As outrage at oppressive and exhausting working conditions grows among rail workers, they’re pushing for a showdown with the carriers, but the Biden administration has switched the track for that til after the elections. What will happen next? Find out this week on the Heartland Labor Forum where we’ll also...
Do you get lost in all the mumbo jumbo of incentives for developers and wonder what they cost taxpayers, local government, school districts and even the public library? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll explain the basics of TIFS and Star Bonds and other ways we subsidize builders...
The Alliance for Retired Americans, a grassroots labor organization with 4.4 million members in 39 states, has just expanded to Kansas. We’ll talk to its leader Rich Fiesta. Then labor historian Eric Blanc has a new provocative essay: Liberals Get the New Deal Wrong. We’ll talk to him about the...
If you’re working class, and you’re wondering if the political class has done anything for you lately, tune in to this week’s Heartland Labor Forum where Rep. Sharice Davids and the Kansas AFL-CIO’s John Nave will explain what’s in it for you in recent bills passed by Congress. We’ll talk...
Large classrooms and too few teachers are nothing new to education, but this year as shortages pile up, we’re asking, “Where have all the teachers gone? We’ll try to answer this week on the Heartland Labor Forum with Jason Roberts president of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers Union. Then,...
School shootings have us all on edge, but as school starts up again this month, our educators are speaking out strongly against guns in schools. Should teachers be armed? Should conceal carry be allowed on our campuses? We’ll talk to Jason Roberts, President of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers...
When the economy goes south, or there’s a war or pandemic, rather than hunker down, American workers organize. Former NLRB Chairman William Gould has written a book called For Labor to Build Upon: Wars, Depression, Pandemic. He’ll be on the show. Then, the Missouri AFL-CIO has hired a political organizer...
Why is it so hard for workers to win unions? CWA organizer Jeff Hayes will debunk many of the antiunion lies that bosses tell their workers and explain what’s in it for workers to unionize. Then, the Area Transportation Authority is facing many post-COVID challenges: a shortage of drivers, declining...
