Last month over 4,000 rank and file labor activists met in Chicago for the biannual Labor Notes Conference. There were 250 workshops teaching how to make good trouble, plenaries with luminaries like Amazon’s Chris Smalls, the new Teamster President Sean O’Brien, and even Bernie Sanders made an appearance. The Heartland...
The Federal Reserve is trying to slow inflation by raising interest rates. At the same time corporate profits are at an all-time high. We'll ask UMKC economists if our monopolized economy is really what’s driving inflation. Then, what do you know about the border wall between the US and Mexico? ...
Max Alvarez of the Real News has a new book, The Work of Living. In it, he dives deep into the lives of essential workers and how they survived being essential. He’ll be here this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, in 1969, an NLRB lawyer’s testimony undid 20...
We interview 9 to 5’s Ellen Bravo and Rethinking Schools' Larry Miller about their new novel based on their lives as labor activists. Then after years of inaction to expand Medicaid by the Missouri Legislature, the voters took matters in their own hands and passed it. But it’s still a...
President Biden signed The Postal Service Reform Act April 6th. It will provide much needed financial and operational changes to the US Postal Service. Learn what improvements to your service may result as well as to the quality of life of our postal workers. Then, we’ll focus on a new...
We ask a teacher why unions matter in public schools. We’ll talk to AFT Local 691 member Jennifer Gwinner and ask how do we stop privatization of schools and what solidarity has to do with it. Next we’ll get the latest on Starbucks organizing in area. Also Safety First with...
The Kansas Legislature isn’t done yet, but there’s plenty to talk about, like workers compensation, food sales tax, redistricting, voter suppression, sports gambling, and how to spend a $3 billion budget. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to the Kansas AFL-CIO’s Executive VP, John Nave on what...
Thinking about a career as a skilled trades person? Need some prep to qualify? We’ll talk to Rudy Chavez about the new Missouri Apprentice Ready Program. Then Kim Kelly, labor columnist for Teen Vogue has new book: Fight Like Hell! The Untold History of American Labor is getting lots of...
