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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.

Amazon Delivers — Bad Faith and What’s in the New Auto Contracts?

Amazon is a serial labor law violator. In fact, there is a veritable river of decisions holding the company guilty of violating its workers rights, but last we checked Amazon is getting away with it. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll look at the lengths to which Amazon...

10/31/2023

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments Off

Two Books: Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice and Migration As Economic Imperialism

First they were essential, then they were exhausted, then they were enraged. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Jamie McCallum about his new book Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice then it’s another author, Immanuel Ness who says, the millions that...

10/25/2023

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments Off

What the Oppenheimer Film Missed

Did you see the film Oppenheimer? If so, did you wonder who built the buildings where the Manhattan Project did its work or who cleaned up the radioactive waste or who lived downwind from the Trinity Test? This week’s Heartland Labor Forum will look at what the film left out...

10/16/2023

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Reggie Thomas – What do Laborers Do? and Jason Roberts: Why the Shortage of Teachers and Other School Personnel?

Reggie Thomas leads Laborers local 264. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum as part of our Labor Leader Series we’ll ask him about the work members of the Laborers union do in construction and elsewhere. Then, America is facing a dangerous and unprecedented level of shortages among teachers and...

10/10/2023

By Judy Ancel#KCFT691, #LaborRadioPod, #LIUNAComments Off

The Lives of Maritime Workers and Does the Jones Act Really Protect Their Jobs?

We used to call them sailors. Now they’re seafarers who work the ships that transport goods around the world. From the days of mutinies and striking the sails to today they’ve faced brutal working conditions. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll talk with Samantha Levens, an inspector for the...

10/03/2023

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments Off

When Will Farmworkers Get Labor Justice? and JwJ’s Erika Smiley: The Future We Need; Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century

When we talk about labor organizing these days, we rarely talk about farm workers, who have been left in the dust in wages working conditions and rights. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll talk to Farmworker Justice and Missouri Legal Aid about conditions and remedies. Then, Erika Smiley,...

09/25/2023

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments Off

What’s the Matter with Kansas Workers Comp? and The New McCarthyism

What’s the matter with Kansas Workers Compensation Law? Well, it’s possibly the worst program in the country. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we'll talk to labor lawyer Keith Mark about his years-long efforts to overhaul an unfair and broken work comp system. Then, hear about the case of...

09/18/2023

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPodComments Off

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and How to Blow the Whistle on Unsafe Conditions at Work and Not Get Fired

On June 27th, the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act went into effect with new protections for women workers. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum learn who is covered and what new rights new and expecting mothers in the workforce will have. Then how do you blow the whistle on safety...

09/12/2023

By Judy Ancel#LaborRadioPod, kkfi901fmComments Off