Are you one of those people who thinks that the kids are lazy? That they can’t get to work on time? No work ethic. Are going to make the U.S. fall behind. Guess what? They say that about every generation, and so this week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’re...
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond and retired AFSCME and civil rights leader Bill Lucy on labor and Martin Luther King. Then we’ll ask Missouri’s freshman legislator Jaime Johnson about the new dress code for women and other threatening bills. Also Know Your Rights with Michael Amash.
We have an inspiring story of retirement. After 31-years at the post office Willa Robinson turned her passion for reading into a gem of a bookstore uplifting black history, music and culture: Willa’s Books and Vinyl. Then Biden’s labor department wants to make it easier to classify gig workers as...
Labor radio programmers and podcasters from around the country, from Kansas City and from as far away as England will get out their union made crystal balls and tell us what 2023 will bring for those who work and for the labor movement. Will 2023 be good for organizing? What...
Justin Akers Chacon author of The Border Crossed Us argues that our polices of open borders for goods and closed borders for people hurt all American workers. He makes the case for opening the U.S.-Mexico border. Then did you ever wonder why the law that protects the right to organize...
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...
Do you ever think about the fact that just about everything you buy passes first through a warehouse? Then it gets delivered in a truck to a store or your house? The people who make that happen are often members of the Teamsters Union. This week on the Heartland Labor...
Ellen Cassidy was a founder of 9 to 5 the working women’s organization that became a union and and a movie with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. We’ll ask Ellen about her new memoir on this week’s Heartland Labor Forum. Then the United Autoworkers are having an historic...
