Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City's only program about the workplace. It is produced by and for our working people. We have been agitating on the air since 1989. Find out who is busting unions and who is fighting back. We are a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network #laborradiopod
Latest episodes
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Rural, Working Class Candidates Are Challenging the Status Quo
Can working class candidates win elections in rural Missouri? That’s our question on the Heartland Labor Forum this week. We’ll hear from The View from Rural Missouri Substack star…
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What Amazon Workers Can Learn from the Successes (and Failures) of the Fight for 15 and A Century of the Railw…
Two veteran union organizers: Pete Olney and Rand Wilson discuss the compelling need to organize Amazon and what that effort could learn from the Fight for $15 and a union. Then th…
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The Race for Missouri Senate: Keri Ingle vs. John Patterson plus a couple of MO House Races
With the midterms less than a month away, The Heartland Labor Forum is asking candidates what they think about working class issues. This week we’re diving into some hotly conteste…
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“The system’s down and I’ve got an 82-year-old woman whose check didn’t arrive?” Social Security Workers Speak…
You’ve probably heard that coal miners would take a canary into a mine because canaries drop dead before miners do when exposed to poison gasses. Social Security workers will talk…
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The Race for Kansas 1st Congressional District and State House Districts 3 and 6
The Midterms are barreling toward us with lots of fresh recruits wanting to unseat incumbents. We’ll focus on three Kansas races - the first Congressional District – a weirdly shap…
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The Race for the Kansas 1st Congressional District and for State Legislative Districts 6 and 3
The Midterms are barreling toward us with lots of fresh recruits wanting to unseat incumbents. We’ll focus on three Kansas races - the first Congressional District – a weirdly shap…
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Scandinavian Social Democracy – Why Not? and Devin Thomas O’Shea, The Veiled Prophet: White Supremacy, and the…
We visit the promised land, or is it? Scandinavian social democracy means universal healthcare, pensions, paid family leave and unions for most. Sounds great, right? We’ll talk pro…
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Finding Missouri’s 4th Congressional District and Bad News: DC Circuit Court Invalidates Successor Bar
Kansas City area voters should know before the we air on Thursday at 6pm which district and what candidates for Congress they can vote for. Wherever the 4th turns out to be, we’ve…
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Elaine Weiss: Spell Freedom; The Underground Schools of the Civil Rights Movement
Tennessee didn’t just produce Dolly Parton. The Highlander Center arose there in spite of Tennessee. It is a school for the movement - first for labor in the 1930s then civil right…
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Trades Women (and Men) Want Childcare and Introducing Missouri Jobs with Justice’s New Organizer Allie White
Do early child care facilities work for working families? The answer is no — at least not for union and trades families. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll hear about pro…
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When the KKK ruled KCK and Nelson Lichtenstein on the upcoming UAW elections
A hundred years ago in Kansas City Kansas, the KKK ruled. In fact, for three decades, they held substantial control of city government while fomenting hatred of Blacks, immigrants…
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What Will It Take to Abolish Fossil Fuels? and You too can be a radio star!
The climate change deniers haven’t stopped our forests and fields from burning this summer. So, this week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll ask Kevin A. Young, author of Abolishin…
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Teaching Labor History in K-12 with Rethinking Schools Magazine and Is Trump Planning to Invest Your Retiremen…
Did you learn any labor history in school? Probably not much. We’ll find out from Adam Sanchez of Rethinking Schools Magazine why it’s important for working class kids to learn the…
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World Cup Workers: Qatar in 2022 and Now
In 2022 the Heartland Labor Forum interviewed author Natasha Iskander who investigated the massive worker rights violations at the Doha World Cup and asked if you have to be a skil…
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The August 4th Missouri Ballot Amendments #4: and #5 and Union Leader Series: Kevin King from Union Leader to…
It’s not often that union members become politicians, but Kevin King, former labor leader is now mayor of Independence. We’ll get his story. Then KCUR’s Sam Zeff will run down two…
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The August 4th Kansas Judicial Election Amendment and Putting the Movement Back in the Labor Movement at Labor…
The August 4th Kansas ballot has a blockbuster constitutional amendment to change the way the state Supreme Court is selected. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll find out…
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The Emerging Green Economy and Daniel Kotzin: the Racist History of US Immigration Law
What is the status of the Green New Deal and the Inflation Reduction Act now that Trump is President? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll talk jobs, unions and the green t…
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The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We Need One of Our Own!
Labor educator and activist Les Leopold has given up on the Democratic Party and written a book called The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We Need a Party of Our Own. He’s calling o…
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Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny: the Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class and Joe Uehlein, Three Roads…
We explore two books. First, New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class who face underemployment, low pay and crippli…
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NLRB Update – the New Republican Majority and Working Families Friend Turns 23
The National Labor Relations Board will soon have a Republican majority, meaning that the rollback of Biden-era union protections is imminent. We’ll talk with journalist Robert Iaf…