Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

October 10, 2019 Apprenticeship at Risk and When at Times the Mob is Swayed
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask what’s Trump is up to with his apprenticeship proposal. We’ll find out from a union leader who knows what a real […]
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1 hr 1 min
October 03, 2019 Should Trump Be Impeached? – A Debate
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk about impeachment. Prof. Max Skidmore will explain the constitution and law on it and we’ll take your call-ins and questions. Two […]
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1 hr
October 03, 2019 Should Trump Be Impeached? – A Debate
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk about impeachment. Prof. Max Skidmore will explain the constitution and law on it and we’ll take your call-ins and questions. Two unions have endorsed impeachment, should more do so? Is impeaching Trump good for workers? We want to hear from you so tune in and call […]
1 hr
September 26, 2019 Is This a Test? – How Does A Lifetime of Teaching Affect You? An Original Radio Drama
What would happen to a school teacher who thinks she has the answer to the world’s problems and starts teaching in parks and on street corners, and people stop to […]
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1 hr 1 min
September 19, 2019 Cruise Ship Blues and Two Bills to Protect the Right to Organize and to End Tax Breaks for Outsourcing
Thinking of taking a cruise? Ever wonder about the hours the staff works or their pay? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll find out from the International Transport […]
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1 hr 2 min
September 12, 2019 Miners on the Tracks and Revisiting PATCO
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, it’s 38 days and counting that the Blackjewell coal miners of Harlan County Kentucky are occupying the tracks saying “No Pay, We Stay!” […]
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1 hr 1 min
September 05, 2019 News in Depth and Kansas Troublemakers School
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’re going to cover some labor news – most of it local that you hear little about anywhere else. Then, we preview Kansas’s […]
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1 hr 1 min
July 28, 2019 Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 29, 2019
Before he was a socialist, Eugene Debs was an avid railroad unionist with a dream of one union for all rail workers. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we […]
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1 hr
July 28, 2019 Heartland Labor Forum • Aug. 22, 2019
Hear Maine Iron Workers Local 7 business agent Grant Provost tell why the Maine AFL-CIO adopted their own Green New Deal to avert climate catastrophe. Then author and labor historian […]
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1 hr
July 28, 2019 Isn’t It Time for Medicaid Expansion? And The Attack on Federal Workers
Missouri’s motto is “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law,” but the legislature still hasn’t passed Medicaid Expansion. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk […]
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1 hr 1 min

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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…