Long Live Scabby the Rat! and Sarah Lloyd Green and the Kansas City General Strike

Scabby the Rat, the iconic supersized symbol of anti-union employers across America, has been under attack by Trumpers in the NLRB. Find out on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum whether this defender of workers’ rights can escape the trap and continue to shame the union busters. Then, our two minute profile for labor history month of Sarah Lloyd Green may have whetted your appetite to know what KC was like for working people a century ago. We’ll find out more about her and the 1918 General Strike. Tune in Thursday at 6pm, rebroadcast Friday at 5am.


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