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...
What would happen if a global social media empire merged with the world’s largest online retailer? Would everything become company business? Join award-winning author Dave Eggers, author of Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum and his newest,: The Every, a dystopian vision of the future. ...
The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wants to bust the union busters. She’s moving to outlaw anti-union captive audience meetings where employers push workers to vote against union organizing drive. We’ll hear from Abruzzo, some workers who have been forced to attend these one-side rants and with...
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...
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ve asked educators to comment on and slam the suppression of teaching about race and gender and book banning. As politicians direct curriculum supposedly in the name of parents, hear what teachers and librarians have to say about teaching authentic history and science...
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...
In the early 1990s, just before NAFTA was rammed through Congress, two unions – one in Mexico and one in the U.S. formed a solidarity partnership to organize workers on the jobs that were fleeing to low wage havens south of the border. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum...
