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Last week, on Monday, March 24, 2025, Arbitrator Dennis Nolan issued a final arbitration award after serving as neutral arbitration between the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the United States Postal Service (USPS) following their struggle to reach a mutually agreeable contract in February. The award sets the terms of a three-year collective-bargaining…

Two weeks ago, on Tuesday, March 11, a group of nearly thirty bus drivers for Wave Transit System rallied in the form of what’s called a “sick out,” protesting major concerns they have had regarding the company’s non-cooperation at the negotiating table and overall poor treatment of drivers. Antonie Maiben, who is President of the…

I’m being paid about half of what I’m worth. All of us are. So when the company complains about how this contract may double their labor costs, well that’s only because they’ve been cheating us out of half of what we’re owed anyway. Robert Soderstrom works in the body shop of the Volkswagen plant in…

Workers at Ultium Cells, based in Spring Hill, Tennessee, have won big. Chuck Davenport, Servicing Representative for UAW Region 8, joined us on this past Saturday’s broadcast to talk about the huge victory. But before detailing the gains, it’s important to explain what exactly the workers were fighting against, and Davenport was able to set…

“The attack on the federal workforce is not really about the federal workforce, it’s not really about ‘government efficiency,’ it’s really about remaking the civil service, eliminating large parts of the civil service, in the image of the Billionaire Class.” This was the opening response by Chris Dols when he joined us for an interview…

“Everyone listening, every voter in the country really needs to know that the House Republican budget that was presented this week basically is a ‘Billionaire’s First’ budget.” Robyn Hyden is the Executive Director of Alabama Arise, and this was her immediate response on last Saturday’s live broadcast of The Valley Labor Report when asked what…

Jason Bailey is just one among a majority of Kentuckians celebrating the recent defeat of a Republican-backed bill in the state that would have introduced a school voucher program — a move Republican lawmakers across the United States have been aggressively pushing for in recent years. Bailey is not only celebrating, but was also directly…

“I have to say: this is the most convoluted, dysfunctional negotiating debacle situation I have ever seen, nothing even comes close.” Mark Burrows, a retired rail worker who worked in the industry for 37 years and also served as the Organizer and Co-Chair for Railroad Workers United (RWU), is just one of many expressing their…

Hey yall – with the start of the New Year we’re getting back into the swing of things, and I wanted to take the time to do some house cleaning stuff.  First of all, I want to thank everyone who donated to our fundraising campaign again. Because of your generous donations, we have been able…

We’ve launched our 10 day fundraising campaign, check it out here. The Valley Labor Report is the largest union radio program in the South. A majority of our funding comes from unions, but a significant minority of our funding – indeed, the largest single source of funding – comes from our listeners. Listener funding helps…