Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

March 31, 2017 Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: In her new book Chow Chop Suey, food historian Anne Mendelson traces the history of the Chinese in America through food in Chinese […]
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March 31, 2017 Chow Chop Suey: Food & the Chinese American Experience and The One-Eighth-Cent Sales Tax: Pro and Con
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: In her new book Chow Chop Suey, food historian Anne Mendelson traces the history of the Chinese in America through food in Chinese restaurants. It’s a story of how xenophobia stunted the enrichment …
1 hr
March 23, 2017 Surviving and Fighting Right to Work
Unless Missouri unions develop a way to block it, Missouri will become the 28th right to work state on August 28th. How can our unions – and workers – survive […]
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1 hr 1 min
March 23, 2017 Surviving and Fighting Right to Work
Unless Missouri unions develop a way to block it, Missouri will become the 28th right to work state on August 28th. How can our unions – and workers – survive it? Or is there a strategy to reverse it? Tune …
1 hr 1 min
March 17, 2017 The Jeff City Firing Squad Aims at Prevailing Wage Workers & Public Employees
Republicans in Jefferson City are gunning for unions. Now that right-to-work has passed, they’re going after the standard of living of construction workers and the rights to representation of public […]
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1 hr 1 min
March 17, 2017 The Jeff City Firing Squad Aims at Prevailing Wage Workers & Public Employees
Republicans in Jefferson City are gunning for unions. Now that right-to-work has passed, they’re going after the standard of living of construction workers and the rights to representation of public employees. Tune in to this week’s Heartland Labor Forum for …
1 hr 1 min
March 10, 2017 Wentzville School Bus Drivers Organize and Federal Workers in the Cross Hairs (Again)
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to AFT union leader Scott Ciafullo about how a group of school bus drivers organized and about some of the challenges […]
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March 10, 2017 Wentzville School Bus Drivers Organize and Federal Workers in the Cross Hairs (Again)
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to AFT union leader Scott Ciafullo about how a group of school bus drivers organized and about some of the challenges facing teachers and their unions in Missouri. Then, President Trump …
1 hr
March 03, 2017 Repeal and Replace the ACA: One Giant Death Panel?
“And then this magical amazing policy came around that we started talking about. We started talking about the ACA, where they decided that, ‘hey, maybe being born is not something […]
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1 hr 1 min
March 03, 2017 Repeal and Replace the ACA: One Giant Death Panel?
“And then this magical amazing policy came around that we started talking about. We started talking about the ACA, where they decided that, ‘hey, maybe being born is not something you should be punished for.’” That’s one of the witnesses …
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…