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The August 4 th Kansas ballot has a blockbuster constitutional amendment to change the way the state Supreme Court is selected. This week on...
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...
Labor educator and activist Les Leopold has given up on the Democratic Party and written a book called The Billionaires Have Two Parties; We...
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...
The National Labor Relations Board will soon have a Republican majority, meaning that the rollback of Biden-era union protections is imminen...
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...
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...
Planning a summer road trip? How about visiting the places where ordinary people made extraordinary change? We’ll talk to Chris Garlock of t...
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...
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...
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...
What impact are ICE raids having on immigrant workers and communities in rural Missouri? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll talk...
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...
A member of the new KC Bus Riders Union says, “We want to show that the buses can serve everyone, not just people who rely on them as a life...
Sick of junk fees, phone scams and wasted time with customer service? We’ll talk with Chad Maisel of the Groundwork Collaborative about the...
It’s baseball season, and it’s the 50th anniversary of free agency. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll look at one of the most su...
The KC Indivisible Social Justice Chorus will raise their voices in song in a preview of their appearance at the Mill Creek NO Kings rally n...
This year’s legislative session may leave working people in a state of Misery, their rights assaulted, with fewer public services and less f...
The Kansas legislature has a month to go and there’s good news and bad for working families. We’ll find out more this week on the Heartland...
On March 10, the Leavenworth City Commission is about to give permission for the Core Civic private prison there to reopen as an ICE jail, g...