The president of UAW Local 291 discusses its new contract with Cummins Incorporated in Oshkosh as its almost four-month strike there comes to an end, the president of the faculty and academic staff union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses how a seeming big Wisconsin state budget increase for UW isn't necessarily one for workers, over 9000 city workers including sanitation workers are on strike across Philadelphia, UAW Local 35 members working at Mercy Health East in Janesville go on strike, a big district court injunction win for federal employees has to be sifted through a US Supreme Court decision issued a few days later, and Frederick Douglass asks What to a slave is the Fourth of July?