There’s an apprenticeship program for people who want to find work in the industrial sewing and garment trades. Indeed, Kansas City's Sewing Labs offers the only apprenticeship program in sewing in the United States. We’ll visit it this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then there’s a union for traveling...
We take a ride on the bad bills clown car through Kansas and Missouri. Get on board to find out what’s happening in the legislatures. Bills are being proposed that would assault people’s rights, attack public education, defund public libraries, weaken children’s vaccination rates, and decimate unemployment benefits. We’ll get...
We’ll be riding the bad bills clown car through Kansas and Missouri. Get on board to find out what’s happening in the legislatures. Bills are being proposed that would assault people’s rights, attack public education, defund public libraries, weaken children’s vaccination rates, and decimate unemployment benefits. We’ll get the latest...
Meet Saul Schniderman American labor’s culture maven, founder of the Great labor Arts Exchange, assembler of the national inventory of American labor landmarks, author of the Friday Labor Folklore newsletter, and the guy who found the house in Maryland where Mother Jones died in 1930. We’ll ask Saul about all...
Did any of you listeners wonder whether the Ohio rail derailment could happen here? Do we have bomb trains coming through KC? On the show we’ll find out from the experts: the rail workers who strive to keep us safe. Then we’ll ask why we can’t improve the antiquated rail...
The Kansas City Building Trades – the union of construction unions - has a new leader: Ralph Oropeza. We’ll ask Ralph about himself and whether he’s expecting a building boom in KC. Then do you know who put the roof on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts? It was...
There’s a new book out on how organized labor can build its power to take on corporate America and win. It asks how we get the leverage necessary to force an Amazon or a Railroad Carrier to truly value their workers. The book is called Labor Power & Strategy: Organizing...
The National Nurses United represents the RNs at Menorah and Research Hospitals. Does HCA want to bust their union? Find out this week on the Heartland Labor Forum. Then, one of the most common labor law violations is worker misclassification. That’s when a worker is told they’re an independent contractor...
