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

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The podcast currently has 870 episodes available.

Heartland Labor Forum episodes:

April 27, 2017 Why Boycott Driscolls & An Economy Without Immigrants
Why Boycott Driscolls & An Economy Without Immigrants. It’s strawberry season, but before you bake that pie, look for the Driscoll label and don’t. There’s a boycott by workers in Mexico who are paid $6-12 a day. Find out more on …
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59min
April 21, 2017 Why Are So Many Millennials Socialists? And Refinery Town
Ben Tulchin, Bernie Sanders’ pollster, and head of Tulchin Research, will join us on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum to discuss whether millennials who voted progressive in 2016 will continue […]
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58min
April 21, 2017 Why Are So Many Millennials Socialists? And Refinery Town
Ben Tulchin, Bernie Sanders’ pollster, and head of Tulchin Research, will join us on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum to discuss whether millennials who voted progressive in 2016 will continue to do so as they get older. Then, it’s the …
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58min
April 13, 2017 Tradeswomen Building Bridges to India and Kids March for One Race-Human Race
In India, 40% of construction workers are women. Last January, a delegation of American tradeswomen traveled to India to build bridges and fight for the rights of women in the […]
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April 13, 2017 Tradeswomen Building Bridges to India and Kids March for One Race-Human Race
In India, 40% of construction workers are women. Last January, a delegation of American tradeswomen traveled to India to build bridges and fight for the rights of women in the construction workforce both there and here. Find out more on …
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1h 1min
April 06, 2017 The Challenge Manufacturing Strike Victory and From Male to Female: How One Engineer Learned About Discrimination
Last month, a diverse group of workers at Challenge Manufacturing near the airport showed Kansas City that even in the era of Trump, you can win a strike. Find out […]
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58min
April 06, 2017 The Challenge Manufacturing Strike Victory and From Male to Female: How One Engineer Learned About Discrimination
Last month, a diverse group of workers at Challenge Manufacturing near the airport showed Kansas City that even in the era of Trump, you can win a strike. Find out about it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, …
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58min
March 31, 2017 Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: In her new book Chow Chop Suey, food historian Anne Mendelson traces the history of the Chinese in America through food in Chinese […]
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March 31, 2017 Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: In her new book Chow Chop Suey, food historian Anne Mendelson traces the history of the Chinese in America through food in Chinese restaurants. It’s a story of how xenophobia stunted the enrichment …
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March 23, 2017 Surviving and Fighting Right to Work
Unless Missouri unions develop a way to block it, Missouri will become the 28th right to work state on August 28th. How can our unions – and workers – survive […]
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1h 1min

FAQs about Heartland Labor Forum:

How many episodes does Heartland Labor Forum have?

The podcast currently has 870 episodes available.