The United Electrical, Radio and Machine workers is a union that’s much more than just those occupations. UE as it’s called, has organized thirty thousand graduate workers in the last […]

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KU Labor Historian David Roediger is a scholar of white working-class studies. His new memoir, An Ordinary White; My Anti-Racist Education chronicles growing up in a sundown town and then […]

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There’s a lot of controversy about Trump’s tariffs for auto. Is it just spectacle, or could they actually lead to more domestic auto production and at what cost? We’ll talk […]

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Trump dumped NIOSH – the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health? We’ll ask if we can save it and why it’s important to workers. Then many unions in the […]

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Last November Missouri citizens made their voices heard at the ballot box in favor of abortion access and paid sick leave for workers.  Then during the last week of the […]

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Americans have many questions these days about government services like the postal service that are under attack. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll visit with Darcy Wood, President […]

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UAW founder Walter Reuther was famous, his brother Roy wasn’t, but he made important contributions to both the labor and civil rights movements. Roy’s son, Alan joins us this week […]

The post Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize appeared first on KKFI.

What do you do when the head of state comes after your union with 6,000 cops and a license to kill? We’ll get advice from John Dunne who had his […]

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