Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

October 26, 2017 Do Japanese Workers Have Rights? And Al Gore’s Inconvenient Sequel
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we ask about Japanese workers: Do they have unions? What are their rights?” How do they try to make a difference? We’ll find […]
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October 26, 2017 Do Japanese Workers Have Rights? And Al Gore’s Inconvenient Sequel
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we ask about Japanese workers: Do they have unions? What are their rights?” How do they try to make a difference? We’ll find out from a former Teachers Union chairman. Then, why are …
1 hr
October 19, 2017 The Great Job Creation Scam: Wisconsin’s New “FoxCon” and Subsidizing Robot Jobs
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview Greg Leroy of Good Jobs First about their new database of corporate tax giveaways and a clever accounting rule that could […]
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1 hr 1 min
October 19, 2017 The Great Job Creation Scam: Wisconsin’s New “FoxCon” and Subsidizing Robot Jobs
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview Greg Leroy of Good Jobs First about their new database of corporate tax giveaways and a clever accounting rule that could rein in abuses. We’ll talk about the KC Public Library, …
1 hr 1 min
October 12, 2017 The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Remember when we couldn’t bring signs to demonstrations because they could be used as weapons? Since Charlottesville, people are bringing weapons!! What happens […]
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October 12, 2017 The Right to Protest: A Roundtable Discussion
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Remember when we couldn’t bring signs to demonstrations because they could be used as weapons? Since Charlottesville, people are bringing weapons!! What happens to freedom of speech? Hear activists in a roundtable discussion. …
1 hr
October 05, 2017 Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers
ADAPT took hundreds to DC twice to break the back of Trumpcare. They succeeded. Hear about it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, isn’t it about time to […]
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1 hr 1 min
October 05, 2017 Disabling Medicaid and The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Uniting Rail Workers
ADAPT took hundreds to DC twice to break the back of Trumpcare. They succeeded. Hear about it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, isn’t it about time to bring all the railroad craft unions together to work on …
1 hr 1 min
September 28, 2017 Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Lane Windham, whose new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New […]
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1 hr 1 min
September 28, 2017 Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide and The NAACP Travel Advisory
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Lane Windham, whose new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of the New Economic Divide, overturns widely held myths about labor’s decline, showing …
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…