Heartland Labor Forum

By KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio

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 ... more

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about Heartland Labor Forum:

How many episodes does Heartland Labor Forum have?

The podcast currently has 870 episodes available.

Heartland Labor Forum episodes:

October 19, 2017 The Great Job Creation Scam: Wisconsin’s New “FoxCon” and Subsidizing Robot Jobs
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview Greg Leroy of Good Jobs First about their new database of corporate tax giveaways and a clever accounting rule that could rein in abuses. We’ll talk about the KC Public Library, …
...more
1h 1min
October 12, 2017 The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Remember when we couldn’t bring signs to demonstrations because they could be used as weapons? Since Charlottesville, people are bringing weapons!! What happens […]
The post The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion appeared first on KKFI.
...more
1h
October 12, 2017 The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Remember when we couldn’t bring signs to demonstrations because they could be used as weapons? Since Charlottesville, people are bringing weapons!! What happens to freedom of speech? Hear activists in a roundtable discussion. …
...more
1h
October 05, 2017 Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers
ADAPT took hundreds to DC twice to break the back of Trumpcare. They succeeded. Hear about it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, isn’t it about time to […]
The post Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers appeared first on KKFI.
...more
1h 1min
October 05, 2017 Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers
ADAPT took hundreds to DC twice to break the back of Trumpcare. They succeeded. Hear about it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, isn’t it about time to bring all the railroad craft unions together to work on …
...more
1h 1min
September 28, 2017 Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Lane Windham, whose new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New […]
The post Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory appeared first on KKFI.
...more
1h 1min
September 28, 2017 Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Lane Windham, whose new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide, overturns widely held myths about labor’s decline, showing …
...more
1h 1min
September 21, 2017 Trump Attack on the Federal Workforce and Does It Pay to Go to College?
When Trump cuts the federal budget, he’s cutting pensions for federal workers including postal employees. How bad are they, and what are federal worker unions doing to push back? We’ll […]
The post Trump Attack on the Federal Workforce and Does It Pay to Go to College? appeared first on KKFI.
...more
56min
September 21, 2017 Trump Attack on the Federal Workforce and Does It Pay to Go to College?
When Trump cuts the federal budget, he’s cutting pensions for federal workers including postal employees. How bad are they, and what are federal worker unions doing to push back? We’ll find out this week on Heartland Labor Forum. Then, the …
...more
56min
September 14, 2017 The Right to Work Signature Campaign and Greitens’ Dark Money
Missouri Labor faces an existential crisis in the passage of a so-called Right to Work bill, but they’re fighting back with teams of determined volunteers, armed with petitions aimed at […]
The post The Right to Work Signature Campaign and Greitens’ Dark Money appeared first on KKFI.
...more
1h

FAQs about Heartland Labor Forum:

How many episodes does Heartland Labor Forum have?

The podcast currently has 870 episodes available.