Elaine Weiss: Spell Freedom; The Underground Schools of the Civil Rights Movement
Tennessee didn’t just produce Dolly Parton. The Highlander Center arose there in spite of Tennessee. It is a school for the movement - first...
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This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Heartland Labor Forum” radio show. The Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to...
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20 of 589 episodesTrades Women (and Men) Want Childcare and Introducing Missouri Jobs with Justice’s New Organizer Allie White
Do early child care facilities work for working families? The answer is no — at least not for union and trades families. This week on the He...
When the KKK ruled KCK and Nelson Lichtenstein on the upcoming UAW elections
A hundred years ago in Kansas City Kansas, the KKK ruled. In fact, for three decades, they held substantial control of city government while...
What Will It Take to Abolish Fossil Fuels? and You too can be a radio star!
The climate change deniers haven’t stopped our forests and fields from burning this summer. So, this week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll...
Teaching Labor History in K-12 with Rethinking Schools Magazine and Is Trump Planning to Invest Your Retirement in Crypto?
Did you learn any labor history in school? Probably not much. We’ll find out from Adam Sanchez of Rethinking Schools Magazine why it’s impor...
World Cup Workers: Qatar in 2022 and Now
In 2022 the Heartland Labor Forum interviewed author Natasha Iskander who investigated the massive worker rights violations at the Doha Worl...
The August 4th Missouri Ballot Amendments #4: and #5 and Union Leader Series: Kevin King from Union Leader to Mayor of Independence
It’s not often that union members become politicians, but Kevin King, former labor leader is now mayor of Independence. We’ll get his story....
The August 4th Kansas Judicial Election Amendment and Putting the Movement Back in the Labor Movement at Labor Notes
The August 4 th Kansas ballot has a blockbuster constitutional amendment to change the way the state Supreme Court is selected. This week on...
The Emerging Green Economy and Daniel Kotzin: the Racist History of US Immigration Law
What is the status of the Green New Deal and the Inflation Reduction Act now that Trump is President? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum...
The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We Need One of Our Own!
Labor educator and activist Les Leopold has given up on the Democratic Party and written a book called The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We...
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny: the Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class and Joe Uehlein, Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology
We explore two books. First, New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class who f...
NLRB Update – the New Republican Majority and Working Families Friend Turns 23
The National Labor Relations Board will soon have a Republican majority, meaning that the rollback of Biden-era union protections is imminen...
The 2026 State of Misery Legislative Sum-up and the Labor Caucus and --- IT'S KKFI SUMMER FUND DRIVE!
It’s KKFI’s Summer Fund Drive! PLEASE DONATE DURING THE SHOW OR ANYTIME. YOU CAN CALL 888-931-0901 OR GO TO KKFI.ORG . Thursday, on the Hear...
Is the Proposed Royals Stadium a Good Deal for Taxpayers?
We discuss the proposed Kansas City Royals stadium to be built at Crown Center in partnership with Hallmark. The plan seems to be creating m...
It's Labor History Month - plan your vacation with a map of labor sites and Quindaro - some local history
Planning a summer road trip? How about visiting the places where ordinary people made extraordinary change? We’ll talk to Chris Garlock of t...
Mid-Continent Library Workers Organize and Retiring Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy
Who doesn’t love a library? Unfortunately, library workers at Mid-Continent Libraries don’t feel much love from their bosses, and they’ve or...
Motown & the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries and the Kansas City Public School Foundation
Ever heard of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers based in Detroit in the 1970s? There’s a new book called Motown and the Making of Wo...
KU Pharmacists Organize!
Pharmacists at the University of Kansas Medical Center in KCK have petitioned for a union election. It’s next week. They wonder why there’s...
Raiding the Heartland by William D. Lopez and The Missouri Legislature’s Labor Caucus
What impact are ICE raids having on immigrant workers and communities in rural Missouri? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk...
The KC Port Authority Subsidies and Our Schools and Will Killing the State Income Tax Cost Working People More? You betcha!
There’s been a lot of news lately about the Port Authority and how the Kansas City building trades unions finally got them to agree to requi...