In Ohio in 2011, Gov. John Kasich, facing a budget crisis caused by Wall Street bankers, blames it on public employees and pushes through a bill gutting their collective bargaining rights. Firefighters, professors and teachers, nurses and cops along with …

The union election at Volkswagen has caused political and legal disputes and reaction around the world. Thursday on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll interview In These Times reporter Mike Elk about the Bugs in the Volkswagen Election. Then, will early …

Many people know that NAFTA has been a disaster for Mexican workers, with lost jobs, increasing poverty and pressure to migrate, but few here have heard of the resistance by Mexican workers to privatization of vast sectors of the economy …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we travel with National Nurses United to the Phillipines to hear about their RNRN program. That’s Registered Nurses Response Network. They have sent several teams of nurses to give care and build international …

KC is all excited about new streetcars, but City Manager Troy Schulte wants them on the cheap. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Amalgamated Transit Union President JP Walker about the city’s plans to run street …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we return to the Bangladesh factory collapse with the International Labor Rights Forum and ask “‘Were The Workers Left In The Rubble?” Then, we’ll visit Jefferson City and ask Rep. Michael Frame and …

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’re changing our schedule to memorialize Pete Seeger–banjo player, balladeer, singalong leader, union member, and blacklisted by McCarthyites. Pete died last week, and people who knew him will share stories about him, some …

The Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP: it’s the new NAFTA-style trade agreement the President is pushing. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, our show is called “The TPP: On A Roll; Still Flushable”. As Congress takes up a fast track …

Do privatizers have the Kansas City School District in their sites? Are we looking at the end of public educational we know it in KCMO? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll ask union, parent and community activists about …

Not so long ago, Kansas City was a segregated town and so were many of our unions. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Kansas City veterans of the civil rights movement who marched for freedom and …