Tag - #LaborRadioPod

Foxconned by Lawrence Tabak and The Chevron Deference Case: A Corporate Power Grab?

We'll talk to journalist Lawrence Tabak, author of Foxconned, on how the Taiwanese company conned former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and how corporations transfer taxpayer money to themselves benefitting consultants, politicians, and contractors. Then, the Supreme Court will soon decide a case involving the interpretation of regulations by the National...

Labor’s Crystal Ball for 2024

Last January the Heartland Labor Forum volunteers and labor programmers from as far away as England looked in their crystal balls to predict what would happen to workers in 2023. This week we’re inviting them back to tell us how prescient they were and give us predictions for 2024.

UAW’s Southern Strategy – an Assessment and Nanni Balestrini’s We Want Everything – A Strike Novel

Despite a number of attempts by the UAW to organize foreign-owned Southern auto plants, there’s been stiff resistance from the foreign companies, politicians, community, and workers themselves.  This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we interview Stephen J. Silvia who has written the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto...

Chad Pearson, Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen & Employers . . . – and – from Prison Guard to Union President Lynn Fields Is Making Prisons Safer for All

From the Gilded Age to the 1920s, employers and allies used terrorism to control workplaces and communities. We’ll talk to Chad Pearson, author of Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen & Employers and find out how  terrorism disempowered the working class and its unions. Then, what’s it like to be a progressive...