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...
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...
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. ...
