Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

July 15, 2014 Big Brother at UPS plus Uber and Lyft
At UPS Telematics is Big Brother, an on-board monitoring system worthy of the NSA. Hear about it this week on The Heartland Labor Forum where we’ll also discuss the latest […]
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1 hr
July 09, 2014 David Cay Johnston: The Recovery That Wasn’t
The recession ended officially six years ago. So how’s the recovery been for you? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter David […]
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58 min
July 01, 2014 Seattle's $15 an Hour Victory & May Day PAC
Is $15 an hour minimum wage a pipe dream? Hear how Seattle got it. Could it happen here? And, there’s a new PAC to take our democracy back from the Kochs and Rex and the rest of the top tier; …
1 hr
July 01, 2014 Seattle’s $15 an Hour Victory & May Day PAC
Is $15 an hour minimum wage a pipe dream? Hear how Seattle got it. Could it happen here? And, there’s a new PAC to take our democracy back from the […]
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1 hr
June 17, 2014 Musicians Local 1000: Pete Seeger’s Union and Greg Gould: Union Man
Did you know that traveling musicians pack a union along with their guitars and banjos to protect them on the road? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll find […]
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59 min
June 10, 2014 “How To Jump-Start Your Union”
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Alexandra Bradbury of Labor Notes about her new book, How To Jump-Start Your Union, on the Chicago teachers strike. It’s […]
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1 hr
June 10, 2014 "How To Jump-Start Your Union"
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Alexandra Bradbury of Labor Notes about her new book, How To Jump-Start Your Union, on the Chicago teachers strike. It’s a play-by-play account of one of the most successful strikes …
1 hr
May 20, 2014 The USPS , Staples Are Stamping Out Good Postal Jobs
On this week’s Heartland Labor Forum we ask, “how are good jobs being turned bad?” with two examples: if prison isn’t slave labor, it’s close. We’ll have a survey of […]
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59 min
May 19, 2014 "Sixteen Tons" & Women's Lib at Jiffy Lube
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Kevin Corley who wrote a novel called Sixteen Tons about coal miners, their families, and the struggle to organize. It’s based on interviews done with miners who lived it. Then, …
1 hr 3 min
May 19, 2014 “Sixteen Tons” & Women’s Lib at Jiffy Lube
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Kevin Corley who wrote a novel called Sixteen Tons about coal miners, their families, and the struggle to organize. It’s […]
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1 hr 3 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…