State Employee Appreciation Week and Nurses Week across the country and in Wisconsin, Madison's annual Faith-Labor Breakfast is coming up, and the UAW and the German government take on Mercedes-Benz in the South.