Podcast – Heartland Labor Forum

This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Heartland Labor Forum” radio show. The Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to the boss! Whether you’re a union member or your workplace isn’t organized, Heartland Labor Forum (HLF) has stories for you, guaranteed to inspire, educate, or enrage you.

Operating Engineers Local 101 Union Leader Aaron Brown and Vets and Unions Go Fishing for Freedom

Ever wonder how workers move mountains of dirt or lift tons of steel to the tops of buildings? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Aaron Brown, Business Manager of Operating Engineers local 101 in our labor leader series. Then, Fishing for Freedom day brings several hundred...

06/11/2024

By Judy Ancel#FishingforFreedom, #LaborRadioPod, #OperatingEngineers

Jayhawks Flock to the Union and Labor Song Covers

In a landslide victory, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas voted to unionize with the American Federation of Teachers. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we'll talk to organizers about the issues staff are facing and their efforts to negotiate a first contract. Then, we all...

06/03/2024

By Judy Ancel@WeAreUAKU, #KSAFT, #LaborRadioPod

The Legislative Sausage Grinder: What happened This Year in Jeff City and Topeka?

If we could grade them, this year’s Missouri and Kansas legislatures both flunked. Missouri gets an F minus with less than 30 non-appropriation bills passed, but Kansas bombed out on taxes and, of course, Medicaid Expansion, so the Governor is sending them to summer school. What about union and worker...

05/28/2024

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPod, #LoudLight

Art Works: How Art Enlivens Social Struggles

Ken Grossinger, author of Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together believes activism needs art to imbue social struggles with purpose and solidarity. We’ll hear examples from Ken and ask him how to use art strategically in struggles for justice. Then Ken will talk with...

05/21/2024

By Judy Ancel#Labor Heritage Foundation, #LaborRadioPod

Reassessing the Legacy of Walter Reuther

The Labor Notes Conference last month was chock full of almost 8,000 union troublemakers. A highlight was UAW President Shawn Fain and dozens of members who are rebuilding a more militant auto union capable of organizing the South. Is the UAW returning to its militant roots? Where did it go...

05/13/2024

By Judy Ancel@labornotes, #LaborRadioPod

Ron Carey: From UPS Driver to Teamster President and What Constitutional Rights Do Corporations Have?

Ron Carey was the first Teamster President elected directly by the members. A new book gives us the inside scoop on the enormous challenges this union reformer faced. Author Ken Reiman will be on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, it’s an election year, and corporate dollars are raining on candidates....

05/06/2024

By Judy Ancel@movetoamend, #LaborRadioPod

The Voucher Scam and the Construction Contractor Tax Dodge

Across the country proponents of school vouchers promise choice, freedom and upward mobility. Nicole Abshire of Mothers for Democracy Institute says vouchers are a scam on students, teachers, unions and communities. She’ll be on the Heartland Labor Forum this week. Then, a new study by UMKC economist Michael Kelsay says...

04/30/2024

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPod

Comparing Our Labor Law with Europe and Canada and Gerald Epstein: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

Heartland Labor Forum listeners know that U.S. labor law sucks. Are there places in the world where workers have real rights and employers can’t violate the law with impunity? This week we'll compare labor laws of the U.S. and other countries. Then bankers brought the global economic system to its...

04/16/2024

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPod

Podcast - Heartland Labor Forum