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Heartland Labor Forum listeners know that U.S. labor law sucks. Are there places in the world where workers have real rights and employers can’t violate the law with impunity? This […]The post Comparing Our Labor Law with Europe and Canada and
Libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand would like to dismantle our labor laws and any regulations that interfere with the rights of corporations. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum […]The post ZEDE Prospera: A Libertarian Fantasy with Nightmare
Third parties are busting out all over this Spring and on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum. Do 3rd parties “spoil” our elections or strengthen democracy? Labor leader and Socialist candidate […]The post Third Parties: Are They Spoilers or Do
A year ago, a Norfolk Southern train derailed and blanketed East Palestine Ohio with vinyl chloride? We’ll talk to a union rep about the lives impacted, the cleanup and threats […]The post East Palestine: Still Derailed One Year Later and Bloo
The debate is raging between labor and activist groups on whether or not to support the 40-year ½ cent sales tax for the Royals to build a new stadium in […]The post The 3/8th cent sales tax pro and con appeared first on KKFI.
Two years ago, Missouri lawmakers passed a law to criminalize librarians for giving students books that the legislators think are obscene. As a result, public school libraries have purged science […]The post Librarians vs. the Book Ban and Kan
It’s women’s history month and time for some feminist labor history on the Heartland Labor Forum. We’ll ask Mary Ellen Miller how stewardesses at TWA became flight attendants and split […]The post The Flight Attendant Rebellion: A History of t
Longtime labor activist and writer Les Leopold has a new book: Wall Street’s War on Workers, which delves into how mass layoffs and stock buybacks enrich shareholders at the expense […]The post Les Leopold: Wall Streets War on Workers and Wha
What’s the Missouri legislature cookin’ up this session? Bills are being proposed that would assault people’s rights and attack public education. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask […]The post What Are they Cookin’ up This yea
Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez goes on trial this month in New York for drug trafficking. Honduran workers faced repression, corruption and forced migration during his reign. We’ll ask whether […]The post A Dictator Goes on Trial an
We all remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for his legacy in the civil rights movement. Maybe you know he was shot while supporting a strike of garbage collectors in […]The post Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement appeared first on
We’ll find out what it’s like to work and support your family as refugees in your own land. We’ll talk to two Palestinians about jobs, wages, and the war. Then […]The post Work Under Occupation and Unions Come Out for Ceasefire in Gaza appeare
We’ll have a tribute to music, labor and musicians. The Kansas City Latin Jazz Orchestra is a tuition free cultural immersion education and performance non-profit orchestra. We talk with bandleader Pablo […]The post The Work of a Jazz Musician
Is Trump a Fascist? More and more experts are saying “yes he is.” So, what’s a fascist? And how, if Trump wins in November, could working people be hurt by […]The post Is Trump a Fascist? and Kevin Hendrickson of Pipefitters Local 533 appeared
We’ll talk to journalist Lawrence Tabak, author of Foxconned, on how the Taiwanese company conned former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and how corporations transfer taxpayer money to themselves benefitting consultants, […]The post Foxconned
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ve got a rerun of our Thanksgiving show, which we’re betting you missed. Tune in and appreciate the work of our volunteer programmers […]The post The Best of 2023 on the Heartland Labor Forum appeared
Last January the Heartland Labor Forum volunteers and labor programmers from as far away as England looked in their crystal balls to predict what would happen to workers in 2023. […]The post Labor’s Crystal Ball for 2024 appeared first on KKFI
Despite a number of attempts by the UAW to organize foreign-owned Southern auto plants, there’s been stiff resistance from the foreign companies, politicians, community, and workers themselves. This week on […]The post UAW’s Southern Strategy
From the Gilded Age to the 1920s, employers and allies used terrorism to control workplaces and communities. We’ll talk to Chad Pearson, author of Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen & Employers […]The post Chad Pearson, Capital’s Terrorist
We’ll talk about organizing and labor’s future with New Yorker writer Eleni Schirmer who thinks labor guru Jane McAlevey has transformed the labor movement and then with former ILWU organizing […]The post Can Labor Seize the Movement Moment? –
Kansas City’s Alise Martiny is one of the highest ranking women in building trades union history. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to her and find out […]The post Alise Martiny: Woman at the Top – and – Steve Gercone of the
It’s Thanksgiving and we thought it would give us an opportunity to appreciate the work of our volunteer programmers on the Heartland Labor Forum throughout 2023 by playing clips of […]The post Best of 2023 on the Heartland Labor Forum appeare
Teamsters for a Democratic Union or TDU has for almost half a century led the fight for rank-and-file union democracy and been a leader fighting back against increasingly greedy corporations. […]The post Teamsters for a Democratic Union: Is It
In May 2022, the Heartland Labor Forum reported on censorship in public schools. We’ll follow up with KCMO school librarian, Rebecca Parker about the escalation of book bans and the […]The post Banned but not Forgotten; The State of KCMO Schoo
Amazon is a serial labor law violator. In fact, there is a veritable river of decisions holding the company guilty of violating its workers rights, but last we checked Amazon […]The post Amazon Delivers — Bad Faith and What’s in the New Auto C
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