On this week’s Heartland Labor Forum we ask, “how are good jobs being turned bad?” with two examples: if prison isn’t slave labor, it’s close. We’ll have a survey of jobs that have gone to federal and state prisons and …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Kevin Corley who wrote a novel called Sixteen Tons about coal miners, their families, and the struggle to organize. It’s based on interviews done with miners who lived it. Then, …

Will Paul Davis become Brownback’s downfall? In an exclusive interview with Heartland Labor Forum, the candidate for Kansas Governor talks about his background and what’s the matter with Kansas. Then, Andy Kroll of Mother Jones Magazine takes us into the …

Local food production is all the rage these days, but amidst its many the virtues environmentally, in health, animal welfare, and saving small farms, few pay attention to the lives and working conditions of the farmworkers who produce this food. …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: a cauldron of troublemakers. We’ll feature excerpts from The Labor Notes Convention with speeches by new APWU President Mark Dimondstein, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, and other rank and file troublemakers. Tune …

Are we getting all the facts about the streetcar? Is it for transportation, or do profits come first? And then, North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement for economic fairness and equal justice has mobilized tens of thousands. Now it’s expanding to …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, get the latest on what’s happening in the Missouri State House with a legislative update from House Minority Leader Jake Hummel. Also, economics professor Michael Kelsay will tell us the true story of …

Simon Head, author of Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans, says working at Wal-Mart or Amazon is like being on a digital chain gang. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview Head to find out more. …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: 25 years of labor radio–the Heartland Labor Forum‘s birthday! Our first show was April Fool’s Day, 1989, and we’ll have an open house inviting former volunteers and guests to help us celebrate on-air. …

Who’s behind the obscene manipulation of elections by super-rich donors? Are the 1%’s top 1% buying our elections? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll give you some answers and ask Ben Cohen about his more than a “half-baked” …