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:

October 27, 2014 21st-century Ford workers
Young auto workers today make far less than their older coworkers. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll have a conversation with 21st-century Ford workers about their hopes, their jobs, and their compensation. Then our pioneer woman of the …
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59min
October 22, 2014 Elections: Hot Races in Kansas and Missouri
There are lots of hot election races in Kansas this year and a few even in Missouri. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to some insiders: Courtney Cole for Missouri and Mary O’Halloran for Kansas. Tune in …
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October 14, 2014 Privatization: What’s the Cost? and Stopping Privatization in KC
As state and local governments outsource important public functions to for-profit companies, what happens to workers and their communities? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll find out from In The Public Interest about how outsourcing public services rewards …
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October 01, 2014 Denied Unemployment? Help Is on the Way and Assessing the Fast Food Campaign, Its Triumphs and Future
Denied unemployment? Help is on the way. UMKC has a clinic to help people appeal the denial of claims. That’s this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Also, the movement of fast food workers in Kansas City and across the …
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59min
September 22, 2014 Reviving the Public Sector Strike and Blowing the Whistle on Unsafe Work
A few decades ago, Kansas City had teachers and firefighters strikes, but it’s been years. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we interview Joe Burns, who thinks we should bring back the public sector strike. Then, the Obama administration …
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1h 1min
September 15, 2014 Teachers Unite Against Amendment 3 & "Parasitic Finance Capital"
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, St. Louis money bags Rex Sinquefield is behind Amendment 3 on the Missouri November ballot, another state constitutional amendment. It would pay teachers on the basis of student test scores. Teachers, administrators, and …
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September 08, 2014 Stop That One-Man Train!
Workers on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe are voting on a proposal to eliminate conductor jobs and run trains with only an engineer. It’s stirring up lots of opposition from workers, their families, environmentalists and community members who remember the …
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58min
September 02, 2014 Is Ferguson a Labor Issue?
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum our show is called Ferguson Missouri: Mirror of Deindustrialization. We ask why all-too-common police violence erupted into mass protest in Ferguson? Has the 40 year attack on working families and its resultant poverty …
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1h
August 27, 2014 The Connections Between Tips and Sexual Harrassment
Did you know that the restaurant industry is the single largest source of sexual harassment charges? Roc United – The Restaurant Opportunity Center, has a campaign to end the tipped minimum wage. Find out about the connection between tips and …
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August 18, 2014 The Jazz Union: Whatever Happened to Local 627?
The Jazz Union: Whatever Happened to Local 627?
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59min

FAQs about Heartland Labor Forum:

How many episodes does Heartland Labor Forum have?

The podcast currently has 870 episodes available.