Labor Express Radio
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Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. “News for working people, by working people.” Our program covers issues in the labor movement locally, nationally, and internationally. The program also addresses issues of concern to working people such as housing, education, health care, immigrants rights, the environment and U.S. foreign policy, from a working class viewpoint. Labor Express Radio airs Sunday nights at 8:00 PM on Chicago's Lumpenradio, WLPN, 105.5 FM. The program is streamed live at http://lumpenradio.com/. Archived programs

91 Show: Labor Express for 9-13-2020, Nurses at UIC go on strike! Teamsters 743 fight cuts and closures at Provident and Mercy hospitals. Warehouse Workers for Justice fights firings of Mars candy worker 2020-09-14
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92 Show: Labor Express for 8-30-2020, Postal workers speak out against attacks on the postal system and bus driver Erek Slater of the ATU fights the CTA over another illegal firing and for racial and eco 2020-09-01
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93 Show: Labor Express for 8-9-2020, CTU demands remote start to CPS school year and audio excerpt from Haymarket Books forum Racism is a Public Health Crisis. 2020-08-11
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94 Show: Labor Express for 7-26-2020, Jorge Mujica of Arise Chicago on Illinois Unidos and CBA for displaced by Obama Presidential Library. 2020-07-28
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95 Show: Labor Express for 6-28-2020, COVID-19 and meatpackers as well as union’s relationship with Black Lives Matter and the Police as addressed by several labor radio shows. 2020-07-14
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96 Show: Labor Express for 6-28-2020, Ameya Pawar on UBI, Stacy Davis Gates on cops out of CPS Schools 2020-06-30
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97 Show: Labor Express for 6-14-2020, Erek Slater on ATU solidarity with Black Lives Matter and CTA management’s efforts to silence that solidarity, and voices from the uprising. 2020-06-16
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98 Labor Express Radio Audio Extra: Chicago bus driver and elected ATU Local 241 board member denounces CTA management’s suspension for discussing solidarity with anti-police brutality protesters. 2020-06-09
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99 Show: Labor Express for 5-31-2020, Mike Elk on COVID-19 Strike Wave Tracker and Interactive Map. Plus teachers respond to COVID-19. 2020-06-01
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100 Show: Labor Express for 5-17-2020, Cristobal Cavazos of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage Workers Center and Amazonians United. 2020-05-18
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