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...
The US Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could have devastating consequences for unions. The issue is whether unions can be sued in state court for economic damage to a company because of a strike. Then, OSHA the Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Is it on the...
We’ll find out why zookeepers in Salina Kansas (yes there’s a zoo there) just voted to be represented by a union. Then, railway track workers in the BMWE voted against the contract recommended by the federal emergency board. We’ll ask a BNSF worker about why and can this lead to...
School librarians weigh in on recent book banning, how students are affected, and the recently proposed rule by the Missouri Secretary of State to ban books at public libraries. Are we losing our freedom to read? Then the Kansas City Fair Contractor Alliance, a coalition of building trades unions, wants...
On Labor Day ROC United introduced the Restaurant Worker Bill of Rights, with model local, state, and federal legislation. Find out how they want to add some rights to your working or dining experience. Then, hundreds rallied last Saturday for the formation of KC Power, the political arm of KC...
We talk with Daisy Pitkin, organizer, about her book On the Line which takes us into a union organizing drive in an industrial laundry in Arizona. You’ll see joys, obstacles and politics on the way to winning a union. Then, Vice President Harris says she’s looking for the root causes...
