This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ve got a rerun of our Thanksgiving show, which we’re betting you missed. Tune in and appreciate the work of our volunteer programmers throughout 2023 as we play clips of some of our best shows highlighting labor events of 2023. You’ll hear about...
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.
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...
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...
We’ll talk about organizing and labor’s future with New Yorker writer Eleni Schirmer who thinks labor guru Jane McAlevey has transformed the labor movement and then with former ILWU organizing director Pete Olney who in April with Rand Wilson wrote a prophetic piece “Can Labor Seize the Movement Moment.” Tune...
Kansas City’s Alise Martiny is one of the highest ranking women in building trades union history. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk to her and find out how she rose from Cement Mason apprentice to VP of the Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Masons’ International Association. Then a roofer’s...
It’s Thanksgiving and we thought it would give us an opportunity to appreciate the work of our volunteer programmers on the Heartland Labor Forum throughout 2023 by playing clips of some of our best shows and as a kind of review of labor highlights from the year. Our volunteer Mark...
Teamsters for a Democratic Union or TDU has for almost half a century led the fight for rank-and-file union democracy and been a leader fighting back against increasingly greedy corporations. Earlier this month two Heartland Labor Forum volunteers attended the 48th Annual Teamsters for a Democratic Union Convention in Chicago,...
