Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

June 17, 2025 Two Books: David Roediger: An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education and Eric Blanc: We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
KU Labor Historian David Roediger is a scholar of white working-class studies. His new memoir, An Ordinary White; My Anti-Racist Education chronicles growing up in a sundown town and then […]
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59 min
June 11, 2025 UAW’s Support of Tariffs and Jeremy Brecher: the Green New Deal from Below
There’s a lot of controversy about Trump’s tariffs for auto. Is it just spectacle, or could they actually lead to more domestic auto production and at what cost? We’ll talk […]
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1 hr
June 03, 2025 Can We Save NIOSH? and Labor for Palestine
Trump dumped NIOSH – the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health? We’ll ask if we can save it and why it’s important to workers. Then many unions in the […]
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1 hr
May 26, 2025 Licking Our Wounds: A 2025 Missouri Legislature Wrap-Up
Last November Missouri citizens made their voices heard at the ballot box in favor of abortion access and paid sick leave for workers. Then during the last week of the […]
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1 hr
May 22, 2025 Labor Leader Series: Darcy Wood and Our Right to Read Is Under Attack
Americans have many questions these days about government services like the postal service that are under attack. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll visit with Darcy Wood, President […]
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1 hr
May 13, 2025 Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize
UAW founder Walter Reuther was famous, his brother Roy wasn’t, but he made important contributions to both the labor and civil rights movements. Roy’s son, Alan joins us this week […]
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1 hr
May 06, 2025 Social Security Workers Speak Out
Former Commissioner Martin O’Malley says Social Security could collapse within just a few months. Social Security workers report bedlam at work, and their union leader Everett Kelley says Elon Musk doesn’t just want to cut the SSA workforce - He wants to eliminate Social Security entirely. Join us this week on the Heartland Labor Forum to discuss these issues with the workers who are bearing this brunt of the chaos while still trying to help recipients. Our feature is Labor Song of the Month.
1 hr
April 30, 2025 HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power
It’s May Day and this week the Heartland Labor Forum is celebrating International Workers Day with songs to raise the spirit, an interview from 1997 with Studs Terkel on the history of May Day, a tribute to black folk and labor singer John Handcox and who knows what else. Maybe we’ll even come up with the reason why labor day in the US isn’t on May first. Our feature is Safety First with Mary Erio.
1 hr 1 min
April 25, 2025 Remembering the British Miners’ Strike after 40 Years with Miner John Dunn
What do you do when the head of state comes after your union with 6,000 cops and a license to kill? We’ll get advice from John Dunne who had his […]
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1 hr 1 min
April 15, 2025 Labor Leader Series: Dustin Himes from Bricklayers & Allied Craftsworkers Local 15 and Rep Tobias Schlingensiepen: Fighting Fascism from Germany to KS
We see their work everywhere: big cities, small towns, schools, tall and short buildings. These craftsmen are bricklayers and masons. Many can be called artists. This week on the Heartland […]
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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…