Heartland Labor Forum

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2079 - Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation

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.

2079 - Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation

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Heartland Labor Forum

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Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation

KU Pharmacists Organize!

Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez and The Missouri Legislature’s Labor Caucus

The KC Port Authority Subsidies and Our Schools and Will Killing the State Income Tax Cost Working People More? You betcha!

The New Bus Riders Union and IATSE Local 31 is Staffing the World Cup

The Annoyance Economy and Missouri Workers Center Organizing Restaurant Workers

Celebrating 50 Years of Free Agency in Baseball

Singing No Kings and Hunger Is a Union Issue

Jeff City Misery – A Legislative Update

Kansas Legislative Update and ATU’s Nic Miller in Our Labor Leader Series

CoreCivic in Leavenworth: Reformed or Human Rights Abuser? We’ll Talk to Prison Guards and Residents

Whose Got the Power? By Dave Kamper and Parents for KC Kids

From the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins to Minneapolis Some News and Lessons from other Labor Shows

The AI Bubble??? and Challenges of Social Work in a Shrinking Welfare State

Peter Cole on Dockworker Resistance to Arms Shipments and John Miller: Health Insurance for 20 Million is at Risk

Half Price Book Workers Win a Union and Union Buster Supreme: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

A Union Member’s Bill of Rights and Deep Fission: Is It Safe?

United Electrical Workers: 1st Union to Come Out Against War with Venezuela and Have Politicians and the Media Lied Us into War on Venezuela?

Our Annual Crystal Ball Show: What's in Store for the Working Class in 2026?

Best of Heartland Labor Forum in 2025 - part 2

Best of HLF n 2025 - part 1

Resistance Teach-In with the Guy from ET (aka Peter Coyote)

We Ask: What Are Unions Doing about Members’ Mental Health?

Randi Weingarten: Why Fascists Fear Teachers and Wage Theft: Employers Steal Billions from Workers’ Wages Each Year

Thanks for the Labor and Work Songs

KU Med Hires Union Buster to Stop Pharmacy Techs from Organizing and Union Leader Series: Joey Flickner of the Painters Union

Bernie Sanders and AOC at the Eugene Debs Foundation Award Ceremony on Debs’ Vision for Labor and Human Solidarity

KU Professors Are Long Overdue for their First Contract and Can Labor and Management Really Cooperate?-An Interview with Bob Jacobi

The Future of Social Security and Shutdown and Resistance

Kansas City’s Development Incentives and Responsible Bidder Ordinances

Can Unions Live without the National Labor Relations Act? A Roundtable Discussion

America’s Top-heavy Economy and Marcella Bencivenni: How Italian Immigrants Shaped the US Labor Movement

Was UAW President Walter Reuther Assassinated? and What Would a Pro- Worker Tariff Policy Look Like?

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette Workers Wonder How Long Can a Strike Last? And Gerrymandering Missouri? With Rep Keri Ingle

Creeping Fascism??? - Jason Stanley: Erasing History and A Young People’s Guide to Fascism

New Union Leader Matt Harris of Plumbers Local 8 and Donna Birks Takes the Lead at LEPCI

Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob’s Red Mill

Ai-Jen Poo: Age of Dignity and Familias Unidas Take on Driscoll

Respect Missouri Voters Wants to Ban Politicians from Overruling the Will of the Voters and Boeing St. Louis on Strike

Former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. She was the best we’ve had and Trump fired her

Cuba Through the Eyes of Washburn University Students

Labor Leader Series: Federal Unions and Workers in the Crosshairs of DOGE

What the Boss Doesn’t You To Know. . .and NAFTA-USMCA Renegotiation: Where Is Trade Justice?

Richard Wolff: How Will Trump’s Economic Plans Change Our Working Class?

Organizing Starbucks and Trader Joes

21st Century Union Busting and What’s in the Meany Labor Archives?

Whitewashing Labor and American History

Ahmed White: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers and Isn’t It Time to Nationalize the Railroads?

The Return of Child Labor — Again???

Sheltered Workshops and 22¢ an Hour The Fight to Ban the Subminimum Wage

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