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Updates on the John Deere strike including one member being killed and the NY Attorney General steps in to stop Pinkertons.
Trevor Bidelman, Local 3G President joins the show to discuss his members' strike at Kellogg's. The workers have been on strike since the beginning of October as they fight for a fair contract. Donate to their Strikefund: https://msha.ke/bctgm
Vermont State Labor Council AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen joins the show to talk guns, fascism, and the importance of focusing on organizing.
C David Cottrill, an IATSE 488 Business Agent and Political/Legislative Coordinator, joins the show to talk about why his 60,000 person union could go on strike as early as next week due to crazy hours that they are forced to work and low pay.
The Nabisco strike may be over, but another strike has begun at Heaven Hill Distillery and Cops warn of Violence at September 18th rally.
Biden met with automakers about electric vehicles, but Tesla was not there due to their anti-union activities. Plus the IBEW has won a decade-long fight to get the first contract with Comcast and the NLRB may be able to make card check a realit
A union steamfitter and a UPS employee are the two latest people to be arrested for taking part in the attack on the United States Capital.
President Biden is mandating vaccines, but unions are pushing back saying that this needs to be bargained. Plus OSHA has issued a $1M fine to a Georgia Poultry plant that killed 6 workers
We have Randy Korgan, the National Director of Organizing Amazon from the Teamsters calling in to discuss their plan to organize Amazon workers nationwide.
The Teamsters are going after Amazon, which is reporting sky-high injury rates. The Supreme Court issues yet another anti-union decision, while Biden announces who the deciding vote on the NLRB will be.
Phil Cohen calls in to talk about what President Biden can do to fix the NLRB. Right to work is defeated in New Hampshire, California union elects a controversial new leader to lead a 90,000 member union, and the UFCW inks the first national ca
Plus environmentalist union-busting, regulating self-driving cars, and the White House Task Force looks at how to promote organizing.
Teamsters notch big win against CEO pay, Biden sets up union taskforce, unions say no money to Democrats who don't support the PRO Act and much more on this week's UCOMM Live with Kris LaGrange.
Thursday, April 8th is the PRO Act Digitial Day of Action, find out what you need to do to get this important bill passed. Amazon, Tesla, and Google are all in trouble with the NLRB over union busting charges. President Biden has released a m
A look at 20 things that the American Rescue Plan does for workers, Senate confirms Marty Walsh, Amazon violates NLRB rules, and the Supreme Court is hearing a union case.
Boycott Amazon has been trending this week as consumers stay away from Amazon to support the workers organizing in Alabama. The PRO Act passed the House this week, but faces an uncertain future in the Senate. Right to Work was defeated in Monta
On UCOMM Live with Kris LaGrange Thursday 2/25 at 12 noon ET, we got Jay Malone, the Political Director for the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation, welcoming back Vinny Alvarez, President of the NYC CLC and also welcoming back Randi Weingar
A bill to strengthen apprenticeships has passed the House of Representatives, find out what it does and how it makes pre-apprenticeships and youth apprenticeships stronger. The PRO Act has been introduced, Evan Papp from Empathy Media Labs come
IBEW Local 3's Chris Erikson comes on to talk about the Biden Presidency and how his local union is making it through COVID. We also take a look at the Executive Orders Biden has signed including an OSHA standard for COVID, Union membership inc
Labor has played an integral role in getting the vaccine out to the public, but they also built the facilities that made the vaccine. Find out more about the role they have played. Trumpers attacked the Capitol, killed a cop, and are now going
Plus Southwest announces layoffs, NFLPA thinks they can get the season finished without a bubble, the IBEW is training fire departments on how to deal with solar panels, organizing wins from DC to Guam, and teachers are being moved to the front
Workers at an Alabama warehouse are organizing with RWDSU, while the company has decided to hire the union-busting Pinkerton firm to spy on workers. Trump is going after your tips and is trying to prevent unions from organizing on company prope
The Building Trades secure a deal to build offshore wind plants, North Dakota is forcing nurses to work while sick with COVID, Biden shows his union muscle to CEOs, and who will lead the Departments of Education and Labor?
27 union leaders will help decide the future of our nation as they join 15 different agency review teams. Additionally, two labor leaders have been appointed to the full transition team by President-elect Biden. The PRO Act will become law if D
As of this recording, the President hasn't been chosen yet, but we do know that union members turned out big in states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada. However some of the Republicans elected to lower offices are pretty anti-union. Plus the
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