Labor Radio

Labor Radio


Elections, cards in big week at Starbucks stores | ILO on forced labor worldwide | April 2 referenda | Meriter update | UAW in Tennessee | Pay gap | Georgia vs. unions | ERA on March 22, 1972

March 22, 2024

Madison area Starbucks workers who won elections or filed for one this week speak out, the International Labor Organization reports how forced labor and trafficking grows worldwide, two Republican-led Wisconsin constitutional amendments are on the April 2 ballot, UnityPoint-Meriter support staff contract talks drag on, unions advance in Tennessee and face reporession in Georgia, and the male-female pay gap persists. Plus how 52 years ago an Equal Rights Amendment seemed just around the corner.