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01/21/2010

Labor Express Radio for Jan 11 - UNITE-HERE Chicago Hotel Organizing and More!

This is the full 1-11-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.


Part 1 of a 2 part look at the labor news of 2009 and Labor Express Radio's coverage of it. In this part we cover...

  • The impact of the Republic Windows and Doors Workers December 2008 factory occupation on the labor movement. 
  • UE's efforts to win workers justice at Quad City Die Casting and to organize warehouse workers in Chicago's Southwest suburbs. 
  • The contract campaign of UNITE-HERE on behalf of 6,000 hotel workers in Chicago at 30 hotels. 
  • The victory of Teamsters 743 at SK Hand Tools. 
  • The struggle for real health care reform. 
  • The auto industry bailout.
  •  And the economic 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 Monday morning at 10:00 AM on Chicago's Sound Alliance, WLUW, 88.7 FM. 

For more information, see our website at: www.laborexpress.org

and our homepage on Archive.org at:
http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio

or page at Radio4All.net…
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Labor+Express+Radio

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