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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 Smarter Machines Making Dumber Humans?

Simon Head, author of Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans, says working at Wal-Mart or Amazon is like being on a digital chain gang. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we interview Head to find out more. Then, we'll have an update from the KCMO teachers on...

04/10/2014

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25 Years of Labor Radio!

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: 25 years of labor radio--the Heartland Labor Forum's birthday! Our first show was April Fool's Day, 1989, and we'll have an open house inviting former volunteers and guests to help us celebrate on-air. Come on down to 3901 Main from 5:30-7:30 PM on...

04/03/2014

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Are the 1%’s Top 1% Buying Our Elections?

Who's behind the obscene manipulation of elections by super-rich donors? Are the 1%'s top 1% buying our elections? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we'll give you some answers and ask Ben Cohen about his more than a "half-baked" solution. Thursday at 6PM, rebroadcast Friday at 5AM.

03/27/2014

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Collective Bargaining and the Battle of Ohio

In Ohio in 2011, Gov. John Kasich, facing a budget crisis caused by Wall Street bankers, blames it on public employees and pushes through a bill gutting their collective bargaining rights. Firefighters, professors and teachers, nurses and cops along with their unions and other progressive groups swing into action and...

03/20/2014

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Bugs in the Volkswagen Election & Early Voting in MO

The union election at Volkswagen has caused political and legal disputes and reaction around the world. Thursday on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll interview In These Times reporter Mike Elk about the Bugs in the Volkswagen Election. Then, will early birds get to vote? Have you signed the petition for...

03/13/2014

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Union-Busting, Mexico Style

Many people know that NAFTA has been a disaster for Mexican workers, with lost jobs, increasing poverty and pressure to migrate, but few here have heard of the resistance by Mexican workers to privatization of vast sectors of the economy and to union busting. On this week’s Heartland Labor Forum...

03/06/2014

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NNU Nurses Save Lives, Show Union Solidarity In Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we travel with National Nurses United to the Phillipines to hear about their RNRN program. That's Registered Nurses Response Network. They have sent several teams of nurses to give care and build international solidarity in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Hear their...

02/27/2014

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Run the Streetcars Non-Union? & Bandleader Lance Canales

KC is all excited about new streetcars, but City Manager Troy Schulte wants them on the cheap. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Amalgamated Transit Union President JP Walker about the city's plans to run street cars nonunion and take money out of the bus budget...

02/20/2014

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