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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.

Are Religious Institutions Exempt from Labor Law? and State Takeover of Normandy School District: Will Teachers Pay the Price?

Colleen Simon was fired by the Kansas City Archdiocese for being married--can they do that? We'll talk to Colleen, her wife Donna, and her attorneys this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, in eastern Missouri, the State Department of Education fired the elected Normandy School District board and appointed...

07/21/2014

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Big Brother at UPS plus Uber and Lyft

At UPS Telematics is Big Brother, an on-board monitoring system worthy of the NSA. Hear about it this week on The Heartland Labor Forum where we’ll also discuss the latest taxi gimmick: Uber and Lyft. Is it a gypsy cab system or your friend with a car? Thursday at 6pm...

07/15/2014

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David Cay Johnston: The Recovery That Wasn’t

The recession ended officially six years ago. So how’s the recovery been for you? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnson for the hour about the recovery that wasn’t and why working people are still flat on our backs....

07/08/2014

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Seattle’s $15 an Hour Victory & May Day PAC

Is $15 an hour minimum wage a pipe dream? Hear how Seattle got it. Could it happen here? And, there's a new PAC to take our democracy back from the Kochs and Rex and the rest of the top tier; it's called the May Day PAC. It's crowdsourcing the money...

07/01/2014

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Musicians Local 1000: Pete Seeger’s Union and Greg Gould: Union Man

Did you know that traveling musicians pack a union along with their guitars and banjos to protect them on the road? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we'll find out about Pete Seeger's union--Musicians Local 1000-- which represents traveling folk, bluegrass and acoustic performers. Then, we'll talk to Greg...

06/17/2014

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“How To Jump-Start Your Union”

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we'll talk to Alexandra Bradbury of Labor Notes about her new book, How To Jump-Start Your Union, on the Chicago teachers strike. It's a play-by-play account of one of the most successful strikes in modern U.S. history. It documents what it takes to...

06/10/2014

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The USPS , Staples Are Stamping Out Good Postal Jobs

On this week's Heartland Labor Forum we ask, "how are good jobs being turned bad?" with two examples: if prison isn't slave labor, it's close. We'll have a survey of jobs that have gone to federal and state prisons and then we explore how the U.S. Postal Service and Staples...

05/20/2014

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“Sixteen Tons” & Women’s Lib at Jiffy Lube

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Kevin Corley who wrote a novel called Sixteen Tons about coal miners, their families, and the struggle to organize. It's based on interviews done with miners who lived it. Then, on Pioneer Women, we discover that yes, there is women's...

05/19/2014

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