The Industrial Workers of the World or IWW is remembered as militant and creative. Its vision was one big union where workers decide what to produce, working conditions, and pay. We’ll talk to Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel which chronicles the dream and its suppression. Then, infrastructure...
IT'S PLEDGE DRIVE. PLEASE CALL OR GO ONLINE TO MAKE A PLEDGE Should the slogan "Good Jobs for All" include the disabled? In Missouri it's not so clear. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll hear from Representative Bridget Walsh Moore on the availability and prognosis for jobs for differently...
As the largest collective bargaining unit in North America, the National UPS agreement with the Teamsters Union is a classic Labor vs Capital stand-off. Both sides are heavily dug-in and well-fortified, the clock is ticking toward the July 31, expiration. Tune in Thursday to the Heartland Labor Forum to...
Wage theft is more common than we think, especially against immigrant workers whose employers often skip out without paying them for their work. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Rebecca Berke Galemba about her new book Laboring for Justice. Then Clay County recently passed a “responsible...
“We don’t trust teachers to teach, we’re banning books, we’re doing educational gag orders, but now because of the politics, we trust them to carry a loaded firearm.” So says the American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. We’ll talk about gun violence and attacks on public education with her...
There’s an apprenticeship program for people who want to find work in the industrial sewing and garment trades. Indeed, Kansas City's Sewing Labs offers the only apprenticeship program in sewing in the United States. We’ll visit it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then there’s a union for traveling...
We take a ride on the bad bills clown car through Kansas and Missouri. Get on board to find out what’s happening in the legislatures. Bills are being proposed that would assault people’s rights, attack public education, defund public libraries, weaken children’s vaccination rates, and decimate unemployment benefits. We’ll get...
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...
