Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

April 08, 2025 How Do We Overcome Internal Division in Unions? and Beneath REI’s Green Sheen: Union Busting, Debt Bondage, and Partnership with Eco-Criminals
The surest way to defeat a union is to create division within it. Many in management excel at pitting workers against each other, but this week we’ll talk with organizers […]
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1 hr
March 31, 2025 Layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University: Treaty Violation? And Property Tax Reform: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Right after he became President Trump marked another milestone on the trail of broken promises when he cut funding for Haskell Indian Nation’s University in Lawrence, crippling its teaching capacity […]
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March 27, 2025 Why Has America’s Greatest Labor Progressive: Frank P. Walsh Been Forgotten? and The School District Bond Issue with Dr. Jennifer Collier
We’ll interview labor historian Jeff Stilley about Kansas City’s greatest labor champion you never heard of — Frank Walsh, labor lawyer, defender of radicals and visionary for future labor law. […]
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March 18, 2025 Will the Missouri Legislature Undo the Will of the Voters? and Former AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff: Love Is Solidarity in Action
The MO Legislature is at it again – trying to subvert the will of the people. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Missouri State Reps. Pattie […]
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March 11, 2025 Federal Unions Fight Back
With President Trump’s dismantling of the federal bureaucracy in full swing, led by Elon Musk’s DOGE, federal workers are under siege. But unionized federal workers are fighting back. We’ll talk with leaders […]
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March 03, 2025 CWA’s Margaret Cook: Attacks on the Public Sector and Half-Priced Books Workers Organize
Right-wing politicians have declared war on public employees across federal, state, and local levels, despite their hard work ensuring that essential government programs function. The Communications Workers Union represents many of these employees. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll speak with Margaret Cook, CWA's VP for Public, Health, and Education. Then, workers at three Half-Priced Bookstores in the KC area have unionized but they’re frustrated with management stalling on their first contract.
1 hr 3 min
February 25, 2025 The Workers Strike Back Conference and Julie Greene on Who Built the Panama Canal and Trump’s Bullying
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll get a report from last weekend’s Workers Strike Back Conference organizing to win a $25 minimum wage and healthcare for all. Then, […]
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1 hr 1 min
February 18, 2025 David Bacon on Domestic Workers Organizing and Nancy MacLean: Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Union organizer and photojournalist David Bacon joins us to discuss cross-border labor solidarity, the fight for immigrant and domestic workers’ rights, and how grassroots organizing is reshaping the future of […]
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1 hr 1 min
February 10, 2025 Explaining Tariffs and How They Affect the Working Class and Hidden in Plain Sight: the $8.5 trillion in Untaxed Income of the Rich
Have Trump’s tariffs got you confused? How will they affect jobs and prices? We’ll talk to trade expert Lori Wallach, of Rethink Trade. She’s a 30-year veteran of international and […]
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1 hr 1 min
February 04, 2025 Freeman’s Challenge; The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit by Robin Bernstein and The KC Campaign to End Gender Violence in the Workplace
In Auburn New York in 1840 William Freeman, an imprisoned Black teenager, demanded pay for forced labor, l leading to violence. We’ll talk to author Robin Bernstein about the first […]
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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…