Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

August 02, 2022 Inflation and Monopoly: What’s the Connection? And David Bacon: More Than a Wall – 30 Years of Photos
The Federal Reserve is trying to slow inflation by raising interest rates. At the same time corporate profits are at an all-time high. We’ll ask UMKC economists if our monopolized […]
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1 hr
July 29, 2022 4000 Union Troublemakers! A Report from the Labor Notes Conference
Last month over 4,000 rank and file labor activists met in Chicago for the biannual Labor Notes Conference. There were 250 workshops teaching how to make good trouble, plenaries with luminaries like Amazon’s Chris Smalls, the new Teamster President Sean O’Brien, and even Bernie Sanders made an appearance. The Heartland Labor Forum was there. We […]
1 hr 1 min
July 19, 2022 Max Alvarez-The Work of Living and Revisiting Joy Silk – can the NLRB Make It Easier to Organize?
Max Alvarez of the Real News has a new book, The Work of Living. In it, he dives deep into the lives of essential workers and how they survived being […]
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1 hr 1 min
July 14, 2022 A Pregnant HLF Volunteer Investigates Maternity Leave and The New AFL-CIO Leadership
When a Heartland Labor Forum programmer became pregnant, she began investigating maternity and family leave to find out how her pregnancy would impact her financial health. Turns out pregnancy in […]
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59 min
July 08, 2022 Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller: Tales of Struggle and The Long Wait for Missouri Medicaid
We interview 9 to 5’s Ellen Bravo and Rethinking Schools’ Larry Miller about their new novel based on their lives as labor activists. Then after years of inaction to expand […]
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1 hr 3 min
June 29, 2022 The Postal Reform Act and UMKC Student Tenant Union
President Biden signed The Postal Service Reform Act April 6th. It will provide much needed financial and operational changes to the US Postal Service. Learn what improvements to your service […]
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1 hr 1 min
June 24, 2022 Is the Right to an Abortion a Working Women’s Issue? Is it Common Sense?
The leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court tells us that overturning women’s right to abortion is likely, and soon. Meanwhile anti-abortion politicians in Kansas put an amendment on the […]
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57 min
June 21, 2022 Dystopian Novelist Dave Eggers, Author of The Every and the Circle
What would happen if a global social media empire merged with the world’s largest online retailer? Would everything become company business? Join award-winning author Dave Eggers, author of Heartbreaking Work […]
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1 hr 1 min
June 14, 2022 Dystopian novelist Dave Eggers, author of the Circle and the Every, nominated for a Pulitzer
What would happen if a global social media empire merged with the world’s largest online retailer? Would everything become company business? Join award-winning author Dave Eggers, author of Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum and his newest,: The Every, a dystopian vision of the future. Also, Know Your Rights with […]
1 hr 1 min
June 09, 2022 The Need to Ban Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings
The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wants to bust the union busters. She’s moving to outlaw anti-union captive audience meetings where employers push workers to vote against […]
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1 hr

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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…