Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

May 11, 2015 Teacher Wars: The Most Embattled Profession
Why do so-called education reforms keep proposing the same failed strategies for education: blaming teachers, attacking tenure, proposing testing or charters or outright privatization? What are the strategies based on best-practices by teachers that are actually working, and why are …
59 min
May 04, 2015 AT&T on a Race to the Bottom? Home Healthcare Workers Fighting for a Union
Last week AT&T reported massive profits, but 17,000 workers in the Midwest who helped make them rich are working without a contract and facing demands for slashed healthcare, pensions, and […]
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59 min
May 04, 2015 AT&T on a Race to the Bottom? Home Healthcare Workers Fighting for a Union
Last week AT&T reported massive profits, but 17,000 workers in the Midwest who helped make them rich are working without a contract and facing demands for slashed healthcare, pensions, and job security protections. Find out about how they’re mobilizing this …
59 min
April 30, 2015 Joe Hill’s Last Will with John McCutcheon
It’s a hundred years since IWW organizer and songwriter Joe Hill was executed by the State of Utah. Hear his story and his music this week on the Heartland Labor […]
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59 min
April 30, 2015 Joe Hill's Last Will with John McCutcheon
It’s a hundred years since IWW organizer and songwriter Joe Hill was executed by the State of Utah. Hear his story and his music this week on the Heartland Labor Forum.
59 min
April 21, 2015 Pioneer Women: UAW 31’s Vicky Hale and Adjunct Professors Organize
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Meet Vicky Hale – the new President at UAW Local 31. As their first ever woman Prez, she’s a Pioneer Woman. Last week, […]
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April 21, 2015 Pioneer Women: UAW 31’s Vicky Hale and Adjunct Professors Organize
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Meet Vicky Hale – the new President at UAW Local 31. As their first ever woman Prez, she’s a Pioneer Woman. Last week, adjunct professors raised hell along with fast food and other …
1 hr 1 min
April 13, 2015 From Public to Charter to Virtual: What’s Next for the Schools?
The attack on public education has become an onslaught starting from the heights of the American Legislative Exchange Council and subverting institutions from Kindergarten through higher education with the myth […]
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1 hr
April 13, 2015 From Public to Charter to Virtual: What’s Next for the Schools?
The attack on public education has become an onslaught starting from the heights of the American Legislative Exchange Council and subverting institutions from Kindergarten through higher education with the myth that public is bad and a failure. Hear about the …
1 hr
April 07, 2015 Current Labor Struggles in Oil and Auto and on the Docks
Some big union contracts are up this year. Will they begin a turnaround in labor’s fortunes? There was a near strike on the West Coast docks by the International Longshore […]
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59 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…