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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.

Busting the Myth of Lazy Youth

Are you one of those people who thinks that the kids are lazy? That they can’t get to work on time? No work ethic. Are going to make the U.S. fall behind. Guess what? They say that about every generation, and so this week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’re...

01/24/2023By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments OffRead more...

Fred Redmond and Bill Lucy on MLK and Rep Jamie Johnson on the MO Leg

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond and retired AFSCME and civil rights leader Bill Lucy on labor and Martin Luther King. Then we’ll ask Missouri’s freshman legislator Jaime Johnson about the new dress code for women and other threatening bills. Also Know Your Rights with Michael Amash.

01/19/2023By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments OffRead more...

Ex-Postal Worker Willa has a Passion for Books and New Rules for Gig Workers

We have an inspiring story of retirement. After 31-years at the post office Willa Robinson turned her passion for reading into a gem of a bookstore uplifting black history, music and culture: Willa’s Books and Vinyl. Then Biden’s labor department wants to make it easier to classify gig workers as...

01/10/2023By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPod, #laborrightsComments OffRead more...

Labor’s 2023 Crystal Ball: Will It Be Good for Working People

Labor radio programmers and podcasters from around the country, from Kansas City and from as far away as England will get out their union made crystal balls and tell us what 2023 will bring for those who work and for the labor movement. Will 2023 be good for organizing? What...

01/03/2023By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments OffRead more...

Justin Akers Chacon: The Case for Opening th Border and Why Doesn’t the NLRB Cover Ag and Domestice Workers? Might I Have to Do with Race?

Justin Akers Chacon author of The Border Crossed Us argues that our polices of open borders for goods and closed borders for people hurt all American workers. He makes the case for opening the U.S.-Mexico border. Then did you ever wonder why the law that protects the right to organize...

12/27/2022By Judy Ancel@nomuros, #immigration, #LaborRadioPodComments OffRead more...

The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red Carol

Y’all know the story of Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. What if it were a musical put on by the San Francisco Mime Troupe? Huh? Mime on the radio? Well, this one has words and song, and some great politics, and it’s called a Red Carol because it’s...

12/19/2022By Judy Ancel@Heartland_Labor, @SFTroupers, #LaborRadioPodComments OffRead more...

The Fading of Local For-profit Print Media and Rise of the Non-Profits and Independence Firefighters’ Fight for Health Care

Tonight, on the Heartland Labor Forum: Has your metropolitan newspaper turned into a zombie? Is local news coverage just a fading memory? We’ll look at the corporatization of the media and the rise of nonprofits with the Kansas Reflector and the KC Defender. Then, public sector workers often accept lower...

12/13/2022By Judy Ancel#laborradioComments OffRead more...

Jerry Wood of Teamsters Local 955 and Stories from the 1970s of Women in Non-Traditional Jobs with Jenny Agee – Trucker and Teamster Organizer

Do you ever think about the fact that just about everything you buy passes first through a warehouse? Then it gets delivered in a truck to a store or your house? The people who make that happen are often members of the Teamsters Union. This week on the Heartland Labor...

12/07/2022By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments OffRead more...